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ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 104

Undergrad tuition breaks S4OK mark Board givesplaza final go-ahead by

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DUKE SURRENDERS FIRST LEAGUE TITLE SINCE 2000 by

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When it was all over, little Ivory Latta stood in front of a television camera and did a variation of the running man.

It was only appropriate, given that the 5UNC 77 foot-6 Tar DUKE 68 Heel point guard spent her entire evening stomping all over the Blue Devils.

With less than two minutes to go and the game tied at 63, North Carolina head coach Sylvia Hatchell drew up a play for Latta to work around a high screen set by teammate Erlana Larkins. Latta, coming off of Larkins’ pick, found herself alone on the left wing. Her threepoint shot swished through the net with 1:47 remaining to give UNC a 66-63 lead that it would not relinquish.

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North Carolina's offense scored 77 points, the second-highest total Duke has surrendered this season.

“Coach was saying, ‘lf they go under [Larkins’ screen], take the shot,’ and that’s what I was mostly looking for. Fortunately, she went under, so I took the shot,” Latta said. “I just stepped up and

took a big shot and felt very confident about it.”

After Jessica Foley missed a wide-open three-pointer from the right comer on Duke’s next possession, Blue Devil point guard Wanisha Smith fouled Latta. She calmly sank both free throws to push the margin to five with 1:26 remaining, and the Tar Heels drained 10-of-12 free throws over the last 90 seconds to ice the game.

North Carolina’s 77-68 victory over Duke gave the No. 8 Tar Heels (23-3, 12-2 in the ACC) both their first regular season sweep of the Blue Devils (26-2, 12-2) and their first ACC regular season championship since 1997.

No. 2 Duke failed to win the ACC regular season tide for the first time since 2000 and saw the SEE UNC ON SW PAGE 5

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After several years ofcautious tuition increases, the Board of Trustees approved a tuition hike Friday that will set the price tag for next year’s Duke undergraduate education above $40,000 for the first time. Officials said the raise, which is slightly higher than in years past, is in line with Duke’s peer institutions.

The total cost for undergraduates —including tuition, room and board—will be $41,239, up 5.1 percent from this year. Financial aid, which has been one of President Richard Brodhead’s priorities since he first took office will increase 7.7 percent, totaling $55 million.

The Board, which serves as the ultimate governing body of the University, also approved increases in tuition for the graduate and professional schools. The largest increase is in the Graduate School, where students’ tuition will rise 7.1 percent, while students in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth

Sciences will only see a hike of 4.3 percent.

In most doctoral programs, University fellowships substantially offset the cost to students, but in master’s programs and professional schools, students bear the brunt of the cost. Brodhead said increasing the amount of aid available to students at all levels of the University would continue to top his administration’s agenda.

“When the president makes this such a visible priority, as I have in every public utterance I’ve made, you might expect something to follow from that,” Brodhead said. “It’s not something you’re going to go out and raise the money and be done for it, the effort to make undergraduate education affordable will be an eternal struggle.”

More than 40 percent ofDuke undergraduates receive financial aid of some sort, with the average package from the University totaling more than $21,000 per student. The University has already SEE BOARD ON PAGE 8

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Six months after the Duke

University iPod First-Year Experience began, a stack of unopened iPods line Lynne O’Brien’s office. As the director of the Center for Instructional Technology, her office has become the temporary storage room for the leftover devices. She laughs as she recalls the plethora of square boxes that were there earlier in the year. Her horde would

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be depleted shortly, as CIT had just approved iPod proposals for two more classes.

As the year-long “experiment” of providing 20-gigabyte Apple iPods to all freshmen winds to an end and the media frenzy slowly dies down, administrators have begun to evaluate the future of the project. Critics ask: Have students SEE IPOD ON PAGE 6

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newsinbrief Sharon warns of risks to peace Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatened Sunday to freeze peace efforts if the

Syria cedes Saddam's half brother by

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CAIRO, Egypt Iraqi officials said Sunday that Syrian authorities had captured

Saddam Hussein's half brother and 29 other officials of the deposed dictator's Baath Party in Syria and handed them over to Iraq in an apparent gesture of goodwil.

Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, a former Saddam adviser suspected of financing insurgents after U.S. troops ousted Saddam, was captured in Hasakah in northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border, two senior Iraqi officials told The Associated Press by telephone on condition of anonymity. Hasakah is about 30 miles from the Iraqi border.

They added that al-Hassan was captured and handed over to Iraqi authorities along with the 29 other members of Saddam's collapsed Baath Party, whose Syrian branch has been in power in Damascus since 1963.

Officials in interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's office confirmed al-Hassan's capture but gave no further details.

The Iraqi officials did not specify when al-Hassan was captured, only saying he was detained following the Feb. 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a blast in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 16 others.

Syria has come under intense scrutiny following Hariri's death, with many in

Palestinian leadership does not crack down on militant groups after a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv killed four people. Israel decided to suspend a plan to turn control of five West Bank towns over to the Palestinians.

Lebanon blaming Damascus and Beirut's pro-Syrian government for the killing. The United States and France also have called on Damascus to withdraw 15,000 Syrian troops from Lebanon.

Washington has long accused Syria of harboring and aiding former members of Saddam's toppled Baathist regime suspected of involvement in the deadly insurgency against U.S.-led forces in Iraq.

“The capture appeared to be a goodwill gesture by the Syrians to show that they are cooperating,” one Iraqi official told the Associated Press.

Russia, Iran sign agreement Iran and Russia ignored U.S. objections and signed a nuclear fuel agreement Sunday that is key to bringing Tehran's first reactor online by mid-2006.The long-delayed deal dramatized President George W. Bush's failure to persuade the Russians to curtail support for the Iranian nuclear program.

Natural gas project launched Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil an-

nounced Sunday the launch of a huge $12.8 billion liquefied natural gas project in Qatar that aims to ferry gas to Britain for the next 25 years. Qatar sits atop one of

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BTK suspect arrested; trial pending David Twiddy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS by

WICHITA, Kan. A man suspected in a string of 10 slayings that terrorized Wichita residents for more than three decades was being held Sunday on $lO million bond and could appear in court as early as Monday, prosecutors said.

At that appearance, Dennis L Rader, 59, would stand in front of a judge on video while prosecutors recite yet-to-be filed criminal charges against him. The judge would also review Rader’s bond and set a permanent amount.

The hearing could occur Monday but is

more likely to be postponed until Tuesday, the district attorney’s office said Sunday.

Police were confident Rader’s arrest last week would bring to an end 30 years offear about the BTK strangler, a self-coined nickname that stands for “Bind, Torture, Kill.”

But as they pored over news of a suspect’s capture, many residents here were left with an unsettling feeling—that he had been hidden among them all along.

Rader, a married father of two, a Cub Scout leader and an active member of a Lutheran church, was hardly a recluse.

His job as a city code enforcement supervisor required daily contact with the

the largest reserves of natural gas.

public, and he even appeared on television in 2001 in his tan city uniform for a story on vicious dogs running loose in Park City.

The Wichita Eagle reported that

Florida girl remains missing The search for a 9-year-old girl who vanished from her bedroom resumed Sunday with torrential rains hindering the intensive hunt. Hundreds of police and volunteers have turned out to search for Jessica

Rader also once worked at AJDT home security company, where he held several positions that allowed him access to customers’ homes, including a role as installation manager He worked at ADT from 1974 to 1989, the same period as a majority of the killings.

Within his community, many expressed shock that Rader was accused of being the

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Duke architect honored The American Institute of Architects recently elected Duke University Architect John Pearce as one of 66 new members of the AlA’s College of Fellows. Founded in 1952, the COF is comprised of architects elected by their peers based on their significant contributions to the profession of architecture and society. The Fellows are charged with sharing their interests, promoting the purposes of the AIA and advancing architecture as both a profession and service to society.

Pearce will receive the Fellowship Medal May 20 at the 2005 National AIA Convention and Design Expo in Las Vegas, Nev. As the University architect, Pearce is responsible for the strategic design plan for the University and Duke University Health System. He is also responsible for the University Master Plan, selecting architects for all capital projects —including the upcoming West Campus student plaza and Central Campus overhaul—and overseeing the design ofall projects.

Pearce earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture at Yale University. He came to Duke in 1992 after working at firms in New York and New Jersey.

lobbies for living wage

Beat hunger, beat Carolina The Duke Community Service Center and Duke Student Government are sponsoring a canned food drive leading up to the men’s basketball game March 6 against the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. The CSC and DSC compete annually with the UNC Campus Y, a student community service and activism organization, to collect the most nonperishable food and monetary donations: Organizers said President Richard Brodhead has agreed to have his photograph taken with the UNC mascot if Duke loses the drive.

Donation boxes are located in the Bryan Center Lobby Shop and East Campus Store. CSC members will also table on the Bryan Center walkway all week and will accept FLEX, food points and nonperishable food goods. All donations will go to the Food Bank of North Carolina.

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Andrew Gerst

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With mixed feelings about the Unito raise the minimum wage for Duke-hired workers, leaders of the Durham Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods community group extended Duke administrators an “official invitation” at a meeting Friday to enter in a dialogue on living wages.

The group has spent the past seven months lobbying for a seven-point plan that would, among other things, raise “the livable wage floor” for Duke-hired employees to 10 percent above the federal poverty line for a family of four; fight inflation by indexing wages against the federal poverty level as it changes through the years; include health care benefits; and apply the policies to contract workers.

“The University should ensure that the people making Duke a beacon of academic excellence should not have to live in the shadow of poverty,” said PJ. Brendese, a doctoral student in political science and Durham CAN member.

Many present at the meeting, which took place in the Durham County Courthouse, felt Duke’s upcoming base pay raise offered a promising first step but was not enough. Others said they worried the University would simply exploit a financial loophole by outsourcing more labor to contract workers—whom the new raise does not affect.

Ann Stock, head of the Durham CAN jobs team, said her group’s research has found that $9 an hour is the minimum livable wage for Triangle-area residents.

The city of Durham agreed to index its minimum wage to remain 5 percent above this level, she said; Duke has not.

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Chai's Noodle Bar and Bistro is one of the new Merchants on Points additions this semester.

Student startup eyes food delivery market proached Jim Wulforgt, director of dining services, with a seemingly far-fetched Students come to Duke looking for idea. He wanted to start a program that expanded opportunities. Junior Garrett enabled students to do business with the Bean saw one, grabbed it and is now one Merchants on Points program via Blackof the few 20 year-olds who can call himboard. “I pitched the idea to Jim Wulself the founder, president and CEO of forst and he was really supportive, but his own private enterprise—Gourmet clearly there was a lot of work to do and I don’t think he really thought I was Dining and Bakery, LLC. The company’s prospectus declares going to do it,” Bean said. itself the “country’s first program to inThen he got five of his friends togethtegrate into a university’s on-campus er—all with different skill sets —to invest debit card system in order to sell goods their time and find sources of start-up and services online to students.” With capital. Peter Williams, Keith Rand, an estimated potential market of $l6 Katherine Healy, Stephen Cox and Ocmillion annually—the total value of tavia Swanson now form GDB’s executive board. Their proposal was approved everyone’s food points at Duke—the fuby the Duke University Student Dining ture looks bright for the completely student-run business.

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Clint Eastwood poses with his Oscar awards for best director and best picture, Million Dollar Baby. whose funky electric-piano grooves play over the opening credits of Ray. “Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you Ray Charles for living,” said Foxx, who climbed to Oscar glory after an early career built mainly on comedy, including his TV series The Jamie Foxx Show and the raunchy sex flick Booty Call.

Foxx had been a double Oscar nominee, also picked in the supporting category for the hit man thriller Collateral.

Playing Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator, Blanchett had the spirit of the Oscars’ most-honored actress on her side. Hepburn, the love of Hughes’ life in the 1930 before she began her long romance with Spencer Tracy, earned 12 nominations and won a record four Oscars.

“Thank you, of course, to Miss Hepburn. The longevity of her career I think is inspiring to everyone,” said Blanchett.

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LOS ANGELES The boxing saga Million Dollar Baby was the Academy Awards heavyweight Sunday, claiming best picture and three other trophies, including honors for director Clint Eastwood, lead actress Hilary Swank and supporting actor Morgan Freeman.

The night meant more heartbreak for Martin Scorsese. The Aviator came away with the most Oscars—five, including the supporting-actress prize for Cate Blanchett—but Scorsese lost the directing race for the fifth time.

Eastwood, who at 74 became the oldest directing winner ever, noted his mother was with him when his Western Unforgiven won the 1992 best-picture and directing Oscar.

“She’s here with me again tonight, so at 96, I’m thanking her for her genes,” Eastwood said. “I figure I’m just a kid. I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.”

Scorsese matched the record of Oscar futility held by a handful of legendary filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Altman, who also went 0-for-5 in the directing category.

Swank became a double Academy Award winner Sunday for Million Dollar Baby, while Jamie Foxx took lead actor for Ray. The wins for Freeman and Foxx made it only the second time blacks won two of the four acting prizes.

Swank, who previously won the best-actress Oscar for Boys Don’t Cry, once again beat out main rival Annette Bening, nominated for the theater farce Being Julia.

Bening had been the front-runner for American Beauty five years ago but lost to underdog Swank.

“I don’t know what I did in this life to deserve all this. I’m just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream,” said Swank, who played an indomitable boxer.

Swank joined Vivien Leigh, Helen Hayes, Sally Field and Luise Rainer as the only actresses with a perfect track record at the Oscars: Two nominations and two wins.

Foxx won for his uncanny emulation of Ray Charles in Ray. As he had at earlier awards triumphs, Foxx led the Oscar audience in a rendition of the call-and-response chant from Charles’ 1959 hit What ’d I Say,

Scorsese, saying, “I hope my son will marry your daughter.”

Oscar host Chris Rock said Blanchett was so convincing that Sidney Poirier, Hepburn’s co-star in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” showed up at Blanchett’s house for supper.

The wins by Freeman and Foxx followed Denzel Washington and Halle Berry’s triumph three years ago for Training Day and Monster’s Ball, the only other time blacks claimed two acting Oscars.

“It means that Hollywood is continuing to make history,” Freeman said backstage.

“We’re evolving with the rest of the world.”

The superhero action comedy The Incredibles won the animated-feature prize, beating 2004’s biggest box-office hit, the fairy-tale sequel Shrek 2. It was the secondstraight animated Oscar for Pixar Animation, which won a year ago for Finding Nemo.

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IPOD from page 1 used them for educational purposes? Did teachers find innovative ways to integrate this technology into their curricula? Was it worth the $500,000?

While administrators have no concrete answers—a thorough and systematic evaluation will be finalized within two weeks—the implementation of the program has been as hotly debated as any measurement ofits success.

“We weren’t quite ready in some ways for all the things you need to make a project successful,” O’Brien said, adding that this year was an experiment and if some form of the project is continued, the necessary support would be fully in place.

While administrators agree that CIT will continue to support faculty who use technology in the classroom, the future of the iPod project is in limbo. Teachers, students and officials-admit that the project has had to overcome many difficulties.

From'technology problems to lack of student academic use, the experiment, just like the unopened boxes, has yet to be fully explored.

How it began To the public, it all started on a summer Durham night. Camera crews, reporters and freshmen lined East Campus Quadrangle Aug. 19 2004, eagerly awaiting the distribution of the Duke welcome gifts. Freshmen only had to sign an agreement saying they would keep the device for one year and the iPod was theirs.

But in 2001, the Board ofTrustees had set aside funds for a technology initiative in the five-year strategic plan, Building on Excellence. Officials hoped to find a device students were familiar with that could also be used academically. Duke officials visited Apple Computer late last winter to discuss a possible educational initiative.

Apple was interested in becoming innovative with its product, Provost Peter Lange said, and Duke administrators were intrigued. The idea gestated for four months and was finally adopted during early summer. The iPod project was born.

Officials said the goal of the project was to provide teachers with new technologies to enhance course content and provide new angles to explore the same material.

satile device into the hands of our creative faculty and students to find out what kinds ofacademic uses they would discover.”

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Freshman Laura Robinsonpasses the time listening to her iPod whileriding a Central bus.

“Because the iPods have broad appeal, a request for students to use them in a particular course was unlikely to meet with resistance, as could be the case with technology that wasn’t as easy to use, or a technology that remained in students’ desk drawers rather than carried with them as part of their everyday lives,” said Tracy Futhey, vice president for information technology and chief information officer. “By focusing this project around a piece of equipment that we knew people would want to have with them, we thought it was also more likely that students and faculty would use their imagination to think about what other kinds of uses they might make of it.”

Administrators budgeted the iPod initiative—the project that resulted from the funds set aside in the strategic plan—at $500,000. This money included hiring an academic computing specialist for the project, providing grant funding for faculty and giving free 20-gigabyte Apple iPods and voice recorders to the more than 1,650 freshmen.

As soon as it was announced to the public, the media blitz began. Even though officials said the project was conceived as a means to further integrate technology into the classrooms, some critics have ques-

tioned the intent, accusing the administration of creating a publicity stunt to attract attention

“I think it was a media stunt. We are an

up-and-coming school, looking for ways to promote ourselves. Apple is too, so it is perfect,” freshman Dan Cook said. He had yet to open his iPod gift as of Sunday and,

as soon as the University will allow him to, will give it to his mother.

Lange said he was surprised with the media frenzy that followed distribution.

O’Brien added that media outlets have primarily explored how Duke has used the new technology in the classroom.

“There has been a lot of publicity that has focused on the idea that this is a school that is willing to try something new, and they are curious to what kind of things people will come up with,” O’Brien said.

“They are looking to Duke to see what our

experience was.”

Futhey said the iPod project was a natural fit into academia and was impressed with the multitude of uses professors have found for the device.

“Until this project, iPods were mostly considered to be an entertainment device, but no one had explored their untapped potential for education,” she said. “The idea behind this project was to put an in-

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Academic and personal use Duke students say they both work hard and play hard.

Freshman Anita Pai loves her iPod. She records lectures and listens to her music as she walks through the Duke campus, bopping along to her tunes. She even dressed as an iPod for Halloween. But many freshmen have been less enthusiastic about the technology, using it more for entertainment than academic pursuits.

“I could count on one hand the amount of freshmen I saw recording classes last semester. Nobody uses them for academic purposes,” freshman Janie Lorber said, adding that her recording device has never been opened. “I think it is kind of embarrassing that every freshman got an iPod. I think it makes us look rich and silly.” Several students agreed with her sentiment.

But many teachers have embraced the iPods, integrating them fully into the curriculum. Futhey said CIT assisted 11 classes last fall with technical support and loaner iPods, given to upperclass students without iPods, but more than 30 courses used the devices to varying degrees. This semester, O’Brien said 17 classes have been approved for support from CIT. “We certainly had enough faculty that, with very short notice decided to jump in and try things, and I was actually very pleased with the response rate,” O’Brien said, adding that she thought even more faculty would have added the devices into their curricula if this was not advertised as .a one-year project. “We have a lot of faculty already who had been experimenting with digital audio and video, so it was a way to try something new and see what type of uses would develop.”

Of the teachers that adopted the new technology, some have taken to heart the spirit of the initiative, fully integrating the new devices into their curricula with original projects. Projects have ranged from developing new engineering software to taping ambient sounds and recording tutoring sessions.

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IPOD from page 6 Anthony Kelley, a professor in the Department of Music, used the new technology to let students interact with the music on a more personal level. He gave students a Bach chorale with all voices except the one within their range—soprano, alto, tenor or bass. He then required students to fill the missing pitches with their respective parts.

“The iPod is a happy medium that made the material more convenient,” he said. “I thought it was a daring venture for Duke to at least try something different to make the first year experience something memorable. The project definitely succeeded—you can see all the white cables dangling out of ears.”

Lisa Merschel, visiting assistant professor in the department of romance studies and one of the first teachers to sign up for the project, has provided her beginning Spanish students with audio material to help students master pronunciation. She also requires students to turn in recorded diaries so she can monitor their speaking progress throughout the semester. She said the iPod is convenient and allows for expanded course content. For instance, she said, students can download their audio listening exercises to the iPod and do their homework anywhere instead of relying on language lab hours.

Merschel also said she recorded native Spanish speakers of different backgrounds reading the course literature. Students could download the audio files to their iPod and listen to the different pronunciations any time.

She said these uses would not have been available without the iPods, which she has used both semesters.

But the experience has not been free of struggle. She had six students in her class the first semester, while this semester, she is working with 34 students in two classes.

The increase in students has made the integration of the technology fully into her class more difficult.

“Sometimes the iPods weren't charged, or they would forget their iPods. If that was happening with a group of six, you can imagine for 16,” she said. “I think that I wold definitely use them in the future, but I would have to rethink how I would incorporate them in the syllabus when I have a large group of students.”

Freshman Aaron Markham, a student in one of Merschel’s classes, enjoyed using the devices and thought it added a different dimension to the class. “The iPod facilitates learning and makes it a better overall experience,” he said.

Markham, however, said freshmen were primarily using the iPods for recreational and entertainment purposes.

“Honestly, I definitely think the iPod experiment did not pan out how the administration hoped,” he added.

The future A full report detailing the project will be available within two weeks, and administrators will decide the future of the project in a few months. For now, the real test of the initiative will be how effective the iPods are in furthering technology in the classrooms for students who received them.

Some students have learned to rely on their iPods for educational uses. Lori Leachman, professor of the practice of economics, records her lectures with an iPod and then posts them to a shared server. She said that in her class of 300 students, about 40 record her lectures on a daily basis.

“I have a number of foreign students that are not totally fluent in English, and they find that recording the lecture and relistening to it is essential to them grasping the material,” Leachman said.

Leachman, a proponent of the iPod project, said regardless of the amount students are using the iPods recreationally, innovations like the ones in the music and language departments made the project successful.

“Those things never would have happened without this project. Nobody would have thought about approaching their material that way until the University says, ‘Lets see where we can take this,’” Leachman said.

“We need to start thinking about how we can better integrate the technology out there into learning. While not everyone is using it, it is pushing everybody a little bit, slowly into that direction.”

Although it is uncertain whether the incoming Class of 2009 will receive a similar gift, officials, professors and students hope there will still be opportunities available for those who embraced the project.

“I don’t really know the outcome, but I hope that faculty who know that iPods will be in their sophomore students’ hands next year will feel they have the opportunity to try some new things also,” O’Brien said, adding that CIT will at least keep the loaner pool of iPods available for next year. “I’m sure there will be some continued opportunity for people to experiment.”

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BOARD from page 1 to re-evaluate its financial aid program and will implement a number of reforms next year. The University will waive the summer earnings requirement for students who take unpaid internships, eliminate a mandatory annual increase in family contribution and expand transfer students’ aid eligibility.

The Board also approved plans for construction of the West Campus student plaza, a 40,000-square-foot outdoor space that will replace the Bryan Center walkway. Construction is now set to begin in May, and officials project the plaza will be complete by Fall 2006.

Plans for the plaza, which was originally slated to break ground last summer, were put on hold after administrators determined last year that neither the funding nor the planning were sufficiently in, place.

“The Trustees think the design has evolved in ways that are advantageous,” Brodhead said. “It was worth taking the trouble to try and make it come out right.

We still want to keep our eye on this thing as we build it.”

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs and the point person on the project, said he received valuable feedback from the Board about the future development of the plaza. The project now bears a $lO million price tag, with about half of the funding secured.

“We haven’t received lots of checks, but we’re up to two,” Moneta said, adding that Bill and Melinda Gates also gave $5 million in 2002 for student life projects.

Fundraising will likely continue “well into the construction of the plaza,” he said.

The Trustees also approved the construction of a chilled water plant near Circuit and LaSalle drives to provide air conditioning for several campus buildings.

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scored 14 of Duke’s 28 firsthalf points, giving the team an 11-point lead at the break.

Duke (21-4) ultimately held onto the advantage in an evenly played second half and defeated a young St. John’s (9-16) team 58-47 despite the Blue Devils’ worst offensive performance of the season.

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski credited the hard-nose defensive effort from the Red Storm for his team’s 31.4 field goal percentage and lowest point total of the season.

“I thought they played really hard on JJ. [Redick], they double-teamed Shelden [Williams], they had a good game plan and we didn’t react as well to it,” Krzyzewski said. “Some of the looks we did have we didn’t knock down.

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Two of Duke's primary offensive options, JJ. Redick (left) and Shelden Williams, were shut down in the first half as Williams played only five minutes because of foul troubleand Redick did not sink a field goal.

“A game is cumulative—if you keep putting pressure on somebody, even when they have an opening sometimes, that pressure lingers there, and St. John’s was there the whole game. So even if it seemed like an open look, because they’d been playing hard the whole game, that pres-

ence ofhard work from the other team has its impact.”

Daniel Ewing, Williams and Redick ended the first half shooting a combined 0for-12 from the field with four points. Half of those attempts were open looks from three-point range for Ewing and Redick,

md neither could connect. Williams only )gged five minutes in the opening half be.use he already had two fouls.

“In the first half we kind of rushed ;me shots, and that was the reason we tarted so bad,” Ewing said. “We have to >e better at executing our plays better 'hen we run them, and we have to do a tetter job of finishing when we get the •all down low.”

To offset the ineptitude of the “big iree,” Melchionni hit open looks from The smooth-shooting lefty shot *ng -for-7 from behind the arc and had a :am-high six rebounds before the break.

“I’m confident as a player,” Melchionni said. “I feel like I always should’ve been laying, of course, but that was just coach’s lecision. We Just have to go into every game with confidence, and this year I’ve had some opportunities because of some injuries and it has been great. We just have to keep it going into March.”

As offensively-troubled as Duke was in the first half, St. John’s was worse. The team shot 5-for-24 from the field |nd had 12 fouls and 13 turnovers.

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In their first true test of the young seathe fourth-ranked Blue . Devils jumped out to an early lead and held on down the stretch to defeat conference foe No. 7 Maryland DUKE IP Saturday, 10-7.

Although Duke MARYLAND I 7 (3-0, 1-0 in the ACC) led by six goals at halftime, the Terrapins (0-1, 0-1) emerged from the locker room and rallied to within one goal in College Park, Md. The officials waved off a potential game-tying goal when they ruled that a Maryland player was in the crease. Still up by one, Duke responded as All-American Katie Chrest notched her second goal of the game to put the Blue Devils ahead, 8-6.

“It was kind of an ugly shot, but I think I willed the ball into the goal,” Chrest said.

Neither team found the net over the next nine minutes, but Duke freshman Jessica Adam received a pass from senior cocaptain Stefanie Sparks and recorded a goal to extend the lead to three with five minutes remaining.

‘Jess Adam, I thought she was great,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “She scored I thought the goal that really sealed the game for us at 9-6. She scored with five minutes left, and I felt that that was a huge goal.”

From the game’s opening faceoff, the Blue Devils were the aggressors. Less than a minute into the game, Kristy Dirks found son,

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Katie Chrest netted her thirdhat trick in as many games, scoring twice in the second half Saturday.

the net, and 50 seconds laterKristen Waagbo secured a two-goal advantage.

Although Maryland got a shot past Duke goalie Megan Huether three minutes later, the Terps failed to score again in the opening half. Meanwhile, the Blue Devils went on a 5-0 spurt, including two goals off of free-position shots.

“We started off really strong,” Kimel said. “We dominated possession, and I thought we had a couple of great defensive stops and caused a couple of turnovers in the midfield.”

Despite Duke’s halftime advantage, it expected to face a stronger attack in the final 30 minutes of what was a very physical game.

“We knew at halftime they were going to come out fired up—not many teams can hold Maryland to one goal in a half,” said Huether, who saved seven shots in the contest. “In the beginning we were a little unorganized and didn’t get back in transition. We made a couple of adjustments and fixed that up toward the end.”

The Terrapins rattled off five straight goals within the first 10 minutes of the second period, even though the Blue Devils attempted to slow their momentum by calling a timeout in the middle of the run.

In the end, Chrest and her teammates setded down, regained their composure and earned their first ACC win of the season.

“We proved a lot to ourselves and set a precedent that we’re going to have to meet and build upon the rest of the season,” Chrest said.

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When Duke and Maryland-Baltimore County emerged from the locker rooms at halftime, all the noise was coming from the Retrievers’ 10 side offield.

UMBC The game was 12 DUKE knotted at four after UMBC scored two late first-half goals, and the visitors seemed to have all

the momentum But once the second half began it was Duke’s Matt Danowski and Nick O’Hara who set the toneibr the rest of the game.

“I didn’t need to say anything [at halftime],’’head coach Mike Pressler said.

“We’ve been talking all week about the first five minutes of the second half. I was very pleased.”

Three minutes into the third quarter, Danowski received the ball in the crease

and flicked it behind his head and past the Retriever goalie for the first of the attackman’s three goals Saturday.

After the ensuing faceoff, O’Hara provided a boost on defense when he flattened UMBC senior midfielder Jeff Rominski, forcing him to leave the game for several minutes.

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Scoring points in 12-of-21 events but never placing higher than seventh, the men’s swimming and diving team came in ninth out of 10 teams at the ACC Championships this weekend.

With several ranked squads in the mix at Georgia Tech, Duke was overmatched at the meet but still broke six school records.

The record charge came from the seniors, who swam for the final time as Blue Devils. David Peck set two individual Duke records and swam on three record-setting relay squads, and John Humphrey set the record in the 100yard butterfly and was part of two of those relay efforts.

“Our seniors really had a great meet,” assistant coach Lauren Hancock said.

“School records being broken at such a big meet is great for us. From day one they swam really well.”

In the 400 medley relay, Peck and Humphrey combined with sophomore Kevin Arthofer and junior Billy Pearce to score 22 points with an eighth-place time of 3:22.21, which bested the previous Duke record by more than 1.5 seconds.

Peck’s leadoff time of 50.35 also shaved .05 seconds off the Duke record in the 100-yard backstroke.

Humphrey’s individual record came in a time trial when he swam the 100-yard butterfly in 49.74 seconds to beat the previous Duke record by 49.86.

Senior Tim Hyer also placed 10th in the 3-meter diving event to score seven points for the Blue Devils for the second time in the meet.

The two other team bests were set in the 200-yard medley relay Wednesday and the 200-yard freestyle relay Thursday.

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VIRGINIA 57-WAKE 54 Wake Forest led by 11 at the end of the first half, but a 16-2 run during the first five minutes of the second period hurt the team, and the Demon Deacons fell to the Cavaliers, 57-54, in the final game of the regular season for both squads.

Kate Kreager hit a three-pointer for Virginia with 3:10 left to tie the score at 54, and Sharnee Zoll hit a jumper with 29 seconds remaining, leaving the Demon Deacons just short of the Cavaliers. (AP)

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Sunday afternoon at Memorial Coliseum versus Georgia Tech was no different.

Johnson hit a straight away three-pointer with 9.2 seconds left to lift Florida State to a 51-49 win over the Yellow Jackets in the tegular-season finale.

Sophomore Alicia Gladden paced the Seminoles with 13 points and nine rebounds while senior Linnea Liljestrand hit three threepointers on her way to 11 points and five boards. (AP)

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The No. 8 Tar Heels outrebounded and out-pilfered the Blue Devils as they outscored No. 2 Duke, 77-68.

Duke played like an underdog instead of the favorite The Blue Devils, who had won the ACC regular season champiana lysis ’ onship four consecutive times, played with a panicky style, which cost them a chance to pick up their 16th win over UNC in 18 contests.

Even National Anthem singer Chubby Checker, Mistie Williams’ father and a Duke supporter who pumped his arms for the home team, was out of sync Sunday night, stumbling over the final few words ofhis game-opening performance.

A lot has been said this season about Duke’s strong interior game and size advantage over most squads. And, for most of the season, the Blue Devils have exploited that edge, particularly with Alison Bales dominating the paint defensively and Chante Black commanding the post when Duke has the ball.

Against the Tar Heels, Duke again possessed that height advantage with Bales, Black and Williams, who stand at 6-foot-7, 6-foot-5 and 6-foot-3, respectively. UNC’s tallest starter, 6-foot-2 freshman Erlana Larkins, said Bales’ height made her one of the most challenging players she has ever faced in the paint.

“I just came in there with the mentality that I didn’t want to let her take me out of the shots that I would usually take,” Larkins said. “Don’t be afraid of the height and just go up strong.”

The Tar Heel freshman certainly went up strong and put together impressive statistics in her 36 minutes—19 points, including 9-for-10 from the line. But Larkins’ success depended on Duke’s fumbling hands and errant passes in the post.

The usually stoic Bales expressed clear frustration throughout her team’s final regular season game. With a one-point Blue Devil deficit and less than four minutes remaining in the game, Bales had an emphatic rejection on an Ivory Latta jump shot that sparked a strong energy on the court and in Cameron as the Blue Devils headed into a media timeout. But the energy faded into further frustration after Duke tied the game just to have Latta quickly make a three that put her team ahead for good.

The Blue Devils’ court woes also resulted from an inability to execute offensively. For much of the night, Duke looked sloppy. Many of its numbers, though below the team’s season averages, fail to fully explain the team’s struggles.

For instance, the Blue Devils did grab 34 rebounds, but they failed to properly posidon themselves when going for defensive boards, allowing the smaller UNC squad 16 offensive rebounds. The Tar Heels also out-husded Duke, coming up widi a majority ofloose balls Sunday night.

The Blue Devils committed 25 turnovers, manyof them results of a breakdown in basic fundamentals. On several

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UNC's smothering defense forced theBlue Devils into 25 turnovers, 17 of which were steals. occasions, UNC picked off lazy passes headed for Duke’s post players, contributing to the Tar Heels’ 17 overall steals.

North Carolina certainly has a talented squad led by its exceptional point guard Latta, but its win resulted more from Duke’s failure to play to its post strength and a Blue Devil frustration that resulted in 27 fouls on the night.

North Carolina’s victory essentially came on the foul line, with the Tar Heels making 27-of-31 free throws. The Blue Devils went to the line for 12 shots and made only half of their attempts.

Duke has not struggled with foul trouble much this season. But against UNC, four Blue Devil starters had at least four personal fouls and point guard Wanisha Smith fouled out.

North Carolina head coach Sylvia Hatchell said she “couldn’t ask for a better ending” to the regular season because of the game’s competitive atmosphere.

For Duke, it was exacdy the opposite. Its loss to UNC was marked not by an exciting competitiveness, but a collapse of its normal ability and its ACC regular season championship run.

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Monique Currie scored 22 points but was limited down the stretch as the North Carolina defense focused on Duke's co-captain.

UNC from The Chronicle page 1 longest home winning streak in ACC history snapped at 33 conference games.

North Carolina led for almost the entire game before Duke center Mistie Williams hit a jumper from the free-throw line to give the Blue Devils a one-point advantage with 6:27 remaining.

The Blue Devil lead ballooned to four points when Monique Currie froze her defender with a cross-over dribble and hit a three-pointer from the left wing.

“Once we got up a couple points, we thought that we could keep it up,” Currie said. “But they always hit big shots after us.”

Following Currie’s three, the Blue Devils were able to force a Tar Heel miss but could not prevent Larkins from grabbing the offensive rebound. Her subsequent three-point play pared Duke’s lead to just one.

Williams was called for a loose-ball foul husding to get an offensive rebound, and UNC forward Camille Little’s two free throws put North Carolina in the lead.

After two free throws by Larkins and a spinning baseline layup by Currie, Latta hit

an 18-foot jumper to make the score 63-60.

An offensive rebound by Carolina’s Nikita Bell—the Tar Heels hauled down 16 on the night—set up the Latta bucket.

“I felt like rebounding was the difference down the stretch,” Hatchell said. “At halftime we were behind in rebounding, and I told them if they won the boards then they’d probably win the game.”

Just 15 seconds after Latta’s score, the Blue Devils answered. Currie found Smith behind the three-point arc and the freshman buried the shot to tie the game at 63 and set the stage for Latta’s lategame heroics.

End-of-contest fireworks did not seem likely at the end of the first half. The Blue Devils had already committed 18 turnovers and trailed 38-30 at the break.

The Tar Heels were able to frustrate the Blue Devil offense with their aggressive, full-court defense like the last time the teams met, Jan. 24 in Chapel Hill.

Even in their half-court sets, Duke’s guards struggled to throw good entry passes and the Blue Devil post players had problems catching the ball when it got to them. Duke turned the ball over

25 times and North Carolina recorded 17 steals.

“They get in passing lanes, they get all over you, they pressure you,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “They anticipate very, very well. Any time the ball goes into the post, they trap.”

Duke staked out an early five-point lead four minutes into the first half, but the rest of the period belonged to the Tar Heels.

UNC grabbed the lead with 14:48 to play in the period and expanded it to as many as 10 before the Blue Devils cut the gap to eight at the half.

NOTES: Latta was the game’s high scorer, registering 23 points in 39 minutes.... Currie scored 22 points on 9-of-18 shooting to lead the Blue Devils.... Bell finished with 14 points, 11 rebounds and nine steals, one steal shy of the first triple-double in UNC history.... UNO’s 17 steals were the secondmost recorded by a Duke opponent this season. The Tar Heels’ 18 steals in the teams’ first meeting remains the most....

Wynter Whitley, Duke’s lone senior, was honored before the game on Senior Night.

DUKE A TP FG 3-PT FT REB PF Williams 9 4-11 0-11-13 4 1 Currie 9-18 3-5 1-2 5 4 7 22 Bales 4-6 00 2-2 9 10 4 2 Smith 4-8 40 1-2 13 5 2 1 Foley 3-9 1-6 0-2 3 2 2 7 Kurz 0-1 00 OO 0 0 11 Black 1-3 1-4 OO 5 5 3 2 Whitley 2-5 0-2 OO 2 2 1 4 5 TEAM TOTALS 27-62 8-20 6-12 34 16 68 27 Blocks—Bales (8), Black (1) Steals—Black (3), Currie (2), Smith (2), Foley (1), Williams (1) FG%: Ist Half: 42.9; 2nd Half: 44.1; Game: 43.5 FT%: Ist Half: 25.0; 2nd Half: 62.5; Game; 50.0 NORTH CAROLINA FG 3-PT FT REB PF A TP Larkins 5-6 0-0 9-10 3 6 4 1 Atkinson 3-11 0-2 00 10 3 8 1 Bell 5-15 OO 4-5 3 18 2 11 Latta 6-15 4-9 7-8 3 3 13 2 Little 0 4-7 0-2 7-8 1 4 2 Metcalf 0-3 0-3 00 2 11 2 0 0 0 Pringle 00 00 OO 1 Mcßee 0-2 0-1 OO 3 0 0 1 TEAM 7 TOTALS 23-59 4-17 27-31 41 18 8 77 Blocks—Pringle (3), Bell (1), Atkinson (1) Steals—Bell (9), Little (4), Atkinson (2), Latta (1), Larkins (1) FG%: Ist Half: 48.4; 2nd Half: 28.6; Game: 39.0 FT%: Ist Half: 100; 2nd Half: 84.6; Game: 87.1

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UNC 85-MARYLAND 83 North Carolina had just survived a furious comeback by Maryland, but a Raymond Felton drive and a Sean May swat gave UNC its fifth straight triumph.

Felton made the tie-breaking layup with 19 seconds left and May blocked a shot just before the buzzer, giving No. 2 North Carolina a harrowing 85-83 victory Sunday.

May had 22 points and 11 rebounds for the Tar Heels, who remained alone atop the Atlantic Coast Conference with the win. (AP)

GA.TECH 76-MIAMI 72 Jarrett Jack scored 21 points, including eight in a row to launch a second-half run that gave his team the lead for good, and Georgia Tech rallied past Miami 76-72 Saturday.

Will Bynum went 7-for-7 from the line in the final two minutes, sinking three consecutively to put Georgia Tech ahead to stay. Jack clinched the win by hitting two free throws with eight seconds left.

Georgia Tech trailed 59-51 with eight minutes left and responded by scoring 12 straight points, with Jack scoring the first eight. (AP)

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after Saturday’s win over St. John’s. we knew that. But don’t tell me you weren’t somewhat disturbed that our “big three” played like a big nothing for 30 03IT1P of the 40 minutes. analysis Scoring well below their averages, Duke’s triple threat of Daniel Ewing, JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams was just off. As a trio they scored four points in the first half and hit 10 buckets overall. Individually, the stats were no more impressive but a little easier tcT understand.

1. Ewing, who averages 15.6 points per game, was scoreless with 10 minutes left in the game. He had gone 0-for-6 in the first half and ended 3-for-13 overall.

Without junior point guard Sean Dockery for the first time this season, Ewing was forced to take on more of the point guard responsibilities. He has shared these duties with Dockery throughout the season and the transition could account for his dwindling statistics.

“The dynamic that is created in not having [Dockery] in is a huge one,” Krzyzewski said. “It changes Daniel’s role where it’s tough for him to score because he’s defending their best player, he’s bringing the ball up and when you do that kind of stuffyou get tired. By the time you get to your shot it’s not easy.”

Ewing, who played all 40 minutes, limited Daryll Hill to 10 points after he dropped 33 on Syracuse in the Red Storm’s last game. The senior showed that without Dockery, his defensive and leadership abilities don’t suffer but his point production does. Krzyzewski may want to look into finding some time for Ewing to rest so he has something left in the tank come tournament time.

2. When you finish a game with 13 points, it’s tough to say that something went wrong. But when Redick finishes 10 points short of his average and contributes a measly two points in the first half, it’s a little easier.

ST.JOHN'S from page 1 more up-tempo and both teams scored a few easy baskets in transition. The Red Storm made a couple of second-half runs but could never get closer than four points.

With 11 minutes to go, Daryll Hill, St. John’s most productive offensive player, darted past Ewing and hit a tough running jumper from the top of the key to draw within nine. A few possessions later, Redick committed one of his five turnovers, which led to a wide-open layup for guard Cedric Jackson, bringing the score to 33-38.

The run ended when Ewing hit his only three of the game on the next possession, but the Red Storm were not finished.

The speedy Hill stole the ball again from Redick and dribbled up the court with about eight minutes left. As he crossed halfcourt, he was trapped by two Duke defenders but split them with a quick hesitation move. Hill then fired a long pass through traffic to a wider-open Lament Hamilton, who converted the layup to bring the score to 37-41. The Garden crowd exploded, but that was as close as the home team would get.

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Daniel Ewing was quiet during the first 30 minutes but hit a number of key buckets down the stretch.

Redick scored eight of his 13 points from the line and connected on one ofhis seven trey attempts. Additionally, his defender, Hill, repeatedly blocked him from driving the lane and forced Redick into committing five turnovers.

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The two squads traded baskets for the last six minutes. Ewing hit a few key jumpers from about 16 feet and the Blue Devils were perfect from the free-throw line down the stretch.

“I thought theirkids played their hearts out,” Krzyzewski said of his opponent.

“They are a scrappy basketball team trying to muck anything out.”

The team was playing without point guard Sean Dockery, who tore his medial collateral ligament during the team’s last game at Georgia Tech Feb. 23.

NOTES: Redick failed to score 20 points for only the seventh time this season and broke a 12-game streak of hitting at least three treys.... Williams failed to record a double-double. Prior to this game, he had accomplished this 12 times in his last 18 contests....

David McClure logged four minutes—which all came in the first half—and scored four points on two layups. The game was his second after recovering from left knee surgery performed Feb. 1.... Patrick Davidson logged three minutes—two in the first half and one in the second half.

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“Daryll has done that all year. He can take the other team’s best player out of the game.”

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the ball around the perimeter and pick its shots carefully, while Duke kept pushing the ball through the midfield and was not content to sit on its lead.

The Retrievers opened the game effectively executing their patient, deliberate offensive scheme. It took UMBC only three shots to jump out to a 2-0 lead seven minutes into the game.

The Blue Devils responded with their own fast-paced style, running the ball up on transition and peppering the goal with a barrage of shots on quick offensive

adrenaline, and I saw him coming across the middle, so I popped him,” O’Hara said.

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Danny Otero pitched eight innings Sunday, holding Army to one run on five hits. He retired the first nine batters he faced in order as Duke took therubber match of the three-game series.

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With the game tied in the eighth inning, JJ. Koterba led off with a hard liner up the middle and wound up on second after Army centerfielder Caleb Love misplayed the ball. After Duke’s second failed sacrifice bunt attempt of the game and a long flyout by Brett Barties, Eric Baumann came to the plate having struck out looking in his previous two at-bats. With a 3-1 count, he sat on a hanging curveball and roped a single between the shortstop and third baseman to knock in the eventual game-winning run.

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ished off the Retrievers 12-10 at Koskinen Stadium. This is the second straight season UMBC has dropped its opener to Duke (2-0).

After Danowski’s goal to start the half, freshman Zach Greer, the team’s leading scorer, tallied two of his three goals within a span of 43 seconds to push the Blue Devil lead to 7-4.

“This team has a strong O-line and great middies,” Greer said. “I’m just trying to fit in and get a solid year under my belt.

It really helps to have Danowski and [Dan] Flannery opening it up for me.”

In addition to the usual suspects leading the Duke scoring efforts, senior midfielder Ryan Marshall scored two goals.

Marshall’s second, which was the team’s final tally, extended the lead to 12-7 and all but locked up the victory with 8:03 left in the game.

“A key play was moving Marshall up,” Pressler said of his decision to put the midfielder into a more offensive role. “He gave us two goals we weren’t counting on.”

The teams had contrasting styles and neither squad altered its offensive game plan even when the Blue Devils built a fivegoal advantaige. UMBC continued to pass

possessions.

Flannery scored Duke’s first two goals, both off turnovers in the midfield. Four minutes into the second quarter, Duke tallied two more goals within 29 seconds to push the score to 4-2.

After a 22-minute Retriever scoring drought, UMBC attackman Andy Gallagher beat the Blue Devil goalie, Aaron Fenton, with a double-fake in front of the net. Sophomore Drew Westervelt, who led the Retrievers with four goals and three assists, added a goal with one second remaining on the clock to tie the game at halftime.

NOTES: Fenton registered 13 saves and the first assist of his career when he lobbed the ball the length of the field. Danowski corralled the ground ball and beat the goalie....

Duke picked up 38 ground balls to UMBC’s 23.... The Retrievers scored during two of their three man-up possessions.

leave Baumann in after he struck out looking twice,” head coach Bill Hillier said. “He’s proven that he has been a good hitter for us, and he stepped up and had two RBIs for us today.”

Starting pitcher Danny Otero retired the first nine hitters he faced and pitched eight solid innings, allowing only five hits and one earned run. The Blue Devils (6-6) have struggled to provide Otero with adequate run support so far this season, leaving him with a 2-2 record despite an impressive 1.44 ERA. “I know one day I’m going to have a tough time out on the mound, and they’re going to pick me up and score 10 runs,” Otero said. “I know it’s just a matter of time, and I just have to keep making good pitches and do my job.”

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BASEBALL from SW page 7 greatest ally in the early innings. Infielders Bryan Smith and Koterba made difficult defensive plays in the top of the first to send the first three Army (1-5) hitters back to the bench in order. Shortstop Adam Murray laid out for a diving stop in the top of the second and quickly sprung to his feet to gun out the runner at first.

“I got off to a decent start because my infielders made great plays in the first innings behind me and boosted' my confidence,” Otero said. “After that, I just kept making pitches, and they kept finding infielders.

They were making plays behind me.”

Duke had jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first, as Baumann’s single to left scored Murray. The Blue Devils added a second run in the third when Bartles hit a single to right to score catcher Ron Causey.

Bartles, who was l-for-4 on the afternoon, extended his hitting streak to 12 games. The freshman continued his fantastic play hitting 5-for-12 at the plate over the weekend. He leads the team in hits (22), RBIs (15), total bases (27), on base percentage (.531) and has a .500 average in 44 at-bats.

Army fought back from the early 2-0 deficit by scoring runs in the fourth and seventh innings.

Hillier was pleased with his team’s improved defense and the strong performance of his pitching staff, but remains concerned about the Blue Devils’ inability to play small ball and advance runners in key situations.

‘We had a couple of times we didn’t get a sac down,” he said. “I told the guys after the game thatyou can’t make those kinds of mistakes in conference play, but two of the three games we played were pretty clean.”

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Shavlik Randolph (left) fought his way to six rebounds, and Lee Melchionni scored 14of Duke's 28 points in thefirst halfSaturday in Madison Square Garden.

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On Duke’s first possession of the game, Williams was being pushed around.

Guarded by Lament Hamilton, Williams was blocked and then forced into a travelling violation in the opening 20 seconds.

Williams matched Redick’s score for

the first half, also registering two points from the line. He finished with eight points, the lowest tally among the “big three,” and managed only one block against Hamilton’s five.

“It was hard for us to score tonight and we didn’t get anything inside,” Krzyzewski said. “We got the ball there but we couldn’t score on it.”

Williams only took five shots the whole game, three of which dropped. For a team

that lacks depth in big men to begin with, a lack of presence from Williams could easily become Duke’s Achilles’ heel.

With both teams registering fieldgoal percentages below 40, a muted “big three” did not have a grave effect. But with UNC less than a week away, the Blue Devils will have to quickly figure out what went wrong if they expect to defeat a team that won’t give them similar leeway.

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GDB from page 3 Advisory Committee, and they now have some of the community’s most popular eateries on board for the online food ordering and delivery service. Their partners include new Duke Merchants on Points Chai’s Noodle Bar and Bistro, Dale’s Indian Cuisine, Q-Shack, Mad Hatter’s Cafe and Bakery Shop and current merchant Papa John’s Pizza.

“We have two major factors going for us: new food and new technology,” said sophomore Peter Williams, chief operating officer, who added that these assets will increase accuracy, convenience and overall efficiency. “We’re pretty much trying to create a student services website using the DukeCard technology that Blackboard provides us with.”

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“Anything that is a student business now, we would be interested in joining forces with,” he said. “I’m very interested in helping other student businesses thrive.”

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AI-Hassan was No. 36 on the list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis released by U.S. authorities after American troops invaded Iraq in March 2003; he also was named one of the 29 most-wanted supporters of insurgents in Iraq. The United States had a $1 million bounty on his head.

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Unhappy Duke employees may fear they will lose their jobs if they speak out about unfair working conditions, said LaMonica Coleman, a member of the jobs team.

director of the The Incredibles.

The latest win dabs salt on the Walt Disney Co.’s wounds over the looming expiration of its distribution deal for Pixar films, which ends after next year’s Cars. The back-to-back Oscars underscore Pixar’s growing ascendance and the weakening position of animation pioneer Disney, which has yet to win the animated-feature Oscar with any of its homegrown films and whose biggest recent cartoon hits have all been made by Pixar.

Unlike last year, when “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” dominated the awards as expected and flat-out frontrunners' took all four acting prizes, the 77th Oscars shaped up as a mixed bag, with only Foxx a virtual lock to win.

BTK from page 2 man responsible for at least 10 killings “Disbelief, absolute disbelief,” said a tearful Carole Nelson, a member of Christ Lutheran Church, where Rader was an usher and the president of the church council. “I never would have guessed in a million years.”

The church’s pastor, Michael Clark, said Rader’s wife, Paula, was in a state of shock when he visited the family, who remained in seclusion Sunday.

“Her demeanorand voice indicated she was suffering,” Clark said.

Just days before his arrest, Rader brought spaghetti sauce and salad to a church supper, even though he was un-

Others were more optimistic. Remand Coles, associate professor of political science and Durham CAN member, pointed to the Johns Hopkins University and hospital system as a peer institution’s success story., Grassroots political activism at the Baltimore university led to an enhanced pay rate and benefits for workers in 1999.

About 30 people huddled in a conference room for the meeting after an attempt to hold the gathering in the lobby of the Durham Social Services building failed.

John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, declined to comment.

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Actor Jamie Foxx, flanked by CharlizeTheron, shows his trophy for best actor for his role in Ray. able to attend himself, church member Paul Carlstedt said.

“The guy that walked in here was not the face of evil,” said Bob Smyser, an usher at the church.

Still, a sense of relief was palpable around Wichita after the apparent capture of the killer who had terrorized Wichita and Sent taunting letters to the media since the 19705.

“Hallelujah, praise the Lord,” Gaylene Brown said over breakfast Sunday at Don’s Restaurant, where Rader’s face was a common sight.

Rader was suspected of killing 10 people between 1974 and 1991. Law enforcement officials said they plan to turn the case over to prosecutors early this week. It was unclear whether Rader had a lawyer.

Police disclosed little about how they identified Rader as a suspect and have said they will not comment further on the case, but bits and pieces of the investigation have filtered out.

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius told The Associated Press that DNA evidence was the key to cracking the case. It was unclear whether BTK’s letters helped lead to the arrest. Police have said they obtained semen from the crime scenes even though the killer did not sexually assault his victims.

Wichita television station KAKE, citing sources it did not name, reported that DNA from Rader’s daughter, Kerri, was instrumental in his capture, though KAKE anchor Larry Hatteberg said it did not appear the daughter turned in her father.

Charlie Otero, whose parents and two

siblings were BTK’s first victims in 1974,

said Sunday that he was “waiting with anticwant to see the proof that the DNA matches.”

Otero believes his family was targeted, although the rest of BTK’s victims were likely chosen at random. He isn’t sure why the family was targeted but said it’s interesting that Rader and his father served in the Air Force at the same time in’ the 19605. “I’m sure this will all come out during the trial,” he said.

District Attorney Nola Foulston said Saturday that her office could not pursue the death penalty against Rader because the 10 murders linked to BTK occurred before Kansas state law allowed capital punishment.

That didn’t sit well with some people—including Barbara Nottingham.

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iPod program did not deliver much-hyped iPod pro- ceived free iPods are not using them gram—for which the Universi- academically in the classroom, The University did a poor job of ty spent $500,000 on iPods for the entire freshman class—was far preparing and planning for the profrom the overwhelming academic gram. Not all professors received the sufficient success the Universitraining Statt6dltorial and therefore some ty hoped for, and the were ill-equipped to experiment should not continue next year. use the iPods in their classes. The The money for the iPod program iPod is not the ideal device for acawas part of the strategic plan fund— demic enrichment to begin with, and money that was ear-marked for initia- the University did not capitalize on tives promoting the innovative use of the opportunities it did have to make technology. Finding ways to integrate the iPod program successful.

The University should not give the innovative technology into the Duke academic experience is something incoming freshman class iPods. At that the University should strive for; the same time, the University should the iPod program, however, became a not abandon the program in areas trendy PR move. It generated noise where it has been successful—particularly music and foreign languages. and gave the University a few moments in the limelight, but the iPods The University should continue to failed to accomplish the stated goals make iPods available to students who are in classes where the devices are of the program across the University.

The most significant problem with used to students’ academic benefit.

The goals of the iPod program the iPod program is the product itself. Although iPods are extremely were objectives that the University well-suited as portable digital music should continue to actively pursue. players, they are extremely limited The University should always be lookdevices that can only input audio ining for innovative ways to integrate formation. iPods are primarily meant technology into the classroom and for music, and although the have further the learning experience for some functions beyond that, iPods do students. iPods were not the device not seem to translate well into acato accomplish this, because they did demic use and benefit few students. not have the wide-reaching impact to Another problem that has plagued make such an investment worthwhile for the University, but the University the iPod project is the limited number of professors that managed to inshould not be discouraged by the fact that the program did not change the device into students’ corporate coursework. This semester only 17 the face of learning at the University. classes are using the iPod. Some of Other iPod-like devices that have a these courses, such as music classes wider range of functions would be and foreign language classes, have better-suited to work in an academic done a good job of integrating the environment. The University should iPod into academics. However, since explore options other than iPods only 17 classes are using the iPod, the when it comes to cutting-edge techmajority of the freshmen who re- nology in the future.

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The Strip accounts for less than 1 percent of LAS VEGAS In this city of histrionic architecture, the building that matters most the state’s water use —while producing 60 permay be the bland, low-slung headquarters of cent of the state’s economy. The average hotel the Southern Nevada Water Authority. The room uses 300 gallons of water a day, but it is general manager since the authority was all recycled. The drought has elicited un-Westformed in 1991, the elegant, no-nonsense Pat em demands to slow this city’s growth, but Mulroy, 52, is determined to prevent a water Mulroy briskly demurs; “You don’t use a shortage from inhibiting the growth of this growth moratorium to manage through a city that is dedicated to the proposition that drought.’” You use, primarily, the market. inhibitions are sinful.

For example, most people who move She is dealing with a five-year drought, the here—there were a record 29,248 new home worst in 100 years of record keeping, and persales in 2004, an increase of 16 percent over haps —tree rings suggest this—the worst in 2003, which also set a record—come from 500 years. She also is dealing with reverberaless arid places and they use home irrigation tions from the day in 1877 systems to reproduce the when Thomas Blythe strode green lawns they left behind. george will Retirees, especially—roughly into the Colorado River near the California town now 20 percent of the metropoliguest commentary tan area’s 1.6 million resinamed for him, 100 miles south of the Nevada border, dents are 55 or older—come and claimed for California 9 million acre-feet for the abundance of sunshine and the abof the river—an acre-foot being about sence of an income tax. They demand grass.

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“It is,” says Mulroy, “mind-boggling: they Because of the principle “first in time, first move to the desert and plant Kentucky blue in right,’” California got an abundance. grass”—a particularly thirsty kind. “We were,” Then, in 1922, six other states—Colorado, she says incredulously; “putting grass on medians” It was, she says, “like moving to Alaska Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico-joined with California in the Colorado and walking down the street in a bathing suit River Compact. Westerners say whisky is for in January.”

The city got little response paying 40 cents drinking and water is for fighting over, but the seven states can do pretty much anything a square foot for removed grass. But they can agree to, such as “banking”’ water Nevadans understand pricing: $1 a square underground to use in trading river entitle- foot has bought the removal of turf to 50.9 ments. They cooperate to keep Washington million square feet, for annual savings of 2.8 from butting in. billion gallons of water. Now garden stores Today California gets 4.4 million acre-feet. stock desert plants for “water smart landscapLas Vegas’ water needs are supplied mosdy ing,” so lawns do not need to look like a from Lake Mead—down to 59 percent of caGeorgia O’Keeffe painting —a cactus and a and, Mead, from Lake dead cow skull. pacity upstream Powell, now at 34 percent of capacity, its lowAmericans, passionate subduers of nature, est since it started filling three decades ago. are surpassing themselves here. Having built When Mormon settlers arrived here in the nation’s fastest growing city in a desert, 1855 the town was called Las Vegas Springs—- they are now bringing the desert back to an oasis refreshing travelers from Salt Lake town. From 2002 to 2003, while population City to another community taking root in an was growing 5,000 a month, water consumparid place, Los Angeles. Today, 30 million tion declined from 318,000 acre-feet to less people from Denver to Salt Lake City, than 272,000, and was even less in 2004.

Today Mulroy is worrying about snow.

Phoenix, Tucson, Los Angeles and San Diego—almost a tenth of all Americans—deFalling in the Rockies, it should melt and flow pend on the river’s water. But agriculture into Lake Powell. But when mountain winds sops up 90 percent of it. The sprawl of pick up, “sublimated” snow evaporates. The Phoenix onto agricultural land actually demoisture goes into clouds “and rains on Necreases water use. braska”-—an indignity. Mulroy is not amused.

The Strip—the portion ofLas Vegas BouleIf she decides to stop it, this betting town vard that has 15 of the world’s 20 largest howould not bet against her. tels—features vast fountains, a sea batde between pirate ships and an 8.5-acre lake in front George Will is a syndicated columnist for The of the Bellagio hotel. However, Mulroy says, Washington Post.

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Donate to memorial fund this week There were so many reasons to admire Sasha. Beautiful, outgoing, intelligent and ambitious, she had it all and a million-dollar smile too. But what I admired most was the kindness and caring she showed to others, never taking for granted the gifts she had been given. As a mentor in the Big Sisters, Big Brothers program, Sasha was set to continue the legacy of volunteerism and devotion to children she had begun in high school.

Sasha passed away after her first semester at Duke from a sudden brain aneurysm. Created in her memory and honor, the Sasha Burakow Touched by an Angel Memorial Fund is officially beginning its fundraising efforts this week. Dividends from the endowed fund will be used to bring the Boredom Busters program to Duke University Medical Center.

The program was started in northern Virginia, and is now dedicated to Sasha.

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ReDesigN IdentificAtion the fury of scattered postings on West Campus, an anonymous black-and-white flyer chanced across my view.

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But other race-based drug candidates already exist People known as slow acetylators, for instance, take a longer time than fast acetylators to clear toxins from the liver. And—big surprise—the fraction of slow acetylators in differentracial groups ranges from a low of 14 percent among East Asians to a high of 54 percent among whites. Therefore, whites may benefit from different types of medications that are processed through the liver.

Once we are able to sequence individual genomes in a costeffective way, using race as a shortcut for understanding people being identified. become outmoded. But, in a country where physical feamay Identification.

Redesign tures have come to mean so much, race’s grip on American culThe idea: fairly conventional. The vision: a tad underdevelture is likely not to be relinquished so easily. oped. The medium: just slightly unorthodox.

Companies like GeoGene, AncestryßyDNA But the message is particularly apropos, at this and Roots for Real are in the business of juncture in history. “recreational genomics,” helping customers In 1998, the American Anthropological Astrace genetic linkages back several generations sociation deemed race a social invention, assertto a particular geographic location. Their cusmrnm ing thatracial beliefs are myths fusing “behavior tom DNA fingerprints, however, have not been the in together public and physical features without the requisite share of surprises. mind, impeding our comprehension ofboth biIn 2003, DNAPrint Genomics indicated that ological variations and cultural behavior, implykurian philip determined.” the genome of a 50-year-old Californian male, are genetically ing that both who self-identified as black, was actually 57 perthe pen is mightier With the, deciphering of the human cent of what the company called IndoEurogenome, scientists have determined that 99.9 idennucleotides are 39 percent Native American, 4 percent pean, our 3 billion percent of tical from one person to another. What little variation remains East Asian—and 0 percent African. The obvious question; if this can in part be attributed to group differences. But what many man is what he has been socialized to be, or what his DNA supscholars both fear and hope is thatracial identity will be able to posedly says he is.

Perhaps the most telling piece of data is that, after receiving explain them.

A new medical treatment illustrates the crux of the problem. the test results, the man still identifies as black. So, then, is race a social construct, or not? What should all this mean to us?

Now expected for approval by the Food and Drug Administration, BiDil—a combination of two older drugs that, when taken Junior Angelica Agishi may have some answers. Of Nigerian together, reduces blood pressure and protects against heart dis- and Filipino ancestry, Agishi is understandably frustrated by the racial classification system imposed in the United States. ease—was initiallyrejected for use in the general population beOur hierarchy of skin color slotted her immediately as African cause it was ineffective in the treatment of heart failure.

American, but whenschool officials discovered she spoke TagaIn 2001, however, NitroMed, the manufacturer, asked permission to test BiDil exclusively in African Americans, whose log, her race “changed” to Asian American. When college adheartfailure tends to be more severe and harder to treat. With missions time rolled around, counselors re-identified her as AfricanAmerican. She never quite understoodthe choices that the support of the Association ofBlack Cardiologists, investigators embarked on a clinical trial that was cut short last summer; were being made on her behalf. “Sometimes I just want to be BiDil worked so effectively it seemed unethical to deny the human,” she said.

Since 1967, when the Supreme Court overturned anti-miscedrug to the control group.

Thus, racial differences selected a subgroup within the popgenation laws in Loving v. Virginia, multiracialism has been on ulation at large to receive a certain treatment. To students of the rise. Duke undergraduates are currently spearheading an mediqd history, this story raises the specter of eugenics—how initiative called Duke Mosaic, a group for biracial and multirasupposedly innate differences among human beings were used cial students. Perhaps from within these fringe communities will for the exploitation and extermination of certain groups. For emerge a new racial consciousness. Certainly, in years to come, example, the Eugenics Board of North Carolina continued its it will be increasingly difficult to identify individuals within our controlled program of sterilization for the “feeble minded” comfortableracial pecking order; more and more, our ability to make snap judgments will be confused and impaired. through the early 19705.

Scientists remain interested in this dicey subject because it While DNA may hold solutions to the problems of differmay provide insights into the persistent problem of racial ence, it cannot change history. More complex than black and health disparities. In a recent Boston Globe op-ed, Huntington white, race is a lived reality in America, a composite represenWillard, director for Duke’s Institute of and tation of individual experience. In order to get back to the inPolicy, asserts the difficulty of pinning down genetic differences dividual, we must start allowing for self-identification without between the races as the definitive reason for BiDil’s selectivity. boxes, beyond a strictly genetic understanding of race. This will While geneticists may explain heart disease in terms of involve sacrifice, on all our parts, of some deeply held social beliefs. In the distant future, race may no longer be something genes, social scientists would counter that factors like low income, lack of health insurance, poor diet, exposure to polluyou have, or even something imposed, but rather something tion, discrimination and stress are the true causes. Willard sugyou choose. Until the genome convinces us otherwise, this may gests that, although the FDA may be justified in approving be the only humane conclusion.

BiDil for African Americans, the use of race in clinical medicine is at best an interim and unfortunate result of our collecPhilip Kurian is a Trinity senior. His column appears Mondays.

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other night on ABC’s Nightline, the host, Ted Koppel, posed an intriguing question to Malcolm Gladwell, the social scientist who wrote the path-

breaking book The Tipping Point, which is about how changes in behavior or perception can reach a critical mass and then suddenly create a whole new reality. Koppel asked: Can you know you are in the middle of a tipping point, or is it only something you can see in retrospect?

Gladwell responded that “the most important thing in trying to analyze whether something is at the verge of a tipping point, is whether it—an event—causes people to reframe an issue. A dumb example is the Atkin’s diet, which reframes dieting from thinking about it in terms of avoiding calories and fat to thinking aboutit as avoiding carbohydrates, which really changes the way people perceive dieting.”

Koppel was raising the question because he wanted to explore whether the Iraqi elections marked a tipping point in history. I was on the same show, and in mulling over this question more I think that what’s so interesting about the MiddltfEast today is that we re witnessing ree thomas tipping points at once Thanks to 8 million guest commentary Iraqis defying “you vote, you die” terrorist threats, Iraq has been reframed from a story about Iraqi “insurgents” trying to liberate theircountry from American occupiers and their Iraqi “stooges” to a story of the overwhelming Iraqi majority trying to build a democracy, with U.S. help, against the wishes of Iraqi Baathist-fascists andjihadists.

In Lebanon, the murder offormer Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which Syria is widely suspected of having had a hand in, has reframed that drama. A month ago, Lebanon was the story of a tiny Christian minority trying to resist the Syrian occupation, which had the tacit support of the pro-Syrian Lebanese government and a cadre of Lebanese politicians who had sold their souls to Damascus. After the Hariri murder, Lebanese just snapped. Lebanon became the story of a broad majority ofLebanese Christians, Muslims and Druse no longer willing to remain silent, but instead telling the Syrians, and their Lebanese puppet president, to “go home.” Lebanon went from a country where few dared whisper “When will Syria leave?” to a country where nearly everyone was shouting it, and Syria was having to answer.

The Israel-Palestine drama has gone from how Ariel Sharon will use any means possible to sustain Israel’s hold on Gaza, which he once said was indispensable for the security of the Jewish state, to being about how Sharon will use any means possible to evacuate Gaza—with its huge Palestinian population—which he now says is necessary for saving Israel as ajewish state. The issue for the Palestinians is no longer about how they resist the Israeli occupation in Gaza, but whether they build a decent mini-state there—a Dubai on the Mediterranean. Because if they do, it will fundamentally reshape the Israeli debate about whether the Palestinians can be handed most of the West Bank.

While all three of these situations would constitute tipping points by Gladwell's definition, I would feel a lot better about all three if I thought that they were irreversible—and couldn’t tip back the wrong way.

For Iraq to be tipped in the right direction, it was necessary to have the election we did, but that was not sufficient.

A stable, decent Iraqi government must emerge that can also quell the Sunni insurgency. That will depend in part on America’s willingness to stay the course in Iraq. It will depend in part on the Shiite majority’s willingness to share power with the Sunnis—particularly one of the crucial Cabinet portfolios of defense, intelligence or interior—and not go on a de-Baathificationrampage. It will depend in part on the Sunni Arab leaders supporting the Iraqi majority.

For Lebanon to liberate itself from Syria, the Lebanese opposition groups will have to find away to translate their aspirations into a withdrawal deal with Damascus. The Syrians will not be pushed out. And for Israelis and Palestinians to really tip toward peace, the moderates on both sides are really going to have to help each other succeed.

Indeed, in the Middle East playground—as Friday’s suicide bomb in Israel reminds us—tipping points are sometimes more like teeter-totters; one moment you’re riding high and the next minute you’re slammed to the ground. Nevertheless, what's happened in the last four weeks is not just important, it's remarkable. And if we can keep all three tipping points tipped, it will be incredible. .

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Thomas Friedman is a syndicated columnist for The New York Times.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28,

THE CHRONICLE

2005

The Daniel Pearl Dialogue for Muslim-lewish Understanding featuring Akbar Ahmed and

Judea Pearl

Judea Pearl, a professor of computer science at

the University of California, Los Angeles, is the father of journalist Daniel Pearl,

the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in February 2002. Akbar Ahmed is a former high commissioner of Pakistan to Great Britain, chair of Islamic Studies at American University and author of “Islam under Siege.”

Monday, February 28

7 p.m.

Duke University’s Page Auditorium The event is free and open to the public.

Akbar Ahmed

Akbar Ahmed and Judea Pearl have launched a personal yet public dialogue out of a concern about divisions between Muslims and Jews and a shared hope for reconciliation between these two Abrahamic faiths. Their discussions range from policy issues to global perceptions and address truth, lies, and deepest fears. Question-and-answer session and book signings will follow.

Sponsors: Office of the President, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Ar-Razzaq Islamic Center, Freeman Center for Jewish Life, Duke Chapel, Office of Student Affairs.

Information: (919)

681-8975 86/22/0B 33387

Judea Pearl