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When Duke and Tennessee met last season, the Blue Devils escaped Knoxville with a 59-57 victory over the Lady Vols.

BATTLE OF THE BEST Duke, Lady Vols to clash with No. 1 rank up for grabs

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Assistant District Attor n e y David Saacks initially announced the plans to pursue the death penalty in the case in April 2005. But after Pitt pleaded guilty, prosecutors asked Blackman’s family to decide whether to settie with life imprisonment or to pursue the death penalty at trial. They ultimately agreed to show mercy.

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Thomas Anthony Pitt, 24, pleaded guilty to the brutal murder offormer Duke employee Curtis Blackman in a hearing in a Durham County courthouse Friday.

After Pitt admitted his guilt in the first-degree murder case, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole or ap-

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Tennessee will TONIGHT, 7:30 p.m. play the No. 2 Cameron Indoor Blue Devils at 7:30 p.m., and the Duke players and coaches

know this is more than an everyday game.

“We’re looking forward to the matchup,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I’m glad we both came through and we can have that No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup.”

Though it may seem odd for a coach to emphasize team rankings, both Goestenkors and her players know the importance of a game of this stature for each team, as well as the sport as a whole.

In a possible preview of the National Championship game, Cameron Indoor Stadium will be sold out for the first women’s game since Tennessee last came to town Jan. 24, 2004 and knocked off then-No. 1 Duke.

Even though the Blue Devils (18-0) are not used to playing in front of large crowds at home, they believe they are ready to handle the more intense atmosphere.

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The ban on new housing sections for selective living groups will remain in place despite the fact that two groups received sections last week, Residence Life arid Housing Services officials said.

Any future moves will follow' the conclusion of a four-part initiative to review and revamp the selective house system, said Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services.

Hull said Delta Tau Delta and Chi Psi fraternities received housing because of their long-standing requests and the anticipated length of the review process, which will take at least a year and a half to complete.

“I don’t see other groups being added until the process that’s going on now is ended,” said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life. “If a group came to us next week and said, ‘We want to get housing,’ I would say, ‘I don’t think so.’”

Hull said the rules of the housing moratorium—which was instituted in January 2004 were simply relaxed to accommodate the specific groups that were given housing.

“Based on where we are and a commitment we’ve made to these groups, I wanted to put the two groups in a position to be successful, and that included housing for recruitment,” Hull said. “It’s very hard to be told, ‘No, no, no,’ and this process won’t be ready for a year and a half.”

The information from RLHS contradicts previous statements made by Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a junior. He said Thursday night that the moratorium on selective living houses had “officially ended.”

Campus Council planned to spend most of second semester designing the Selective Community Assessment, a method of evaluating selective living groups.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. Duke finally made one more mistake than it could afford.

After a sub-par first-half effort against an inspired Georgetown squad, the Blue Devils slowly narrowed a 16-point gap and had one last scrambling PUKE 84 chance to pull out |B7 what would have G'TOWN been a record-setting 18th-straight win to open a season. But even JJ. Redick—who ended the game with 41 points—couldn’t save them.

The No. 1 Blue Devils (17-1) lost for the first time this season, as Georgetown (124) held on for a 87-84win Saturday at the MCI Center.

With less than seven seconds left on the clock and his team down by three, freshman Greg Paulus dribbled down the left side of the floor looking for a teammate oran open shot.

JJ.Redick consoles Greg Paulus after the freshman turned the ball over on the final play of Saturday's loss.

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DAMADOLA, Pakistan Sympathy for al Qaeda has surged after a U.S. airstrike devastated this remote mountain hamlet in a region sometimes as hostile toward the Pakistani government as it is to the United States.

A week after the attack, villagers insist no members of the terror network were anywhere near the border village when it was hit. But thousands of protesters flooded a nearby town chanting, “Long live Osama bin Laden!”

Pakistan’s army, in charge of hunting militants, was nowhere to be seen.

. The rally was the latest in a series of demonstrations across Pakistan against the Jan. 13 attack, which apparendy targeted but missed al Qaeda’s No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri.

The military still mans numerous checkpoints in the area, but it appears to be keeping a low profile so it will not inflame villagers still seething over the deaths of 13 civilians, including women and children, in the attack.

Pakistani intelligence officials believe that four top al Qaeda operatives may have also been killed in the strike including al Qaeda’s master bomb maker, Midhat Mursi, who has a $5 million U.S. boun-

ty on his head.

The men had gathered for dinner on the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha to plan attacks for early this year in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a senior Pakistani intelligence official said.

“This attack has increased our hatred for Americans because they are killing innocent women and children,” said Zakir Ullah, one of 5,000 demonstrators in Inayat Qala, a market town about three miles from Damadola.

“We support jihad [holy war]. Jihad is the duty of every Muslim,” he said.

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23 killed in latest violence in Iraq

BY Sameer N. Yacoub THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at a policeman’s home northeast of Baghdad Sunday, killing his four children and his brother and raising the number of Iraqis killed in attacks this weekend to at least 23.

Also Sunday, police found the bulletriddled bodies of nearly two dozen men abducted last week north of Baghdad after being rejected entry into a police academy, officials said.

The violence continued as Iraq’s political parties began gearing up for talks on a BAGHDAD, Iraq

new coalition government that U.S. officials hope will win the confidence of disaffected Sunni Arabs and undermine support for the insurgency. That would hasten the time when U.S. and other foreign troops can go home.

There was still no word on the fate of kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll two days after a deadline set by her captors. They had threatened to kill the 28year-old freelancer for The Christian Science Monitor unless all Iraqi women detainees were freed.

Iraqi officials have said they expect the Americans to free six of the nine women

they are holding tjiis week. U.S. authorities have not confirmed the claim.

The attack on the policeman ’5 home occurred in Balad Ruz, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad, according to the Iraqi police Joint Coordination Center. The officer’s four children, ages 6 to 11, and his brother were killed, the center said. The officer was unharmed, but his wife was wounded.

Sunni-led insurgents often target police as part oftheir campaign to try to undermine support for the U.S.-backed government.

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Labor, industry and lawmakers are united in demanding that subterranean mine work is made safer. One day after the bodies of two missing miners were found in a Melville,W.Va. mine,Gov.Joe Manchin was crafting legislation that he wanted lawmakers to approve by Monday night.

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U.S. Navy boarded an apparent pirate ship in the Indian Ocean and detained 26 men for questioning, the Navy said Sunday.

The 16 Indians and 10 Somali men were aboard a traditional dhow that was chased and seized Saturday by a destroyer.

Bolivian leader takes office Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indian president, took office on Sunday with a promise to lift his nation's struggling indigenous majority out of centuries of poverty and discrimination. Morales is a fierce critic of U.S. policies and raised a fist in a leftist salute as he swore to uphold the constitution.

Ford plans extensive job cuts Ford Motor Co., hurt by falling sales of sport utility vehicles, is expected to close plants and cut thousands of jobs in North America as part of a restructuring program to be announced Monday.

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As he gets ready for an evening out, freshman David Furfaro runs through the night’s choice of events in his head.

There are many different fraternity parties he could show up to but not enough time to make an aps pearance at them all.

There are also many other decisions he Ollt With must make before he s out—including who to go with and what to wear.

For the hundreds of men like Furfaro participating in fraternity rush, this is the typical thought process at the beginning of a night. The pressure to meet as many people in a fraternity as possible—and smaller concerns such as proper attire can cause some stress.

But the excitement of the process outweighs any concerns.

From nights at bowling alleys and roller skating rinks to meet-and-greets and themed parties in various sections, members—and potential members—of Duke’s male greek community have been out en masse during the rush process, enjoying one of the biggest social periods of the year.

This past weekend some of themes of packed second-round parties included “Jock Jams,” “Back to High School,” “Kentucky Derby” and “White Trash.”

The events were a step up from the small talk and get-to-know-you gatherings of the first round of the rush process.

Preparing to put his best foot forward over the weekend, Furfaro said he is looking forward to the third and final round which begins today—because it will likely be less intimidating than the first two.

“All the rounds are fun, but round three will probably be the best because you are down to the frats you really like, and you can get to know the guys better and the other people you are rushing with,” Furfaro said.

In the coming week the number of parties will diminish as fraternities host semi-formals and focus on selling themselves to the rushees.

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Amid various greek recruitment events, several students were hospitalized for alcohol-related maladies over the weekend, officials confirmed Sunday.

Duke Emergency Medical Technicians said the organization responded to six alcohol-related calls Friday and

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While the last round may take some pressure off of the rushees, the decisions fraternities must make become more difficult as the numbers dwindle.

“It is harder to cut people because the guys still rushing are the ones that the fraternity believes will fit them the

not identify a specific number of students admitted to the emergency department due to alcohol overdose, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said the number was “approaching double digits.”

He added that some of the student hospitalizations over the weekend were not alcohol-induced.

“I’m not in blame-mode right now. I’m just in disappointment-mode,” he said.

Moneta added that he and members of his staff are currendy investigating the details of the hospitalizations.

Moneta did comment on how long the investigations will take.

Although there were several fraternity and sorority functions over the weekend, Moneta said it would be difficult to pinpoint the source of the problems since the students could have obtained the alcohol from a variety of sources.

“I’m very cautious about issuing any blame right now,” Moneta said. “I blame first the individuals for making poor decisions.”

Junior Andrew Godfrey, EMT internal director, said the organization transferred five students to the emergency department Friday night and one student Saturday.

“What normally happens is students will go off campus, they’ll drink, they’ll party, possibly do other drugs,” Godfrey

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The brothers of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity hosted a rush event Sunday for prospective members. ber of the rushees on a more personal level during round three, [as opposed to] more rushees on a more general level during round one,” said AJ. Somers, a sophomore in Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.

But the upcoming third round will also be about “making cuts,” as each fraternity narrows down the numbers of rushees, choose the right “picks” —and hope the recruits choose the fraternity in

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After a six-month separation from friends, family, the comforts of home and all other things American, Remington Kendall thought coming back from abroad would be as easy as a New Zealand breeze.

But he soon found himself facing the problem many Duke students deal with after an extended experience in another country: reverse culture shock.

“Culture shock is definitely something I’ve experienced,” he said. “But it’s funny because I never thought it would happen

me.”

Students returning from months spent abroad find that the daily grind of being back at school-—dealing with classes, social life and reconnecting with friends—is a process similar to what they experienced while adjusting to life in their host country.

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After coming back from abroad, juniorRemington Kendall was surprised to find readjustment to Duke difficult.

from the Duke New Zealand program and has found the process of reassimilating more difficult than he thought.

“I was in New Zealand. I was in Fiji for a while, and I was in a place that was a literal catde ranch. Now I’m back at Duke, and it’s been hard dealing with the culture here all the superficiality,” he said. “Before I left I was superficial to an extent, but now I’m back, and I have a completely different perspective on life. It’s definitely been a shock.”

Junior Alex Cornell also recently returned from New Zealand and has found that readjusting to Duke’s demanding academic life, rather than its culture, has been an area of difficulty. ‘“University shock’ should really be the better term. As far as the culture goes in New Zealand, it’s very similar to the U. 5.,” he said. “There’s the same movies, and —

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Aphysician is faced with the tough decision of whether or not to place a catheter in an elderly patient with a partially clogged artery.

The doctor takes into account his professional experience, the patient’s medical history and a limited range of physiological measures. Only time will tell whether the physician’s choice is a wise one.

Soon, however, a physician may be able to better calculate a patient’s likelihood of successful recovery and a range of other considerations even before a procedure by using pioneering technology that analyzes genetic predictors.

Later this year, Duke researchers will begin using the new Affymetrix GeneChip High-Throughput System—which includes small gene chips containing the entire human genome—to identify and clas-

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But determining when a patient should receive cosdy testing already poses a daunting task for physicians.

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Locals call for Fayetteville facelift Business owners and residents of Fayetteville Street in Durham have designed a plan to refurbish some of the historic corridor’s homes, storefronts, community buildings and streetscapes.

The 119-page plan, created with the input of nearly 200 people, suggests ways to make the central Durham community prosperous while maintaining vestiges of its rich heritage.

The plan calls for increased police protection, the expansion and preservation ofhistoric districts, burying utility lines and laying brick crosswalks, among other things.

Another priority of the business owners and residents is to help make the corridor a destination for shoppers by establishing a vocational skills center and developing a hertitage tourism program that promotes historic sites, cultural activities and homegrown businesses.

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Consultant says city needs new cars The city’s vehicle fleet is too big, too old and

expensive to maintain, an outside consultant told the Durham City Council Thursday.

A survey found nearly half of the city’s 1,353 vehicles, ranging from police cruisers to garbage trucks, need to be replaced because of advanced age and high mileage.

Bringing the fleet to industry standards could cost an estimated $2B million.

The city earmarked $3.9 million for vehicle replacement in the 2005-2006 budget. too

Pastor charged in rape of 12-year-old girl A 12-year-old girl will give birth soon to a child fathered by a pastor who has been charged with raping her, Duplin County Sheriffs authorities said.

Thomas Lindell Robinson was charged with first-de-

gree rape of a child and taking indecent liberties with a child, authorities said.

The girl, who is expected to give birth within a week, attended the church day care, which has since been closed by the state.

Can-boro fire chief takes plea deal Rodney Wallace Murray, the retiring Carrboro fire chief, pleaded guilty to twice violating a domestic violence protective order taken out by Gina Ambrosecchia, a woman with whom Murray has a 10-yearrelationship.

By taking the plea deal, he will stay out of jail and avoid a criminal conviction if he can stay away from the Ambrosecchia.

Murray agreed to step down from his position in the fire department when his legal problems first surfaced.

A new fire cheif will be named later this year.

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Erwin Chemerinsky,Alston & Bird professor of law and political science, was the first speakerFriday at Duke Democrats' continuing mockfilibuster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. In a half-hour address, Chemerinsky—who recently testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee—stronglycriticized Alito's judicial philosophy.

He noted that Alito has already gained the support of enough moderate Republicans to win a majority vote on his confirmation.

"Samuel Alito is too dangerous to have on the Court at this point,"Chemerinsky said/The only way for checks and balances to work, the only way to stop Alito, is the possibility of a filibuster."

The assault has caused friction between Islamabad and Washington and widespread outrage in this Islamic nation of 150 million, but few are as angry as the people who live in the virtually lawless tribal region that borders Afghanistan. The area is a hotbed of Taliban and al Qaeda sympathizers —and a possible sanctuary for bin Laden himself.

Damadola residents deny any links to the militants.

“We don’t have anything to do with al Qaeda, and it was a cruel act of the Americans to attack my house without reason,” said Bacha Khan, a flour mill worker whose house was among the three destroyed.

A relative of Faqir Mohammed, a proTaliban cleric who intelligence officials believe hid the bodies of the four suspected al Qaeda militants killed in the attack to prevent their identification, was arrested Sunday in Damadola, a security official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

Pakistani authorities say they are looking for fighters who might have survived the attack, but they have not visibly stepped up maneuvers in the area.

While the military has about 70,000 soldiers along the border with Afghanistan, an Associated Press reporter who has visited Damadola three times since the attack has not seen a single uniformed soldier there.

Army spokesperson Brigadier Shahjehan Ali Khan said there has been no change in the military’s policy of fighting terrorism.

“Whenever we get a tip-off, we always conduct operations,” he said.

Khan could not estimate how many militants are hiding among the border region’s 3.2 million residents. Officials in

the past have said hundreds of Arab, Central Asian and Afghan fighters are among them.

Outrage at the United States and at the government of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf for backing Washington’s war on terrorism has reached its highest pitch since the U.S. ousted Afghanistan’s Taliban regime after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on America.

Back then, a local cleric in Bajur, the region surrounding Damadola, rallied 8,000 villagers to fight with the Taliban against U.S.-led forces.

Bajur and Afghanistan’s neighboring Kunar region have since served as hideouts because of their rugged mountains—and the sympathies of residents.

Many are Pashtuns, the same ethnic group as the Taliban.

The Jan. 13 attack was believed to have been launched by a Predator drone from Afghanistan, where some 20,000 U.S. troops are based. Pakistan does not allow U.S. forces to pursue militants across the border or launch strikes without permission. Government officials have said they were not informed ahead of time.

Many of Sunday’s protesters called for Musharraf s resignation.

“As a president he has failed to protect the people and as chief of the army staffhe has failed to protect the frontiers,” said Maulana Mohammed Sadiq, a lawmaker in the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party, which helped organize the rallies.

In a show of solidarity, the opposition Jamaat Island, or Islamic Party, marshaled 50 volunteers Sunday to help the village rebuild.

Taliban-style radicals are gaining strength along Pakistan’s border partly because they intimidate anyone who disagrees, said Talat Masood, a retired Pakistani general.

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that allow the rushees to understand the different aspects of the brotherhood,” Williams said. “We have dinners, go bowling, best,” said junior Peter Williams, presiwatch sports together—there is a lot more dent of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. than justparties.”

A significant change that is leading to While the goal of many men rushing is to some differences and even more difficult deget a bid from their fraternities of choice, cisions in this there is more year’s rush season that can come is the shortening out of the ‘You start out by going around of the process. process. Many Last year to different places with your men forge new there were four friendships friends you already have, but rounds over the over the three course of four weeks that conend you a bunch of meeting up weeks. tinue, despite Given the new people.” eventual fratershorter amount nity affiliations.

David of time this year, “You start fraternities have out by going pulled out all around to difthe stops, aware that they need to sponsor ferent places with your friends you almany different and more frequent events ready have, but you end up meeting a to attract people with varied interests. bunch of new people from many differ“We make sure we have a wide variety of ent places,” Furfaro said. from page 3

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Several freshmen joinedAlpha Tau Omega fraternity for a rush event at the Varsity Ale House this weekend.

ALCOHOL from page 3 said. “Then when they make it back to campus, somebody finds them and gets worried. If the police find them they have a protocol they follow to determine whether or not to call us.”

Senior Mike Cheung, EMT director, said more than 20 percent of the “casualties” to whom they have responded this year were impaired by alcohol—up from 12 percent last year.

Moneta added that it is too soon for him to think about repercussions for the students involved.

If the social events hosted by greek organizations were indeed the source of the alcohol, Moneta did not rule out bringing

the organizations before the UndergraduJudicial Board.

The UJB resolves major infractions of University policy.

Last year around this time, several alcohol-related hospitalizations due to fraternity and sorority “bid” parties prompted the intervention of national organizations affiliated with the greek chapters.

Todd Adams, assistant dean of students who works in the Office ofFraternity and Sorority Life, keeps regular conwith the national tact greek organizations and has “advised greeks to be cautious of activities,” Moneta said.

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BLACKMAN from page 1 Blackman served as the coordinator for graduate recruitment and minority programs at Duke. He was described as an caring person and co-worker by those who knewr him.

After the murder, police reported that Pitt tied, blindfolded, gagged and stabbed Blackman 30 times in his Hilton Avenue apartment in May 2004. The victim died a slow and torturous death, remaining conscious for about half an hour, officials said.

Some ofBlackman’s family members were present at the hearing Friday and voiced their grief as well as their requests for mercy.

Blackman’s sister read a passage from her brother’s Bible calling victims to “turn the other cheek” when they are harmed.

Garth David, Blackman’s cousin, addressed Pitt in his prepared speech.

“Thomas Anthony Pitt, your name has constantly been in my mind from the time you were arrested,” David said, according to The News and Observer. “In order for me to

IRAQ from page 2 were wounded Sunday when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol in the tense city of Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, police said. Police also said a man was gunned down at a west Baghdad gas station and another was slain in a market in the capital’s Amil district.

The bodies of the 23 men were found partially buried near Dujail, about 50 miles north of Baghdad, said Interior Ministry police Lt. Thair Mahmoud. They had been abducted Wednesday while traveling

continue to live fully, I have to forgive you.”

Pitt chose not to speak in his defense.But one of his lawyers, Mark Edwards, did turn to Blackman’s family. “We appreciate your decision to spare Thomas’ life,” he said.

The exact motive for the crime remains undetermined.

Pitt and Blackman were in “some type of relationship” that ended just before

the murder, Saacks told reporters. Saacks suggested that Pitt may have been upset that 38-year-old Blackman was leaving Durham to study for a doctorate at Northwestern University.

Pitt, however, gave a different reason.

He told authorities that he wanted to end

his relationship with Blackman because a woman Pitt was seeing was pregnant and he wanted to be a father.

On the day of the murder, Blackman picked up Pitt at a Burger King, where the then 22-year-old worked.

They then went back to the victim’s apartment, where the two men talked about ending their relationship.

Pitt told the police that Blackman became angry and cut Pitt’s finger with a kitchen knife. Pitt said he then fought Blackman in self-defense.

Lawyers on both sides were not convinced by this motive in part because Pitt was significantly taller and almost 100 pounds heavier than Blackman.

One of Pitt’s lawyers, Robert Trenkle, announced that Pitt had been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder from events earlier in his life and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. These conditions may have had an impact in the murder, Trenkle said.

At the hearing Friday, Saacks said Blackman’s hands and feet were bound with his own shoelaces. He was also gagged with a bloody sock and blindfolded by a ripped section ofhis shirt.

from Baghdad to their homes in Samarra after failing to be accepted at a police recruit center.

Elsewhere, the bodies of prominent Sunni Arab tribal leader, Sayid Ibrahim Ali, 75, and his 28-year-old son, Ayad, were found in a field near Hawija, 150 miles north of Baghdad, police said. They were shot as they left a funeral Saturday.

In the central city of Mashru, police found the bodies of two blindfolded men who had been shot in the head and chest.

U.S. soldiers, meanwhile, killed three gunmen firing from several cars north of Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, Satur-

day, the military said Sunday. Six Iraqis were detained and soldiers destroyed four cars after one was found rigged for use as a car bomb. Twelve other people were reported killed in sporadic violence Saturday.

Nevertheless, U.S. Brig. Gen. Don Alston said insurgent attacks nationwide fell 40 percent during the week ending Saturday, compared with the previous week. Attacks in Baghdad fell 80 percent for the same period, he told reporters.

The reduction in attacks occurred as security was stepped up in Baghdad and other insurgent hotspots ahead of the announcement last Friday of the results of

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January 2005: Pitt is indicted by a grand jury for his role in Blackman's death.

April 5, 2005: Assistant District Attorney David Saacks announces plans to pursue the death penalty in Pitt's first-degree murder trial.

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Despite his career-high tying 41 -point el Fort, JJ. Redick could not lift the top-ranked Blue Devils past Georgetown inWashington, D.C. Saturday. A lack ofeffort in the first half doomed Duke, which trailed by 14at the break.

"We didn't play the way we were capable of playing, so we deserved this loss."

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We lostbecause we didn'tplay as hard as Georgetown."

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WASHINGTON, D.C. Going for a school-record 18-0 start, Duke learned the hard way that it cannot win games merely by showing up.

Backed by a raucous crowd of more than 20,000, Georgetown jumped on the listless Blue Devils and used its tremendous size and precise offense to build a 14-point halftime lead. At times over the first 20 minutes, Duke looked as if it expected the Hoyas to step out of the way ofits history-making streak, but the athletic Georgetown team would not yield an inch to the heavily favored Blue Devils.

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And despite an incredible comeback attempt and arguably the greatest offensive performance of JJ. Redick’s career, Duke could not climb out of the deep hole it had dug with its unin-

spired early play.

“We didn’t come out there with a lot of energy,” senior Shelden Williams said. “We didn’t match their intensity until probably the second half, when we were already down. That’s something that we didn’t do from the start.”

The Hoyas utilized a spread offense similar to the one the Blue Devils saw Wednesday from N.C. State. Against the Wolfpack, Duke’s defense rotated well and as a result allowed only 13 assists

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Freshman GregPaulus had several turnovers in the final minutes ofSaturSEE EFFORT ON PAGE 7 day's loss, hisfirst in 18 games as a Blue Devil.

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In its first match of the regular season, the No. 14 women’s tennis team notched a convincing 6-1 victory on the road Sunday at No. 19 Tennessee (0-2). Duke (1-0) controlled play from the start, taking two out of the three 6 DUKE doubles matches before each of *J Duke’s top four singles players handed her Lady Vol opponent a straight-set defeat.

Duke jumped to an early one-point lead, riding strong doubles play from its first and third pairs.

Duke’s lOth-ranked team of Daniela Bercek and Jessi Robinson defeated their 38th-ranked opponents by a score of 8-6, while the 41st-ranked Blue Devil pairing of Jennifer Zika and Melissa Mang cruised past its Tennessee opponents, 8-3. Jackie Carleton and Kristin Cargill dropped their match at the No. 2 spot, 8-6.

“Our goal is always to win all three [doubles matches],” head coach Jamie Ashworth said, “but it was great to start off well like that. We struggled last year with doubles play —we were always losing the doubles point. And against a top-20 team, to get that point to start off is a good confidence builder.”

The Duke women carried that confidence into their singles matches, netting five of six possible victories in convincing fashion. Bercek, the sixth-ranked player in the country, led the charge at the top flight, dismantiing Tennessee’s Victoria Jones, 6-2, 6-1.

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Freshman Melissa Mang won her fourth-flight singles match in straight sets, 7-5,6-1, Sunday in Tennessee.

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“I felt really well today,” Bercek said. “I came 100 percent into my match, and I was able to get into a rhythm and dominate.”

Freshmen Mang and Tara Iyer, coming off of last weekend’s upset victories over the No. 15 and No. 2 players in the country, respectively, both defeated their Lady Vol foes in straight sets.

Carleton, Duke’s No. 2 and the nation’s 27th-ranked player, added a point for the Blue Devils, and Cargill won her first set before her opponent retired due to injury. Jessi Robinson dropped Duke’s only singles match to Tennesee’s Stephanie Harris, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4, at the No. 6 spot.

But despite his players’ dominant performances, Ashworth promised that his team will continue to improve.

“Next week we’ll be better than today,” Ashworth told his team after Sunday’s victory. “We gave up a lot of unnecessary points due to poor decision-making, and our footwork and discipline can be better.

Practice is always different than the match, and we will continue to learn how to play in these pressure situations.”

While Ashworth recognized his team has room for improvement, he was nevertheless pleased with the effort, especially since it came on the road against a quality opponent.

“They’re a pretty feisty team, with emotional players,” Ashworth said ofTennessee. “They’re verbally into it, and that makes them tough to play, especially on the road.”

Duke will face No. 32 Indiana in Bloomington

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Junior Jackie Rodriguez continued the team’s winning ways by taking first in the second event of the night, the 1,650-yard freestyle, with a season-best time of 17:06.92. Colella said that the 1,650-yard freestyle is not typically held during dual meets, but it was important for Rodriguez The No. 13 Virginia (7-3, 4-0 in the to swim the event one more time before ACC) men’s team handed Duke (34, 1-3) the ACC Championship Feb. 22-25. a 126-93 loss. The 19th-ranked Cavalier Duke could not sustain its early lead as women (4-3, 4-0) also defeated the Blue the meet continued, but was able to keep Devils (54, 14), 125-115. the scoring close. Ness turned in first-place Despite their defeats, both the men’s finishes in both the 200-yard individual and women’s teams started off favorably. medley and 100-yard butterfly, and Lewis The men’s team took second place in the placed first in the 100-yard freestyle.

200-yard medley relay. In dramatic fashion, “The one thing we really talked about anchorman sophomore Ryan Packer came this week was our race preparation,” Colelfrom behind and touched out Cavalier Fran la said. “Not just physically being ready but Crippen by .01 seconds to help his relay finmentally being ready to step up and race, ish in a season-best time of 1:36.34. The firstespecially against a program like Virginia.” place Virginia team finished at 1:35.71.

Although senior Andy Storm kept the “Every meet we try to come out and get men’s momentum going by finishing seca quick start to get the tempo flowing ond in the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time ‘cause it obviously has a big impact for our of 9:55.27—the second-best time ofhis caHOWARD CHEN/THE CHRONICLE later races,” Packer said. “It’s nice to get reer—the Blue Devils won only four of the started off with events. things a bang.”

13 Although several swimmers notched season-best On the women’s side, the Duke team of In the 100-yard freestyle, Packer, amidst times, Duke fell to Virginia Friday. the noise of the crowd, was not ready when sophomore Danielle Spearman and seniors Nora Stupp, Katie Ness and Julia Lewis the race began and was slow off the block 4:51.71, the second-best time of his career, and Kevin Arthofer won the 100captured first in the 200-yard medley relay and finished fourth. with a time of 1:47.61. The top Cavalier" “Usually we try to get as many spectayard breaststroke in 58.87 to give the tors out as possible,” Packer said. “I don’t Blue Devils their individual wins. squad was disqualified in the race.

“Some of the splits we had on the relay, Want to say there were too many, but it was “I’m just real proud of the way they at this time of the season, were really a little too loud for us.” handled themselves tonight and perDuke won both diving events when formed,” Colella said. “We walked away great,” head coach Dan Colella said. “One of the things that we have to be prepared Sophomore Chris Sanders took first in tonight with a few lifetime bests, a few to do is to be competitive in the relays both the 1-meter and 3-meter events. season bests. It’s a great way to be headwhen we get to the ACC. The women did Sophomore Scott Champagne placed first ing into the final stretch as we prepare exceptional Jobs tonight, right at season in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of for the ACC.” Although the Blue Devils posted some of their best performances of the season, both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams fell short of defeating the Cavaliers in Friday’s dual meet at the Taishoff Aquatics Pavilion.

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The Duke fencing team opened its 2006 campaign with an all-around solid performance Sunday in Philadelphia.

The men’s team split four matches, defeating Haverford and Drew while falling to Penn and Rutgers. The women’s team won three of its four matches, losing only to Penn.

Perhaps as important as the results, however, was the team’s chance to build chemistry and gain invaluable experience for its celebrated freshman class.

“The team all worked together better than I thought [they would],” head coach Alex Beguinet said. “It was good to see them all fencing together toward one goal. That’s the best thing.”

Adding to Beguinet’s excitement was the performance of his outstanding freshmen in their first collegiate competition.

Freshman sabers Peter Truszkowski and Laughlin Stewart helped the Blue Devils’ men’s saber team win three ofits four matches.

“In the beginning, they were very nervous, but by the middle of the day they were relaxed and fenced well,” Beguinet said of his freshmen.

Ibtihaj Muhammad paced the women with a perfect 11-0 personal record, leading the women’s saber team to a 4-0 mark.

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The McDonald’s High School AllAmerican game has a great history of setting the stage for future greatness, Over the past 26 years, future NBA stars from Michael Jordan to Leßron James have competed in the game before becoming professional stars and cultural icons, In 1987, a pre-game slam dunk contest was introduced. The event’s past winners include Jerry Stackhouse, Vince Carter and James. And, oh yeah—Candace Parker too.

In 2004, Parker, now a redshirt freshman at Tennessee, became the first woman to ever win the dunk contest. Still slightly hobbled from an ACL injury and wearing a brace on her left knee, Parker covered her eyes with her left arm while jumping up and dunking the ball with her right. The crowd went wild and Parker won, beating out men’s players including J.R. Smith, now on the Charlotte Hornets, and Washington, the starting point guard for No. 4 Memphis.

As perhaps the most decorated player in the history of women’s high school basketball —including the MeDonald’s dunk crown and just about every National Player of the Year award imaginable during her junior and senior seasons—Parker was expected to immediately dominate on the college level. Her athleticism, as evidenced by her ability to dunk, was thought by some to be enough to help women’s basketball further nudge its way into American sports’ mainstream.

But it did not unfold as planned.

After arriving on campus in Knoxville as a freshman in the fall of 2004, Parker became increasingly concerned with swelling in her left knee and eventually sought out medical help. She was told she had damage to her meniscus and cartilage that would require surgery and a subsequent 6-to-12 month rehab. That meant the loss of her entire freshman season.

“Candace made the most of a bad situation,” Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt said. “She committed herself

getting herself, physically, a lot stronger.... She had a chance to sit on the bench and take it all in.

“At times, she was very frustrated that she could not play. She matured a lot as far as thinking more along the lines as a coach than a player, but at the same time understanding as a player what she needed to do to be ready for this year.”

Now healthy, the 6-foot-4 Parker is beginning to live up to the hype this season. She is the second-leading scorer for the No. 1 Lady Vols at 14.9 points per game. She is leading the team in rebounds with an average of 8.4 and in blocks with 39.

Although Parker has primarily played forward for her team this year, she is incredibly versatile. She has three-point shooting range and ballhandling ability in addition to her skills down low.

“She’s just a great all-around player,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said, “If you try to double-team her, she’s an exceptional passer out of the doubleteam, so she’s going to find the open player and make her teammates better, She has such great vision because of her height at the low post and the high post that she can make great passes.”

Goestenkors knows about Parker’s skill from more than just watching game tape; The Duke coaching staff heavily recruited Parker, and she even took an official visit to Durham before to

eventually choosing

“We have a lot of experience on this playing in big games, in front of big crowds,” junior-point guard Lindsey Harding said. “We actually feed off of that.”

The Lady Volunteers (18-0) are not strangers to playing in crowded arenas.

They average an astounding 14,170 fans at their home games, and in all eight of their road games the opposition has set a season-high in attendance.

And Tennessee has the talent to deserve the attention it has gotten. Redshirt freshman Candace Parker has become one of the dominant forces in women’s basketball in her first 18 NCAA games.

The 6-foot-4 forward is scoring 14.9 points per game and is the team’s leading rebounder, pulling down 8.4 per game.

She is also a defensive force, using her athleticism to record a team-high 39 blocks.

“With someone her size, who can handle the ball, she is tough to block because she is so tall and can get her shot off over most defenders,” senior Monique Currie said. “She will definitely be a challenge the way she can face up and go to the basket.”

Along with Parker on the interior, Tennessee features experienced guard play.

Senior Shanna Zolman is the team’s leading scorer at 15.7 points per game and contributes nearly three rebounds and three assists per contest.

“Shanna Zolman is certainly the leader of that team, and even if she’s not hitting her shot...she still finds away to help her team win,” Goestenkors said. “I think everyone thinks it is supposed to be a Candace Parker show because what she does is so phenomenal.... But when you look at it, it’s a really great team that they have.”

Duke has faced just three top-25 teams this year and has won its games by an average of more than 38 points per game—its team

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closest contest was an eight-point victory over Georgia Tech Jan. 11. Because of their dominance, the Blue Devils have been able to spread their minutes. AllAmerican Monique Currie is leading the team with just 25.8 minutes per game and 12 players are averaging at least 9.9 minutes per game.

In preparation for its tougher games, however, Goestenkors has shortened her rotation. But Duke players believe that their depth is still their greatest strength and that they will attempt to take full advantage of it against the Lady Volunteers.

“The more people we can play, the better, so that we can use our depth,” Harding said. “We all know that if someone is not playing well that we have a whole line of people that can come in and contribute.”

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Parker's athleticism has been on display all season long and will be too much for the lumbering tandem of Bales and Williams. Currie will have to play like the All-American that she is for Duke to stay competitive in the game.

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Lindsey Harding and the Blue Devils will play in front of theirfirst sellout crowd at home this year.

DUKE vs. TENNESSEE

“We recruited Candace very heavily,” Goestenkors said. “I actually thought she was going to come to Duke. We were that close. It was tough when she decided to go to Tennessee, and I told her I’d always be a fan of hers. And she’s such a quality—not just a player—but such a quality person.”

When Parker takes the floor in Cameron Indoor Stadium tonight, it will be an opportunity for her to play against players that were almost her college teammates. And in front of a national television audience and a sold-out crowd of 9,314, Parker will take another step toward becoming the face of women’s basketball.

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Lindsey Harding has been a serious threat in recent games, earning ACC Player of the Week for her play. But Zolman is one of the best guards in the country, and Smith will have her hands full at the defensive end.

The Blue Devils' biggest strength is their balanced depth. Chante Black will be a force off the bench and Abby Waner will shine in her first opportunity in the national spotlight. Watch for Duke to rotate quite frequently.

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Carolina falls short of Super Bowl XL berth

by Barry Wilner THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE Fans chanted “Super Bowl, Super Bowl” as Shaun Alexander carried the NFC championship trophy down the field at Qwest Stadium, a joyous trip that was 30 years in the making.

Alexander, a killer defense and playing on a field CAROLINA Jls where they didn’t SEATTLE 34 l° se this season, all combined perfectly Sunday to help the Seahawks rout the Carolina Panthers 34-14 in the NFC title game.

“I think we got people excited about football again here in the Pacific Northwest,” coach Mike Holmgren said.

“They’re all coming to Detroit with us, everybody in the stadium’s coming. They were great for us all year. Home-field advantage in this place means everything.” .

In this case, it means the Seahawks (153) will meet the Pittsburgh Steelers, 34-17 winners over Denver in the AFC, in the Super Bowl. That game will be played in Detroit on Feb. 5 and the Steelers already are favored by 3.5 points.

Alexander, the league’s MVP, came back from last week’s concussion to rush for a team playoff-record 132 yards and two touchdowns, and Seattle pressured Carolina stars Jake Delhomme and Steve Smith into oblivion.

“We have an unbelievable team, an unbelievable group of fans,” Alexander said.

“Prayer works. I get knocked out and guys step up. One guy goes down and another guy steps up.”

The Seahawks picked off three passes in winning their 12th-straight home game and shattering the fifth-seeded Panthers’ stunning postseason road run.

“We’re not done yet,” said quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, who was a precise 20-for-28 for 219 yards and two scores. “We’ve got another game we’ve got to go win.”

It was a game the Seahawks only approached once before, losing the AFC championship game to Oakland in 1984.A dozen years later, then-owner Ken Behring was planning a move to Los Angeles.

But current owner Paul Allen stepped in, eventually getting Qwest Field built.

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“We’ve come a long way, it’s taken five years to put this group together,” Alexander said. “Now we are one of the elite teams.”

The focus in these playoffs has been on the spectacular success of the road teams, with Pittsburgh becoming the first sixth seed to make a Super Bowl. Carolina (136) had beaten the Giants and Bears on the road, and an all wild-card Super Bowl appeared very possible—until about 16 minutes into the NFC championship game, when Seatde led 17-0.

“I don’t know if we ran out of gas,” Panthers coach John Fox said. “I’m not sure what the problem was. Their defense played tremendous. We knew we’d have our hands full with their offense.”

While Alexander paced the ball-control offense, it was the defense that really carried the Seahawks. It yielded only 62 yards, three first downs and no real threats in the first half. Then, with Carolina desperate, Seatde allowed virtually nothing until it had a 20-point lead.

Holmgren, who won the Super Bowl in 1997 and lost in 1998 with Green Bay, praised his defense last week for the enormous pressure it applied to opponents all season.

“We’ve always got a chip on our shoulder, they always say the offense has to pull us through, defensive tackle Chuck Darby said. “But in order to win games in the playoffs, we knew our defense had to step up.”

The Panthers weren’t helped when starting running back Nick Goings was sidelined in the first quarter after a massive hit by linebackerLofa Tatupu. They already were minus their top two runners, Stephen Davis and DeShaun Foster.

Hasselbeck finishedoff the Panthers with a gorgeous pump fake that had comerback Chris Gamble on all fours. Darrell Jackson caught the 20-yard pass for a 27-7 lead, and it was time for Seatde fans to celebrate.

“I was at the Super Bowl last year just hoping that one day we’d be able to get there,” Allen said. “I may seem like a mildmannered guy, but my gut was churning inside: ‘Let’s win this game. Just win this game. We’ve got to win this game.’” “

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Several members of the track and field team recorded

qualifying scores for both the ECAC and IC4A Collegiate Championships Saturday at the Terrapin Track Invitational.

More than half of the Duke squad traveled to College Park, Md. to compete individually in a meet attended by

Junior high jumper Debra Vento won the high jump with a height of 510 at the Terrapin Track Invitational Saturday.

34 schools and more than 1,100 athletes. Although the Blue Devils did not compete as a team, the indoor meet served as an opener to the spring season. . “We were trying to get that first meet in, that first competitive experience,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said.

Duke placed first in four events with standout performances by sophomore pole vaulter Lara Jones, junior high jumper Debra Vento, junior distance runner Alex Romero and the women’s distance medley relay.

After vaulting 11-11.75 feet last weekend, Jones increased her vault height to 12-3.5, an indoor career high.

Vento reached an ECAC and NCAA provisional qualifying mark with a high jump of 5-10.

“She’ll probably have to jump a little higher to get to the NCAA qualifier, but for the first meet it’s a great start for Debra,” Ogilvie said The lone Duke victory on the men’s side came from a strong effort by Romero in the 3,000-meter race. Romero ran an 8:27.63 to slip under the IC4A qualifying time of

8:29.80. Romero’s last lap was his fastest—he completed it in 63 seconds.

“He won in convincing fashion,* and it was his best race to date as a Duke athlete,” Ogilvie said. “He got the job done.”

Romero, traditionally more successful in longer distances, qualified last year in the 10,000-meterrace and will compete in the 5,000-meter race at the Armory Collegiate Invitational in two weeks.

“It was really quite a surprise that he was able to run so effectively in short distance, but we were very, very happy,” Ogilvie said.

In the women’s distance medley relay, the performances offreshman Jessica Davlin in the 1,200-meter leg, sophomore Allison Stankavage in the 200-meter leg, freshman Michelle Seibert in the 800-meter leg and Molly Lehman’s 1,600 meter anchor gave the Blue Devils another firstplace finish. The relay’s time was just a few seconds under the ECAC qualifying mark.

Next weekend, the team will split into three groups and travel to opposite sides of the country. The pole vaulters will compete in Reno, Nev. at the Pole Vault Summit. The elite distance runners will head to Boston for the Terrier Classic hosted by Boston University, while the rest of the team will remain in North Carolina to compete locally in the Tar HeelInvitational in Chapel Hi 11..... .

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ST. JOHN'S 55 PITTSBURGH 50

Nelson still day-to-day DeMarcus Nelson said after Saturday’s game that he still does not know whether or not he will be able to play Thursday at Virginia Tech. The sophomore has only played in six of Duke’s 18 games after he broke his right ankle Nov. 23 against Drexel and suffered a bone bruise on the same ankle against Maryland.

On the day St. NEW YORK (AP) honored 10 former coaches and John’s players, the Red Storm knocked No. 9 Pittsburgh from the ranks of the unbeaten, 55-50 Saturday.

“This was a perfect day. Nobody could have written a script like this,” said Hall of Fame coach Lou Camesecca, one of those honored at a halftime ceremony.

Lamont Hamilton matched his career high with 24 points, including two free throws with 12 seconds left that gave the Red Storm a 53-50 lead.

It was the first time the Panthers (151,4-1 in the Big East) lost this season and it came in their third straight road game.

“I’m upset. I’m a basketball player

Williams has rough day Shelden Williams had his worst game of the year Saturday, scoring just four points.

It was the big man’s lowest offensive output since he scored four points in 19 minutes of action before fouling out in Duke’s loss to UConn in the 2004 Final Four.

“Shelden needs to get more than two buckets, it wasn’t because we were not feeding him,” Krzyzewski said.

TENNESSEE 80 FLORIDA 76

Dockery continues clutch play

Sean Dockery, who famously hit the game-winning 40-foot buzzer-beater against Virginia Tech, continued his strong late-game play Saturday. The senior scored eight of his 10 points in the last 1:04, including an off-balance jumper that brought Duke within two with nine seconds remaining.

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Playing with four fouls for the final 10 minutes, Shelden Williams scored justfour points.

Krzyzewski said of the last play. “But that’s just part of his maturation process.”

Georgetown celebrates

Paulus to learn from experience

The Hoyas’ 87-84 victory was their first over a top-ranked team since Feb. 27, 1985, when the father of John Thompson III—Georgetown’s current coach—led a Hoya team that featured Patrick Ewing past St. John’s. The elder Thompson remembered what the then 19-year old was doing at the time.

“Second-guessing his father,” he said.

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strong communication on the floor throughout the game. Georgetown’s quick cuts and back-door layups plagued the Blue Devils as the Hoyas shot 62 percent in the contest and scored nearly 20 points more than their average.

Although Redick matched his career high for points in a single game, Duke found it difficult to keep its focus while on offense.

“We could not match their intensity for a whole half,” Krzyzewski said. “When we don’t match another team’s intensity that doesn’t happen very often—then all of a sudden, we do ‘JJ. watching.’ We’re watching JJ. play. We might as well get tickets and sit behind the bench. No one else is doing anything out there.”

Shelden Williams, who entered the game averaging 18.4 points per game, was strapped by foul trouble from the beginning of the second half and totalled only four points on 2-for-8 shooting.

Redick brought the Blue Devils to within seven points of Georgetown with a fivepoint streak in the middle of the second half. Duke then began to make a run at the lead, which the Hoyas had only lost once—for just over a minute during the first half.

“In a game like thatwhere you’re trying to come back, just one or two plays can turn the momentum,” Redick said. “We got one or two steals and a couple ofbuckets, and that really helped us.”

With 33 seconds remaining and Duke with the ball down five, Redick attempted a step-back three-pointer, but Bowman read the move and used his height advantage to block the shot. Bowman recovered the loose ball and was immediately fouled.

The Georgetown senior knocked down both free throws to seemingly put the game out ofreach, 85-78.

But after a quick layup by senior Sean Dockery, Paulus stole the ball from Ashanti Cook and connected on another quick

Krzyzewski said freshman point guard Greg Paulus will learn from his late-game mistakes against Georgetown. Paulus had a career-high 14 points, but missed a key layup in the last minute and lost the ball on die game’s final play.

“At that time, you have to find [Redick] —he has got about a zillion points,”

Redick trailed behind Paulus calling for the ball and asking for- a chance to send the game into overtime.

Redick never got the opportunity.

Instead, Paulus collided with the Hoyas’ Jonathan Wallace, who knocked the ball loose. Brandon Bowman dove on it, killing the play as the clock ran out.

Hundreds of Hoya fans among the soldout crowd of 20,035 immediately stormed the court to join the Georgetown players in celebration.

“We win and lose together,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Everybody’s got to stay hungry. We’ve been in the penthouse all season, having room service. Somebody jammed up the elevator today.”

Duke struggled in the first half to counter the Hoyas’ intensity and lacked

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and a competitor, a person who really doesn’t like to lose,” Pitt senior guard Carl Krauser said. “We are all upset. We just didn’t want to lose.”

The win was third in a row for St. John’s (10-6, 3-2), which was 9-18 last season, head coach Norm Roberts’ first.

“I think that this is a statement that we are improving and that we are a tough basketball team,” Roberts said.

“Chris Mullin and Mark Jackson said it best. They talked about how these guys need to understand they are not only playing for their families and themselves, they are playing for the people that came before them, the tradition of this school.”

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Honda took the court against Tennessee as the last undefeated team in the country, knowing two others had gone down earlier in the day.

The Gators made it 0-3 for the unbeatens Saturday.

Tennessee put an end to the surprising Gators’ best start in school history with an 80-76 victory, behind Chris Lofton’s 29 points.

The Gators (17-1, 3-1 in the SEC) would have been in prime position to take over the No. 1 spot from Duke.

They’ve been No. 1 twice before, but the Vols (12-3, 3-1) seemed more“ inspired by the possibility of keeping Florida away from No. 1 than the Gators were to

be the top-ranked team in the country.

“If you asked me, I would have thought that would have been a motivator for Florida to wake up tomorrow as the No. 1 team in the country,” Tennessee head coach Bruce Pearl said.

The final 10 minutes were tight and got tighter as the clock wound down.

Corey Brewer had tied it at 76 for Florida with 45 seconds remaining on two foul shots.

Lofton missed a three at the other end for Tennessee, and Brewer got the outlet pass and was racing for the basket when Lofton stole it.

Dane Bradshaw caught a long pass from Lofton and scored a layup that put the Vols ahead 78-76 with 20 seconds left.

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Lee Melchionnifinished 2-for-5 from three-point range, as theBlue Devils shot 9-for-19 from long range. score to bring the Blue Devils within three Redick fouled Bowman with 16 seconds left, and Bowman made only his second free throw to give the Hoyas a fourpoint margin. Then, while trying to draw a foul, Dockery made a leaning two-point shot from the left wing to narrow the score to 86-84.

Wallace, who was fouled by Dockery, made his first free throw to bring the score

87-84 with seven seconds left. After he missed the second, Duke was in position for the potential game-tying three-pointer, but Paulus turned the ball over.

“They wanted it more than us,” Dockery said. “They came out and played team ball—no guy out there was selfish. Our team, on the other side, we just weren’t ourselves today. I don’t know what it was, but it wasn’t good today.” to

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EFFORT from page 1 and contested nearly every shot.

Saturday’s defense, however, was a step slow allowing numerous back-door cuts

and uncontested layups.

With so many shots coming from easy looks inside, the Hoyas tallied 24 assists—-14 in the first period—as they shot a ridiculous 67 percent in the first half and 62 percent for the game.

“Those back-doors wouldn’t be there if we were playing hard and as a unit,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We just played a team that runs the same offense.

In that game we communicated, we played defense as one.”

Forward Jeff Green was the key to the Georgetown attack, running the point forward position with success, which Duke had not allowed N.C. State’s Ilian Evtimov

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accomplish. The 6-foot-9 big man conthree blocks and forced 10 turnovers after out of the middle the break—mental mistakes kept the team and found cutters who relished the abfrom fully erasing the once 16-point deficit. sence of the Landlord in the paint.

Duke missed several layups and freshman Krzyzewski did attempt to mask his Greg Paulus had three cosdy turnovers late team’s defensive woes by switching to a 2-S in the game, including on the last play zone late in the first half. During the first when he was unable to get off a shot. possession in the zone, however, the same The most remarkable aspect of the problems arose as the defense was slow to game, however, was that despite the Blue rotate and Ashanti Cook casually nailed an Devils’ first-half performance, the mental open three-pointer. errors and Georgetown’s superior play, the From there, Krzyzewski was determined nation’s top-ranked squad had a distinct to have his team live or die by its patented chance to complete the improbable comehigh-pressure man-to-man. back, even while Williams was saddled with “We’re just not going to do that,” four fouls for the last 10 minutes.

Krzyzewski said of changing the team’s If the team has indeed learned its lesdefensive strategy. “That wasn’t why we son from the disappointing loss, Duke may lost. We lost because we didn’t play as not end the year feeling the regret it colhard as Georgetown.” lectively felt Saturday.

Although Duke’s effort, and not coinci“We deserved it today,” senior Sean Dockdentally its defensive performance, did pick ery said. “We didn’t play the way we were caup in the second half—the Blue Devils had pable of playing, so we deserved this loss.”

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committee, officials will outline goals for each of the four different living situations on West Campus; independent students, and the Council had an agreement that the greek organizations and non-greek social moratorium would remain in place until the and learning groups. completion of the SCA. “I don’t know what Hull said he hopes this step in the we’re going to do next,” Ganatra said, “Anyprocess will begin in Fall 2006. thing that I wanted to do this semester is In the final step, Campus Council will repretty much down the drain.” assign housing for living groups based on Hull said the decision to give Chi Psi the findings of the previous modules. and DTD housing was based on the findThe changes are slated to take effect in ings of Campus Council and a task force August 2007, after which the SCA commitled by Gonzalez. The two groups suggesttee will regulate selective life. ed increasing the proportion of West Although Hull said Campus Council Campus housing inhabited by selective would assume the reassignment duties, Ganatra suggested that the Council groups —a shift from 33 to 35 percent and the abolition of a clause limiting sewould delegate many of the reassignment lective groups to 50 percent or less of duties to the Interfraternity Council and each quadrangle.

Selective House Council.

“Absent the recommendations of Also, speaking about the reassignment those two groups, I never would have plan, Ganatra said he expects many made the decision to give those fraternigroups housed in Edens Quadrangle will ties housing,” Hull said. want to move to a more central location He added that selective groups currently on West and questioned RLHS’ assumpuse about 28 percent of West Campus bed tion that all housing locations are equalspace, well under the cap. About 200 beds ly attractive to students. could be added for selective groups without Ganatra also said the SCA is “more imperative” than the reassignment project exceeding the 35-percent threshold.

In addition to explaining the recent and noted that there is currently no timehousing changes, Hull outlined a four-part frame for Campus Council to consider process that he hopes will improve campus the reassignment program. selective life. It will not be completed until The Campus Council president previat least August 2007. ously admitted there were communicaThe first module in the plan is an RLHS tion problems between Campus Council analysis of living space on West Campus to and RLHS after a September row concerning the move-out policy. He said he see what spaces can best accommodate selective communities. The current policy prewould try to eliminate those problems in venting selective groups facing the Main the future.

West Quadrangle will not change, Hull said.

“It wasn’t out of malicious intent.

The second step in the process involves Maybe we weren’t asking the right questions at the right times,” Ganatra said of the Gonzalez-led task force, which is seeking to define the role of selective groups, the recent miscommunication. how groups qualify for housing and how Despite the confusion, both Ganatra and RLHS officials described the RLHSthey earn the right to stay on campus.

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T.V., and everybody kind of follows the same cultural cues. It was coming back to the American university system that was a huge shock for me.”

New Zealand universities are based on the British education system, Cornell ex-

thinks genetic predictors should only be used for “preventative efforts to predict disease” in cases where treatments could potentially be avoided.

“Part of a physician’s role in the relationship with the patient is to discuss treatment options and to make sure the patient understands them in the best context,” Febbo said.

Both Nevins and Febbo said they hope that microarray technology is used primarily to determine which treatments fit which patients.

“But there’s no doubt that, like most other major advances in medicine, this will have to be worked out,” Febbo said.

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plained.

“Exams there are almost 100 percent of your grade, so there’s very little work in between. People skip class all the time to go to the beach... it’s almost expected,” he said. “And here [at Duke] I went to class, I hadn’t done the reading, the teacher asked me why I wasn’t participating, and I said that I hadn’t bought the books yet, and they made a huge deal about it.”

Though he agrees academics are important, Cornell said he wanted to experience more than classroom life.

“In an abroad program to New Zealand, -it’s really living abroad, as opposed to studying abroad,” he said.

‘You’re there to see things and go places, and you can’t really do that if you’re devoting every bit of time to academics.”

Harshada Rajani, a junior, has also found academic life at Duke an adjustment after spending last semester in the Duke in Madrid program.

“It’s hard coming back to a campus where the work ethic is hard,” she said.

“Spain is known for being laid back—there was much less work as a whole. But here at Duke, it’s only the first week, and I already have a paper due. I was like, ‘What?’”

Reconnecting with friends after time abroad is another challenge that leaves many returning students feeling awkward.

Rajani now prefers close relationships to the social butterfly-like ways of her sophomore year.

“I remember sophomore year I was

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Students studying abroad find time to explore—even by kayak—their oftenexotic host countries. friends with everyone. But now I really just hang out with my close friends who I kept in contact with while I was abroad,” she said. “There’s definitely a slight disconnect.”

More than a challenge of simply catching up on six months of life, Rjajani has, found that all of the things she has seen and experienced has led to a small divergence between her and friends who haven’t lived in another country.

“While abroad I went to 26 different cities. I went to Africa.... I went skating at the Eiffel Tower, and I saw the pope at the Vatican,” she said.

“When I see people who didn’t go abroad, I feel bad for them.... They’ll ask me ‘How was your semester?’, and it’s just something you can’t really communicate—it’s hard.... People who

haven’t had that experience can’t really understand.”

Cornell said reconnecting with people he wasn’t particularly close to before his time abroad has been difficult.

“With people you didn’t really know that well, it’s a little bit harder to get back into things,” he said. “They might not know where you were, and it’s kind of awkward.”

Although reverse culture shock was an obstacle Rajani anticipated upon her return to Duke, it is something she has taken in stride.

“Being abroad, I was able to have my whole mind opened to the world outside Duke, and it was an amazing opportunity for me,” she said, laughing.

“I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.”

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The “experts” that distribute the bracelets can in no way assure defendants of leniency.

In some courtrooms, SCRAM use makes a difference. In others, it means nothing. As of right now, there is no jurisprudential consenus.

But when sales reps capitalize on area Hispanic offenders’ weaker command of English to convince them SCRAM is necessary, then we have a problem.

When the primary sales rep to the Durham area himself has a criminalrecord for multiple offenses, then we have a problem. And when there are allegations that said representative has used shady sales tactics—-

including using courtroom Spanish-to-English interpreters to falsely represent themselves as court affiliates—then we

have a very serious problem Further, at $75 for initial activation and $l2 per day after that, SCRAM is expensive. In fact, for the poor minority they are often marketed to, they are prohibitively so. If both buying and wearing SCRAM fails to translate into leniency, that cost becomes exponentially greater.

As always, we and others around the state are simply waiting for the day when legal precedents align themselves that is, until we are certain whether wearing SCRAM pretrail will, in fact, translate into a more lenient sentence.

Until that happens, we hope to see this distributive company clean up its act. And if it cannot, we’d like to see the city or state make sure that it does.

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The news isn’t all bad, at least not for JACK erly descriptive. For extra Japanese cultural style BAUER’S BIDET. JACK is really excited about his points, form a haiku. There is only one right answer—this isn’t cultural anthropology. Your worldfraternity rush prospects. JACK will have a hard view is not valid. USA! USA! time deciding between his third-round invites from Pike and SigEp—whether ’tis nobler to atA Duke B-ball tend Pike’s events (“Gardeners and Their Hoe’s B BC Walkway C Universal Undergraduate Financial Aid Section Party,” “Firemen and Their Hose SemiforAdminimals™ : For each administrator, identify mal,” “Department Store Nylons Salespersons and the creature that would best represent him or her. their Hose Bowling Night” and “Ross Perkins and His Hos Beirut Tournament”) or SigEp’s (“TailA Leslie Hill B Kristina Johnson gate; The Semiformal,” “Tailgate: The Rush C Jim Wulforst Event,” “Tailgate: The Chapter Meeting” and “TailD Richard Brodhead gate: The Off-Broadway Musical”)? —That is the Seppuku™: The latest imported ancient Japanese question. cultural phenomenon! Correcdy identify the correct response to the following adverse situations.

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But what we are primarily concerned with are the distribution tactics of some Durhamarea sales representatives.

Both the bracelet distributors and the monitors ofits use are, in North Carolina and in all 32 states that use SCRAM, denizens of a private company.

As such, we understand the desire to promote an innovative, potentially lucrative product.

Yet there is not yet an established legal precedent for SCRAM use; thus, marketing them as necessary for light sentencing is false advertising.

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finals this past semester, I was relieving myself at a urinal when I noticed two troubling matters. Judging from the darkish shade of my pee, my mom’s warnings had been well-founded and my excessive reliance on Red Bull was, in fact, beginning to destroy my kidneys.

As I was making an early New Year’s resolution to lay off the hard stuff, I noticed what has since become the symbol of my latest discontent. About two feet from the trash can, lying on the floor among the usual assortment of trash, was a used condom. I There are a variety of ques'wmr tions that come to one’s mind with such a discovery. mm r And though my urine has since returned to its normal shade, one troubling question has remained with me a simple observation over the holiday break.

What goes through the minds of our housekeepers when we leave them one of these treats to pick up? I assume that the reaction is not at all reminiscent of a Brady Bunch script—Alice, after all, is not the one cleaning up our stuff. I very much doubt that there has ever been a housekeeper at Duke who, gazing off into the distance (perhaps at the Chapel), has grinned while holding a used condom and said, with a tinge of playfulness and pride, “Those rascals The amount of trash we leave in our living spaces is enough to trouble anyone; its content and persistence have made our housekeeping staff contemptuous of us, and rightfully so.

And yet we refuse to address the situation or even acknowledge it for what it truly is—a clear reflection of the disconnect between the student body and the residents of Durham. For years now, we have almost exclusively combated our reputation of arrogance, conceit and elitism by working to increase attendance at the designated “community interaction” day. While I applaud the efforts of participants, I believe that our reputation is most propagated by the way we treat our caretakers and, therefore, any substantial progress can only come with a change in our behavior.

A significant portion of the student body has, in the few days since our return to campus, left food in commons rooms or hallways, yards of toiletpaper on toilets and hair stuffed in sinks for the people whose ‘Job It is to pick it up.” It is a safe bet that for most ofyou, your conversations with these people who you see every day have never progressed far beyond, “When are you going to be done in the bathroom?”

Some might argue that the disrespectful behavior—the overturned trashcans, the booger-tarnished mirrors, the demolished commons rooms—is forgivable. These people believe that it is simply “what college students do.”

Though there is certainly some validity to the argument that college students are just careless, this cannot be the whole story—not when 90 percent of us don’t even know the names of the people who have, for more than a semester now, spent everyday cleaning up our bathrooms, commons rooms and halls.

The rest of the story —the part that we must address—is that we are smart and wealthy and we treat others as subservient because we feel we are entitled to do so. Of course not everyone at Duke is rich, and even those who are do not necessarily treat others with disrespect. But enough do that even those who do not are bound by the perception. Furthermore, whether the racial divide is incidental or fundamental to our behavior is debatable, but that it contributes to the tension is not.

In these circumstances, whatever a student’s background may be, it can seem the hardest of tasks to freely speak to a housekeeper. Sometimes when I speak with my housekeeper, I become so worried that she thinks I’m the non-flusher or the jackass who refuses to clean up his facial hair that the conversation becomes forced and awkward. It is therefore necessary that we rid ourselves of these small, but all-too consequential barriers. This requires that we as individuals remain conscious of our behavior and the consequences of our carelessness.

However, a single conscientious person is not enough, nor are the acts of many if the effort is fleeting. Success requires that we as a student body first acknowledge that we treat our caretakers with a coldness born from our sense of entitlement. Only when we admit our past and present failures will we be able to acknowledge the hard work of our housekeepers with respect and gratitude.

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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke over break that has left him in a coma. Although Sharon has since exhibited limited movement in his extremities, it is unclear the extent of brain damage or whether he will survive Israelis, meanwhile, are trying to cope with the end of his controversial political career that included combat in every major Israeli adam yoffie war, attacks on Palesunited we stand tinian refugee and the recamps cent disengagement from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank. Regardless of what one may think about Sharon’s past, he was clearly the best leader for Israel’s present and future. Yet the current Prime Minister’s incapacitation has left his deputy, Ehud Olmert, in charge and added new fuel to former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s quest to regain the top position in the Israeli government.

I find it sadly fitting that during what may turn out to be Sharon’s final days, his justification for unilateral withdrawal is being vindicated. Sharon repeatedly explained to President George W. Bush and the more left-wing factions in Israel that the Palestinians are not a credible partner for peace. He supported a Palestinian state but always maintained that if given the chance, the Palestinians would destroy Israel. It is true that Sharon could have done more to strengthen Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but the reality is that Arafat’s successor is a weakened leader without his predecessor’s panache or Hamas’ credibility. Abbas has tried to play every side of the coin and has in the process lost the respect of Israel, the United States, and worst of all, his own people.

As a left-leaning supporter of the Labor Party, I always liked to believe Sharon was wrong and just not giving enough credit to the Palestinians. Yet the moribund left in Israel can only hope to win on domestic economic issues since it can no longer afford to put any faith in the Palestinians. The current chaos in Gaza, where Palestinian factions are killing one another in a bloodthirsty quest for power, only affirms Sharon’s position and the increasingly vocal centrist factions in Israel. The Palestinians lack any organizational structure capable of governing independent territory, let alone a sovereign state. There

have been reports of continued financial improprieties, and there appears to be little if any transparency with regard to the financial affairs of the now Abbas-led Palestinian Authority.

I know and fully expect the hardened anti-Israel Left to blame the Jewish state for the current disarray in Gaza. The anti-Israel activists will point to the recent disputes over access to Egypt, the West Bank and the rest of the world. And it is true that Israel is understandably hesitant to allow the Palestinians unrestricted access via sea and airports considering the likelihood of increased arms shipments flowing into the hands of Hamas.

But the reality is that these “pro-Palestinian” supporters will always find away to blame Israel for the shortcomings of the Palestinian leadership and will never admit to the current disarray dominating the Gaza Strip, which is quickly turning into a war zone.

The lack of order that has included the death of Egyptian soldiers guarding the border between Gaza and Egypt demonstrates the instability and uncertain future of the current Palestinian government.

The upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections offer some hope for internal reform. But the leading Fatah candidate, Marwan Barghouti, is in jail and Hamas is making major, inroads in the West Bank with the ambiguous campaign slogan, “Reform and Change.” I actually believe that Hamas, the political party, will lead to positive changes within the Palestinian Authority since the terrorist group at least offers some form of political competition.

But Israel will never and should never negotiate with Hamas. The United States and the European Union, meanwhile, have threatened to withhold financial aid should Hamas enter Parliament and then failing to renounce violence and recognizing Israel’s right to exist. And the Palestinians rely on international aid for nearly half of the government’s budget. Thus Hamas’ recent electoral victories only underscore the sad state of Palestinian politics and lead me to believe that the best the Israeli Peace Camp can hope for is future unilateral withdrawals from the West Bank.

All of Israel is praying for Sharon’s recovery. But if the Palestinians really want to rue his legacy, they need to form a legitimate governing body capable of restoring order and negotiating with Israel in good faith.

And the current state of affairs unfortunately leads me to believe that Sharon may never be proved wrong.

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