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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

U.S. shifts attention from

Schedule

Baghdad

task force

MICHAEL GORDON

By

New York Times News

CAMP

Service

Kuwait

DOHA,

Allied

forces have shifted the focus of their land in

campaign

the

feating

to concentrate

the

beginning

Tuesday night.

had

strategy

been

� A

bypass

to

are

Iraq’s southern cities and drive toward the

to take

capital

lican

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Saddam’s

Saddam’s Repub-

on

and

ultimately

the groups to

been

al-

The

Iraqi

while

forces

fight

in and around

from

British

and

American

to

dispel

any

would be

that

suggestion

long, suggesting that it would is,”

military official

outskirts

of

forces

Basra,

to the

moving

were

from

fierce battle

and

near

be

to

regular

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in

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caches

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weapons,

protect

against

a more

on

“We to the

weapons

chemical

ing REUTERS

said.

fighting

in

an

planning

area near

Basra in southern

for

specifics

on

how

the United States and Britain intend to rebuild Iraq. the Bush administration has

say

ulated clearly how the

tion,

new

has

however,

preparing

to

run

Nations. “We’re the

people

how Iraq will

enough

government

of

said

will work.

that the

post-war Iraq

going

Iraq,

a

ment,” US. Secretary

to

put

in

be

rebuilt

nor

The administra-

United

without

place

a

States

better life for

of State Colin Powell

told The

and

with that

a

student who

current

international peace an

a

Duke alumna

recently traveled expressed

groups,

to

cessful in “I have

Iraq

concern

American-built government would not be

second round

Coliseum

participated

politically.

I think

the U.S. has interests they want to protect there, and

IneMo C

on

Students and others

vigil tonight those

at 8 p.m.

“I

knew

she

in

be able to

serving

in

Iraq.

on

the

See page 3

page 10

run

prior

against

a

a

No.

sprained

to

status 8

seed

ankle.

team shootaround ear-

was

there

ever

to

go,” head coach Gail

didn’t know how well she’d

[just]

one

had her

points

block and answer.

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on

10-of-12 shooting,

65-54

No. 5

on

a

pair

of

victory later, Goestenko-

usual, Beard catalyzed

Devils—who will take

the Blue

seed Georgia in

the

Sweet 16—on both sides of the floor, particularly with 13:29

remaining

in the contest.

Utah (24-7), led by freshman scoring machine Kim to 40-36

on

all scored while Beard rested

the strength of a 6-0 on

the bench. To

the storm, No. 1 Duke (33-1) called

See NCAAS

U.S. troops will hold

Chapel Quadrangle

on

play.”

Twenty-seven steals,

going

was

Goestenkors said. “I

page 7

supporting

the and

Tuesday during

a

run,

temper

30-second timeout DUKE

See POST-WAR PLANS

the week

throughout

doubt the two-time All-American would play?

any

Smith, had closed

little hope for [lraq] very

matchup

her ankle for 20 minutes every hour. But

suc-

Iraq.

recommendation

Word circulated quickly

Reynolds

because of

questionable

was

really

rs

Yarger and Joy Johnson,

a

lier in the day, and had been up much of the night icing

form of govern-

representative

Duke’s

Utah

is

the United

New York Times. Lenore

in

Beard had not

not artic-

the

The Chronicle

tipoff yesterday: Alana Beard’s

asking

at

that he consider examin-

See SCHEDULES

through

While the military campaign in Iraq continues, lead-

Critics

wounded

was

occur

MIKE COREY

By

The Chronicle

are

soldier who

will

system

possibility of standardizing

class times

Iraq.

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around the world

a

would

and

new

day.

making

are

provost

the

suggesting

week, a

Close win sweetens women’s

By JEFF FINCH

ers

and the

time every

same

Iraq intensifies

for

day

recommend

where class blocks

page 8

Post-war

the

across

MEMBERS OF A BRITISH MEDICAL REGIMENT carry See IRAQ STRATEGY

Tuesday

balanced distribution of classes

probably

Iraqis

Marines

U.S. military officials

the

reverse

courses

The committee has been

was

hospital that they had turned

a

and

and Thursday around midday.

a

paramilitary fight-

outpost, and confiscated

a

to alleviate in-

designed

stresses

trend toward bunching

Fedayeen

450

Nasiriyah,

170

captured about

into

mixture of

troops.

killed. In An

were

ers

Najaf with what

time this semester.

some

is

frastructural

Army’s 7th Cavalry Regiment fought

reported

report

Each option

day night. While the British

reform

committee files

provost when the

its final

a

Tues-

said

in its effort

models to

possible

ture, will recommend an array of models to the

“We will go to where the enemy

reaction

Edna Andrews, chair of the task force

be measured in days, not weeks.

senior U.S.

faculty and students

suggest

Course

on

mixed

met

and chair of Slavic languages and litera-

delay

the

has

the academic schedule.

Iraq’s south-

cities. Allied commanders sought to

ern

provost’s Task Force

Scheduling

Guard will be

the Republican

on

evening

ANDREW COLLINS

By

threat has to be addressed first. The at-

delayed

more

classes.

com-

manders have concluded that this

tack

its

The Chronicle

stiff that

so

release

part suggesting and

morning

soon

the militia

of the advancing

rear

has

in

report,

when classes

studying

group

scheduled will

topple

government.

But the resistance from

lied forces

plan

nears

south

the battle for Baghdad,

senior officers said

The

de-

on

and other militia

Hussein in

Saddam

serving before

Iraq

Fedayeen

a

to honor

Flat

growth in

Health

is

forcing

on

funding

from

the

National

Institutes

of

Medical Center researchers to compete

harder for grants. See page 4

HEAD COACH GAIL

Beard toward the end of

page 14

Author and

a

with

lecturer Michael Parent! criticized

administration’s in

GOESTENKORS jokes

Alana

Tuesday’s victory.

policies

on

speech Tuesday night.

Iraq and

on

See page 5

the Bush

the domestic front

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