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Commander of SS-led unit lied to authorities, in US for 60 years | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MINNEAPOLIS — The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to those who know 94-year-old Michael Karkoc. World War II survivors in both the U.S. and Europe harshly condemned the news and prosecutors in Poland have said they’ll investigate.

An Associated Press investigation found that Karkoc served as a top commander in the Ukrainian Self-Defense Legion during World War II. The unit is accused of wartime atrocities, including the burning of villages filled with women and children.

“I know him personally. We talk, laugh. He takes care of his yard and walks with his wife,” his next-door neighbor, Gordon Gnasdoskey, said Friday.

“For me, this is a shock. To come to this country and take advantage of its freedoms all of MICHAEL KARKOC these years, it blows my mind,” 94-year-old said Gnasdoskey, the grandson of former Nazi SS a Ukrainian immigrant himself. unit commander Karkoc told American authorities in 1949 that he had performed no military service during World War II, concealing his work as an officer and founding member of the legion and later as an officer in the SS Galician Division, according to records obtained by the AP through a Freedom of Information Act request.

Though records do not show that Karkoc had a direct hand in war crimes, statements from men in his unit and other documentation confirm the Ukrainian company he commanded massacred civilians, and suggest that Karkoc was at the scene of these atrocities as the company leader. Nazi SS files say he and his unit were also involved in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in which the Nazis brutally suppressed a Polish rebellion against German occupation.

No one answered the door Friday morning at Karkoc’s house on a residential street in northeast Minneapolis. Karkoc had earlier declined to comment on his wartime service when approached by the AP, and repeated efforts to arrange an interview through his son were unsuccessful.

Late Friday, Karkoc’s son, Andriy Karkos, read a statement accusing AP of defaming his father. Karkoc became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1959.

“My father was never a Nazi,” said Karkos, who uses a different spelling for his last name. He also said the family wouldn’t comment further until it has obtained its own documents and reviewed witnesses and sources.

Family attorney Philip Villaume said Saturday that the family may comment further within a few days. “Their intention is to investigate the matter and research it, and then they’ll make a further public statement,” he said.

Polish prosecutors announced Friday they will investigate Karkoc and provide “every possible assistance” to the U.S. Department of Justice, which has used lies in immigration papers to deport dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals.

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Members have been selected for the panel to investigate the course and Ball State professor accused of teaching Christianity in the classroom.

Four professors, one from Indiana TO University and three from Ball State, LETTER THE EDITOR will examine the materials regarding Eric Hedin, an assistant professor of See a Ball State view physics, and his class “The Boundar- alumnus’ about Hedin and ies of Science.” The class focuses on his teaching discussion regarding the limits and + PAGE 5 holes in science.

According to The Star Press, Gary Dodson, a professor of biology; Juli Eflin, a professor of philosophy; Richard Fluegeman Jr., a professor of geological sciences; and Catherine Pilachowski, a professor of astronomy at IU, will decide what measures Ball State should take, if any, after reviewing the course and talking to Hedin.

Joan Todd, executive director of public relations, told the The Star Press the university does not yet have a specific timeline for the panel.

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TOP: Workers on scaffolding give Woodworth Complex a face lift as part of the summer construction projects.

Woodworth is one of few residence halls that will have work done. MIDDLE: The Teachers College has undergone renovations in the past year, which has added updated classrooms and office space. The building, which was built in the 60s, had never had a project like this done.

BOTTOM: Workers install sheeting on the fences that surround Johnson Complex last week. Johnson Complex is just one of the major projects that will take place on campus this summer.

onstruction crews across Ball State’s campus move closer to completing $500 million worth of improvements to a number of buildings and roads for the upcoming school year.

Jim Lowe, director of engineering and construction operations, said a number of large and small projects are underway this summer as a way to give the campus a fresh look for students and faculty.

“It’s a lot of juggling projects, but these are exciting times for the university,” Lowe said. “Every project has a big impact on the campus, whether it improves your walk to and from class, or if you get a new classroom or office space.”

The final touches are being put in place at the David Owsley Art Museum. The renovations at the art museum created a new gallery on the second floor from what was once offices and classrooms.

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CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS DAVID OWSLEY ART THE TEACHERS MUSEUM COLLEGE WHAT’S NEW:

A gallery on the second floor replacing what was once offices and classrooms.

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$36 million in donations REOPENING:

September, after 10 months of construction

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Offices for graduate students and faculty on the fifth through ninth floors, new technology labs and student services offices on the second floor and a psychological and medical clinic area in the basement.

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December, with students in the new classrooms in the spring of 2014

Recycling warehouse fire under control Hundreds of displaced families in Indy went home Sunday morning | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — Hundreds of people were allowed to return to their homes Sunday morning as Indianapolis firefighters watched over the smoldering ruins of a sprawling warehouse where a fire had unleashed a tower of billowing black smoke, raising concerns over possible toxins.

But investigators aren’t likely to enter the charred wreckage until Monday, after heavy equipment clears a safe path through the piles of debris, said Capt. Rita Burris, the city’s fire

department spokeswoman.

“The investigators can’t even get in there yet,” Burris said Sunday. “They’d be climbing over tires to get at anything, and we’re not going to send anybody into a dangerous situation.”

More than 200 firefighters, police officers and medics responded to Saturday’s massive blaze, which was fed by thousands of square feet of recycled tires, wood pallets, shingles and siding. The fire caused an acrid black plume that could be seen for miles.

The fire was brought under control by 9 p.m., but crews stood watch overnight in case hot spots flared up again. Four firefighters suffered minor injuries.

Although residents in the fiveblock area that was evacuated

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were allowed to go home Sunday, officials cautioned that the building’s rubble could smolder for days and trouble those with respiratory problems. Officials urged such people to keep their windows closed or just stay away.

The most dangerous chemicals, such as carbon monoxide, sulfuric acid and sulfuric dioxide, didn’t spread throughout the neighborhood as some had feared.

“Those were the ones that they were looking for and they found those right at the fire, but they didn’t find any at the homes,” Burris said.

Rain was forecast for Sunday, and Burris said that should help wash the particulate matter out of the air.

Burris said it could take weeks to determine the cause of the fire.

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24 convicted men released based on unreliable evidence | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At least 24 men convicted or charged with murder or rape based on bite marks on the flesh of victims have been exonerated since 2000, many after spending more than a decade in prison. Now a judge’s ruling later this month in New York could help end the practice for good.

A small, mostly ungoverned group of dentists carry out bite mark analysis and their find-

ings are often key evidence in prosecutions, even though there is no scientific proof that teeth can be matched definitively to a bite into human skin.

DNA has outstripped the usefulness of bite mark analysis in many cases: The FBI doesn’t use it and the American Dental Association does not recognize it.

“Bite mark evidence is the poster child of unreliable forensic science,” said Chris Fabricant, director of strategic litigation at the New York-based Innocence Project, which helps wrongfully convicted inmates win freedom through DNA testing.

Supporters of the method, which involves comparing the teeth of possible suspects to

bite mark patterns on victims, argue it has helped convict child murderers and other notorious criminals, including serial killer Ted Bundy. They said problems that have arisen are not about the method, but about the qualifications of those testifying, who can earn as much as $5,000 a case.

“The problem lies in the analyst or the bias,” said Dr. Frank Wright, a forensic dentist in Cincinnati. “So if the analyst is ... not properly trained or introduces bias into their exam, sure, it’s going to be polluted, just like any other scientific investigation. It doesn’t mean bite mark evidence is bad.”

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viewed decades of court records, archives, news reports and filings by the Innocence Project in order to compile the most comprehensive count to date of those exonerated after being convicted or charged based on bite mark evidence.

Two dozen forensic scientists and other experts were interviewed, including some who had never before spoken to a reporter about their work.

The AP analysis found that at least two dozen men had been exonerated since 2000, mostly as a result of DNA testing. Many had spent years in prison, including on death row, and one man was behind bars for more than 23 years.

NAZI: Germany, Poland to be involved in prosecution | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The AP evidence of Karkoc’s wartime activities has also prompted German authorities to express interest in exploring whether there is enough to prosecute. In Germany, Nazis with “command responsibility” can be charged with war crimes even if their direct involvement in atrocities cannot be proven.

Efraim Zuroff, the lead Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, said based on his decades of experience pursuing Nazi war criminals, he expects that the evidence of Karkoc’s lies as well as the unit’s role in atrocities is strong enough for deportation and war crimes prosecution in Germany or Poland.

Former German army officer Josef Scheungraber — a lieutenant like Karkoc — was convicted in Germany in 2009 on charges of murder based on circumstantial evidence that put him at the scene of a Nazi

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• Karkoc could be deported and face prosecution for war crimes in Germany or Poland.

• German and Polish authorities expressed interest in assisting the U.S. In Germany, direct involvement in killings doesn’t have to be proven for Nazis with “command responsibility” to be charged. wartime massacre in Italy as the ranking officer.

One of Karkoc’s men, Vasyl Malazhenski, told Soviet investigators that in 1944 the unit was directed to “liquidate all the residents” of the village of Chlaniow in a reprisal attack for the killing of a German SS officer, though he did not say who gave the order.

“It was all like a trance: setting the fires, the shooting, the destroying,” Malazhenski recalled, according to the 1967 state-

• In 1949 Michael Karkoc, now 94, concealed that he helped found the legion and was an officer in the SS Galician Division 1 from American authorities and has lived in the U.S. for 60 years.

• Karkoc’s son said he was never a Nazi.

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ment found by the AP in the archives of Warsaw’s state-run Institute of National Remembrance, which investigates and prosecutes German and Soviet crimes on Poles during and after World War II. In a background check by U.S. officials on April 14, 1949, Karkoc said he had never performed any military service, telling investigators that he “worked for father until 1944.

Worked in labor camp from 1944 until 1945.”

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However, in a Ukrainianlanguage memoir published in 1995, Karkoc states that he helped found the Ukrainian Self Defense Legion in 1943 in collaboration with the Nazis’ feared SS intelligence agency, the SD, to fight on the side of Germany — and served as a company commander in the unit, which received orders directly from the SS, through the end of the war.

It was not clear why Karkoc felt safe publishing his memoir, which is available at the U.S. Library of Congress and the British Library and which the AP located online in an electronic Ukrainian library.

Karkoc lives in a modest house in an area of Minneapolis that has a significant Ukrainian population. He recently came to the door without help of a cane or a walker. He would not comment on his wartime service: “I don’t think I can explain,” he said.

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The Minnetrista Farmers Market is open from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays during the summer. The market features vendors offering a wide variety of goods and is a family-friendly atmosphere.

Shopping farm fresh Minnetrista’s Farmers Market hosts vendors offering organic produce JORDAN HUFFER PHOTO EDITOR | jahuffer@bsu.edu The smell of fresh produce, baked goods and pulled pork fills the air as people of all ages gather at the Minnetrista Farmers Market.

The event takes place every Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon during the summer and features dozens of vendors selling many kinds of goods to the public.

“It’s as much a social environment as a selling environment.” said Shannon McConnell of FingerPrints Custom Bakery, who was selling a wide variety of flavored egg noodles. McConnell is one of the many vendors who brings a specialized product to the market. His Albany-based business offers some vegan and gluten-free products to meet any dietary needs.

Many vendors at the market offer specialized goods, much like McConnell’s egg noodles, which could not be found in stores.

An example of this is lamb products from Russell Sheep Company, a long time vendor at the market. Diane Russell, the farm owner, said the amount of lamb products offered in stores is usually limited to one or two cuts. At her booth there were over two dozen kinds of meat offered.

“Lamb is an age sensitive product,”

Russell said. “Its quality will depend on its age, and how it was processed, how the animal was fed, the breed of animal, all that. We are able to control all those things, which leaves us with a better product. You are just not getting to find that in a store.”

Other items like ground cherries, yellow tomatoes, purple asparagus and blue potatoes are all things that may not be available in stores, but are found in bountiful amounts at the market.

“The selection is so wide,” said shopper Christy Geisler, a long time patron of the market. “Meeting all the vendors, and being able to support them and all their families is awesome.

Meeting the people in your community that are helping your community is incredibly important.”

Geisler said buying organic products is important, both from the market and stores.

Sheryl Mong, who was selling organic goods for Gary’s Garden in Muncie, agreed that organic is better.

“It tastes better, it’s better for you, a lot better,” Mong said. “You don’t have to worry about any of the pesticides doing harm to your body.”

Geisler encourages shoppers to do their own research, looking into what does and does not need to be bought organic.

“In some cases it’s just better to buy organic cause it’s important to get the nutrients that the chemicals would normally kill off,” Geisler said.

She said she encourages people to get to know their vendors personally because they are passionate about

3 face criminal charges, altered grades at Purdue Former students accused of hacking professors’ account | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University graduate and two former students accused of breaking into their professors’ computer accounts to change grades are facing criminal charges.

Roy Chaoran Sun, 25, of Andover, Mass., and Mitsutoshi Shirasaki, 24, and Sujay Sharma, 24, both of West Lafayette, are charged with conspiracy to commit computer tampering, conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to commit computer trespass. The charges originally were filed in April, but were unsealed and made public Thursday afternoon, the Journal & Courier reported on Friday.

A call to the prosecutor’s office seeking comment was not returned to The Associated Press on Friday. No phone listings could be found for Sun, Shirasaki and Sharma. A spokeswoman at the Tippecanoe Superior Court said there was no indication they had hired attorneys.

According to probable cause affidavits, Sun, an electrical engineering student, changed seven F’s and one D to eight A’s. He is accused of changing the first grade, the D, in December 2008.

Shirasaki changed 24 grades, including 13 F’s to nine A’s and four B’s, according to the affidavits. He also is accused of changing one of his grades from an A to

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Roy Chaoran Sun, 25, of Andover, Mass., and Mitsutoshi Shirasaki, 24, and Sujay Sharma, 24, both of West Lafayette WHAT

They are accused of breaking into their professors’ computer accounts to change grades.

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They are charged with conspiracy to commit computer tampering, conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to commit computer trespass an A+, and switching the grade of his girlfriend, Xiaonan Jing, from an A to an A+.

Sharma, a nuclear engineering major, is accused of having just one grade changed — a D to an A in an engineering course, the affidavits state. He’s also accused of accessing course tests and acting as Shirasaki’s lookout.

The investigation began when an engineering professor contacted the university’s information technology security services department in November because someone had changed his password. He reported it happened again in December.

According to the affidavits, Jing said Shirasaki told her he changed his grades and her grade. She said he did it by picking the locks of the professors’ offices and installing key logging devices he would later use to obtain their login and password information.

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their products and will go out of their way to provide them.

“The Farmers Market still happens, at their houses... you can still call them up after the summer ends and they will hook you up,” she said.

The market is not only limited to food, several of the booths will sell flowers, honey and even dog treats.

The new gallery allows the museum’s curators to organize artifacts into themes and movements, making future exhibits viewer friendly.

The university used $3.6 million in donations to pay for the renovations over a total of 10 months. The museum will fully reopen in September. The David Owsley Art Museum is partially open this summer for anyone to visit.

The Teachers College has undergone a number of changes in little over a year, and is now equipped with updated classrooms and office space.

“The Teachers College was opened in 1968 and hasn’t gone through a renovation of significance since then, so it really needed a facelift to begin with,” said John Jacobson, dean of elementary education. “There weren’t technology labs and such in the ‘60s, so what we did in the renovations was look from top to bottom of the facility.”

The facelift at the Teachers College includes every floor of the building: There will be new offices for graduate students and faculty on the fifth through ninth floors, new technology labs and student services offices on the second floor and a psychological and medical clinic area in the basement.

“All of our students services related activities, such as computer labs and undergraduate advising, that students have had to go numerous places throughout the building to find before are now being located on the second floor,” Jacobson said.

“There will be a student lounge with WiFi and nice couches just outside of the computer labs. We will have iClassrooms, iPortfolio lab or iCare Corner. It’s really going to be a one stop shop for everything our students need.”

Jacobson said, due to a rise in graduate students and distance education, the demand for office space has surpassed the need for more classrooms. The change forced the administration to shift space to offices to accommodate student needs.

“Where we once had a lot of students here on campus, now we have many online. So we have grown in faculty members and lost a number of students attending classes in our building,” Jacobson said.

Renovations at the Teachers College will wrap up in December. The university plans to have

students in the new classrooms in the spring of 2014.

The improvements don’t stop at the construction currently underway; Lowe said future construction at the Johnson Complex will include a green house and a planetarium on the west side of the university.

Shiel Sexton Company, Inc., a contractor from Indianapolis,will begin the $36 million renovation this month. Shiel Sexton is the same group responsible for the remodel of DeHority Complex completed in 2009.

The university hopes to finish the new greenhouse and planetarium near the fall of 2014. The two additions will give students hands-on experience in astronomy, biology, natural resource management and other fields of study.

The greenhouse will replace the aging greenhouse holding the orchid blooms in Christy Woods, and the planetarium will be constructed on the west end of the Cooper Science Building. Lowe said the projects will not affect parking at Cooper Science or the Marilyn Glick Center for Glass, which is adjacent to Christy Woods.

Some Ball State students feel the improvements can be a nuisance.

“It is frustrating at times trying to get around campus with all of this construction, but every year it seems like the campus looks better than the last,” said Kayla Wiles, a senior fashion merchandising major. “I’m glad the university cares enough to try to improve the feel of each field of study here.”

Not only is the university improving the campus aesthetically, but many of these changes reduce Ball State’s environmental impact by meeting the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards.

The LEED standards look at a wide range of factors to determine the overall sustainability of a building. The criteria include materials used, how the land is used, water conservation efforts, power saving plans and the carbon foot print created.

Lowe said all new buildings and renovations to existing buildings on campus are designed to meet LEED certification guidelines.

“There are a lot of projects that are happening to keep our buildings working up to par. So we have a lot of that happening this summer before the students come back in the fall,” Lowe said.

US CONSIDERS PLACING NO-FLY ZONE OVER SYRIA FOLLOWING IRAQ WAR President looks to avoid involvement in country’s civil war | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, trying to avoid getting drawn deeper into Syria’s civil war, has pointed to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a symbol of what can go wrong when America’s military wades into Middle East conflicts.

But experts say the White House is looking at the wrong Iraq war, especially as the U.S. reluctantly considers a no-fly zone over Syria to stop President Bashar Assad from continuing to use his air power to crush rebel forces or kill civilians.

A no-fly zone is a territory over which warring aircraft are not allowed to fly. The U.S. and international allies have enforced them in several military conflicts over the past two decades.

When he took office in 2009, President Barack Obama promised to end the U.S. war in Iraq as an example of refocusing on issues that had direct impact on Americans. By the time the U.S. military withdrew from Iraq in 2011, almost 4,500 American soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis had died. The war toppled Saddam Hussein but also sparked widespread sectarian fighting and tensions that still simmer.

But when considering a no-fly zone, experts point to 1992, a year after the Gulf War. That’s when the U.S. imposed a weakly-enforced nofly zone over southern Iraq

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Syrian refugees wait to register for aid in Aarsal, a city in northern Lebanon. Syria has been at the center of a civil war that has forced the U.S. to consider instating a no-fly zone over the country.

and could not prevent Saddam, a Sunni Muslim, from persecuting and killing hundreds of thousands of Shiites whom he viewed as a political threat.

That failure is now being used as a case in point of why the U.S. should or shouldn’t police the Syrian sky to prevent Assad from accelerating a two-year death toll that last week reached 93,000.

The White House is undecided on whether it will impose a no-fly zone over Syria, as some have demanded. Egypt’s president, Mohammed Morsi, on Saturday called for a U.N. endorsed no-fly zone.

Vali Nasr, a Middle East

expert and dean of the John Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies, argued for a no-fly zone “to prevent Assad from completely dominating this war for all practical purposes.

And we need to create a no-fly zone to create a safe zone for refugees that Assad can’t reach.”

Nasr, who held a senior State Department job during the first two years of the Obama administration, said in an interview Friday that there are risks, “but perhaps the risks are exaggerated. And what it showed in Iraq is that it does not have to be a slippery slope into a larger war.”

On the flip side, said retired

Navy Adm. William Fallon, “there’s no way to do this in a standoff — ‘We’re just here to help, not going to get our hands dirty.’”

Fallon, the former head of U.S. Central Command who helped draw up and carry out the 1992 no-fly-zone in Iraq, said the challenge “is that you’d better be prepared for escalation and expansion of mission.”

“The likely expansion will be providing air support for guys on the ground,” said Fallon, now on the board of directors at the American Security Project, a nonpartisan think-tank started by Secretary of State John Kerry when Kerry was a senator.

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TODAY The Chicago Blackhawks will take on the Boston Bruins in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals at 8 p.m.

Spurs’ big 3 seal Game 5 victory San Antonio’s team effort huge in win in pivotal game 5 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN ANTONIO — With the old Manu Ginobili back, the San Antonio Spurs looked like champs again.

One more victory and their Big Three, not Miami’s, will be the one that rules the NBA. Ginobili broke out of a slump in a big way with 24 points and 10 assists in his first start of the season, and the Spurs beat the Heat 114-104 on Sunday night to take a 3-2 lead.

Tony Parker scored 26 points, Tim Duncan had 17 points and 12 rebounds, and Ginobili had his highest-scoring game of the season as the Spurs became the first team to shoot 60 percent in a finals game in four years.

Danny Green smashed the NBA Finals record for 3-pointers with six more and scored 24 points. Kawhi Leonard finished with 16, but the stage was set when Ginobili trotted out with Duncan, Parker and the rest of starters in what could have been the last finals home game for a trio that’s meant so much to San Antonio.

The AT&T Center crowd roared when Ginobili was the last Spurs player announced and chanted his name in the second half, a familiar sight and sound in San Antonio but not during what had been a miserable series for the former Sixth Man of the Year.

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade each scored 25 points for the Heat, who host Game 6 on Tuesday. They need a victory to force the first Game 7 in the finals since the Lakers beat the Celtics in 2010.

Miami’s Big Three formed a few weeks after that game, with predictions of multiple titles to follow. Now they’re a loss away from going just 1 for 3 in finals to start their partnership, while the Spurs could run their

perfect record to 5 for 5.

Duncan won his first title in 1999, and Parker and Ginobili were with him for three championships since. They have been the perfect partnership, keeping the Spurs in the hunt virtually every year while teams like the Lakers, Mavericks and Suns have all risen and fallen in the Western Conference during that time.

They remained unbeaten in Game 5s, including two previous victories when the series was tied at 2-2. Of the 27 times the finals have been tied at 2-2, the Game 5 winner has won 20 of them.

Miami was the most recent loser, falling to Dallas in Game 5 in 2011 before being eliminated at home the next game.

Ray Allen scored 21 points on the night for the Heat as Green shattered his finals 3-point record.

The Heat were within one with 3:05 left in the third before Green hit another 3-pointer and Ginobili followed with the stretch that turned the game into the fourth straight blowout of the finals.

The crafty lefty plays with a flair developed on the courts of Argentina and perfected in Europe before coming to the NBA. He sees angles other players can’t and takes risks few others would, but his style has been the perfect fit alongside Duncan and Parker.

He converted a three-point play, tossed in a floater with his left hand as he drifted right, and found Tiago Splitter under the hoop with a pass to make it 85-74. He flipped in another runner with 2.9 seconds to go, sending the Spurs to the fourth with an 87-75 lead as fans chanted “Manu! Manu!” during the break between the third and fourth quarters.

Ginobili had been averaging just 7.5 points on 34.5 percent shooting in the series, making only three of his 16 3-point attempts. But Spurs coach Gregg Popovich made the finals’ second lineup change in two games, after the Heat inserted

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Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat holds his head after hitting the floor during Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs. The Heat lost the game 114-104 to the Spurs.

Mike Miller to start Game 4.

Ginobili didn’t make a start this season and certainly hadn’t been playing like someone who belonged with the first five. But in the Spurs’ biggest game of the season, they remained confident he would break out, and they were right.

It was the first time he scored 24 or more points since having 34 on June 4, 2012, against Oklahoma City, according to STATS. The AT&T Center crowd roared when Ginobili was the last starter announced, the cheers growing louder when he made a jumper — originally ruled a 3-pointer but later overturned by replay — on the first possession. He assisted on the Spurs’ next three baskets, and it was 15-10 when he later hit a 3 that did count.

Parker picked it up from there, dancing his way into the lane repeatedly and

scoring seven points in a 12-0 run that made it 29-17. Leonard’s 3-pointer with 4.7 seconds left, on an assist from Ginobili, made it 32-19 and gave the Spurs 12 makes in 19 attempts (63 percent) in the opening 12 minutes.

Green has 25 3s in the series. Allen made 22 3-pointers in six games in 2008 finals for Boston.

Green’s third straight 3-pointer made it 45-28 about 5 minutes into the second quarter, and it seemed the trend of blowouts would continue. But James suddenly got rolling during a 14-2 Miami spurt that cut it to five on his third consecutive Heat basket.

San Antonio made 21 of 34 shots (62 percent) in the first half, opening a 61-52 lead on Parker’s drive with 0.4 seconds left.

Miami then ran off eight in a row to start the second half

Mickelson falls short at U.S. Open, finishes runner-up record 6th time Englishman wins U.S. Open for first time in 43 years | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARDMORE, Pa. — Fly the Cross of St. George next to those red wicker baskets.

The U.S. Open has an English champion for the first time in 43 years.

Justin Rose shot a closing 70 Sunday at Merion Golf Club for a 1-over 281 total and his first major championship. He finished two shots ahead of Phil Mickelson and Jason Day. The 32-year-old Rose overcame his share of misadventures on a course that challenged all comers despite being the shortest at a major in nine years. He took the solo lead for good because of others’ mistakes at No. 15: Mickelson and Hunter Mahan, playing in the final group, both lost shots on the hole to fall out of a tie for first.

Rose’s last shot was a tap-in for par at the 18th, after his caddie removed the pin with the wicker basket on top, the symbol of Merion that replaces the familiar flag. He had chipped it there from the rough just behind the green, nearly becoming the only player to birdie the finishing hole over the final two rounds of the championship.

It’s been a long wait for England since Tony Jacklin won the trophy in 1970. Rose has been in contention before, tying for fifth at Olympia Fields in 2003 and tying for 10th at Oakmont in 2007.

The day appeared to set up well for Mickelson to finally win his first U.S. Open. It was his 43rd birthday, it was

STANDINGS Golfer 1. Justin Rose T2. Phil Mickelson T4. Jason Dufner T8. Steve Stricker T 32. Tiger Woods*

Score +1 (281) +3 (283) +5 (285) +6 (286) +13 (293)

‘BIG 3’ COMPARISON LeBron James Tony Parker Dwyane Wade Manu Ginobili Chris Bosh Tim Duncan Rest of team

and get within one. They cut it to one again later in the period before Ginobili led the flurry that finished the Heat for good.

It was a fitting finish if it was the last home game in the finals for this San Antonio trio, which has combined for 101 playoff victories together. Ginobili has said he might think about retirement as he turns 36 next month, and Duncan is 37.

Both coaches said it was difficult waiting two days

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San Antonio 26 points 24 points 17 points 47 points

between games — Popovich said it was “like death” — though he did say it was great for the Spurs because they have some older players.

The break seemed to help his team early, particularly Parker, whose energy sagged in the second of Game 4 as he struggled with a strained hamstring that he said could tear at any time and would’ve had him sidelined during the regular season.

ROGER FEDERER WINS TITLE, ENDS LENGTHY STREAK Federer takes 77th BY THE NUMBERS career title, now 3rd 10 months on all-time win list 43 weeks

*worst score in any Open as a professional

Father’s Day, and it was the first time he had held a solo 54-hole lead at the event. He made eagle from the rough at the 10th hole to retake the solo lead.

Instead, he’s a runner-up for the sixth time, extending a record he already held. He was in a three-way tie with Rose and Mahan when his approach rolled back down the fairway at 15. He chipped well past the hole and 2-putted for bogey.

Mahan was the steadiest player on the course, with 13 pars in his first 14 holes, until his tee shot found the rough at 15.

He hit into more rough before 3-putting for double bogey.

Rose joins Olin Dutra, Ben Hogan, Lee Trevino and David Graham as U.S. Open champions who conquered the tough little course in the Philadelphia suburbs. His day consisted of five birdies and five bogeys. He missed a 5-footer for par at No. 3, but he sank long birdies on the 6th and 7th, then moved ahead of Mickelson with a 20-footer at No. 13.

It was hard to count out anyone who had a place near the top on the board. Merion turned out to be a place where golfers could post big numbers and live to tell the tale — or at least tread water with everyone else.

But some fell out of contention quickly. Steve Stricker was just one stroke off the lead

Miami 25 points 25 points 16 points 38 points

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Phil Mickelson walks on the 18th green during the 2013 U.S. Open at the Merion Golf Club East Course in Ardmore, Pa., on Saturday. Mickelson was the first runner-up in the U.S. Open and has been for a record six times.

at the beginning of the day, but his hopes for a first major took a hit when he put two shots out of bounds at No. 2 and settled for an 8. He shot a 76.

Luke Donald also started the round just one shot to make up, but he hit a volunteer with a tee shot on No. 3 and on No. 4, took off his left shoe and sock to play his ball next to Cobbs Creek. He shot a 75.

Mickelson was the overnight leader at 1-under, but Lefty was scrambling from the start. His tee shot at the first landed in the rough, but he nearly birdied the hole when his 30-footer lipped out. He was in the sand at No. 2 yet

missed a short putt for birdie.

He finally paid the price for his waywardness when he put one in a bunker at the par-3 No. 3 and then 3-putted for a 5 that left no one under par for the tournament.

It was an unfamiliar sight to see the world’s No. 1 golfer teeing off on a Sunday more than three hours before the top pairing, but he was 10 strokes off the lead after a third-round 76 that matched his worst U.S. Open round as a pro.

“I did a lot of things right,” Woods said. “Unfortunately, I did a few things wrong as well.”

HALLE, Germany — Roger Federer found the perfect place to end his title drought — a small town in western Germany that has a big tennis stadium and a street named Roger-Federer-Allee leading to it.

Federer left Halle a winner again Sunday, ending a 10-month run of 11 tournaments without a title, an eternity by his ROGER FEDERER standards. The Currently 31-year-old ranked world Swiss great No. 3 in men’s overcame a tennis singles sluggish start to beat unseeded Mikhail Youzhny 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 at the Gerry Weber Open for his first title since Cincinnati in August.

Returning to grass in his favorite warm-up for Wimbledon, the top-seeded Federer looked lethargic until the middle of the second set against a player he had never lost to in 14 previous matches. It was the first final on the tour this year involving players 30 or older.

“I’ve won a lot but not so much in the last 10 months, although I feel I’d been playing well,” Federer said. “But the others were playing better.”

Federer earned his sixth title at Halle in 11 appearances (eight finals) and his first since 2008.

301 days 7224 hours

since Federer captured his last title at the Cincinnati Masters on August 19, 2012 Four of Federer’s seven Wimbledon trophies have come after victories in Halle — including his first Halle and Wimbledon championships in 2003.

The former top-ranked player, who is now No. 3, won his 77th career title, pulling him even with John McEnroe at third on the all-time list. Jimmy Connors won 109 and Ivan Lendl 94. Federer will be looking to extend his record of 17 Grand Slam championships when he defends his title at Wimbledon.

“I feel fit; I feel confident. I’m excited about what’s to come,” Federer said. “I’m very pleased with how I played this week.”

With Federer starting to hit shots with confidence, the turning point of the match came in the eighth game of the second set, when Youzhny double-faulted on break point. The Swiss star then hit a perfect backhand passing shot to go up 4-3 in the third set. He held for 5-3 with a smash and fired a service winner to seal his victory after just over 2 hours.

Federer finished with 12 aces.

“The first set was very close; it could have gone either way. I had to fight very hard to stay in the second. My serve saved me today,” Federer said. “At the end I was just a bit steadier.”

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Unfortunately, I greatly fear that Dr. Eric Hedin will not be treated fairly by Ball State University and panel of four professors charged with investigating his teaching of the honors symposium titled “The Boundaries of Science.�

University of Chicago evolutionary biologist and avowed atheist Dr. Jerry Coyne and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, whose complaints spurred the investigation, are ideological bullies with plenty of influence and financial clout. They have threatened legal action if their objections to Dr. Hedin’s teaching are not validated.

Across our land, we’ve seen variations of this “movie� before and it does not bode well for Dr. Hedin. Let’s be realistic and honest. Faced with

the threat of an long-running and expensive lawsuit, the quiet but primary aim of the panel and the university will be “how do we make this go away?� It will not be “let’s do what is right and principled.�

The right and principled answer is simple. Dr. Coyne and the FFRF are wrong and are bringing a frivolous charge against Dr. Hedin. Dr. Hedin should be exonerated from all charges of wrongdoing. The claim against Dr. Hedin is that he is in violation of the First Amendment for teaching religion.

They should be rebuffed because nowhere is Dr. Hedin charged with talking about the Bible or Jesus. That would be discussion of religion.

Through his class, he has simply raised the possi-

bility of intelligent design of life and our cosmos.

That is not teaching religion.

This matter is not complicated — but resolving it fairly would require a tremendous amount of courage on the part of the university.

Dr. Hedin has done nothing wrong and deserves support. Fair-mined people need rise up and apply the pressure needed for the university to muster the courage to stand up to Dr. Coyne and the FFRF and tell them to “get lost.�

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an of Steel” leaped over box office expectations in a single weekend.

The Warner Bros. superhero film earned $113 million in its opening weekend at the box office, according to studio estimates Sunday. The retelling of Superman’s backstory earned an additional $12 million from Thursday screenings, bringing its domestic total to $125 million. Original box-office expectations for “Man of Steel” ranged from $75 million to $130 million.

“They finally got the Superman formula right,” said Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com.

“Superhero movies really are the bread and butter of the summer box office. The fact that ‘Iron Man 3’ has the biggest opening of the year so far and ‘Man of Steel’ has the second biggest opening of the year just proves that.”

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“Man of Steel,” which stars Henry Cavill as Superman and Amy Adams as Lois Lane, also nabbed the record for June’s biggest opening away from “Toy Story 3,” the Disney-Pixar film which banked $110.3 million when it opened in 2010. “Superman Returns,” the previous Superman film starring Brandon Routh in the titular role, launched with $52.5 million in 2006.

The new take on Superman’s origin also performed solidly overseas, earning $71.6 million from 24 territories, including the Philippines, India, Malaysia and the United Kingdom, where “Man of Steel” earned $17.1 million.

The film, which also stars Russell Crowe and Michael Shannon, is set to open next weekend in 27 more territories, such as Russia and China.

Sony’s “This Is the End” debuted in second place in North America behind

tal domestic haul to $80 million. Universal’s “Fast & Furious 6” arrived in fourth place with $9.4 million, while the studio’s invasion horror film “The Purge” starring Ethan Hawke scared up $8.2 million in the fifth spot.

The super openings of “Man of Steel” and “This Is the End” helped to lift the box office 50 percent over last year when “Madagascar 3” and “Prometheus” held on to the top spots.

“Man of Steel” will face off against stiff competition next week when Paramount’s zombie thriller “World War Z” and the Disney-Pixar’s prequel “Monsters University” both debut.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com.

Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.

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HENRY CAVILL Clark Kent, Kal-El, Superman

Superman is the last son of Krypton. Born Kal-El, his parents sent him to Earth to escape the dying planet. He was found

by Kansans Jonathan and Martha Kent and given the name Clark Kent. Clark uses his gifts to defend the people of Metropolis.

“Man of Steel” with $20.5 million in its opening weekend. The comedy starring Seth Rogen, James Franco and Jonah Hill as versions of themselves trapped in a mansion during the apocalypse opened Wednesday, earning a domestic total of $32.8 million. The film cost just $32 million to produce.

“We knew we were going to have competition, but we felt our movie stood on its own and had its own voice,” said Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution. “I believe we’ve absolutely proven that.

To have this amount of money in the bank with its cost of production, good reviews and word of mouth really puts our feet on solid ground.”

In its third weekend at the box office, the Lionsgate illusionist heist film “Now You See Me” fleeced $10.3 million in third place, bringing its to-

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General Zod

General Zod, former member of the Kryptonian military, was exiled to the Phantom Zone by JorEl after attempting to take over Krypton.

Years later, Zod and his crew escape the zone and they set their sites on Kal-El and his adopted planet Earth.

$125 million Opening weekend sales for “Man of Steel”

$134 million Lifetime gross for the original “Superman” movie debuting in 1978

$71.6 million “Man of Steel” earnings overseas in 24 territories

$52.5 million Opening weekend sales for “Superman Returns” in 2006

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AMY ADAMS Lois Lane

Lois Lane is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Daily Planet in Metropolis. She is known for being one of the first reporters to interview Superman.

Lois is strong-willed and has proven to be more than capable of handling herself in the face of danger.

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With the rise of the superhero culture in today’s age, the absence of a contemporary “Superman” story has been far too noticeable. DC Comics has seemed to put no real effort into creating a universe where its characters can come together in a manner similar to that of Marvel’s Avengers.

Marvel went to work early on, setting up its heroes in 2008 with “Iron Man” and then adding to it in 2011 with “Thor” and “Captain America.” Their ultimate goal was to have all of the characters come together in one action-packed film. This of course came to fruition in 2012 with “The Avengers.”

Marvel’s conviction and determination to make their “Avengers” universe work is something we have not yet seen from DC; however, “Man of Steel” might just be DC’s ticket into the shared universe they’ve been searching for.

With several Easter eggs thrown into the mix, the possibility of this one movie sparking a demand for an entire series of DC movies doesn’t seem so far off.

The movie opens in the one place that has yet to be shown on the big screen: the dying planet of Krypton. In previous films, the only knowledge of Krypton is what’s told to you by a long dead Jor-El in the Fortress of Solitude.

In “Man of Steel” the audience is able to see exactly what transpires in the last moments of the planet’s life as General Zod (Michael Shannon) battles with Jor-El (Russell Crowe) in an attempt to seize control of the planet.

Aware that the planet has only minutes, JorEl works with his wife Lara to send their son, Kal-El, to Earth in an attempt to save their people from total annihilation. This part of the story isn’t extremely different from that of previous origins; however, with a few twists and turns added in, we’re

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offered a new perspective on the previously one-sided tale of what truly happened on Krypton.

After a half hour of Kryptonian backstory, the movie progresses and we join an adult Clark Kent, 33 years after being found in a cornfield by Kansans Jonathan and Martha Kent lost in an endless journey to find the truth of where he’s from while at the same time, working to keep his abilities a secret from all of humankind.

Everything changes, however, when General Zod and his crew escape from the Phantom Zone and travel to Earth bent on the idea of transforming the planet into their home planet, Krypton.

Throughout the film we see flashbacks of Clark’s life growing up on the farm with Jonathan and Martha and the morals he’s learned along the way. In past renditions of the story, Clark’s backstory is whipped out in the first few minutes and doesn’t give the audience an accurate understanding of just how difficult his childhood was. Overall the flashbacks add to the humanity of the film and are guaranteed to bring you to tears.

The writing duo responsible for the success of the Dark Knight trilogy, David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan, took the helm with this reboot and offer a fresh, new take to the otherwise ancient origin story of Superman. With the direction of Zach Snyder, they have turned out a movie that is not only “super,” but also very human.

Overall, I would give this movie a 3/5. While I enjoyed it, I would’ve liked to see more development of General Zod, where he comes from and why he’s fighting for what he’s fighting for. One move at the end of the film left me questioning whether or not the writers went the right direction with the story.

All in all, I’m looking forward to seeing how DC brings its world together.

Rating: HHHII

THE ‘MAN OF STEEL,’ A BRIEF HISTORY 1930s A quick look at the evolution of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes.

June 1938 Our hero’s first appearance in 1938’s Action Comics #1. The original comic was created by writer Jerry Siegel and featured the art of Joe Shuster.

1950s

1952 George Reeves stars in “The Adventures of Superman.” The TV series was on the air for six years.

1990s

1993 -1997 “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” TV Series with Dean Cain as Superman and Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane.

1940s

1948 Columbia Pictures produces a 15film “Superman” series, featuring Kirk Alyn as Clark Kent.

1970s 1978 Christopher Reeve plays our hero in the film “Superman.”

Reeve stars in both “Superman II” (1980) and “Superman III” (1983).

2000s 2001 The TV series “Smallville” follows the young adult life of Clark Kent (Tom Welling). The show was on air for 10 years.

2006 Brandon Routh dawns the cape in “Superman Returns,” Hollywood’s sequel to the original Reeve series.

2010s June 2013 “Man of Steel” features Henry Cavill as Superman.

DN GRAPHIC MICHAEL BOEHNLEIN SOURCE: Supermanhomepage.com