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Latest crime report details larcenies and assault around campus

Memorial service held in memory of Gunzberg

The first two weeks of classes saw an altercation at Max’s Upstairs on Thayer Street and a string of on-campus thefts

BY BRIAN BASKIN

BY SAM SHULMAN

Brown Police responded to several oncampus larcenies and an assault at Max’s Upstairs between Sept. 1 and 15, according to Department of Public Safety reports.

On Sept. 5, a woman who tried to enter Max’s Upstairs on Thayer Street at approximately 11:28 p.m. reported that a male bouncer assaulted her. After giving the man an ID, the woman was asked to disclose her address. She reported that the bouncer made several inappropriate remarks and pushed her shoulders, according to DPS reports.

On Sept. 4, between 5 and 7 p.m., a woman reported that her Sovereign Bank ATM card was stolen from the ATM across from Dunkin Donuts on Thayer Street. A suspect used the card at several locations after the woman accidentally left her card in the machine.

A large folding table was placed in the lobby of the University Post Office at noon on Sept. 2, and was reported missing the following morning. see CRIME, page 4

New UCS initiative aims to make e-mail available — anywhere, anytime

BY ALAN GORDON

E-mail communication at Brown could soon get even easier, thanks to an Undergraduate Council of Students initiative that would install quick-use e-mail kiosks in strategic locations across campus.

“The general idea is to increase student productivity,” said UCS Campus Life Committee Chair Justin Sanders ’04.

The construction of e-mail kiosks could be made relatively simple, Sanders added, by using old machines that became available when the University purchased new ones for the CIT this summer. Brown would only need to install browser and email software on the computers.

Building desks along with the computers wouldn’t be necessary, Sanders said, because a student would stand at a

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After extensive renovations, the V-Dub is now open and sporting a brand new layout to better accomodate student diners.

New V-Dub a model of design

BY MONIQUE MENESES

After an extensive six-month renovation, the Verney-Woolley Dining Hall opened its doors this semester to rave reviews from students.

The V-Dub has not always been a student favorite thanks to long lines and mediocre dining facilities, but many students say the recent changes are well worth the past two years of planning by University Food Services.

The renovation process, which started in March 2002, was instigated to fix congestion and improve the presentation of food.

“One of the major things was the congestion and how little flow there was in the Verney-Woolley,” said Associate Director of UFS Virginia Dunleavy. “It was almost impossible to have an enjoyable experience. The other thing we wanted to change was how we brought the food to the students.”

Students who eat at the V-Dub have noticed changes to the ambiance and praised the entire makeover, from the bigger glasses to the clear labels of each dining section.

“The person who does stir-fry seems a lot happier,” said Kaytrue Ting ’04.

Many students used adjectives like “awesome,” “fresher” and “cleaner” to describe their experiences at the new VDub. Numbers support the reports of

increasing popularity. One night in September, the V-Dub served 1,245 people, while the Ratty only served 1,107.

“The chicken is the same chicken.

We’re not buying from a different chicken person,” Dunleavy said. “We’ve just changed the method with which we prepare the food.”

But many students said they think that the quality of the food has improved.

“It’s more logical, fresher, cleaner,” said Elissa Brown ’05.

The dining hall staff also praised the revamped V-Dub. Alisha Soares, a UFS employee, raved about the changes saying, “I love it. It’s excellent.”

Sonya Tat ’05, who works at the VDub, helps organize the food in each section.

“A lot of the times, especially during big rushes, we run out of, for example, desserts, and we have to improvise to make something else,” she said.

Some students said the V-Dub reminded them of home.

“When we were picking what would look good, we kept on thinking of a kitchen. We wanted you to feel like you were in a kitchen in your own house,” Dunleavy said.

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Late Associate Dean of the College Lynn Gunzberg, who succumbed to cancer on July 4, was outspoken, elegant, sophisticated, courageous and an academic at heart.

So said her friends and co-workers Tuesday in a near-full Manning Chapel at a memorial service that interwove remembrances with prayer and musical pieces by Bach and Corelli.

“She crusaded for students even when she could not crusade for herself, even when walking up the stairs of University Hall exhausted her,” said Sara Colangelo ’02, who spoke about working with Gunzberg as a potential Fulbright scholar and in a seminar on Italian-Jewish literature.

Almost every speaker mentioned Gunzberg’s passion for supporting fellowship candidates that manifested itself in aggressive interviews and free time spent poring over applications and composing letters praising each candidate in minute detail.

Gunzberg’s probing questions and absolute honesty helped students discover themselves and find new ways to approach the world, said Omar Haque ’02.

“She showed us the primacy of the quest to discover all within you that was enduring; to follow your bliss, to think when it hurts. For once in your life to live with your eyes wide open,” Haque told the gathering.

Gunzberg was equally challenging in her dealings with fellow academics, said Dean of the College Paul Armstrong. She could always be counted on to raise a contrary viewpoint and speak her mind when she didn’t like an idea, he said.

“She was a challenging colleague in the best way,” Armstrong said. “She was in many ways the quintessential academic dean.”

In her work, Gunzberg applied that same passion and implacable nature. With an insatiable appetite for all things Italian, she focused on Italian-Jewish literature in her coursework and writing. Her book, “Strangers at Home,” challenged academic trends of the time by focusing on popular rather than classic literature and discovering consistent anti-Semitism in the fiction of a nation that had denied any historic hatred of Jews, said Chair of the Department of Italian Studies Massimo Riva.

Critics labeled “Strangers at Home” a “seminal work,” Riva said.

Even as she earned a reputation as a tough interviewer, administrator and author, Gunzberg brought a unique stamp to her corner of the deanery. Lowry Marshall, professor of theatre, speech and dance, said when she asked Gunzberg to take care of her terrier while she was on vacation, Gunzberg set up a desk for the dog with a placard reading “Dean of

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I N S I D E W E D N E S D AY, S E P T E M B E R 1 8 , 2 0 0 2 Comprehensive University study examines safety aspects of surfing page 3

Brown professor the authoratative translator of famed Turkish poet page 3

Professor of Political Science Darrell West unveils new e-government findings page 3

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Field hockey drops two to Vermont, Dartmouth on late goals in weekend play page 12

Eric Perlmutter says it’s high time the rest of the NFL gives the Pats the respect they deserve sports column,page 12

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ACADEMIC WATCH WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2002 · PAGE 3

“E-government” more accessible to public, new West study shows

BY STEPHANIE HARRIS

Government Web sites are more concerned with security and privacy but less responsive than in previous years, a study by Professor of Political Science Darrell West reveals.

The study also shows an improvement in accessibility for people with disabilities and for those nonEnglish speakers, as well as an increase in the number of restricted areas online.

“Governments are devoting a lot more attention to the Internet,” said West, who directs the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy. “We wanted to see how much success they were having.”

The 2002 findings from the third annual study of “egovernment” showed “a significant improvement” over the previous two years, West said.

The study rated Web sites of state and federal agencies on a 100-point scale. Ratings were based on access for the disabled and for non-English speakers, as well as on privacy, security, number and types of services offered, responsiveness and ease of use, among others.

“We bring a citizen’s perspective to bear on e-government,” West said. He developed the scale by “look(ing) at government Web sites the way a citizen would,” determining what characteristics are most important to a general user and rating a site’s performance on each.

“We created an index to measure how many features we thought were important could be found on each site,” he said.

Overall, governments are taking privacy and security more seriously than in previous years, West’s study found. Forty-three percent of government Web sites examined displayed a privacy policy, up from 28 percent last year, and 34 percent have a visible security policy, up from 18 percent last year.

“I think it’s a response to post-Sept. 11,” West said.

“Governments in general are paying more attention to security. Also, there have been citizen complaints about the lack of security and privacy online.

“People are worried about what the government will do with their information,” West said.

Along with improvements in security has come an increase in the number of restricted areas, which need a password or a fee to enter. “This creates barriers to citizen usage,” West said. “A two-class society is emerging when it comes to e-government,” where some information is not free and easily available to all citizens.

West tested the responsiveness of e-government by sending an e-mail query to each site asking the hours of the agency. Only 55 percent of the e-mails were answered, down from 80 percent last year.

“The volume of e-government usage has increased.

There are more people contacting the Web site. And the government wasn’t making changes” to keep up with the increase in usage, West said.

Federal Web sites were generally better than state Web sites, the study showed. This may be due to congressional mandates requiring federal sites to meet certain standards, West said.

A big change from last year, and one that West said he hopes will catch on in the future, is the creation of portals, a front page from which a user can reach other sites. A number of states already have these entry points through which any state agency can be accessed, making it easier for a citizen to locate information.

In addition to the widespread use of portals, West also hopes future Web sites will be more user friendly and easier to navigate, he said. One way to do this is to standardize the features of all government Web sites.

Currently, each Web site uses its own format, and users have to familiarize themselves with the setup of each site in order to use it.

“It’s like a Tower of Babel,” West said. “People waste a minute or two each time they open a new site.”

West said he hopes the Web sites of state agencies will be standardized within a state as well as across states.

“There’s still a lot of work to be done in making egovernment available to everyone,” West said.

Stephanie Harris edits the academic watch section. She can be reached at sharris@browndailyherald.com.

Blasing translates famed Turkish poet

BY BAMBOO DONG

Listening to her gentle voice discuss British and American poetry, students would never guess that Mutlu Konuk Blasing is the official translator of Nazim Hikmet, a Turkish poet whose works are rapidly being recognized on the international scale.

A professor of English, Blasing is partly responsible for shaping the path of contemporary poetry by introducing Americans to Turkey’s arguably most revolutionary poet.

Though Hikmet’s poetry has been translated into over 50 languages, it was not available in English until Blasing began her work.

Blasing, who attended high school in Turkey, continued her schooling in the United States at Carlton College and the College of William and Mary. She obtained her Ph.D. from Brown in 1975.

Although she grew up in Turkey, Blasing did not hear of Hikmet until college since his works were banned in the country. Hikmet was imprisoned in Turkey for 30 years for his communist ideals after studying in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution.

Blasing stumbled on Hikmet by accident when she and her future husband Randy found a French translation of the Turkish poet’s works. Upon reading Hikmet’s poetry, Blasing said they “were stunned — it was so great.”

She and her husband collaborated in converting his poems into English. She translated the poems while her husband worked on the stylistic aspects.

The challenging part, she said, was retaining the poet’s original emotional intent while keeping the form.

Blasing said it is easy to rhyme in the Turkish language, but the English language doesn’t rhyme as easily.

“Certain emotional qualities come out differently in different languages,” she said.

Shortly after sending a few translated poems to the American Poetry Review, Blasing and her husband published Poems of Nazim Hikmet, a book of translated poems in 1978. Since then, Blasing has continued to translate more of Hikmet’s works.

Blasing said Hikmet’s poems teach others about the social and political history of 20th-century Turkey.

Blasing stumbled upon Hikmet by accident when she and her future husband Randy found a French translation of the Turkish poet’s works. Upon reading Hikmet’s poetry, Blasing said that they “were stunned — it was so great.”

“He revolutionized the language — revolutionized Turkish poetry,” she said. “It’s a voice that can speak to all kinds of people. … He will be read by anyone who reads poetry.”

The appeal that he extends to readers is encased in his direct speaking and openness, Blasing said.

“He’s already been influential on American poetry,” she said. “He’s got many admirers among American poets.”

Blasing said that translating a poet’s works is challenging but presents a wonderful learning experience, aiding in understanding both Hikmet’s works and poetry as a whole.

“You really get inside a language. You understand how poetic language works,” she said.

In addition to her work on translating Hikmet, Blasing is the reigning expert on American poetry at Brown. She has published many books discussing poetry, all of which she “was inspired” to work on and enjoyed, she said.

Blasing ties together her knowledge of Hikmet with that of American poetry, comparing him with Walt Whitman.

They both promoted “nation building,” she said.

Blasing said she is interested in writing a book on Hikmet himself, because “his life reads like a novel.”

And, as an added incentive, “I just love to work,” she said.

New Brown study examines surfing safety

BY ZACH BARTER

A recently released study authored by Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine Dr. Andrew Nathanson is the most comprehensive effort to determine whether surfing, currently riding a wave of popularity, is as dangerous as some people believe.

The study, titled “Surfing Injuries,” is based on data from 1,348 responses to an Internet-based survey and appeared in the May 2002 issue of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Previous studies examined only 200 to 300 surfers, Nathanson said.

Though he said the study did not determine the actual incidence of acute surfing injuries, Nathanson said it examined the issue in more detail than any other finding.

The study, co-authored by Dr. Philip Haynes and Daniel Galanis, was the first to investigate the mechanisms, maneuvers, surf board types, crowd sizes and drug use that led to acute injuries.

“I think surfing is significantly less dangerous than people believe it to be,” Nathanson said, though he acknowledged the sport still has its dangers. “The image surfing has is one of an extreme sport.”

One Brown student who surfs off the coast of Massachusetts said the sport is hazardous.

“Surfing is inherently dangerous because you are dealing with something extremely powerful,” said Patrick Rynne ’05. “Surfing is a sport where if you screw up, the result can be devastating.”

The survey respondents reported sustaining 1,237 acute injuries and 477 chronic injuries. The injuries were evenly divided between the head and neck region and the lower extremities. Lacerations and contusions accounted for the majority of all injuries. The study cited contact with a surfer’s own board, the ocean floor or another surfer’s board as the main causes of injury.

“There were also a lot of injuries when people weren’t surfing,” Nathanson said. The sheer hydraulic force of some waves accounted for 7 percent of injuries, and in one finding, the authors determined that dolphins caused as many injuries as sharks.

To conduct the survey, Nathanson and his colleagues devised a 30-question, multiple choice, Web-based questionnaire, used in conjunction with a paper survey from a

“Surfing is inherently dangerous because you are dealing with something extrememly powerful.”

Patrick Rynne ’05 Surfer study he conducted in 1997. A comparison of his 1997 paper and Internet responses showed no significant differences, which demonstrated the accuracy of Internetbased results.

“It’s certainly a way to reach a large number of people in scattered locations,” Nathanson said of the practice, which has become commonplace in recent years.

Previous studies typically focused on surfers in only one location or country. The Internet survey, which Nathanson and his colleagues advertised on surfing Web pages and in surfing publications, collected data from surfers in 48 countries.

The survey made several recommendations for improving surfer safety, including the adoption of fins with duller edges, rubber shock absorbers and rounded noses and tails.

“There is equipment out there now that people should be using,” said Nathanson, who uses a wetsuit, sunscreen and occasionally a helmet as his primary lines of defense.

Still, Nathanson said existing data suggests that surfing is safer than football but more dangerous than tennis, though no hard data exists on the subject. Nathanson’s current project on competitive surfing injuries focuses on filling in the gaps in injury rates.

Nathanson started surfing on the beaches of Cape Cod at age 14 and translated that passion into an interest in marine medicine, which encompasses subjects as diverse as sea sickness, marine stings and water sports. Today he describes himself as an above-average New England surfer.

“If you put me in the middle of the pack in Hawaii, I’d look like a chump,” Nathanson said.

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Crime continued from page 1 Two more large folding tables were taken from the post office lobby between 5 p.m. on Sept. 9 and 8 a.m. on Sept. 10. The total estimated value of the tables is $350.

A pocketbook was stolen from a function at Marcy House between 11 p.m. on Sept. 14 and 1 a.m. on Sept 15. The pocketbook, left unattended behind a

Kiosks continued from page 1 kiosk for five to 10 minutes at a time.

The project is still “in a stage of infancy,” Sanders said.

Though Dean for Campus Life Margaret Jablonski said she supports the project, it still needs approval from Vice President for Computing and

DJ booth, contained a Brown ID card, a Nokia cellular phone and various other accessories.

On Sept. 14 a man on a bicycle was seen taking a hedge clipper from the back of a Universityowned pick-up truck parked in Lot 64 at 61 Charlesfield St. Police searched the area for the suspect, described as a male wearing a Tommy Hilfiger shirt and a baseball cap, but did not find the man.

At approximately 12:38 p.m. on Sept 15, a backpack and several other small items were

stolen from the Brown Bookstore. DPS Police Officers Jesse Perez and James Massey located and arrested the subject.

The stolen items were returned to their owners.

Officers patrolling the area around Brown’s East Side boathouse at approximately 3:23 a.m. on Sept. 10 noticed a stolen, damaged and apparently abandoned vehicle parked in the rear of the boathouse.

The vehicle had replacement tires, a popped ignition and other minor damage.

Information Services Ellen Waite-Franzen and more logistical planning by the Campus Life Committee.

Still, Sanders is hopeful that it could be implemented “not tomorrow, but at some point during the year,” he said.

Several college campuses have already installed successful quick-use e-mail clusters.

Harvard has 33 computer kiosks around campus. MIT boasts over 350 computers in their “Athena

Cluster” campus computing system.

Jablonski and Sanders both stressed the usefulness of such computer kiosks.

They could help students use time more efficiently, Jablonski said.

If Brown had kiosks on campus, students could check their email between classes or activities without having to go to their rooms or to a library, Sanders said.

Gunzberg continued from page 1 Interspecies Relations.”

Whenever the dog napped in a bed below its desk, Gunzberg would put up a sign reading “the dean is out.”

In her personal life, Gunzberg was as dignified and elegant as the neat row of red tulips she maintained alongside her house, said University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson.

Gunzberg maintained a zest for style, always sporting the most fashionable jewelry and clothes, Marshall said. Her appetite for the symphony and opera often took her to New York, though she satiated her love of film with frequent visits to the Avon Theater — always consulting the New Yorker to find out what was worth seeing, Marshall said.

But Gunzberg’s real passion was for helping others, whether in assisting students, sitting on the boards of community organizations or in her tireless promotion of the Providence Singers, a local choral group.

“Somewhere she always found the breath to sing,” Marshall said.

Gunzberg’s courage helped her battle lung cancer for more than 10 years after an initial diag-

V-Dub continued from page 1 tables add to the homey feel.

The V-Dub is still a work in progress, and UFS has received numerous suggestions from stu-

nosis of six months to live.

“She was always pausing with dignity even when oxygen was the issue,” Cooper Nelson said.

Marshall said she learned how serious her friend’s illness was at a commencement more than a decade ago, when Gunzberg, her walking partner in the faculty procession, said that day’s walk might be their last commencement together.

Instead, it was a new beginning.

“It wasn’t her last commencement,” Marshall said. “Lynn would not stop commencing: a new house, new renovations on that house, a new article, a new Toyota that she called ‘her chariot.’”

On a recent Brown-sponsored trip to Russia, Patricia Herlihy, director of the international relations program and professor at the Watson Institute, said she was amazed at how little Gunzberg showed the pain she must have been feeling.

“No one could guess she had a morbid disease except those who knew,” Herlihy said. “She took sustaining strength from her family, her faith, her college, her students and I hope her friends.”

Herald staff writer Brian Baskin ’04 can be reached at bbaskin@browndailyherald.com.

dents for further improvements.

But there are some concerns that cannot be addressed yet.

“We weren’t able to address the often-congested dish-drop. That was just a limitation,” said Dunleavy. “Right now I’m looking at trucks that might help us out during the busy times.”

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WORLD & NATION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2002 · PAGE 5

IN BRIEF Congressional report cites warnings of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — The U.S. intelligence com-

munity received a surprising number of credible reports of a likely terrorist attack prior to Sept. 11, including some threats to domestic targets, according to a congressional report to be unveiled Wednesday.

The preliminary findings of the staff of the SenateHouse intelligence panel investigating the Sept. 11 strikes also show that some intelligence analysts had focused on the possibility that terrorists might use “airplanes as weapons” in the attacks, a congressional official said Tuesday.

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said in midMay that prior to the attacks, analysts didn’t seriously consider the use of planes as bombs and therefore were surprised by the method of attack on Sept. 11.“All this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking,“ Rice said at a May briefing on what President Bush knew before the attacks.

The 30-page unclassified report also will “raise serious questions” about whether the U.S. government shared enough information with the public about what it knew to be a grave threat from Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terrorist network, the official said.

Ill. attorney general moves to stop hearings for death row inmates CHICAGO (L.A. Times) — Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan

filed suit Tuesday in an effort to prevent the governor and the State Prisoner Review board from holding clemency hearings for 157 inmates on death row.

The move comes as Gov. George Ryan — who is not related to the attorney general — is considering commuting the sentences of all the state’s death row inmates to terms of life in prison. Thirteen death row inmates have been freed in the past three years after the discovery of exonerating evidence, often through recently available DNA analysis.

Gov. Ryan, a Republican who is not seeking a second term, and Attorney General Ryan, also a Republican, have been feuding for two years over how to deal with problems in the state’s system of capital punishment. The attorney general is vying for the statehouse in November against Democratic Rep. Rod Blagojevich.

Accompanied by relatives of some of those murdered by death row inmates, the attorney general announced the suit at a downtown Chicago gathering Tuesday.

Jim Ryan said a proposed 15-minute time period for each hearing would be unfair to the families of the victims and a de facto end-run around the judicial process.

Families of the victims would not be able to make a fair case against clemency during the brief hearing, the attorney general argued in the case, filed in the capital, Springfield.

N.C. Democrats up in arms over controversial campaign trail e-mail (Washington Post) — The furor was brief, but North Carolina

Democrats hope voters in the state’s 8th Congressional District will remember, with some distaste, an e-mail from Rep. Robin Hayes’ re-election campaign that seemed to cast an unfavorable light on a portion of the district.

Last week, the GOP lawmaker’s campaign advised its prospective canvassers not to fret about an ethnically diverse, mixed-income neighborhood in east Charlotte. In that area, it said, members of the National Rifle Association would tag along.

“NRA members will cover neighborhoods that might be uncomfortable for some volunteers,” the e-mail said.

“Women and children will walk Univ(ersity) area.”

Democrats pounced, saying the e-mail suggested Hayes is afraid of constituents recently added to his district.

Hayes campaign officials disavowed the e-mail, saying it was written, poorly, by a volunteer. Traffic in the neighborhood was the real concern, they said.

Despite the NRA e-mail flap, some observers feel Hayes got a break last week when Democrats nominated Charlotte lawyer Chris Kouri to oppose him Nov. 5. Many party insiders felt Fayetteville lawyer Billy Richardson would have been a stronger challenger.

Daschle:Senate will vote soon on Iraq WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Top Democrats and Republicans, brushing aside Iraq’s offer to readmit United Nations weapons inspectors, said Tuesday Congress will vote in a few weeks on a resolution authorizing use of force against Saddam Hussein if he doesn’t prove to the world he no longer posses weapons of mass destruction.

“I think there will be a vote well before the (Nov. 5) elections,” said Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, DS.D. “Thereal question is what will the resolution say.”

Daschle’s comments were the clearest indication yet that Congress will confront the issue of a possible strike against Iraq before U.S. voters decide several close elections, which will determine who controls the House, Senate and many governorships.

Despite Daschle’s comments, his party remains divided on how much freedom to grant the president to wage war. Many Democrats want to limit Bush’s options by mandating that any military strike be sanctioned by the U.N., not the U.S. alone or with the assistance of only Britain and a few other allies. This could become a sticking point in talks between Bush and Democrats.

The president will meet with congressional leaders Wednesday morning to make his case for a toughly worded resolution giving him maximum flexibility to carry out his policy of “regime change” if Saddam doesn’t promptly comply, a senior administration official said. Unlike leaders in Russia and France, Democrats as well as Republicans in Congress see Saddam’s latest offer as a delay tactic that should be seriously questioned.

Starting Wednesday, Congress will focus intensely on Iraq. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld testifies before a House committee Wednesday morning and a Senate panel Thursday, and Secretary of State Colin Powell is scheduled to testify in the House on Thursday.

After discussions with Vice President Dick Cheney at the Senate Republicans’ weekly lunch Tuesday, Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., said he expected the White

House to submit “some sort of official request” for a resolution, with proposed language, late this week or early next week. The White House and congressional Republicans have traded drafts over the past week but have yet to agree on wording.

Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said a consensus was building among Democrats for a resolution authorizing military action, but only if strikes are conducted under U.N. auspices. “Many would have reservations about going it alone,” Durbin said.

Some Democrats were more hesitant, saying they don’t want to authorize anything other than continued U.N. action to press for disarmament in Iraq. “I think it’s premature to go beyond that,” said Sen. John Kerry, DMass., a Foreign Relation Committee member and possible presidential candidate in 2004.

But many Republicans rejected the notion that Congress should impose constraints of any kind on the president’s ability to drive Saddam from power. Any resolution should simply “authorize the president to take action to bring about regime change and destroy (Iraq’s) weapons of mass destruction,” said Sen. John McCain, RAriz. Republicans said Congress might vote on competing resolutions, as it did in authorizing the Persian Gulf War in 1991, if Democrats won’t give Bush what he wants.

Senators from both parties voiced skepticism about the sincerity of the Iraqi offer to allow unrestricted inspections, saying Saddam had violated too many similar pledges in the past. Several said they wished renewed inspections would lead to a nonmilitary resolution, but few appeared to hold out much hope that this would happen.

“Let me simply say that I’m still very skeptical about Saddam Hussein’s intent and position,” Daschle told reporters. “We don’t think the Iraqi announcement should defuse at all the United Nations’ focus and effort.

Clearly we’ve got to put pressure on the Iraqis not only to open their borders but to destroy their weapons.”

North Korea comes clean with Japan TOKYO (L.A. Times) — Years after the mysterious disappearances of at least a dozen citizens from its shores, Japan on Tuesday received a grim revelation about their fates — and an apology — from reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. The victims were indeed kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s to assist spies in infiltrating South Korea. Eight have since died of undisclosed “disease or disaster,” — including Megumi Yokota, who disappeared from a coastal path in 1977 at age 13 while walking home from a school badminton practice and was never heard from again.

Four are alive and living in North Korea.

It was an extraordinary revelation for Kim to make to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi during the first summit between the two long-estranged nations. It was also a reversal of his nation’s repeated denials that it had abducted Japanese citizens.

Kim’s seeming candor and his apology paved the way for the two countries to agree to begin discussions next month aimed at establishing diplomatic relations.

Koizumi had made it clear that negotiations on other issues would fail if North Korea didn’t come clean about the kidnappings.

In the discussions, Kim admitted to Koizumi that a North Korean “organization with a special mission” abducted the Japanese, saying it did so without his knowledge. Kim said he has punished those involved, and he vowed it would never happen again.

In addition, Kim agreed to extend North Korea’s moratorium on nuclear missile testing through “2003 and beyond.” In addition, spy ships that recently ventured into Japanese waters — including one sunk by Japan’s Coast Guard in December — were likely “elements of the North Korean military” that Kim vowed to investigate and prevent from straying again. And he asked the Japanese leader to tell the Bush administration that the North is ready to resume stalled negotiations with the United States any time.

For his part, Koizumi apologized to North Korea for Japan’s brutal 35-year occupation of the Korean peninsula that began in 1910.

Koizumi said that while the summit didn’t solve “all the issues between Japan and North Korea,” he saw positive signs for the future. “I came with the hope to bring peace to the region to prevent these things from happening again,” he said.

Nick Eberstadt, a longtime North Korea watcher at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, heralded the summit as a “complete change” in the diplomatic posture of Kim’s regime, which in the past has involved “lying about everything unapologetically and energetically.”

“To have North Korea for the first time in its history not lie about one of its misdeeds will give enormous hope to the proponents of engagement,” he said.

Clearly, one motivation for Kim is getting more aid to overhaul his barely-functioning economy and feed his starving people. Japan is said to be discussing $300 million to $500 million in aid if talks proceed, and the amount may climb.

“It is not just the cash that will be important. There is an expectation that the Japanese government will build highways and power plants and communication systems,” said Jo Dong Ho of the Korea Development Institute, a think tank in Seoul sponsored by the South Korean government.

South Korea has given the North hundreds of millions of dollars since President Kim Dae Jung hugged and toasted with Kim Jong Il two years ago at a summit in Pyongyang, the North’s capital.

The North Korean leader also may be trying to placate the Bush administration, which has lumped North Korea with Iraq and Iran as an “axis of evil” because of its alleged production and sale of nuclear weapons.

“North Korea understands the situation they’re going to be in if the United States targets North Korea after Iraq,” said Kaoru Murakami, an independent international relations analyst in Tokyo, who has written extensively about North Korea.

In Japan, the summit’s diplomatic advances were overshadowed by the news that so many of the kidnap victims had died.

Television news stations provided round-the-clock coverage of the one-day summit and newspapers issued special editions with word of the dead. Countless tearful interviews with the families of the kidnap victims were shown.

Relatives of the missing expected that, at worse, they would get no word. No one was prepared to hear that many were surely dead.

“North Korea kept saying it had no involvement, and now we can’t believe them that she’s really dead, leaving out all the details of how she was taken, how she married, how she died,” sobbed Shigeru Yokota, the father of Megumi Yokota, the kidnap victim taken at age 13.

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Some tobacco companies still deny smoking harm (L.A. Times) — Several major tobac-

co companies are continuing to deny in court filings that smoking causes disease, even though in recent years they have publicly acknowledged the health hazards of their products, a congressional staff report said Tuesday.

Over the past five years, cigarette makers, struggling to repair their tattered image, have conceded on their Web sites that there are significant risks associated with smoking — in some instances making statements that are hardly different than the views of their longtime foes. But the report, prepared for Rep. Henry Waxman, DCalif., contends that the companies are still being evasive about the health hazards of smoking, second-hand smoke and the addictive nature of nicotine.

“A test of whether the industry has reformed is the truthfulness of company statements made under penalty of sanction in a court of law,” said Waxman, ranking minority member of the House Committee on Government Reform and a longtime industry critic.

Waxman’s report is based on industry responses to a massive

lawsuit filed by the Justice Department in September 1999. A federal judge in Washington threw out significant parts of the case, but has permitted the government to pursue claims that tobacco companies were guilty of fraud and racketeering in concealing the hazards and addictive nature of smoking.

The industry has contended vociferously that the suit is meritless and that, unlike other major cases, it will not settle. The case is scheduled for trial next year.

The major tobacco companies said in response to Waxman’s report that they had acted responsibly. Spokesmen for Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson, British American Tobacco (B&W’s parent company) all said they had made appropriate statements about risks associated with smoking on their Web sites. Lorillard could not be reached.

Waxman’s report states: — Four of the five major cigarette companies — RJR, BAT, B&W and Lorillard — still question whether smoking causes disease, “even though medical and scientific authorities universally accept

that smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other diseases.” Only Philip Morris, the largest manufacturer, did not contest that smoking causes disease, while RJR acknowledged only that smoking “may contribute to causing disease in some individuals.”

— Four of the five companies decline to admit that nicotine is addictive, “even though leading medical and scientific authorities have concluded that it is.” Only B&W, the third largest manufacturer, admitted that nicotine is addictive. For example, Lorillard stated that “after reasonable inquiry, the information known or readily obtainable by Lorillard is insufficient to enable Lorillard to admit or deny” that nicotine is addictive.

— All five major tobacco companies deny that environmental tobacco smoke, commonly known as second-hand smoke, causes disease in nonsmokers, “even though medical and scientific organizations, including the U.S. Surgeon General and the World Health Organization have found that environmental tobacco smoke causes disease.”

With sales flat, McDonald’s revises menu, marketing (Washington Post) — America’s iconic fast-food restaurant has long lived by the numbers — of hamburgers served, of restaurants opened here and abroad.

But now McDonald’s Corp. sees its numbers going the wrong way and Tuesday vowed, yet again, to fix what’s broken.

But first the world’s largest restaurant chain had to lower its profit forecast for the year, which sent its stock tumbling to a seven-year low, down $2.78 to close at $18.91.

To fight weak sales in the United States and Europe, McDonald’s promised lower prices, faster service, a more enticing menu, remodeled stores and its first national ad campaign in five years.

To jump-start sales next year, McDonald’s said, it will cut back on store openings, invest $300 million to $400 million in refreshing some restaurants, and expand its menu to include popular flatbreads and more desserts.

Fast-food rivals such as Wendy’s and “fast casual” alternatives such as Panera Bread are chowing down on Americans’ eating-out dollars at the expense of McDonald’s, analysts point out. And investors, they say, are growing impatient with the Oak Brook, Ill.-based company, which has pledged a turnaround for more than year without much in the way of positive results.

Tuesday, McDonald’s projected annual earnings of $1.31 a share, after forecasting $1.35 to $1.41 a share earlier this year. Third-quarter profit should be 38 cents a share, the company said, compared with 42 cents a year ago.

Europe has presented problems for McDonald’s. Sales at stores open more than a year there declined 0.7 percent as unemployment climbed in Germany and retail sales slumped in the United Kingdom. In this “pessimistic consumer environment,” McDonald’s marketing message fell flat, company officials said.

But the domestic market, with its 13,000 stores, is where McDonald’s faces its largest challenges. In this country, sales forthe first two months of the third quarter were flat, and they grew only an anemic 1 percent this year through August throughout the entire chain, company officials said.

When new or closed stores are not included, sales at stores open more than a year declined 2.7 percent in July and August.

Douglas Christopher, an analyst with Crowell Weedon & Co., said McDonald’s troubles took root in the mid-1990s, when it began opening stores at breakneck speed.

In the five years leading up to 1994, the last year the company posted solid results, McDonald’s was opening about 700 stores a year on average — about two a day, Christopher said. Store openings peaked in 1996 at about 2,585 in 1996 — about seven a day.

The company continued opening stores despite a slip in sales per store, Christopher said. It has since cut back on openings, though it remains on an aggressive growth plan.

Carl Sibilski, an analyst with Morningstar Inc., said that years of aggressive growth hurt the company’s control over its stores, particularly among franchisees. Everything from the cleanliness of the store to the way hamburgers are placed on the grill for efficiency has been compromised.

“They have not been able to enforce the franchise agreements as well as they should have,” Sibilski said. “That’s why you have slow service and you wait four minutes for a hamburger.”

A more fundamental problem may be evolving customers and their tastes as more high-quality options emerge, said Lynne Collier, a senior restaurant analyst at Stephens Inc. “You’ve got a base that’s aging and increasingly looking for higher-quality food,” Collier said. “They want the convenience of fast food, but they want a premium brand” offered by fast-casual dining places such as Panera Bread, Quizno’s and Cosi.

It’s not clear whether McDonald’s sees things the same way. The fix, company officials said, is to improve its operations as well as its marketing efforts.

In October, McDonald’s will launch a $20 million advertising campaign on television, radio and in print featuring the Big ‘N Tasty and McChicken sandwiches. They will sell for $1 each next month.

“The amount of media and the promotional activity will allow McDonald’s to elevate its value message beyond the clutter,” Mike Roberts, president of McDonald’s USA, said in a phone call with analysts.

In November there will be more promotions with a dollar menu featuring soft drinks, fries, side salads and other popular items, Roberts said.

Next year, McDonald’s will boost its advertising effort, refurbish some of its older stores and increase its staff during the lunch crush from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

And the company will keep close watch on underperformers in its chain.

“When an owner-operator is not meeting minimum standards, we must and will act swiftly to remove them from the system,” Roberts said.

To fund some of its capital expenditures in this country, McDonald’s will moderate share repurchases to about $500 million in 2003 and cut back on store openings abroad, said Jack Greenberg, the company’s chairman and chief operating officer.

The company did not specify how many stores it will open next year, except to say the number will be less than the 1,300 to 1,400 it expects to have open this year.

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San Fran city officials give weight to medical pot cause SAN FRANCISCO (L.A. Times) —

Officials in the ultra-liberal seaside town of Santa Cruz may not be marijuana smokers themselves, but on Tuesday they became pot purveyors with a political cause.

In a display of defiance triggered by a recent federal bust of a local medical marijuana club, Mayor Christopher Krohn and numerous City Council members met outside City Hall to join workers from the Women’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana in dispensing the drug to sick patients.

Several hundred residents filled the town’s City Hall plaza to cheer speakers and throw an oldfashioned anti-government rally.

Santa Cruz Vice Mayor Emily Reilly said suppliers drew names from a hat to symbolically hand out pot prescriptions to a dozen patients who would have normally picked up their medication in private Tuesday. Each time the drug was dispensed, she said, the crowd went wild.

“What was best were the

speeches,” Reilly said. “There were medical marijuana attorneys, doctors and even a county supervisor. And the message was about love and healing and trying to alleviate suffering.”

Six of seven council members appeared, along with Krohn.

But Richard Meyer, a Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman in San Francisco, was not amused.

“We’re dismayed that the City Council and the mayor of Santa Cruz would condone the distribution of marijuana,” he said. “I don’t know what they’re thinking, but they’re flaunting federal law. And we here at the DEA take violations of the law very seriously.”

Marijuana — medical or otherwise — is illegal under federal law.

But under California law, the drug is legal if it is recommended by a doctor.

Meyer would not say whether DEA agents had attended the rally and would not discuss whether any arrests had been made.

Police referred all media calls

to City Hall on Tuesday, but local authorities said they did not plan to arrest anyone who showed up with a marijuana prescription.

Reilly said she saw no federal officers on the ground, “but there was a helicopter overhead that we assumed was full of them.”

On Sept. 5, federal agents raided a Santa Cruz medical marijuana collective, arrested three people and confiscated 130 plants.

The move was met with outrage by residents of this surfers’ haven and college town 75 miles south of San Francisco.

Four years before state voters approved Proposition 215, allowing marijuana for medicinal purposes, Santa Cruz residents — by a margin of 77 percent — approved a measure ending the prohibition of medical marijuana.

For years, Santa Cruz authorities have cooperated with local collectives, helping set standards for medicinal marijuana use, issuing IDs and looking the other way as suppliers provided free, organically grown marijuana.

No one answered the phone at

“We’re dismayed that the City Council and the mayor of Santa Cruz would condone the distribution of marijuana.

I don’t know what they’re thinking, but they’re flaunting federal law. And we here at the DEA take violations of the law very seriously.”

Richard Meyer DEA spokesman

the Women’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana on Tuesday, but a recording stressed that the event was not a “free pot giveaway” and that the drug would be distributed only to “certain patients with support of many city officials.”

The message described Tuesday’s gathering as a “wonderful, quiet and orderly vigil in honor of seriously ill and dying patients.”

Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Oregon and Washington also have passed laws allowing marijuana to be grown and distributed to patients with a doctor’s prescription.

Meyer said all those areas were possible sites of similar DEA raids.

“Like the officials in Santa Cruz, I’m sure they know that federal law supersedes state law, and under federal law, marijuana is illegal.

Drugs are not something to joke about, especially the city-sanctioned distribution of marijuana.”

Said Reilly: “We don’t think it’s funny either. We take this issue very seriously.”

GOP nominees make Iraq a political weapon WASHINGTON (Washington Post) —

Steve Pearce, a Republican congressional nominee in New Mexico, is at the forefront of an emerging GOP campaign to turn a possible war against Iraq into a political weapon back home.

“Pearce takes strong stand against Iraq, Smith weak on issue,” screams Pearce’s recent campaign release. Pearce is sharply attacking his opponent, Democrat John Arthur Smith, for doing what many leading Democrats across the country are doing: urging President Bush to build international support before trying to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

“That’s just a way of saying, `Don’t do anything,”’ said Pearce, who is running even with Smith in the polls for an open seat in southern New Mexico.

Pearce isn’t alone. Across the country, GOP House and Senate candidates are emphasizing the possibility of war in Iraq, either touting their support for Bush or highlighting their opponents’ reservations — past or present — about military strikes against the Baghdad regime, according to several candidates and party strategists.

Although many candidates are waiting for Congress and the United Nations to act before taking a firm stand on military action against Iraq, the issue has gained ascendancy in key Senate races in South Dakota, Minnesota and Georgia. Several GOP House nominees, meanwhile, also plan to make it a major theme in the weeks ahead, a party strategist said.

These events mark a shift in the midterm elections toward a topic that Republicans generally favor — the Bush administration’s tough stand against Saddam — at the expense of subjects that Democrats prefer — domestic matters such as health care benefits and the fiscal health of the Social Security system.

Bush has called on Congress to pass a resolution authorizing war in Iraq if U.N. weapons inspectors are prevented from verifying the destruction of Iraq’s weapons program. Some Democrats have voiced concerns about using mili-

tary action — especially unilaterally or bilaterally, if only Britain joins the United States — to overthrow Saddam if he does not cooperate immediately.

In South Dakota, home to one of the nation’s most hotly contested Senate races, Rep. John Thune, RS.D., is bashing Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., for his past opposition to going to war with Iraq.

As a House member in 1991, Johnson opposed the resolution authorizing war to drive Saddam’s army out of Kuwait. He later joined a lawsuit aimed at preventing President George H.W. Bush from committing troops to the Persian Gulf. The former president will host a fundraiser for Thune on Thursday, a timely reminder of Thune’s support for and from the Bush family.

Thune believes Johnson’s position on Iraq is supplanting Medicare reform, Social Security and tax cuts as the hottest campaign issue in South Dakota, said his spokeswoman Christine Iverson, despite polls showing that voters care most about domestic issues.

Thune on Monday came out in strong support of an immediate vote in Congress backing President Bush. He said Johnson’s role in the lawsuit, which would have prevented Bush Sr. from dispatching troops to Iraq, shows he was “completely out of sync with South Dakota” voters. Veterans groups in the state Tuesday held a news conference to denounce Johnson’s past stance.

“The issue matrix is changing,” Thune said in an interview.

“Whether Tim Johnson likes it or not, this is on the mind of voters.”

Johnson, who wants to build international support before going into Iraq, said: “I don’t see this as a cause for politics, but my opponent, whose campaign has slipped in recent months, feels this is an opportunity to use the lives of military personnel as political pawns.”

In Minnesota, Republican Norm Coleman, a former St. Paul mayor, is trying to unseat Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., in part by highlighting Wellstone’s opposition to Bush on Iraq. Coleman has stepped up his support for the

president, calling on Congress to pass a war resolution before the United Nations acts. “It’s front and center in people’s minds,” said Leslie Kupchella, Coleman’s spokeswoman.

Wellstone, who has urged caution and a thorough review of the pros and cons of waging war before authorizing Bush to do it, said Coleman has obviously shifted into a more pro-war mode.

“On life-and-death issues, the people of Minnesota really want to have some assurance you really are using your best judgment, being intellectually honest, and that certainly is what I intend to do,” Wellstone said.

A Senate GOP campaign strategist said Wellstone, Johnson and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, are most vulnerable to attacks on the Iraq issue because they voted against the resolution sought by Bush’s father in 1991. Republicans plan to run ads this fall attacking Democrats who have voiced opposition to toppling Saddam, GOP strategists said.

Still, some Republicans see this strategy as risky, and counsel a wait-and-see approach. If things take a turn for the worse, or international opposition to the Bush plan intensifies, some strategists fear public support for war with Iraq could wane.

This may explain why some candidates, such as GOP Rep. Greg Ganske, a Senate nominee in Iowa, are adopting a more cautious tone.

Ganske, after weeks of deliberation, has started to talk more confidently about Bush’s approach, but he has mostly held back from going after Harkin for opposing Bush Sr. in 1991. Instead, he is playing up his support for Bush, who campaigned for him Monday.

Still others are finding it difficult to make headway on the issue. In the Senate race in Georgia, a state rich with military bases and personnel, GOP Rep. C. Saxby Chambliss sees the possibility of war in Iraq as the dominant issue.

He has staked himself firmly in support of Bush, and hopes to benefit from his tenure on the House committee overseeing efforts against terrorism and homeland security.

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Reno concedes defeat in Florida primary MIAMI (L.A. Times) — On Tuesday, a full week after Florida’s chaos-plagued election and onset of a prolonged ballot count, Janet Reno conceded defeat and drove off into the political twilight.

From now on, Reno told glum-faced supporters, she is a “private citizen.”

It almost certainly was a career-ending move for the former U.S. attorney general, who is 64, suffers from Parkinson’s disease and squandered a lead of monumental proportions to the upstart attorney who beat her in Florida’s Democratic primary for governor.

“This is going to be a lesson in every campaign manual on how not to run a campaign,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “You do have to try to lose a 30-point lead. You have to work at it, every day. And she did.”

As a result, Sabato said, “we now can write Reno’s political obituary. Unless she wants to run for state agriculture commissioner or state attorney general.”

At the wheel of her red Ford Ranger pickup, Reno ran a unique brand of campaign, raising little money, forgoing widespread use of television advertising and ignoring many state Democratic elders.

Ignoring opinion polls and eschewing a television ad blitz in favor of pressing the flesh in one-on-one encounters with voters, Reno put 60,000 miles on her truck’s odometer, but, observed the Tampa Tribune, it was ultimately a “road trip to nowhere.”

A recount of some ballots in South Florida showed her main opponent, Tampa lawyer Bill McBride, with a lead of about 4,800 out of more than 1.3 million votes cast.

So Tuesday, the deadline for submitting results to Tallahassee, Reno announced she had called McBride to concede, to congratulate him and to pledge her sup-

port.

“I think Bill can lead us,” an upbeat Reno told loyalists at her campaign headquarters in Miami Lakes. She said she thought the former Marine officer and head of the state’s largest law firm had the qualities to be one of Florida’s “greatest governors.”

Many in her party were coming to view Reno as someone who could not successfully challenge the Republican incumbent, Gov. Jeb Bush, the president’s brother, and were relieved that she lost, observers said.

“This really is the leftover from the 2000 elections,” said Sabato. “Democrats are really angry, and they want to beat Bush. That helped McBride. As time went by, more and more people who sat down and thought about this realized Reno was weak and McBride would do better against Bush.”

Reno made clear Tuesday she will be happy to campaign for McBride, and that she plans to file a lawsuit over the Election Day glitches that her staff believes cost her precious votes.

“As a private citizen,” Reno said, “I want to do everything in my power to see that the people of the state of Florida have the right to vote, the right to vote in a timely fashion, to vote for the candidate of their choice, the right to have their vote counted in an accurate and timely fashion.”

On Monday, her campaign manager, Mo Elleithee, said Reno was ready to take Bush to court over the widespread troubles with touch-screen voting machines and other problems that marred the Sept. 10 primary.

Republicans blame the problems on the election supervisors in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, one a Democrat, the other Democratic-appointed.

Bush calls on Congress to expedite annual defense spending NASHVILLE, Tenn. (L.A. Times) — President Bush on Tuesday sought to prod Congress to act quickly on annual spending for the Pentagon, arguing that to do otherwise would be to “play politics” with the defense bill in the midst of the war on terrorism and the brewing conflict with Iraq.

The measure is one of the 13 annual appropriations bills that has yet to clear Congress, even as the start of the new federal fiscal years looms on Oct. 1. Traditionally, at least a few would have been signed into law by now. This year, however, a variety of political squabbles has stalled the budgeting process.

The defense bill is among the furthest along — the House and Senate each has passed a version of the measure and lawmakers are expected to hammer out their differences and emerge with a compromise soon. But by singling out defense spending, Bush called attention to a sluggish budget process that is clearly becoming a source of frustration for the administration.

In a wide-ranging speech at a Republican political fundraiser in Tennessee, Bush reviewed his efforts to thwart terrorism and confront Iraqi President Saddem Hussein, whose regime he called one of the “true threats” to peace.

After praising Congress for bipartisan support for his previous military spending requests, he scolded lawmakers for not having passed the pending defense bill.

“They need to act,” he said. “The leadership in Washington needs to move a defense bill to my desk as quickly as possible.”

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Iraq offer has Russia, France questioning need for new resolution UNITED NATIONS (Washington Post) — Russia, France and other nations on Tuesday questioned whether a new Security Council resolution was necessary in the wake of Iraq’s offer to permit unconditional weapons inspections, slowing the momentum that had been building for a U.S.backed plan to confront Iraq over its defiance of previous U.N. demands to give up its weapons of mass destruction.

While Bush administration officials swiftly rejected Iraq’s offer as a ruse, many here hailed the Iraqi stance as a possible step toward averting a war and urged the United Nations to explore its implications. “From our standpoint, we don’t need any special resolution for that (inspections) to occur,” Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said.

On Capitol Hill, leaders in both parties expressed skepticism about the Iraqi letter and support appeared to be gathering for a congressional resolution authorizing military action against Iraq. But the quickly shifting debate at the United Nations, just days after President Bush forcefully demanded the U.N. take action, suggested the administration still hasn’t convinced much of the international community of the urgency of the Iraqi threat.

The administration plans to intensify its lobbying campaign Wednesday, when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will testify on Iraq before the House International Relations Committee. Secretary of State Colin Powell will follow on Thursday, a week earlier than planned.

U.S. officials argue that the current inspection regime, which Iraq suspended in 1998, has such lengthy timetables that it would permit Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to drag out the inspections process for months, if not years. They said they are crafting a Security Council resolution that would set specific benchmarks and a much shorter timeline for judging whether Iraq is fully cooperating in the effort to eliminate any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons — and also promise consequences if Iraq fails to live up to the U.N.’s demands.

Administration officials expressed confidence they would succeed in winning a new resolution, despite the flurry of interest generated by the Iraqi statement, which was signed by the Iraqi foreign minister and released Monday. In a major shift of position, Iraq didn’t tie the return of weapons inspectors to the lifting of sanctions as it has in the past. Said one U.S. official of the Iraqi offer, “We’re confident it won’t succeed.”

Still, Hans Blix, the chief U.N. weapons inspector, met Iraqi officials Tuesday to discuss details involved in restarting inspections. During a Security Council meeting Tuesday, French officials pushed for Blix to report to the Council as early as Wednesday, in an apparent attempt to shift the debate to the question of resuming inspections and away from the U.S. plan to win a new resolution with more stringent conditions U.S. and British officials objected to the French proposal, saying Blix should decide when he’s ready to brief the Council. In the end, it was decided Blix will brief the Security Council on Thursday. Blix briefed the Council on the subject last week.

At the meeting, Iraq agreed to meet with the weapons inspectors in Vienna in 10 days to finalize the arrangements, said Saeed Hasan, a senior Iraqi official who oversees Iraq’s relations with the U.N., after the meeting.

Hasan said Iraq had agreed to provide information on how the Iraq has used dual-use equipment since the beginning of 1999, after previous inspections were terminated.

Blix said he would meet with Iraqi officials in Vienna the “week of Sept. 30” to discuss “practical” arrangements for inspectors to be readmitted and to make sure the inspectors and Iraqi government see “eye to eye” over what’s required.

Throughout the day, U.S. officials pressed their case that Saddam can’t be trusted and that the other countries shouldn’t fall for any last-minute Iraqi gambits. President Bush, whose language about the United Nations appears

to get tougher the further he is from Washington, said in Tennessee Tuesday, “The United Nations must act. It’s time to determine if they will be a force for peace or an ineffective debating society.”

Powell, speaking after completing discussions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict here, said the letter proved that Iraq responded to pressure, and that it was necessary for the Security Council to draw up a new resolution “to keep the pressure on” Iraq to eliminate weapons of mass destruction. “We cannot just take a one-and-a-quarter page letter signed by the foreign minister as the end of this matter,” he said. “We have seen this game before.”

Yet it was problematic for the U.S. position that less than 24 hours after the Iraqi letter was received, two permanent members of the Security Council with veto power — France and Russia — were reconsidering whether another U.N. resolution was necessary at this point.

French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin told reporters that “all the elements are there now for action.

Saddam Hussein must now be held to his word. The inspectors must be sent to Iraq.”

Ivanov, who will visit Washington later this week for discussions with U.S. officials, stressed that “only acts” will demonstrate whether Iraq is sincere, adding that the United Nations could wait for the first report from a revived inspection team in about six months.

“They will be reporting back to the Security Council on their work, whether the conditions are present or not,” Ivanov said. “If we see that the conditions are not there, then the Security Council would have to consider all necessary measures to make sure that the inspectors can do their job.”

Ivanov held open the possibility that a new resolution could be considered on the other issues raised by Bush in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly last week — such as return of prisoners from Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the subsequent Persian Gulf War and respect for human rights.

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Easy access The plight of a Brown student with limited e-mail access entails protracted waits to use the CIT clusters, long pilgrimages to the Rock’s third level and even stops at overpriced and dimly lit cybercafes in an effort to keep connected to his peers and professors.

Happily for the first-year in Perkins with six hours of Main Green classes, Brown’s computing resources may soon include “e-mail kiosks” set up in “strategic” locations across campus, making communication more timely and convenient.

The addition of e-mail kiosks has already been piloted at Harvard and MIT and would be a vast improvement on the overcrowded clusters already in use. The kiosks, designed with standing-room in mind, are perfect for brief visits of 5 or 10 minutes.

This frees the computer labs — equipped with chairs — for students with papers or long-term use plans.

Students without computers, who currently have to wait for attenuated periods of time while the paper-writers finish up, will no longer have to compete with these long-termers just to check their email in quick fashion.

The public computers for student use currently are arranged around the periphery of campus at the CIT, the Rock and the Sci Li. This is a partial periphery at best. Pembrokers have no cluster available at all. Kiosks in Faunce, Alumnae Hall, near Jo’s and Rochambeau would seriously ameliorate and equalize the computing standards of Brown students.

We applaud UCS for initiating this as a proposal.

Computer kiosks for e-mail use will facilitate communication between Brown students and their professors, aid those students without personal computers and clear congestion in Brown’s computing clusters.

We hope that Vice President for Computing and Information Services Ellen Waite-Franzen will take into consideration all the benefits that these kiosks will bring. The administration should not dismiss them as luxury items but should seriously consider the advantages.

RYAN LEVESQUE

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Herald focuses on Graduate Student Council, ignores antiunion perspective

If the government accepts the union’s new claims, the votes from last year’s election will be thrown out, and the union will have to start their campaign over. Since I believe that the union lost the election, it has every incentive to prevent those votes from seeing the light of day and suffering a humiliating and public defeat.

This point of view could have been included in yesterday’s story. Instead, The Herald quotes only a paid UAW employee and representatives from our wonderful, but neutral, Graduate Student Council.

Indeed, twice in the course of a single week, The Herald has published articles on graduate unionization without including the perspectives of antiunion students. This unbalanced reporting is inconsistent both with The Herald’s overall high standards of objectivity and with the even handedness with which the campaign was reported on last year.

To the Editor: In “BGEO/UAW amends brief, seeking to redefine science RAs as employees,” (9/17), The Herald again drops the ball. Many graduate students believe the union’s attempt to amend their brief is a cynical effort to hide the results of the election.

Last year, union lawyers worked tirelessly to prevent science RAs, who historically have tended to be more anti-union, from voting in the election.

After their arguments were rejected by the government at Columbia University, the union suddenly saw the light and decided that they now want science RAs to be included.

Lennart Erickson GS Sept. 17

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OPINIONS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2002 · PAGE 11

Powell must remain Bush’s right-hand man Secretary of State Colin Powell belongs next to President Bush in the 2004 election — to keep Dubya in check TIME MAGAZINE REPORTED RECENTLY delegates at the event, Powell was excorithat Secretary of State Colin Powell had a ated for the Bush administration’s unilat“firm plan” for leaving the administration eral policies on everything from foreign at the end of President George Bush’s first aid to the environment. He was jeered term in office. Increasingly frustrated for despite being the best hope to discourage being the lone voice of moderation on a Bush’s unilateral thinking and to push him in a more pro-Green direcwhole host of issues since tion. entering office, notably over In last month’s interview possible war with Iraq, Powell RUSHA MODI GUEST COLUMN with the BBC, Powell said apparently plans to exit in Bush had been “clear that he 2005. Powell’s spokesman believes weapons inspectors denies it, of course.

Nonetheless, the simple existence of such should return.” Vice President Cheney, however, stated three days earlier that a rumors is significant cause for concern.

For all our sake, Powell had better stay return of inspectors “would provide no with Bush for as long as he is president. assurance whatsoever,” and would “proAnd he cannot stay quiet any longer. More vide false comfort.” It is just shameful, than ever, Powell needs to step out, speak really: a militarily decorated hero with up, and exert his clout. His exasperating loads of knowledge and experience about the Middle East being put out to dry by a silence is now dangerous.

It is no huge leap in thinking to observe shady, balding ex-CEO with heart trouble that the world is not the same now as it and no actual military experience.

Some reports suggest that Powell is parwas in 2001 when Powell returned to Washington. We are closer to nuclear war ticularly quiet now to conserve his limited than we have been since the Cuban political capital for a possible war with Missile Crisis, a new world order hinges on Iraq. The only reason Powell must now every nation’s response to terrorism, and mince words and use such guerilla diplothe violence in the Middle East threatens macy tactics is because he has been so to be a powder keg that will blow up in compliant since being nominated. It is one everyone’s face (just to name a few). Powell thing to be respectful to the boss and be a will not save us from such perils, but he team player, it is another thing entirely to can save us from Bush and war-mongering be Bush’s doormat.

Powell’s biggest obstacle to persuading comrades.

Powell’s problem is that he is too good a Bush (aside from Bush himself) is Cheney. soldier. It is almost paradoxical: a man As ironic as it is, he is Bush’s most influenwhose career has been defined by conflict tial advisor, but also his greatest political has an aversion to public disagreement liability. For well over a year, Cheney has with the administration. Famed loyalty to evaded the media and hides from one one’s superiors and tough army discipline, undisclosed location to another — not virtues in most other contexts, is getting even James Bond is this secretive. But, him burned now. Let us just run down a herein lies the lesson Powell must heed. As long as Cheney continues to do the talkcouple examples from a list of many.

At the recent, highly touted but not so ing, in private and in public (the few times effective Earth Summit in Johannesburg — he is let out of his cage), he commits the the one Bush did not attend — Powell was administration to an aggressive stance interrupted frequently by protestors, that is hard to reverse.

But there is still hope. What Cheney many American, screaming among other things, “shame on Bush,” and “betrayed by lacks are Powell’s greatest strengths: moral governments.” From the less hyperbolic authority and strong ties with the media.

Powell must use his status as an honorRusha Modi ’04 hails from La Canada, Calif. able, experienced military man to influ-

For all our sakes, Powell had better stay with Bush for as long as he is President. And he cannot stay quiet any longer. More than ever, Powell needs to step out, speak up and exert his clout. ence Washington lawmakers, and parlay his relationship with the press, here and abroad, to defuse international tensions as much as possible. He can thus subtly create a politically unfavorable climate to curb Cheney’s hawkish proclivities. Powell must end his largely self-imposed impotency, get on the front lines, and start leveraging his status.

Some might find it anathema to be so subversive, but I find it tragic that Powell has been so conformingly reticent for so long. In response to the protestors at the Earth Summit, he said he had heard them, and that it was their turn to hear him. It is now time for Powell to speak more loudly and more boldly so we can all hear him.

Every good soldier knows there are times and circumstances when rebelling is necessary for the greater good. With a war on the horizon with potential nuclear stakes, and perhaps a wave of more terrorist activity and a dangerous new pre-emptive policy, here and now are such times and circumstances.

I would not be so concerned if president 43 had 41’s sense of diplomacy and negotiation. The situation is much worse now than it was in the 90’s, but at least Bush Sr. had the uncanny ability to quickly convert long-developed personal contacts into an international alliance against Saddam Hussein. Dubya and Co. have for-

gotten that, as much any other factor, diplomacy and the support of our allies were critical components in the war against Iraq. They will be this time, as well.

I would not be so concerned if it were “just” Iraq and the White House that were the problem. But there are larger implications here at home. Even in his ineffectual state, Powell still exerts a significant moderating influence on the party. If Powell were to exit, his absence would certainly give Republican hard-liners in Congress more cause to celebrate. If Republicans end up scoring big in the November elections, we could have the domestic policy agenda for the next couple years run by Bush-ites. Here’s hoping Dickie G has done his homework.

Irrespective of ideological differences, even conservatives and hawks would have to agree that it is sensible to have a strong man inside Bush’s circle of advisers — a circle Powell is quickly being closed out of — to fight against a pre-emptive firststrike before other diplomatic options.

Disagreement is good; often assumptions are questioned and beliefs are tested.

Powell needs to be the major check on the prevailing belligerent attitudes in the White House, but without a major camp of doves to support him, Powell needs to be louder — a lot louder.

Powell can stay if he wants, of course. If only for Bush’s political self-interest, it would be disastrous to drop a man of Powell’s status for 2004, especially when Bush sang his praises upon nominating him as a “an American hero, an American example and a great American story.”

Particularly post-Sept. 11, 2001, Powell’s Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Congressional Gold Medal (among others, including an honorary knighthood) shine even brighter.

Powell, the last voice of moderation, needs to stay in office for the possible next term to fight the good fight, and to not leave a brood of hawks to their own devices. This old soldier better not fade away.

TWTP should be open to all incoming first-years By exclusively catering to students of color, the TWTP fails to truly promote diversity Pong argues “(W)e (people of color) are AFTER READING MYRA PONG’S ‘06 TWTP column (“TWTP necessary orientation for the ones directly affected by racism and Brown University,” 9/16), I too wanted to the ones who face systems of white express my ideas on that topic. Although I supremacy.” How so? I’m affected every do not agree with how the Third World day by the few people who still hold white Transition Program is run at this time, I do supremacist ideas any time I go to the movies, walk down the street believe that there are good or do anything else with my arguments as to why it should boyfriend. I am Caucasian; he stay how it is. There just JILL LYNCH GUEST COLUMN is not. haven’t been any presented.

Pong also states that the Pong states, “TWTP has TWTP is an “essential part of many important goals, including promoting racial and ethnic the lives of BOTH students of color and pluralism and breaking down the barriers white students at Brown.” If that is the between people of color and white people case, then all students at Brown should be in society” I agree that’s a great goal, but affected positively; in reality, only minorhow can it be accomplished if there are ity students are directly affected. It seems any races not accounted for? Maybe the as if white students are ignored. I didn’t program should be promoted to all get a chance to join the program, and no incoming first-years, so they may have a one I know who was in it has ever even choice as whether or not to attend. As I mentioned anything about it, other than understand it, anyone is allowed to par- the fact they had gone and liked it.

When Pong states, “Cohen obviously ticipate, but only minorities are given a personal invitation in the months pre- has no idea what goes on during those ceeding their firy year. I only learned of four days of TWTP,” I agree with her. He the program’s existence after school had probably doesn’t. She also stated that she already started my first year; there was no doubted he had ever attended the program, which is also probably correct. But way I could have gone. with those statements she is eliminating most of the student population at Brown.

Jill Lynch ’05 hails from Racine, Wis.

No one that I’ve talked to, besides those who attended, has any clue as to what goes on, because they never got the chance to go and no one really talks about it.

There are so many questions that I have right now about my future and who I am.

I feel pretty lost. Pong states, “I can say that students of color who go to TWTP learn more about themselves and each other in those four days than any regular first-year orientation could teach them.” I wish there could have been something like that for me to attend.

Let’s go to a definition of “diverse.” It means different, varied, diversified. If Brown University has this “unique program aimed at providing constant support for its diverse community of students,” then shouldn’t this program have all races participating in it, instead of being selectively diverse?

If nothing else, at least change the name of the program. When one says “Third World,” one thinks of starving children in little villages; even though I know that is not what it stands for at Brown, it doesn’t sound very good. How does that represent the people of color at Brown?

Transition doesn’t work very well either.

Are the students who are in the program just being introduced to Western culture?

I don’t think so, but that’s how it sounds.

After being at Brown for over a year now, I’ve been a little disappointed about how things work around here, mostly about how the “diverse” student body at Brown is so caught up in separating themselves from each other. I’m sick and tired of people saying that it doesn’t happen. Take, for example, the Korean and Chinese associations and Harambee house (just a few examples, I’m not singling any one group out).

Better yet, just take a look at the Ratty next time you go.

I come from a city where race and cultural populations are pretty much even.

There aren’t many associations that single out race or ethnicity, mostly because no one feels they are needed. I can’t say I’ve ever walked in other races’ shoes at home, but no one ever complains about it. There are a lot of issues here that are related to racism that I just try to ignore because they don’t seem to change, and I don’t have the energy to get mad every time I hear about them. I expected a lot more when coming to such a diverse Ivy League school.

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SPORTS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 2002 · PAGE 12

Field hockey falls to Dartmouth, Vermont on late goals On Saturday, Dartmouth scored two goals in the final two minutes of the game to come back from a 4-2 deficit and defeat the Brown field hockey team 5-4. This was the Ivy League and 2002 season-opener for both teams.

On Sunday afternoon, Vermont (2-4) scored twice in the second half to defeat the Brown field hockey team (0-2), 2-0, in nonconference action.

In the first game, the Big Green took a 1-0 lead just 7:39 into the contest, but the Bears responded 3:50 later to tie the game at 1-1 with 23:31 remaining in the first half. Ashley Wallace ‘03 scored the first goal of the season for the Bears. Molly Carleton ‘04 connected on a pass from Laurel Pierpont ‘04 just 3:52 later to give the Bears a 2-1 lead with 19:39 left in the first half.

Dartmouth struck at the 14:37 mark to again tie the game, but Pierpont tallied her first goal of the season off a pass from Evan O’Connell ‘05 with 7:47 remaining in the half, giving Brown a 3-2 lead at the Break.

Lizzie Buza ‘04 increased Brown’s lead to 4-2 less than two minutes into the second half, connecting on a pass from Cory Pelletier ’03. The score remained 4-2 in favor of the Bears for most of the second half, but Dartmouth began its comeback with 21:37 remaining. The Big Green then tallied twice in the closing two minutes for the 5-4 final. Kathryn Noe ‘05 made 9 saves in the game for the Bears.

Against Vermont, after an entire half of scoreless action the Catamounts took a 1-0 lead early in the second half.

Noe stopped an original shot off a penalty corner, but the Catamounts were there to knock the rebound into the net.

Vermont added an insurance goal midway through the second half to put the game away.

Offensively, Carleton led the Bears with three shots, while Buza had two.

Margaret Pulvermann ’04 and Pelletier each had one defensive save to lead the defense, while Noe made five saves in net.

Brown hosts the University of Rhode Island in the 2002 home opener on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. on Warner Roof.

— Herald staff, with reports from Brown Sports Information

SCOREBOARD Today’s Games Women’s Soccer vs. Rhode Island. 7 pm Stevenson Field Field Hockey vs. Rhode Island. 4pm Warner Roof

It’s time to give the Pats some respect After a victory over the Jets at their home opener, the Patriots deserve champ treatment LISTEN UP: IT IS TIME TO GIVE THE New England Patriots the respect that they deserve. Perhaps it is Tom Brady’s looks or the team’s unusual class and modesty that is preventing you from giving the Pats some love. But enough is enough, just give it to ‘em.

Ever since last ERIC PERLMUTTER year’s stunning PERL MUTTERS Super Bowl victory over the mighty St. Louis Rams, who are sputtering at 0-2, the Pats were cast off as a one-season wonder. They were seen as a child of fate that would grow into a stumbling toddler, searching for its true path in a league full of mature and intimidating bullies. Well, it has been two weeks since the start of the season, and if there is another team that is playing better than the Pats, I sure don’t know about it.

The first week, we (that’s right, we) faced the Pittsburgh Steelers. And despite the fact that the Pats are defending Super Bowl Champions and that the game was in New England, the Steelers were favored by two points. Many picked the Steelers to go to the Super Bowl before this season began. I’ve got news for you Dr. Z, Kordell and his cronies are going nowhere.

Tom Brady and the Pats dominated a sloppy, mistake-prone Steelers unit, winning the game 30-14 with authority to spare. The Pats had three picks, forced two fumbles and rocked Kordell like it was their job (which, in fact, it is).

I think I even saw Bill Cowher and Jerome Bettis let a few tears loose.

This past Sunday, the New York Jets were our next victims. We heard it all throughout preseason: “Oooh, the Jets, they have a new high-powered offense” or “Oooh, the Jets, is this really an NFL team?” In a 44-7 defeat, the Jets had 32 yards rushing, got sacked five times, and generally gave off an aura reminiscent of last year’s Detroit Lions.

Perhaps this victory will shut the Steelers up once and for all.

This past Sunday, the New York Jets were our next victims. We heard it all throughout preseason: “Oooh, the Jets, they have a new high-powered offense” or “Oooh, the Jets, the free agent market really did them good.” Is that so? To me, it was more like, “Oooh, the Jets, is this really an NFL team?”

In a 44-7 defeat, the Jets had 32-yards rushing (14 of which were by their punter on a great fake punt), got sacked five times and generally gave off an aura reminiscent of last year’s Detroit Lions (perhaps I am exaggerating a bit, but they are division rivals). Did I mention that the Pats were an underdog again? Somebody tell me when this madness ends.

Now, correct me if I am wrong, but is it or is it not time for the NFL and the rest of this disillusioned world to say to themselves, “Gee, the New England Patriots are for real. Aren’t they?” The Pats have won 11 straight games. The last two vic-

tories having come in particularly impressive fashion. Tom Brady has the third-best quarterback rating in the league, was the youngest quarterback to start a Super Bowl and is now Mr. Dunkin Donuts.

In a time so largely dominated by big name players and individual numbers, the Pats are the opposite: the epitome of team, an idea that has become too foreign in recent times.

Granted, the Pats personnel are also individually talented. For all we know, the Cincinnati Bengals have been team-oriented for the last decade, but few would argue that the Pats’ team outlook has nothing to do with their success.

So you respect the Pats now? That’s great to hear. As for the Red Sox … ?

Eric Perlmutter ’06 goes to Dunkin Donuts five days a week in honor of his hero, Tom Brady.

Contraction: what’s it good for? Absolutely nothing Contracting MLB won’t get rid of the problems, it will only make them worse WHEN I PICKED UP MY COPY OF THE Herald’s sports section Monday, I became interested in an article about contraction in Major League Baseball. There is no denying that, of the four major sports, baseball has the most problems regarding how the league is run. There seems to be no clear-cut CHRIS HATFIELD FROM LEFT FIELD way to solve these p r o b l e m s .

However, this particular article, written by Adam Stern ’06, suggests that a major contraction leaving baseball with 10 or 12 teams will return the national pastime to prosperity. I could not disagree more.

This proposed plan is at the same time both impossible and ridiculous.

First of all, while Stern’s point that contraction on a large scale would put a premium on talent in the majors is true, that does not mean that the game would be more competitive. Any league is going to have its strong teams and its weak teams.

Teams that want to shell out the money to get the best players would still do so. The only difference is that instead of an uproar being caused by the Yankees’ trades for Raul Mondesi and Paul Weaver, it would be caused by the Yankees’ trades for Barry Bonds and Barry Zito. The same problems would exist, but they would exist on a much larger scale.

Also, teams would not have time to let prospects develop into stars. You may not remember, but Sammy Sosa was by no means an all-star when he first broke into the big leagues, and few could have seen that he would hit 60 home runs in three consecutive seasons. Teams would not be

Any league is going to have its strong teams and its weak teams. Teams that want to shell out the money to the best players would still do so. The only difference is that instead of an uproar being caused by the Yankees’ trades for Raul Mondesi and Paul Weaver, it would be caused by the Yankees’ trades for Barry Bonds and Barry Zito. The same problems would exist on a much larger scale. able to take chances on as many unknown players, especially foreign ones, if this plan were enacted. Ichiro would probably still be the best player in Japan, as no team would feel compelled to look overseas for players.

Stern also argues against the practice of non-contending teams tending to “sell off their players to more competitive teams.”

He does not seem to realize that there is a very good reason for this practice. If a team has been knocked out of contention, then yes, it is common for that team to trade a great player. What Stern forgets is that the team usually gets two or three prospects in return. The Seattle Mariners are a great example of this. They used trades of this form to build a competitive team, despite losing all-stars Randy Johnson, Ken Griffey Jr. and Alex Rodriguez.

Furthermore, Stern insists that “teams with pathetically low payrolls are obviously hurting intra-league competition.” This

is not at all true, as the Oakland Athletics and Minnesota Twins are playoff-bound while having the third- and fourth-smallest payrolls, respectively, in all of baseball.

The Twins’ success is especially ironic in this situation; they were one of the two teams pegged for contraction this past summer. Had this plan gone through, they would not have been around to win the AL Central, which they clinched on Monday.

While there certainly may be valid arguments to contract two, maybe even four teams, I am unable to look at this plan without laughing. Please, do not read this article and label our dear friend Adam as a fool, or even as a communist. He simply has been misled by the evil Bud Selig and his compatriots or possibly has played too much fantasy baseball, and now wishes to see a similar scenario played out in reality.

Christopher Hatfield ’06 is a guest sports columnist.