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An early goal was all the men’s soccer team needed to beat Ohio State Sunday and earn a trip to the Elite Eight for the first time since 1995.

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another matchup with Virginia, which has beaten the Blue Devils in both of the teams’ previous contests this season.

“This is the best-balanced team we’ve had at least since the ’95 team, and we knew that going in,” said head coach John Rennie, who compared his 2004 squad to a 1995 team that lost to Wisconsin in the national championship game.,“But how quickly it’s going to come together, how far you’re going to go, there’s no way to predict that.”

Freshman Michael Videira put the Blue Devils on the board in the 11th minute, scoring after a Danny Kramer throw-in.

Videira, the ACC Freshman of the Year, dribbled around Ohio State goalie Ray Burse and knocked the ball into the lower left side of the net.

Although both teams had several more chances to score in the first half, including a Spencer Wadsworth shot that SEE M. SOCCER ON SW PAGE 3

intellectual connections across campus With a year of facilities plan“This has enormous potential ning already underway, the time to fix a lot ofissues that relate to has come to officially ponder East Campus and Central Camwhat Central Campus should pus, West Campus, the quality of become. undergraduate experience and The University is plotting other facilities that are not in more than $lOO million worth of particularly good shape,” Executive Vice President Tallman construction on Central—the beTrask said. ginning of a decadesSeveral commitlong, $1 billion project tees, which will inthat could increase the clude faculty, undersquare footage of campus by 50 percent. If the graduate and graduate students, will examine Board of Trustees apissues such as financproves the proposals this weekend, adminising, transportation trators will establish sevand safety, housing oprU c rtfcW In* eral committees to contions and co-curricular (ffWTRAi sider what activities. Each will exactly should fill the shells of the buildpresent a noholds-barred report ings that architects have already about what should be part of the started to design. new Central. A senior planning New undergraduate housing, group will then attempt to fuse which will replace the apartthe wish lists into a single vision ments currently on Central, is before administrators give the the only staple of the developcommittees practical constraints. ment so far. Whatever else gets Construction could begin as built on Central will initially soon as summer of 2005, but stem from the needs of the bulldozers will likely not start digolder students living there. Adging the foundations until 2006. ministrators also plan to use the The delay is rooted in a desire to wholesale construction project to invigorate geographical and SEE CENTRAL ON PAGE 6 by

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Although Duke employee Kay Hunter is usually still in bed at six o’clock on a Saturday morning, she wasn’t this weekend.

Like millions of eager bargain-hunting shoppers across the nation, Hunter was lured to her local shopping mall at 6:30 a.m. to cash in on the post-Thanksgiving Day early bird specials. Her plans for some early morning shopping before going to work, however, were cut short when she walked into Sears and saw the already snaking check-out lines.

“I found a parking place quite easily, but by the time I got in there, there were lines at the cash registers!” Hunter said. “I knew I didn’t have enough time to get to work.”

The morning’s disappointment didn’t deter Hunter from battling this weekend’s throngs of shoppers once again as she returned to Sears after work Saturday afternoon, but she said she’ll never attempt the post-Thanksgiving shopping scramble again.

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“It was the first time I did that, and I’ll never do that again!” Hunter said. “If I hadn’t had to have gone to work, I wouldn’t have gone. I can’t stand crowds.”

Crowds upwards of 133 million shoppers flooded malls nationwide the day after Thanksgiving, or “Black Friday”—so named because it allegedly is the day when retailers begin to turn a profit for the year. But some, like local resident Rachel Snead, purposefully avoided the malls. “I usually go, but not this year,” said Snead, who traditionally hits the Black Friday sales racks with her daughter around 8 a.m. “I had 20 people over for Thanksgiving dinner, and I didn’t recuperate soon enough to make it out to the malls Friday morning.”

Despite Snead’s absence, post-Thanksgiving Day sales totaled $22.8 billion, which represents 10 percent of the $220 billion total holiday sales this year, according to the National Retail Federation, a SEE SHOPPING ON PAGE 7

Shoppers line up to purchase early morning bargains at CompUSA Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.

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worldandnation dispute intensifies Ukrainian election

by Mara Bellaby THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KIEV, Ukraine The crisis over Ukraine’s disputed presidential election intensified Sunday, as a key eastern province called a referendum on autonomy and the opposition demanded the current president fire his prime minister, the official winner of last week’s vote that has bitterly divided this former Soviet republic.

The opposition warned President Leonid Kuchma it would block his movements unless he fired Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and fulfilled other de-

mands within 24 hours Earlier, Kuchma called on the opposition to end its four-day blockade of government buildings, saying compromise was the only solution to the crisis that has developed into a tense political tug-of-war between the West and Moscow over Ukraine’s future.

Saturday, Ukraine’s parliament declared the election invalid amid international calls for a new vote, and lawmakers also passed a vote of no confidence in the Central Elections Commission, which declared Moscowbacked Yanukovych the winner.

Both parliamentary votes, however, are symbolic only and have no legal standing.

Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko,

who claims he was cheated out ofvictory in the Nov. 21 presidential runoff, urged his supporters Sunday to stay in the streets.

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have thronged downtown Kiev for a week to support Yushchenko’s claim the election was rigged.

The Supreme Court will consider Yushchenko’s appeal Monday. The SEE UKRAINE ON PAGE 5

Iraq dismisses demand to delay elections by

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BAGHDAD, Iraq The Iraqi government Saturday brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election, and a spokesperson for the majority Shiite community called the date “nonnegotiable.” Insurgents stepped up attacks, blasting U.S. patrols in Baghdad and killing a U.S. soldier north of the capital.

Clashes also occurred north of Baghdad, where U.S. and Iraqi forces fought a three-hour gun battle with insurgents who overran a town hall and two police stations, local officials said.

Talk of delaying the election gained momentum after influential Sunni Muslim politicians urged the government to postpone the voting for six months to give authorities time to secure polling stations and to persuade Sunni clerics to abandon their call for an electoral boycott.

But the spokesperson for interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite, said the government was sticking by the

30 date after receiving assurances from the Iraqi Electoral Commission that an election could take place even in Sunni areas wracked by the insurgency.

“The Iraqi government is determined... to hold elections on time,” spokesperson Thair al-Naqeeb said. “The Iraqi government, led by the prime minister, is calling on all spectra of the Iraqi people to participate in the elections and to contribute in the elections to build a strong democratic country.”

That position was strongly endorsed Saturday by politicians and clerics from the Shiite community, which comprises about 60 percent of Iraq’s nearly 26 million people and which has been long clamoring for an election.

In the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Mohammed Hussein alHakim, son of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Said al-Hakim, said the Shiite leadership would not accept a delay and called this

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A tanker spilled 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, creating a 20-mile-long slick that killed dozens of birds and threatened other wildlife. Contractors skimmed oil from the surface of the water and placed thousands of feet of boom to contain the floating slick.

Rebels sought assassination Colombia's main rebel group asked followers to mount an assassination attempt against President George W. Bush during his visit to Colombia last week, Defense Minister Jorge Uribe said. There was no evidence thatrebels even tried to organize.

Retirement age limit favored Six in 10 Americans say Supreme Court justices should have a mandatory retirement age. An AP survey found public support for an idea that has arisen periodically in Congress without ever making headway. One of the nine current justices is under 65.

Roberts gives birth to twins It's a girl and a boy for actress Julia Roberts and her husband, cinematographer Danny Moder. Roberts gave birth to twins Hazel Patricia Moder and Phinnaeus Walter Moder Sunday morning at a Southern California hospital.

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Duke’s Thanksgiving travelers face massive delays by

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By 9 p.m. Sunday night, sophomore Sarah Stephens was still in her car, tired of driving and, at last, passing into Durham County.

Eight hours earlier, she and two friends had left her home in Arlington, Va., and set off on what they expected to be a three-and-a-half-hour drive back to Duke after Thanksgiving break. By dinnertime, Stephens was still behind the wheel ofher Volkswagen Golf, waiting in traffic on Interstate 95. She and her passengers were sick of their CDs and had resorted to the Spanish radio station.

“It was the worst traffic I’ve ever been in,” she said from her cell phone. “People were, like, getting out of their cars.”

The traffic was dense nationwide as an estimated 30.6 million Americans were expected to hit the road for the Thanksgiving holiday, according to a survey by the Travel Industry Association of America. Another 6.6 million people were expected to fly.

Slippery roads from snowstorms in the Midwest and thunderstorms in the East led to rough driving conditions and flight delays throughout the long weekend—the busiest travel time of the year. Travelers said traffic lightened up near the North Carolina borders. . Senior Jake Roberts said he zoomed along 1-85 at 70 miles per hour as he returned from Charlotte Sunday afternoon and that the holiday didn’t alter his travel plans.

‘There’s just more people on the road so there’s more opportunity for people to get in wrecks, but it hasn’t really affected me at all,” he said.

Other students scrambled to return to campus Sunday night in time for Monday morning classes. Sophomore Liz Drotos left northern Virginia at 7 a.m. Sunday to beat the traffic. “It did make a big difference,” she said.

At airports across the country, travelers had less control over their fates. Heavy storms that plagued the Midwest Wednesday hit the Northeast by the end of the weekend, causing flight delays and cancellations. Passengers at Newark Liberty

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“I expect that when I come back on hoiidays traveling from Newark that there will be two-hour-or-so delays,” she said.

To avoid an extended airport wait, MeClellan used Continental Airlines’ online check-in to find her flight delayed and garner an extra hour at home.

In Chicago, which was hit with several inches of snow and slush pre-Thanksgiving, traffic was virtually nonexistent by Sunday—both on the roads and in O’Hare

International Airport security lines. Planes to Raleigh-Durham International Airport departed on time all day.

By the end of the night, most students had found flights out of Boston and New York, returning after three-hour delays to an only partly cloudy Triangle area and an empty RJDU. Jake Poses reported this story from Newark, NJ. Kelly Rohrs reported from Durham, N.C. Matt Sullivan contributed to this story from Chicago, Rl.

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Iran agrees to full nuclear enrichment freeze by

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a day before an VIENNA, Austria international deadline, Iran agreed Sunday not to test any centrifuges as part of a total suspension of nuclear activities that can yield uranium for atomic weapons.

Diplomats described the about-face as an effort to avoid possible U.N. sanctions.

Diplomats from the European Union and elsewhere said on condition of anonymity that the International Atomic Energy Agency received a letter from Iran containing a pledge not to test 20 centrifuges during the freeze it agreed to Nov. 7 during negotiations with Britain, France and Germany, who were working on behalf of the European Union, The pledge appeared to resolve a dispute that threatened to escalate at Monday’s lAEA board meeting into consultations on possibly referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council for defying the board. The Security Council could then impose sanctions against Iran.

A senior diplomat with nuclear expertise told The Associated Press the Iranian pledge appeared to contain no pitfalls and seemed to meet the European de-

mands for full suspension.

Still, the commitment came with strings attached. A government official from a board member country told The AP that France, Germany and Britain had accepted an Iranian demand to further water down the language of a draft resolution they wrote for adoption by the board on ways of policing the suspension.

The text to be adopted Monday now includes a phrase emphasizing that the suspension is not a legal or binding obligation on Tehran’s part, he said.

Under the agreement, the 20 centrifuges Iran had previously wanted exempted from any would not be placed under lAEA seals but monitored by cameras, diplomats said.

Iran says its program is for generating electricity, but the United States insists Iran is trying to make nuclear weapons.

President George W. Bush has called Iran part of an “axis of evil” with North Korea and prewar Iraq.

Uranium enrichment does not violate the terms of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that Iran has signed, but for months Tehran has been under pressure to freeze all related activities to ease fears

it might want to use the technology to make weapons.

The three European negotiators of the Nov. 7 deal say the freeze also prohibits the Iranians from running centrifuges for research purposes. The centrifuges spin gas into enriched uranium.

The Iranian promise came less than a day before the 35-nation lAEA board was scheduled to reconvene in Vienna over the enrichment suspension.

Iran had no official comment Sunday on the letter. State television and radio in Tehran were still broadcasting earlier statements from a Foreign Ministry spokesman, who had vowed that Iran would use the centrifuges for research.

The Foreign Ministry could not be reached for immediate comment.

“We always had research and development in the past and we will continue that in the future,” ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said.

This statement could be attributed to the lag in Iranian state media reporting developments in diplomatic negotations.

However, in Vienna, a senior member of the Iranian delegation to the lAEA who demanded anonymity—confirmed

his country’s offer of full suspension and the changes to the resolution text.

The lAEA board meeting adjourned in disarray Friday. The pause was meant to give the Iranian government time to approve a total freeze of its program, which can produce both low-grade nuclear fuel and weapons-grade material for the core of nuclear warheads. Delegates also were to decide on further steps in policing Tehran’s nuclear activities.

The dispute about what constituted full suspension dominated the meeting.

The Europeans say the deal committed Iran to full suspension ofenrichment and all related activities—at least while the two sides discuss a pact meant to provide Tehran with EU technical and economic aid and other concessions.

Iranian officials had suggested the issue was not up for debate only hours before the details emerged of their letter to the agency.

“Referral to the U.N. Security Council would not be the end of the world,” Asefi said in Tehran earlier Sunday.

But as the clock ticked down to Monday, EU officials and delegates spoke of

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Uncertain warming world enters Kyoto years Charles Hanley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The ice is melting and the heat is on for international delegates assembling in Buenos Aires next week to find new ways to confront global warming under the 194-nation treaty on climate change.

The treaty's Kyoto Protocol, requiring initial cuts in "greenhouse gas” emissions by 2012, finally, comes into force in February, seven years after it was negotiated. Next, European governments want the annual treaty conference—Dec. 6-17 in the Argentine capital—to get down to talks on steps beyond 2012 to limit heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.

“We are, in fact, only at the beginning of what we need to do,” Margot Wallstrom, the European Union's outgoing environment chief, recently told European Parliament members.

But the U.S. government, which rejects Kyoto and its mandatory controls, balks at that idea.

“We think it's premature to be discussing post-Kyoto 2012 arrangements,” Paula J. Dobriansky, the undersecretary of state who will head the U.S. delegation, said in an interview.

Instead, she said, she will use the conference to spotlight Bush administration efforts to develop cleaner energy technologies and ways to capture and safely store carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas.

Developing countries, facing possible emissions controls for the first time after 2012, also have resisted opening talks about the “post-Kyoto” future.

That debate will go on in the corridors at Buenos Aires, while the formal meeting agenda puts a “major, major emphasis” on adapting to climate change, said the Dutch head of the treaty secretariat, Joke Waller-Hunter.

Small islands and low-lying lands such as Bangladesh worry over rising seas. Poor nations face possible water shortages if warmth washes away glaciers. Climate change may kill off traditional crops.

“Developing countries don't have capacity to deal with climate-related risk,” Waller-Hunter said. They’re seeking more technical and financial help to predict and cope with changed climates.

The focus on adaptation also suggests that warming is having an impact sooner than many anticipated.

A report Nov. 8 by the intergovernmental Arctic Council, based on a four-year study by 300 scientists, said average winter temperatures in the Arctic have increased as much as seven degrees Fahrenheit in the past 50 years.

Permafrost is thawing, buckling roads. The extent of Arctic Sea ice is shrinking. Polar bears and other animals are threatened. Satellite images show the summer melting area of the Greenlandice cap moving far inland. If it melts entirely, over hundreds of years, it could raise sea levels worldwide by 23 feet (seven meters), the report said.

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UKRAINE from page 2 court’s ruling could pave the way for a new vote, which the opposition is demanding, or remove the only barrier to Yanukovych’s inauguration.

The United States and other Western nations say the vote was marred by massive fraud. Russian President Vladimir Putin openly backed Yanukovych and congratulated him on his victory. Moscow considers this nation of 48 million people part ofits sphere of influence and a buffer between Russia and NATO’s eastern flank.

Yushchenko also has called for a new vote Dec. 12 under the watch of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He also has demanded that the 15 members of the election commission be replaced.

Yulia Tymoshenko, a top ally of

Yushchenko, told a rally of about 100,000 opposition supporters in Kiev’s main square Sunday that Kuchma had until Monday evening to fire Yanukovych.

“We know where he is, and we can prevent him from making a single step if he doesn’t fulfill our demands,” Tymosheko threated at the rally.

Her other demands included firing the governors of eastern regions warning of autonomy bids and initiating a bill to reshuffle the Central Election Commission. If Kuchma does not fulfill them, he should be prosecuted for “crimes against the people,” Tymoshenko said as protesters shouted “Down with Kuchma!”

She said opposition crowds would march to the Supreme Court and the Ukrainian parliament where Yushchenko’s supporters would seek a no-confidence vote Monday in Yanukovych’s Cabinet.

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Supporters of Yanukovych struck back from Donetsk, his native region and power base. The regional legislature voted 164-1 to hold a Dec. 5 referendum on autonomy for the province. About 30,000 demonstrators, who gathered outside regional legislature in the city of Donetsk, shouted pro-

Yanukovych slogans.

“We won’t tolerate what’s going on in

Ukraine,” Donetsk Gov. Anatoly Bliznyuk told lawmakers. “We have shown that we are a force to consider.”

Starting Thursday, Yushchenko supporters encircled the Cabinet and the president’s administration buildings, refusing to let anyone enter or leave.

Kuchma, who backed Yanukovych, criticized the blockades Sunday as a “gross violation oflaw” that “would be unacceptable in any nation.” He made his comments during a meeting of his National Security

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Council, parts of which were broadcast live on Ukrainian television.

“Compromise is the only way to avoid unpredictable consequences,” Kuchma declared in his statement.

Yushchenko responded that the “peaceful pickets will not be lifted, but will continue.” He urged tens of thousands ofhis supporters in and around Independence Square to maintain their vigil.

“You will ask me how long we should stay here, is it worth staying here?” he said.

“Even the Georgian revolution lasted for three weeks.... I am asking you, I am demanding that you stay here until the end.”

Many of the Ukrainian demonstrators have been inspired by the November 2003 massive street protests in the former Soviet republic of Georgia that helped lead to the resignation of longtime President Eduard Shevardnadze.

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make Central a unifying force rather than simply a place to move things that need new buildings —the career center, the alumni center, the bookstore and Uncle Ie now, Duke has been struggling to figure out what makes reshere unique. Central may be the final chance to define exactly Harry’s grocery store. jens after the dorm-dominated world of (dry) all-freshman East Since undergraduate housing is curluad-centered life of sophomores on West. rently anchoring the project, administrators are working to articulate a four-year vision of residence life that would begin with a freshman experience on East Camclaims that Duke is a pedestrian campus, cars still seem necessary pus and culminate in apartment-style livfrom East to West to Central to the Health System. By putting >1 ing on Central during the junior and senin Central and rerouting traffic, the University hopes to make it at ior years. President Richard Brodhead has safe—if not desirable—to traverse the whole campus by foot. called the early conception a “growth model” where West Campus would serve as a transitional ground.

‘This would be an absolute Duke speCentral Campus apartments aren't the only structures at the cialty,” he said. iversity that have passed their prime. The career center, the bookAlthough the University is waiting to ire, the alumni center and several other service have outgrown see what students want before it makes leir buildings. Central has fewer space constraints than other camfinal decisions, the housing component of jus locales. Services will also make Central a destination point Central will likely consist of a variety ofoprather than just a space to pass through. tions including multi-bedroom apartments with commons and cooking spaces uates and their maturation,” Lange said. fairs, will foot the bill for the new housing. and hallways of individual studio apartments with kitchenettes.

“Our campus experience should integrate At first, the housing is primarily designed for undergraduates, but eventually graduWhereas the current Central Campus is with that.”

Central will eventually bring together ate student housing will probably be built relatively isolated from the activides of the as well. In part to pay for these improveUniversity, the new Central will house several areas of the University that operments, the University will alter the cost of to of one anfinancially acdvides draw the desdate independently some to people nadon point. It will also integrate spaces other. Because of this, the money for the existing Central Campus apartments.

“All we’re doing is beginning to gently renovations will come from a variety of for academic acdvity with residential life. noted, however, Trask said.

He ratchet up the rates to be more consistent sources, the academic mission In part to keep with the market so that that we’re in a poof the construction at the center of the that all the funding must be newly genersition as we get closer to beginning conplanning process, Provost Peter Lange is ated because the University does not curreserve struction to be able to afford it,” said the discussion about what have to enough will rently in overseeing support the project. Some of the cost will be covLarry Moneta, vice president for student fill Central. “[We’re] trying to think through how ered through donations, but Trask said it affairs, noting that in the long term, both our residential and curricular and is likely that the University will eventualhousing costs across the University will ly take out loans for substantial portions become more standard. co-curricular experiences can all conNo fee changes have been decided tribute to, on the one hand, a strong comof the project. to Residen subset of student upon yet e, but also with a munity, regard undergrad-

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reported NASA satellite readings showed an average increase of 0.77 degrees

Fahrenheit between 1981 and 1998. The temperature rise is consistent with carbon-dioxide warming, scientists say.

Carbon dioxide, a byproduct of fossil fuels burned in everything from automobiles to electricity plants, rose to a seasonal peak record of 379 parts per million in the atmosphere last March, up from 330 just 30 years ago.

Under the umbrella climate treaty, which took effect in 1994, governments pledged to limit emissions. But it wasn't until the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that they set quotas for industrial nations. By 2012 the European Union, for example, would reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases by 8 percent below 1990 levels, Japan by 6 percent, and the United States by 7 percent.

The Americans, responsible for onequarter of the world's emissions, subsequently withdrew their support. But 30 other industrial nations will be subject to Kyoto's mandates as of Feb. 16, now that Russia has ratified the pact as required.

A European emissions trading system also begins operation in the new year, enabling companies that emit less gas than allowed to sell unused “carbon credits” to others that overshoot their targets.

Although the Bush administration rejects Kyoto, northeastern U.S. states are moving toward capping carbon dioxide on their own and allowing emissions trading. California, meanwhile, has acted to reduce auto emissions sharply.

Eileen Claussen, president the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, said it will be “harder and harder for the U.S. to say we’re Just not going to participate.”

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The men’s basketball team was swinging the ball around the perimeter, nailing threes and exerting unrelenting defensive pressure, and it all added up to a 98-44 win SaturdaY ni ghtI (Mr r nn UNC-G 44 B u t the win DUKE 98 came against the Southern Conference’s UNC-Greensboro, and the No. 9 Blue Devils will have to wait until Tuesday night for their first true test against No. 10 Michigan State in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

“We’re trying to get better,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We played with energy, played hard, to start off this week. It’s a big week for us.”

The Blue Devils (3-0) held UNOG (2-1) to 29,5 percent shooting and forced 24 turnovers—and Duke was not even whistled for a foul until six and a half minutes remained in the first half, when the home Blue Devils were already leading 41-16.

Duke nailed 15 three-pointers on the night, five of which came during a firsthalf stretch when the team broke the contest open.

“Coming into the game, we were more afraid of the post than we were the perimeter, and that’s what happens when you play Duke—you sort of pick your poison and they’re going to get you one way or the other,” UNC-G head coach Fran McCaffery said.

The Blue Devils capitalized on open perimeter looks as the Spartans elected to double-team Shelden Williams on the block, allowing Duke to pass the ball freely around the three-point line.

Along with Williams, the defense keyed in on J.J. Redick, who distributed the ball to his open teammates. Duke’s top shooter hit just 2-of-7 three-pointers but dished out a career-high eight assists, mostly feeding the ball to other perimeter players.

“JJ. should get assists because people will fly at him,” Krzyzewski said. “He and Shelden are the two guys on our team that defenses gravitate to.”

The change in rhythm and Redick’s altered role resulted from an increased focus on the motion offense, which Krzyzewski said he employed to encourage more of his players to take advantage of scoring chances.

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After a Thanksgiving Day of relaxing on the beach in the Bahamas, the No. 10 women’s basketball team won the 2004 JunkanooJam held in Freeport.

After blasting overmatched Stephen F. Austin 84-29 Friday, Duke topped No. 16 Kansas State in the championship game the following

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Duke (5-1) opened with a 12-0 run and controlled the first half against the Wildcats, but Kansas State (3-1) pulled to within eight points in the second. Then Wynter Whitley, finally healthy after a preseason ankle injury, drew two consecutive charges on the Wildcats, killing their late rally and allowing the Blue Devils to coast to victory.

In the championship game Monique Currie netted 25 points, along with four steals and two blocks.

“Mo did a fantastic job this weekend,” said Goestenkors of the Tournament MVP, who scored a total of 47 points and grabbed 18 rebounds. “She set the tone for the rest of the team with her effort, intensity, determination and aggressiveness to the basket.”

With co-captain Lindsey Harding still suspended, freshman Wanisha Smith continued to start at the point and played more than 30 minutes in each contest. While struggling to score points, Smith held Kansas State’s three-point specialist Kendra Wecker to l-of-5 shooting from behind the arc and just 15 points after the forward netted 41 in the tournament’s opening round. “’Nish did excellent considering the competition,” Goestenkors said. “She did a great job setting up our offenses and playing terrific defense on the other side of the court.”

The freshman has now started all but one game, and although turnovers continue to plague her—she had seven in the Bahamas—Smith has steadily increased her assist totals and earned a spot on the All-Tournament team.

Duke received a needed boost on the boards as freshman center Chante Black returned from an ankle injury she suffered during the team’s second contest. Junior Alison Bales had been given the bulk of the rebounding duty, and with Black’s return, Bales exploded for 24 points, 27 rebounds and 11 blocks at the Junkanoo Jam. Black notched 15 rebounds and combined with Bales to give Duke the post threat it expected to have with a pair of players standing over 6-foot-5 in the paint.

“Ali is really coming into her own,” Goestenkors said. “When Chante went down she knew she had to step it up, and she’s been working really hard in practice. I was thrilled to see her work pay off and get two consecutive double-doubles.”

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their first point, which came on a free throw. Duke did not relent and kept Stephen F. Austin without a field goal until 4:49 was left in the first half, Trailing 30-4, sharpshooter Jennifer Simpson drained a three to end the Ladyjacks field-goal drought, but it was far too late especially because Currie, Bales and Black each tallied double-doubles.

All nine, of Duke’s 1 active'’players saw at

least 10 minutes of action and notched at least one field goal.

After returning from the beaches in the Bahamas, the Blue Devils will have a few days to regroup before traveling to the much less appealing climate in Knoxville, Tenn., where they will face off against the No. 1 Lady Vols Thursday. AJthough widely regarded as the nation’s best team, the Lady Vols will likely lose their top ranking after losing to No. 4 Texas earlier in the week.

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Despite a 20-10 record and a trip to the semifinals of the ACC Tournament, the Duke volleyball team did not receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament when the 64-team field was announced Sunday.

“I really felt very positive that this team had a great shot at getting an opportunity, and I also felt this team was very deserving of having an opportunity,” head coach Jolene Nagel said.

“This team has certainly set themselves apart to me as one of the most deserving teams we’ve ever had. I feel very badly for them.”

Duke played well in the latter part of the season, earning the third seed in the ACC Championships. The Blue Devils defeated Virginia in three straight games, but in the semifinals, Maryland, the eventual conference champions, won a close five-game contest. It turned out to be the final match for seniors Stephanie Istvan, Erin Noble and Tassy Rufai, although the Nagel thought it would be enough to propel Duke to an NCAA berth.

“I’m disappointed, for our seniors and for our team,” Nagel said. “I really thought that if we could get to the semifinals that we’d be putting ourselves in a goocf position, but you just never know what the committee might be thinking.”

Georgia Tech and Maryland were the only ACC teams that received bids to the tournament. Seven schools from the Big Ten received invites.

Nebraska, Penn State, Hawaii and Minnesota are the top four seeds, respectively, for the tournament, which begins Dec. 2.

glanced off the left post, the game remained 1-0 until late in the second half. As the Buckeyes pressed forward with increasing desperation, the Blue Devils clung to their narrow lead and capitalized when their opponent The Blue Devils clung to their narrow lead as the Buckeyes pressed forward with increasing desperadon and took advantage of their opponent’s focus on offense. Duke netted a pair of goals to seal the victory with less than eight minutes remaining.

“When Ohio State started throwing everybody forward, taking some risks toward the end there, you either have to score the goal and finish the game, or maybe they’re going to tie it up, and I thought our guys did a great job of doing exacdy that—finishing our chances and ending up with a 3-0 game,” Rennie said.

Wadsworth sent a corner kick into the box, and Videira and an Ohio State defender jumped up to head the ball, which deflected toward midfielder Danny Kramer. He knocked the ball into the back of the net with 7:58 to go.

Duke surged forward and scored again less than a minute later on a Blake Camp goal. Videira passed the ball down the right side of the field to Wadsworth, who centered it. Camp beat the Buckeye goalie for the Blue Devils’ final score.

Freshmen Wadsworth and Videira—who have added much of the offensive firepower that has propelled Duke to its best season in nearly a decade—each finished with two assists.

“Now we have a certain role that we must play on the team,” Videira said. “We haven’t been playing for such a long time

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Freshman Michael Videira scored theeventual game-winning goal and added two assists in Duke's 3-0 win. with the team, we have to step it up every time. At the beginning of the year, we were just considered the freshman starters, and now we became more a part of the team.

Together we’ve become more solid.”

Duke advanced to the Sweet 16 by defeating 12th-seeded Old Dominion 2-1 in overtime Nov. 23. Despite several missed scoring opportunities for the Blue Devils, the Monarchs (13-6-2) were able to keep the game scoreless until the 73rd minute, when Camp netted a goal on a penalty kick.

ODU tied the score at one with less than 10 minutes remaining, sending the game into overtime. In the 93ed minute, freshman Paul Dudley sent a shot from 25 yards out into the lower right corner of the

end the game 2-1 The Blue Devils, who had to beat one seeded team to advance through the first three rounds, are one of only two unseeded teams to remain in the draw. Fourthseeded Virginia advanced on penalty kicks 6-5 over 13th-seeded New Mexico to earn a berth in Saturday’s quarterfinal, which will take place in Charlottesville, Va. The first time the Cavaliers and Blue Devils met this season, Duke surrendered its 2-0 lead after two of its players were ejected. Virginia scored three unanswered goals following the red cards, the last one coming six minutes into the extra period.

In the teams’ second matchup, the Cavaliers controlled the tempo and scored three second-half goals en route to a 3-1 ACC Tournament victory. Virginia went on to win the conference championship and entered the NCAA Tournament with a first-round bye.

“I watched the Virginia-New Mexico game last night up in Charlottesville, and I was thinking about who I’d rather play. I think it comes down to the devil you know versus the devil you don’t know,” Rennie said. “We know Virginia, they know u5.... I told the team before the game I want another shot at Virginia.” net to

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BASKETBALL from page 1 time this season and the third time in his career, and Lee Melchionni hit three and four shots from behind the arc, respectively. Both Blue Devils appeared to gain confidence in their shots and overall play during the second half.

Although starting big men Williams and Shavilk Randolph, who contributed a combined 27 points, were overshadowed by the team’s outside shooting, Krzyzewski highlighted the performance of his starting post players.

“Our team’s going to be running on our veterans, and seeing our two big guys playing like they did tonight was really encouraging. I thought they played with great energy,” he said.

Reggie Love came off the bench to score an uncharacteristic 10 points, hitting every shot he attempted. Love scored most of his points in the second half, when Krzyzewski used the rout to experiment with combinations from his inexperienced bench.

“We got what we wanted in the first half, and in the second half we tried to get as much out of it as we could because we knew they wouldn’t quit and they’d keep going on the boards, so we tried some different lineups in there after the first four minutes,” Krzyzewski said after the game.

Even in the second half, when Duke rested its starters for large stretches, the Spartans appeared to be a step behind the Blue Devils. Duke players were able to weave passes through a sluggish UNC-G defense, finishing with 22 assists to the Spartans’ 6.

During Saturday’s first half, the Blue Devils were more cohesive than they had been all season. Against Davidson Nov. 22 the Duke attack lacked consistency and

JJ.Redick dribblesaround a UNC-G defender during Saturday night's lopsided victory. Redick dished out a career-high eight assists during the contest. the team’s concentration waned at points during the game.

“We wanted to come out tonight and attack and play with a ton of energy, and I think we did that,” Redick said. “We really want to use this game as momentum for the rest of the way.”

NOTES DeMarcus Nelson continued to wear a thumb splint and went 2-for-6 from the field.... After shooting 31.7 percent during the first half against Tennessee-Martin and 37.5 percent in the opening period at Davidson, Duke shot 61.5 percent from

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Six Blue Devils scored in double digits and every player on the Duke roster registered time on the court.... Williams recorded his second double-double of the season and 20th of his career. He leads active ACC players in double-doubles.

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Pointing to his black fleece sweater and khaki cargo pants, Morales explained that he bought them discounted at Southpoint. Tanya and Vanessa also got new

IRAQ from page 2 position “nonnegotiable.”

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press the will of the people,” and “all parties have agreed on this date and we cannot take back this position for any reason.”

In Baghdad, a major Shiite party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Republic in Iraq, or SCIRI, said 42 parties and individuals from the Shiite and Turkomen communities agreed on a statement affirming support for the Jan. 30 date.

SCIRI official Redha Jawad Taqi said the 42 included the other leading Shiite party, the Islamic Dawa, and the Iraqi National Congress ofAhmad Chalabi, a secular Shiite once strongly supported by the Pentagon and Washington conservatives.

“The Shiite political council will support the elections,” Chalabi said. ‘We will fight for the elections and will work to ensure that they are held peacefully on the specified date.”

boots and jeans during Friday’s spree Garcia and the Morales’ were not the only weekend shoppers at Southpoint, which extended its operating hours Friday and Saturday to accommodate traffic.

Swarms of grandmothers with their grandchildren and mothers with their children—but not their husbands—could be found milling through racks of clothing, said senior Starling Johnson, a sales associate at J. Crew in Southpoint.

‘The mall itself was slammed. You could not find a parking spot,” Johnson said. “It took me 15 minutes to find one Friday.”

She noted, however, that few Duke students, most of whom were away on break, were to be found at Southpoint this week-

Iraq’s two major Kurdish political parties said they were ready to take part in national elections on Jan. 30 as planned, but would not object if “other political powers” wanted to postpone the vote.

The web site of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said Saturday that the party issued a joint statement with the Kurdistan Democratic Party expressing their “readiness to participate at the scheduled time.”

Insurgent violence still grips the Sunni areas despite the U.S.-led assault this month on the main insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad.

The attack was launched to try to curb the insurgency so elections could be held nationwide.

An American soldier from the Ist Infantry Division was killed Saturday when a roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. patrol about 40 miles north of Baghdad, the military said.

Two U.S. military vehicles, including an armored shuttle bus, were damaged by a bomb Saturday on the road to Baghdad International Airport, which the State Depart-

end. “There were definitely a lot of high school and college-age girls, but less Duke kids than most weekends,” she said, adding that Parents’ Weekend usually draws the most students from Duke to

NUCLEAR from page 4 the growing likelihood of tough action the board meeting if Iran remained defiant—including the start ofwork on a harsh resolution that could include the threat of U.N. Security Council action.

The draft being informally circulated ahead of Monday’s resumed board meeting contained intentionally weak language on how any freeze would be monitored by the agency in an attempt to entice Tehran to sign on to total suspension.

Despite its softer language, the resolution will call for continuing investigations into aspects of Iran’s nuclear program.

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“Almost nobody was allowed off; we always had three people at the register—one in the fitting rooms and all the others were just walking around,” Johnson said. “We definitely were busy, but we were prepared to deal with the business.” ment

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Three civilians died and a dozen were injured in other bomb attacks against U.S. convoys in the Baghdad area, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

About 100 insurgents overran city hall and two police stations in Khalis, 40 miles north of the capital, but were driven off by American and Iraqi forces after a three-hour gun batde, municipal official Saad Ahmed Abbas said. Al-Jazeera television said three Iraqi security guards were killed.

South of the capital, U.S. Marines, British and li'aqi security forces continued operations against suspected insurgent strongholds near the towns of Latifiyah and Mahmoudiya.

A U.S. military spokesperson said 18 suspected insurgents were taken into custody Saturday, bringing the number of people arrested to 180 since the operation began Tuesday. One U.S. Marine was killed two days ago in the operation, the military said Saturday.

Officials also report a massive intimidation campaign by insurgents threatening to kill candidates and others participating in the January ballot. Sunni clerics have urged a boycott to protest the Fallujah attack.

Although Sunni Arabs comprise only about 20 percent of the population, a widespread boycott by the influential community would cost the new government much-needed legitimacy in the eyes of millions of Iraqis, some of whom question whether a valid election can be held with 160,000 U.S. and other foreign troops on Iraqi soil.

“There’s no elected and recognized government. There’s a government that came with the occupation,” Sheik AbdulSalam al-Kobeisi, a senior Sunni cleric, told Al-Jazeera television. “No one can imagine that a country can be built under

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Shiites generally have refrained from joining the Sunni-led insurgency, believing they will gain power in Iraq anyway.

Shiite clerics for the most part avoided public criticism of the Fallujah offensive.

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DUHS takes steps forward his first five months in Durham, DUHS in hopes of eliminating redunDr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for dancies, improving safety and streamhealth affairs and president and lining care.

Part of this integration requires CEO of Duke University Health Systern, has taken important steps toward aligning all of Duke’s facilities in such away that patients can creating an integratStaTteultOfiai enter the health sysed health care system tern at any point and that lives up to his vireceive the same level of treatment. sion of Duke Medicine.

Although Dzau is leading DUHS in This not only makes sense from the the right direction, he must also take University’s perspective, but it is also steps to ensure that the- health care in the best interest of the community.

The University has a responsibility system offers a universal level of care and acts in the best interests of the to the greater community, and the work it is doing will benefit Durham. community.

Under Dr. Ralph Snyderman, Duke also has a responsibility to make sure the greater community is well inDzau's predecessor, the University created a health care system byacquiring formed about the goals of DUHS. hospitals and other medical facilities, Dzau must take extra steps to commuessentially establishing a monopoly on nicate with area residents, informing them of any changes as they occur health care in Durham. DUHS, howand keeping them aware of the beneever, has lacked the strategic planning necessary to be successful. In the past, fits. It is crutial to maintain an open the University has considered the dialogue between the community and health system as a number of separate DUHS administrators.

If the University is serious about hospitals instead of as a single entity. stated goals on global health addressed this shortits Dzau first coming by hiring Molly O’Neill as the care, the first step in improving chief strategic planning officer, vice global health care is improving president for business development health care at home. Dedication to and vice chancellor for Medical Cenglobal health should include dedicater integrated planning. O’Neill’s tion to community health, and Duke presence will allow DUHS to focus on needs to begin by creating a strong and advance toward its long-term community health system before losgoals. Dzau’s vision for DUHS and ing focus.

Dzau’s beginning seems promising. the Medical Center is an ambitious His approach to health care is differone, and it requires the planning O’Neill provides. ent from the past —this is the first time Dzau has also shown his dedication Duke has tried to integrate all the segby announcing plans for a review of ments of the Medical Center and the current system, which will take a health care system—and the future of critical look at each hospital under DUHS will likely be better for it.

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—Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, on the increase in housing fees for current Central Campus apartments that will help pay for future construction. See story, page one.

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Remembering Matthew Lynch Ist Ll. Mattheiu Lynch, Trinity VI, died in Iraq Oct. 31. Lynch lettered in baseball and swimming while at Duke and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corp after graduation. The Chronicle collected rememberances from those who knew him.

Service, honor, courage, bravery, fidelity Matt and I had neither seen nor spoken with each other since I graduated in 2000; however, as I began to remember Matt, I was not the slightest bit surprised that he had decided to join the Marines in service of his country. To that end, Matt exemplified all the best qualities of an American and of a Marine: service, honor, courage, bravery and fidelity.

With his education, background and drive, Matt had the opportunity to pursue and to accomplish anything he wished with his life. While it may bring those of us who knew him little consolation, Matt’s decision to serve his country in its defense and to help bring freedom, peace and the hope of a more promising future to others showed the depth of his character.

Since Matt’s tragic death, some of my

friends who did not know Matt have commented that it seems as though tragedies such as this seem to only happen to the best among us. I have responded that this is not a coincidence at all, that it is only the best among us who are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for others. Matt was one of the best among us, and I will forever remember Matt for that.

Matt, you will be forever missed, but you will never be forgotten. I have been blessed to have been your fraternity brother and friend, and I am forever in your debt for the sacrifice you made for our defense and freedom.

God Bless You, Matt.

Jeremy Cloud Trinity ’OO

A speaker, a swimmer, a role model One of my fondest and most vivid memories of Lynch is from the end of the swim season my freshman year. When Lynch gave his senior speech to the swim team he talked so long it was like he was trying to make up for the year he took off to play baseball.

For me the highlight of the talk was when Matt said he would be passing down his swim locker in the executive suite to me, a lowly freshman. Lynch and I had become great

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friends in the year we swam together, but this was unexpected. As trivial as a locker may seem, the fact that it was Lynch handing it down made me feel truly honored. Of all the friends I’ve had and teammates I’ve swum with, Lynch was the one I could point to as a role model, someone I looked up to more than anyone else Trevor Yates Pratt ’O4

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I remember our first meet against UNC— ACC perennial powerhouse in the swimming world. We prepare for the meet as any other, but pretty much know the outcome before arriving. We were all on the bus outside about to go in for warm-ups and our assistant coach at the time, Whitney Greene, attempted to give a pump-up speech that went something like, “Guys, we know you can swim fast against these guys, and we know we won’t an

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even conie close to winning, butAnd before she could finish the sentence blares from the back of the bus where all the seniors sat, “Well not with that attitude we won’t!” The speech ended at that, but Lynch’s comment gave us all a little extra spurt of hope as we made our way down to the pool —”

Lauren Hancock Trinity ’O4

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Wristband policy for basketball game Tonight, Monday, Nov. 29 at midnight, wristbands will be distributed for Tuesday’s Michigan State basketball game. Students may line up for the wristbands at any time Monday outside of Card Gym. Each student will represent him or herself in line; there will be no group registration. Line monitors will distribute wristbands from midnight until 2 a.m., and then again from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Tuesday, or until 1,200 wristbands have been given out. There will be six colors of wristbands, in groups of 50, 50, 100, 200, 400 and 400. Once you have received a wristband, you are guaranteed a place in line provided you return no later than two hours before tip-off.

Please remember that the number on your wristband means nothing; it is the color of your wristband that matters. When you return to the line Tuesday afternoon, you should rejoin the line at the back of your color block. All students with wristbands must be in line no later than two hours prior to game time. If you do not get a wristband, you

are encouraged to form a secondary line beginning at the plaza in front of Cameron and heading straight back toward Towerview.

Please remember that you can almost always walk straight into the game 20 minutes.prior to tip-off. I promise we will have the seatcounter functioning for this game, so latecomers should keep an eye on the K-ville website for updates on the number of wristbands given out, and the number of seats remaining as the game approaches Tuesday night. The doors to Cameron will open approximately 90 minutes prior to tip-off.

This is the marquee game of the fall semester, so don’t miss it! We need a packed and boisterous Cameron Indoor Stadium to greet Tom Izzo and the 9th-ranked Spartans, so gather your friends and neighbors and come out to support the team!

Go Duke!

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You gotta have faith "W" A That the Democrats learned from Election 2004: The n’t possibly hunt down the terrorists. % / South and Midwest Ah, the sweet logic of simplicity. As much as we may like to are Republican strongholds that Y T must be penetrated in order to win the White House. delude ourselves to the contrary, we crave its warm embrace.

Left in the wake of moral crisis from the Clinton years, What the Democrats probably missed, orrefuse to acknowledge: This swarm of red states—comprising conservative Americans—now more than ever—are searching for certainty in a world that hates our president as much as our policy. PerChristians, gun owners, libertarians and values-based voters is a helluva lot smarter than IQ tests would admit. haps America’s situation is poetic justice: fundamentalists hating the fundamentalist.

Leadership requires more than just intellect; decisionBut the big, wide expanse of Middle America—what longmaking in uncertain times requires an enormous amount of time senior media adviser Mark McKinnon faith—in your advisers, in your friends and in characterizes as “busy working people who your God. Die-hard Republicans know this, don’t read The New York Times or Washingjust as die-hard Democrats know the importance of a strong social welfare system. But the ton Post or The L.A. Times”—they love Democrats are visibly uncomfortable disDubya. And they have faith in him.

As President Bush himself said frequently cussing matters of faith. on the campaign trail, “By remaining resSoutherners and Midwesterners picked up olute and firm and strong, this world will be on this a long time ago. Sen. John Kerry’s contrived attempts to feign religiosity during the peaceful.” Thus we have the Bush formula Philip kurian for success—clear vision, no backtracking, aldebates mirror the Democrats’ presidential the pen is mightier ways confident in moral rectitude—how we frenzied post-election consultations with evanlesser human beings often aspire to be. Is it gelical groups to improve their chances in 2008. Even if the Democrats now believe in the power of faith, so stupid, then, to desire these qualities in our leader?

Either we must shift to a more hesitant, more discursive they don’tyet understand why it works.

Ron Suskind has written much on the topic of faith and the brand of leadership, or admit that Middle America is better at George W. Bush presidency. After writing an article perceived picking strong chief executives. Faith-based values are the clincher in this dispute, but faith can cut in a number of ways. unfavorably by the White House, Suskind met with a senioradviser to Bush, who said that guys like Suskind lived “in what we It can help us achieve something greater and it can move us call the reality-based community,” which the aide defined as beyond politics as usual—in the spirit ofMartin Luther King, people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judi- Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and Desmond Tutu. cious study of discernible reality.”

But as Jim Wallis, an evangelical.pastor who for 30 years has He continued; ‘That’s not the way the world really works run the Sojourners—a progressive organization of advocates anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create for social justice —admonishes; “When faith is designed to certify our righteousness, that can be a dangerous thing. Then it our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new reali- pushes self-criticism aside. There’s no reflection. Where peoties, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort ple often get lost is on this very point. Real faith, you see, leads us to deeper reflection and not —not ever—to the thing we as out. We’re history’s actors... and you, all ofyou, will be left to humans what we do.” so very much want: easy certainty.” just study President Bush would do well to heed this advice now that Not only is this Bush adviser smart, he’s damn near Foucaultian. And that’s really scary, because deep down we all he’s begun his second term, if he cares at all about his legacy. know he’s right. Election 2004 proved his point marvelously: But with re-election secured on the tide of straight talk and No WMDs? No problem! Saddam was a bad man. Osama still simple answers, why should he lose faith now? ori the loose? No use changing leadership now, that’s crazy Ja-lii ‘id ' Philip Kuriart 'is a! Trinity'Senidr. talk! A flip-fibp natibri l£d'by The Flip-flopped him^lf'coAfd-" —

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ELTON is completely incapable of scheduling any sort of hyELTON can’t believe there’s only one week until finals. Coming off a rough family-angst-filled Thanksgivgienic appointment for himself, meaning that by the time break with emotional and fraternal comes around SIR ELTON has hair in his eyes, plaque ing replete outpouring mudslinging, SIR ELTON isn’t feeling ready to study yet. on his teeth, wax in his ears, unsightly tan lines and needs a Sure, SIR ELTON should have gotten over the debilitating bikini wax. Usually the first thing SIR ELTON’s mom does is stomach ache on Thanksgiving (from lack of eating). give him a hug, kind of pat a few times and watch the spring action and remark on the weight gain. This year, though, SIR Easing away from that subject like a fruit from a vegetable convention (or vice versa?), SIR ELTON is wondering ELTON knew how to escape the ridicule, and hadn’t shaved in weeks before going home, so it looked like where the whole semester went. He the weight was intentional in order to get that thought he had at least another few months to bring up his grades. It was bad awesome mall Santa job.

Oh, SIR ELTON loves it when good old Xenough when he had an A and three Ds at mas season comes around (sarcasm, with midterm, and after reading it his dad remore coming), where he gets to enjoy hordes sponded, “You have AIDS?” Naturally, that of hyper hellions (and their kids) at the mall caused him much alarm (riiiiiiiing!), stampeding all over his new kicks and invadadding “You stay away from my boyfriend, ing his turf. This turf is, of course, the personyou hear? I mean, that gentle man down sir elton brand, al space consisting of four square feet in the street.” So the library is out of the queswhich he smokes menthol cigarettes and tion, because pure silence only reminds prince of tennis wears brand-name clothing to the delight of him of the supreme awkwardness that Monday, monday comes when.... SIR ELTON is going to 11-year-old girls maxing out their parents’ credit cards at GapKids. Anyway, SIR ELTON have to study amid a raucous tumult, either during a game in Cameron Indoor or during one of the doesn’t appreciate the pressure to get in the holiday (spendChapel’s new gospel raves (where the X stands for Christ). ing lots of money) spirit since he has barely any money and Now don’t get the impression that SIR ELTON is homophoactually still uses the barter system. (Four pencils for a digibic, it’s just a bit much to find out that his two heroes, tal camera? Any takers?)

As much as SIR ELTON is looking forward to studying Alexander the Great and his dad, are gay in the same day.

Not to make it sound like SIR ELTON didn’t have a wonfor finals, he is not eager for his active, almost certainly exderful break, because he did. It’s the same story every cessive social life to slow down as the whole campus enters Thanksgiving: the family sitting around on the couch watch- Cut-your-losses-and-study-for-finals mode. He was appalled ing the Cowboys, a drunken uncle yelling that he could when he came to Duke to find that fraternity guys actually throw better than Drew Henson if he was transformed into study for stuff, a sight that would be punishable by death in a Muppet. Of course such claims must be backed up, so the his native country’s university (State School... eeeeww). If whole family went out to the backyard to toss the ole pigskin they were cool by definition, they would forget finals and around. The whole family except SIR ELTON’s grandpa hold keggers 24/7 with UNC girls and birthday cake. Or went outside, that is. Let’s just say it was hot when the girl “moderately cold.” Alternate definitions. Either way, SIR from “Desperate Housewives” did it to Terrell Owens, but ELTON’s hoping his shipment of X comes in before his planned Gothic Reading Room rave. It’s going to be tight.

SIR ELTON never wants to see grandma like that again.

SIR ELTON loves these little opportunities to return home and looks forward to them for months. Because SIR ELTON SIR ELTON probably shouldn’t publicize his activities since he gets to see old high school friends, you ask? No, because SIR got busted with crack at a football game already.

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year for Thanksgiving, I had a life-changing experience. I stayed at Duke, ate lasagna instead of turkey, and did something that I personally believe that if you haven’t done yet, you are not qualified as a human being: I continuously watched all 27 episodes of the first season of “The OC”. Finally, I have found a show to compete with “Sex and the City”; the problem being, of course, that I’ve watched five more seasons of “Sex and the City” than I have “The OC”.

But I digress. Let me tell you a few things about watching “The OC”: first off, in order to truly appreciate the intense drama and plot development, not to mention feeling true empathy for and falling in love with every single character, one must watch all the episodes continuously. Think of it like this: You have a glass of milk. Every week, for 27 weeks, you take a mathematically equal sip of this milk. On the 27th week, you finish it. Understand? By the last week, you’ll be sifting through more mold and maggots than you will actually have milk, which will be curdled anyway.

In any case, I guess I have a special place in my heart for that show.

I mean I live in California, I’ve been to Orange County and L.A. many times, and one of my closest friends is from the real OC. I do know that in reality,

Orange County really isn’t anything

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unreal city like “The OC”. I mean, yeah, it’s possible that the events in the show actually happen in real life. But please. How many of us have an Aunt Hailey who is a stripper? Moreover, how many of us have a grandfather who is marrying our friend Marissa’s mother Julie (who, not to mention, had an affair with another one of our 17-yearold friends whose dad was caught cheating on his wife with another man)? And how can we forget that Julie’s ex-husband Jimmy is in a relationship with Aunt Hailey (the stripper)? This makes Marissa our step-mother, and possibly, if her dad Jimmy marries Hailey, our step-cousin as well. Oh, and Jimmy’s ex-wife Julie would become his mother-inlaw. Confused? Yeah? Exactly. I might be slightly off about these facts, but I actually made a family tree for the characters on the show.

So after watching an unholy amount of ‘The OC”, I stayed up thinking about what had just happened to me. How could I have let a show so predictable and visibly shallow grip me so tightly?

Why had it played with my emotions, made me laugh and cry, scream in agony and want to wither away at points (like when no one believed Ryan that Oliver was evil!)? I mean, what happened to me was equivalent of the effect Yossarian and company had on me in Catch-22, which, if you think about it for longer than the initial shock of this juxtaposition, is really quite pathetic. But in all of my thoughtful wanderings, I came up with an answer to this dilemma: we humans, in this day and age, are really quite sick.

I assure you, it’s true. Simply look at the shows on television recently. We are obsessed with excess; strangely enough, however, we also love criticizing it. We dream about these lives we can never have (think that of Oliver, the rich kid who lives in a penthouse suite), but once they’re portrayed on television, we glorify ourselves in relation to the characters on the show (who really wants to be sad whiny Oliver anyway?). We scream and yell at the television—who (besides Marissa) would consider being with Oliver when she has strong and silent Ryan? And we’re convinced that we’re better than them. The irony in the situation is that in reality, it’s we, the obsessed ones living in a dream world created by Hollywood, who are messed up. It’s sad if you think about it: Reality has become watching a fake reality on television.

This trend is a downward spiral, but we must learn to embrace it. This may all sound depressing, but rest assured: When Season Two comes out on DVD, I’ll be first in line to pick it up.

Matt Dearborn is a Trinity sophomore.

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