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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2004
Coalition
Basketball
protests
recruits to
land sale
sign today
Kelly Rohrs
by
THE CHRONICLE
Galen Vaisman
by
THE CHRONICLE
class
recruiting
A
has been
Krzyzewski finally
early signing period opens
for years will
when the
for men’s basketball
ing
class
of five
versatile
Boykin,
Eric
ing guard Martynas a
TV this year,
For Mcßoberts, the
a
long
$350,000
and
a
the
Duke
see
them
an
to
the
to
and is
player
currendy
nation. the
in
a
pro-
nursing
Mcßoberts expects when his
recruiting
to
school
high
few weeks and the
has
is
be
at
full
and to
strength in
also
and
today.
groups PETER GEBHARD/THE CHRONICLE
SEE SIGNING DAY ON
PAGE
Greg Paulus,
13
one
of the nation's top basketball recruits, is expected
to
officially
commit to Duke
terim
Evans
by
Terence Hunt
WASHINGTON fierce
tough tary
conservative
Attorney who
tactics in the
Don Evans,
one
war
on
friends, resigned Tuesday, net to
quit
General
before the
John Ashcroft,
start
with
a
George
W. Bush’s closest
the first members of the Cabiof
a
second
stay
which
In
a
successor
could take months. Evans said he
objective
terror
Department
securing
the
safety
is
con-
of Americans from
has been achieved. Yet I believe that the
inspiration.”
by
new
leader-
Ashcroft, who suffered health
a
longtime
an
friend
deep regret
cheered his
health and
will choose
a
his
gall
bladder
re-
from Texas,
bright,
from both counties
right
days
while
to
buy
purchase
have offered
ex-
the property.
project persuaded
land
being
to
con-
hold the
to
property
decide whether the
it. not
the to
County Manager
have
land,
room
but
in
its
private
raise the money, inWendell Davis said.
today. ON PAGE
8
I
a
less
open
hostility
hope
polarizing attorney general
to
protecting
Schumer,
D-N.Y
about Ashcroft’s
to
at
Pepsi Co.
question
successor
deputy, Larry Thompson, counsel
If
who
mentioned include
his
has
has been
appointed,
Bush’s
an
out-
policies.”
centered
recently
would be the nation’s first black attorney
prominently
legacy
civil liberties and
disdain for those who dare
general
John
we
took
on
job
Thompson
general. 2004
a
Others
campaign
chairman, former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot, and White House
general
counsel Alberto Gonzales.
Bush issued
statements
of
praise
for Ashcroft, 62, and U.S.
Bush,
to
of
The commissioners
they
does
city
Commissioners
reserve
purchase.
wants to
to
lines the
the
the land and
annex
County to
begins,
me to
‘We wish
retirement. And
SEE RESIGNATIONS wrote
and
Romero, executive director of the American
Speculation
as
shines
term
that it is time for
departure.
good
his successor,” said Sen. Charles
right
that
Orange
KEVIN
earlier this year and had
moved, dated his letter Nov. 2, Election Day.
Evans,
of your second
Civil Liberties Union, said, “Mr. Ashcroft’s
would
Ashcroft told Bush,
of Justice would be well served
and fresh
problems
of
president
his former
handwritten letter,
five-page,
crime and
ship
a
turnover.
well into January.
“The
as
good
Anthony
administration, which has been marked by little
firmed,
Ashcroft the
is
block
home.”
Ashcroft’s critics
term.
Ashcroft and Evans have served all four of Bush’s years
Ashcroft said he would remain until
return
his
terror, and Commerce Secre-
of President
promise
have concluded with
generated controversy
to
resign posts
to
“While the
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
price
approvals
SEE LAND
Ashcroft,
in
working
straddles
sewer
The county
budget
area
proceed.
Monday night
county
a
end
officially
to
voted
Inc.
the
Neighborhood
city
land
Durham
for 120
ankle,
Properties
neighborhoods,
the sale and
must
water
sidered for
much of
begins
season
eager
process
spent
sprained
an
Area
permission
claim their
in the
prospect
sell 42
$500,000.
Groups opposing the
strong Blue Devil class
he
Although
fall
obtain
tend
to
Crosland needs county boundaries,
Durham
2003.
the No. 3
to
their
to
of Pickett and
develop
to
build. Before construction
He
making.
a contract
corner
Erwin
the
Durham
that
event
harmful
coalition of 19
county
Since
going
has
the
to
Crosland needs
on
The 6-foot-l 1 Mcßoberts is considered the best
the a
objecting
early signing peri-
time in the
September
I
great feeling.”
made his verbal commitment gram in
“When
the
to
the environment.
upscale houses, ranging
But
shoot-
to
plans
company
Group,
watching
year is
next
49
from
and
adjacent
Crosland
to
with
Jamal
the fact that I’m
just
roads
Erwin
at
at
point guard
said.
od will mark the arrival of has been
and
University
The
Boateng
when I started
be there
land will be
of land
acres
Pocius.
through magazines
players,
the
on
in
forward
Boykin
relief,”
depth
Mcßoberts
Joining
Greg Paulus, center
recruits
of land
plot
a
sub-
a new
Forest. The groups claim that build-
The
Mcßoberts head-
Josh
Duke’s class of 2005 will be
“It’s
on
build
to
to
working
are
groups
developer’s plan
a
division Duke
four-day
much-needed
provide
position.
every
to
thwart
neighborhoods
incoming
an
that will
look
Mike
today.
Power forward lines
coach
eyeing
together
come
Community
head
ON PAGE
9
Attorney
tends
to
resign
General John Ashcroft announced his post
on
President
George W.
LAMARQUE/REUTERS
Tuesday
that he in-
Bush's cabinet.