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GeoffreyBrennan’s class on the Prisoners’ Dilemma and Distributive Justice is on the move—literally.

This week, class meetings shifted location from Duke to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For students, further changes are afoot, since the course is the gateway for a new certificate program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, "which won the Arts and Sciences Council’s approval March 10.

The program “puts together the things you need to understand how the world works and also shows how they fit together,” said Alex Rosenberg, R. Taylor Cole professor of philosophy, who took a leading role in organizing the new certificate.

Scholars at Duke and UNC are working together to put the PPE program in motion. Many Tar Heels have been riding the Robertson Bus to Duke twice a week for the first half of the semester to join in the class. The course is also required for UNC’s new PPE minor, which was recognized last fall. “[PPE] seems both a good fit with Duke and with UNC and with the kind of interests that a lot of our students have,” SEE PPE ON PAGE 6

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BSA ELECTION RESULTS PRESIDENT: Wintta Woldemariam EXECUTIVE VP: Rukayya Furo

VP OF FINANCIAL AFFAIRS: Shahrazad Shareef VP OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS: Marcus Peterson VP OF COMMUNITY RELATIONS: Liza McClellan

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days after the appoint-

ment of a new dean of the Duke

Chapel, the University has gained another spiritual leader.

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Corey Magette, who left Duke after his freshman year, was not constrained by an age limitlike the one the NBA is considering.

NBA may implement age limit by

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One and done may no longer refer to a college basketball player’s career after this year.

The NBA’s collective bargaining agreement with its players’ union ends after this season, and one of the policies commissioner David Stern wants to introduce into the new contract is a minimum age. Stern said last month that he wants to implement a limit of 20 years old,

which could keep the league’s increasingly adolescent new players in college for two years after high school.

Although the concept has sparked much discussion in the professional and college ranks, most of the details are far from set. Tim Frank, the NBA’s vice president of basketball communications, said many of the specifics would depend on how meetings with the union progress.

“Everything in the collective

bargaining agreements is interrelated,” Frank said. “A lot of it depends on other discussions.”

The effect of a minimum age would be groundbreaking for a league marked by its relative youth. In last year’s rookie draft, 11 of the first 19 picks were under the age of 20, including eight who jumped to the NBA straight from high school. Following a trend that has erupted SEE AGE LIMIT ON PAGE 12

BSA elects 2005-2006 executive officers

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Black Student Alliance members submitted their ballots on the Bryan Center walkway and in the Marketplace Wednesday to elect officers for the coming academic year.

Junior Wintta Woldemariam, who ran uncontested, was elected president, and junior Rukayya FurO was elected executive vice president.

Also elected were junior Shahrazad Shareef as vice president of financial affairs, junior Marcus Peterson as vice president of academic affairs and

junior Liza McClellan as vice president of community relations. Furo will appoint the new vice president of student affairs, as no candidates ran for the position.

“I have the utmost faith in the newly elected members,” said senior Pascale Thomas, current president of BSA. “I think they’re going to do a great job next year, and I think they’ll bring a new perspective to the

organization.”

As a former volunteer in the Durham Public School system, Woldemariam said she plans to

expand the notion ofcommunity in BSA to include black students in local schools and throughout Durham. She hopes to strengthen the structure of the organization by revising outdated elements of BSA’s constitution. Woldemariam also hopes to address the issues of black leadership at the University and retention rates of black students.

“I’m motivated by a passion to serve the black student body,” she said.

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The Freeman Center for JewishLife confirmed this week that it hired Michael Goldman —currently FCJL’s rabbinic intern —to be the new campus rabbi. Goldman is the first person to hold the position since Spring 2002.

Jonathan Gerstl, executive director of Jewish life, said the decision to hire a rabbi stemmed from several years of discussion about the need for a Jewish religious leader on campus. With financial support from the University and private donors and advice from several community focus groups, FCJL worked with Hillel International—a global network of Jewish campus organizations—to identify candidates for the position.

Goldman was selected after a g£oup of students and faculty interviewed the candidates this spring. Gerstl said Goldman’s combination of religious knowledge and open-mindedness made him an ideal choice for the job.

“He is very welcoming and embraces the integrity of students who choose to find their spirituality in different ways,” Gerstl said. “He’s open to helping each individual student find their own path in their search for their Jewish

spiritual identity.”

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Jewish point of view” on panels

and in discussions with other

religious leaders, Gerstl explained. The new rabbi will also provide counseling and spiritual guidance to members of the

Jewish community.

“The rabbi is not only about Friday night services,” Gersd said. “A rabbi is about how one educates oneself in a much broader way.”

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U.S. and Iraqi BAGHDAD, Iraq forces killed 85 militants at a suspected training camp along the marshy shores of a remote lake—one of the highest guerrilla death tolls of the two-year insurgency, officials said Wednesday. They said citizens emboldened by the January elections are increasingly turning in intelligence tips.

The raid at Lake Tharthar in central Iraq turned up booby-trapped cars, suicide-bomber vests, weapons and training documents, Iraqi Maj. Gen. Rashid Feleih told state television. He said the insurgents included Iraqis, Filipinos, Algerians, Mo-

roccans, Afghans and Arabs from neigh-

boring countries.

“What’s really remarkable is that the citizens this time really took the initiative to provide us with very good information,” Feleih said.

In three days, according to Iraqi and U.S. officials’ accounts, troops have killed at least 128 insurgents nationwide, culminating in the announcement of Tuesday’s attack by Iraqi commandos, backed by U.S. air and ground fire. This past Sunday, U.S. soldiers killed 26 insurgents south of Baghdad, while a fight during an ambush on an Iraqi security envoy killed 17 militants

Monday.

“This string of successes does have positive repercussions in that it may convince Iraqis not supporting the insurgents —but not supporting the United States either to perceive that the tide is turning and not go with the insurgents,” said Nora Bensahel, a Washington-based Iraq analyst for Rand Corp.

But while it’s been “a fairly successful few days,” Bensahel cautioned that “there’s a long, long way to go.”

The U.S. military gave the first report of the Lake Tharthar raid, saying that seven commandos and an unspecified —

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PINELLAS PARK, Fla. Terri Schiavo’s parents saw their options vanish one by one Wednesday as a federal appeals court refused to reinsert her feeding tube and the Florida Legislature decided not to intervene in the epic struggle. Refusing to give up, Gov. Jeb Bush sought court permission to take custody ofSchiavo.

The desperate flurry of activity came as President George W. Bush suggested that Congress and the White House had done all they could to keep the severely braindamaged woman alive.

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As of Wednesday afternoon, Schiavo had gone five full days without food or water; doctors have said she could survive one to two weeks.

Supporters of Schiavo’s parents grew increasingly dismayed, and 10 protesters were arrested outside her hospice for trying to bring her water.

“When I close my eyes at night, all I can see is Terri’s face in front of me, dying, starving to death,” Mary Schindler said outside the Pinellas Park hospice.

“Please, someone out there, stop this cruelty. Stop the insanity. Please let my daughter live.”

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Social Security will begin paying out more in benefits than it receives in taxes in 2017, trustees said. They estimated that the program would go broke in 2041, a year earlier than expected. After then, benefits would have to be cut by more than 25 percent if payroll taxes aren't increased.

The Schindlers have vowed to take their

fight to the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to get involved previously. One of their attorneys, David Gibbs, said he would work overnight to file an appeal with the high court Thursday. Republican leaders in Congress also were preparing arguments for the Supreme Court in support of the parents.

Schiavo’s tube was pulled Friday afternoon with a Florida judge’s approval. By late Tuesday, her eyes were sunken and her skin, lips and tongue were parched, said SEE SCHIAVO ON PAGE 8

Bush announces Mexico pact President George W. Bush and leaders of Mexico and Canada appeared together at Baylor University to announce their neighborhood pact. It is designed to make trade more efficient and borders more secure without obstructing business and traffic

Nazi doctor will not be tried Dr. Heinrich Gross, who worked at a clinic where the Nazis killed thousands of chil-

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In what many predict will be a close race, junior Christopher Chin and sophomore Joe Fore will face off for the Duke Student Government office of vice president of academic affairs March 31.

The two contenders are both current senators on the Academic Affairs Committee. Chin has served on the committee for three years and currently serves as a student representative on the corresponding committee for the University’s Board of Trustees. Fore is currently executive secretary of Inter-Community Council; last year he served as a senator on the Community Interaction Committee.

Current Vice President of Academic Affairs Chase Johnson, a senior, said the two contenders are “ambitious” and have initiated several important projects on their own. “I hope Chris or Joe, whomever doesn’t win, will come back [to the committee]—it’s really important for our fluidity,” he said.

If elected to the post, Chin said he would play up and publicize the committee’s work.

“Small, visible things are key to piquing interest and encouraging student involvement,” he said.

Chin’s major focus is on reevaluating academic advising next year. “The aspect that’s best under the current system is the mentoring value and interaction between students and a random faculty member,” he said. He envisions a small staff of five to 10 advisers—a program similar to those at peer institutions—to standardize the pre-major advising for all undeclared students.

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and independent research

Enhance faculty mentoring

Offer universal access to course syllabi

Outline clear expectations for theses

Create an improved and more detailed course evaluation system

I’d like to see relevant faculty members chosen to serve as this same type ofmentor,” Chin said, noting that these mentors could engage students on a more personal level than simple academic advising. “Such a system will encourage students to pursue research for interest rather than simply for resumes.”

Fore’s major initiative would involve an assessment of the undergraduate academic experience, making both research and study areas more accessible and convenient.

“There are so many opportunities at Duke that it’s impossible

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to take advantage of them all, but I’d certainly like to try,” Fore said.

He added that his current personal project—a constitutional amendment slated to appear on the March 31 ballot—aims to outline basic expectations for undergraduate academic life, most notably senior theses and independent research.

“Right now, research opportunities are always there but not in the open,” Fore said. “I’d like to make research experience a more basic concept of the Duke experience.”

To make study areas more convenient, he proposes in-

creasing access to academic buildings on West Campus for late-night gatherings and studying. “A lot of students don’t want to work in the Gothic Reading Room,” Fore noted.

Both candidates named course evaluations as a top concern; each said he would count on student input while pursuing an improved, more detailed evaluation system.

Fore further proposed universal access to course syllabi, while Chin said he hopes for evaluations to take place earlier in the semester.

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No arrest has been made, but Kammie Michael, a spokesperson for DPD, said investigators are following leads.

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“That late at night we’d encourage people to walk in pairs and try not to be out at that hour alone,” said Leanora Minai, senior public relations specialist for DUPD. Minai said community members should call DUPD if they see anything suspicious either on campus or in areas adjacent to campus.

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Most students take out their binders and pens when they go to class, arriving barely on time, taking notes and wishing they were someplace else. But in Robert Brame’s Intro to Massage Therapy course, students perform an entirely different ritual.

Brame, an instructor in the department of health, physical education and recreation, said students arrive 15 minutes early to set up their massage tables and then take turns giving classmates full body massages.

The course focuses mainly on teaching flexibility, stress reduction, circulation and centeredness. Brame emphasized the benefits of massages: a greater knowledge and awareness of one’s body.

“We all hold tensions within our body and don’t even know it,” Brame said. “We become used to any discomfort in our bodies, and this usually leads to long term injuries down the road. By knowing our bodies, we can learn where the imbalance is and what needs to be done to fix it.”

Most of the students in the class said, along with the massage techniques, they learned to be more comfortable with themselves and their classmates.

“I really had to step outside of my comfort zone with this class,” senior Patrick Crosby said. “We are almost naked under the sheet and guys have to massage each other. But by the time we got to that it was the middle of the semester and we were prepared for it.”

Massage therapy originated in China in 3,000 B.C. and was first used for therapeutic

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RALEIGH House Speaker Jim Black, under fire for helping dole out money to nonprofit groups that bypassed the normal budget process, said Tuesday he welcomes an examination of those projects by State Auditor Les Merritt.

“There’s nothing wrong with looking at how the nonprofits are spending the money,” said Black, D-Mecklenburg, adding that he believes the money was used properly.

Black, his former co-Speaker Richard Morgan, R-Moore, and Senate leader Marc Basnight agreed last year to set aside more than $l3 million in this year’s budget for

controversy “NC Pork Gate.”

Basnight’s office said he has no plans to leave his post. Rep. Bill Culpepper, DChowan, the House Rules Committee chairman, said neither will Morgan. In an interview Tuesday evening, Black said people who want him out of the job didn’t vote for him in January for a fourth term as

discretionary spending.

The leaders signed off on the grants, which funded things like historic buildings, health-care centers and arts projects in districts of political allies. Critics have argued the leaders lacked the authority to control the money.

Meanwhile, a government reform group and Republican Rep. John Rhodes called for Black, Morgan and Basnight to step down from their leadership posts for now while a state audit is performed. Morgan is now speaker pro tempore.

The three “have proven through their past actions that they cannot be trusted with the taxpayers’ money,” Chris Neeley, state director of the conservative Americans for Prosperity, said at a news conference in which members wore lapel stickers and carried signs that dubbed the current

speaker.

“I’m not just going to sit down just because of some hot heads,” he said.

Though the money in the fund was distributed by state agencies, legislative leaders essentially decided which projects would be among the dozens of winners.

Neeley and several legislators at the news conference urged Merritt, a Republican, to investigate these and other “reserve funds” created by the General Assembly.

A Merritt spokesperson said Tuesday the requests have been received but would neither confirm nor deny that an audit has begun. “We always review information on any request we get,” spokesperson Dennis Patterson said.

Earlier Tuesday, Black defended the method for disbursing the grants, saying it ensures legislators can bring something home to their districts if the final budget leaves them out. Such reserve funds have been common practice in state government for years, he said.

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Rosenberg called Brennan “a very well known political philosopher, political economist.” He paused and then added, “It’s very hard to pigeon-hole him.”

Brennan, Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor and director of the new program, holds part-time appointments in both the political science department at Duke and the Department of Philosophy at UNC. At least initially, Brennan will instruct the gateway class and the capstone seminar during the spring semesters he spends away from his native Australia.

To earn the certificate, undergraduates must take the gateway and capstone courses and six additional classes divided equally among economics, political science and philosophy. They will also need to complete a major in one of the three departments and take prerequisites in economics and political philosophy.

“It’s clear, given the workload, that this isn’t a free ride,” Rosenberg advised.

It is likely a select number of undergraduates will be eligible to take the capstone course to complete the certificate requirements as early as Spring 2006, Brennan said. He added that undergraduates will benefit from an interdisciplinary approach to these subjects.

Over the last 20 years, Brennan explained, scholars in philosophy, political science and economics have increasingly explored the interrelations among the fields.

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phenomena being dealt with from different disciplinary approaches, then they get

a sense of what’s distinctive about their own approach,” Brennan said.

Although Brennan suggested that the program would be successful if only 10 students from each of the two universities earned the certificate each year, his estimate may turn out to be low.

“We started out with the idea of a very small program... and the demand skyrocketed,” Rosenberg said. “We can’t afford to make it much bigger without making significant investment in faculty and infrastructure.”

Sophomore Genevieve Ding needed little encouragement to take the gateway class, since she said she has a long-standing interest in the overlap among these subjects. She even encouraged a friend, sophomore Mikey Muhanna, to enroll.

A double major in economics and phi-

losophy, Muhanna cited the scarcity of other courses cross-listed in both his majors as one reason for his interest. Now, the sophomore added, he will probably complete the certificate.

“When [the certificate] came up, I wanted to do it,” Muhanna said.

Rosenberg hopes the PPE certificate will attract “smart, motivated, industrious and well-informed students who want to think outside the box,” and he noted that many students he taught in the Biotechnology and Society FOCUS program have expressed interest to him.

Brennan said attracting student and faculty participants from across the three disciplines and two universities is vital to the program’s success.

“What I would really like is to have a mix of UNC and Duke students and to have a mix of the various disciplines,” he added.

chair of the Black Student Invitational Weekend committee and she has formerly held numerous leadership positions within the organization. A BSA member since her freshman year, she said she hopes to preserve the organization’s legacy and traditions while addressing the diverse issues faced by every member.

“The black student body will never be homogenous,” Woldemariam noted.

“What might be important to one portion of BSA might not be as pertinent to another group.”

Furo said one of her priorities is to increase black student participation in BSA. She hopes to increase involvement in the outreach committee and strengthen the academic affairs committee. Like Woldemariam, her goal is to uphold the integrity of the organization and adapt BSA to the changing interests of the Duke student body. “As the faces of the black community at Duke change, I feel like it’s necessary for BSA to also change,” she said. Furo ran against sophomore Malik Burnett for the position.

The other officer-elects also have ambitious aspirations for.the student group.

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mg dialogue among students of various faiths and communicating with other campus clergy. But his most important role, Goldman explained, will be helping Jewish students “articulate their Jewish identity” and carve out their niche as a “distinct minority” at Duke. “[I want] to deepen the community’s sense of itself, to give people access to the breadth and life of the Jewish tradition and to help people use that tradition as a guide to finding their own place in the world, whether that place has a religious character or a secular, cultural character—hopefully both,” Goldman said.

Enhancing Jewish students’ “ritual life” by creating and finding ways for them to give back to the community around them will be another of Goldman’s main priorities.

“One of the central components to living a Jewish life which is shared byjews of every denomination and every social orientation is tikkun olam, which means ‘repairing the world,’” Goldman explained. “We feel we have a commitment to leaving the world a better place than when we were bom into it.”

Praising Goldman’s “passion and experience,” senior Amanda Zimmerman, outgoing FCJL executive vice president, said the new rabbi will help unite Duke’s Jewish community—something it found difficult to do without a religious figurehead.

“A rabbi also makes the community that much more cohesive

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is believed Greek athletes also used massages during the ancient Olympic Games. Even though more than 5,000 years have passed, massage therapy is still widely used in similar ways today.

The Duke Health and Fitness Center offers a variety ofmassage options, ranging from therapeutic massages to foot reflexology.

Athletes also make use of therapeutic massages, mostly to speed recovery after an injury.

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and makes it feel like we actually have a Jewish community,” she said. “In Judaism, there isn’t a pope... so communities are very dependent on rabbis for spirituality and leadership.”

Echoing Zimmerman, junior and incoming FCJL President JeffLeibach said Goldman will be a “dynamic” addition to the various religious figures on campus.

“When groups have been called on to provide a spiritual perspective, we haven’t had that continual voice,” Leibach said.

“It’ll just be really great for all of the communities to have that stable voice here and for us to have that permanent perspective.”

Zimmerman said Goldman will also be an important adviser to Jewish students as they navigate a complex “spiritual self-exploration” during their college years.

“The most important issue that we’ve been dealing with for the past four years is how to be Jewish and be a student at Duke at the same time,” she noted.

“It’s really easy to have two different worlds.... There’s a middle ground he will very much help fill.”

Goldman was born in Oregon and lives in New York City with his wife and son. He has served as FCJL’s rabbinical intern for most of the 2004-2005 academic year. Goldman will receive his rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary ofAmerica in May before officially taking his position at Duke next year.

sage treatments differ, they are always effective in decreasing healing time.

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apist at the Duke Health and Fitness Center. “During midterms and finals, students are certainly more stressed than at other times of the year, so getting a massage during this period allows them to even out their adrenaline, think clearer and do better on their work.”

Brame, however, hopes his students will take both a sense of awareness of themselves and the ability to expertly give a full body massage from the class.

“I want my students to have a better ability to interact with each other, while providing them with opportunities for self-discovery and further understanding of

their physical bodies,” Brame said And while several students did not really know what to expect coming into the class, they are finding that they are gaining more knowledge than they origi-

loosen up post-surgery scar tissue or reduce swelling from a sprained ankle,” McKeehan said.

“These massages are different from most people’s conception of a massage —they don’t necessarily feel good and aren’t done for relaxation.”

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But 85 deaths would make the raid the heaviest hit militants have taken since the opening days of the U.S.-led attack in November on the city ofFallujah, where more than 1,000 insurgents died.

U.S. Army Maj. Richard Goldenberg, a 42nd Infantry Division spokesperson, said an estimated 80 to 100 insurgents were at the camp, 60 miles north of Ramadi, and that some insurgents fled with casualties before the area could be surrounded.

Iraqi commandos were in the area to conduct a different raid, but tips from residents redirected them to the lakeside camp, Goldenberg said.

An Iraqi officer said residents had been providing intelligence for 18 days before the attack.

Iraqi officials also credited other successes to a torrent of intelligence that has begun flowing from citizens heartened

by Jan. 30 elections and emboldened by film footage aired on state television that shows captured insurgents confessing their roles in attacks.

“Before, the people had a neutral stance toward this issue,” said Sabah Kadhim, a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry. “Now, they have turned against the terrorists.”

Kadhim said insurgents initially operated in small cells but that crackdowns have caused them to change tactics and gather in larger groups. They chose the lakeside camp because of its terrain, he said.

“The area is full of marshes and lakes. It is hard to comb, and that’s why the terrorists chose it,” Kadhim said. “They used to use boats to get to the camp. It’s difficult to get there, and to discover the location.”

Analysts, however, warned the spate of deadly clashes wasn’t likely to end an insurgency believed to have thousands of supporters.

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Barbara Weller, an attorney for the Schindlers. The hospice has refused to provide details about her condition.

Schiavo suffered brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped briefly from a chemical imbalance believed to have been brought on by an eating disorder. Court-appointed doctors say she is in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery.

Her parents argue that she could get better and that she would never have wanted to be cut off from food and water. Schiavo’s husband, Michael Schiavo, has argued that his wife told him she would not want to be kept alive artificially, and a state judge has repeatedly ruled in his favor.

The battle played out on several fronts

agency filed a petition in state court to take custody of Schiavo and, presumably, recon-

Wednesday.

A three-judge panel from the Atlantabased 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the family early Wednesday, and hours later the full court refused to

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it is tax-exempt, have a conflict-of-interest policy for its board members and agree to file annual financial reports for grants of at least $15,000.

“All of those have passed the test,” Black said of grants he helped get approved.

Black said he has not tried to hide the recipients of the grants, which came to light after Black used some of the money to create a job within the Department of Cultural Resources for a key political ally, ex-Rep. Michael Decker.

Responding to requests by reporters, state agencies and the legislative leaders have released records that show legislative

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nect her feeding tube. It cites new allega-

tions of neglect and challenges Schiavo’s diagnosis as being in a persistent vegetative state. The request is based on the opinion of a neurologist working for the state who observed Schiavo at her bedside but did not conduct an examination of her.

But Ronald Cranford of the University of Minnesota, a neurologist who was among those who made a previous diagnosis of Schiavo, said “there isn’t a reputable, credible neurologist in the world who won’t find her in a vegetative state.”

The long-shot custody request by Bush was made before Judge George Greer, the same judge who has presided over the case for several years and issued the ruling last month that allowed the feeding tube to be removed. Greer planned to decide by noon Thursday on whether the case would go forward. leaders acted as gatekeepers in determining which grants would be approved.

Critics have argued that the only way legislators should specify how the executive branch spends money is through ma-

jority-approved legislation.

Last year’s Senate budget proposal appropriated $6 million for 10 cultural proj-

ects, but all the items failed to appear in

the final spending package signed into law

by Gov. Mike Easley. Even so, the items ended up being funded anyway—out of the grant money.

Responding to questions about the spending, Basnight, D-Dare, said last

week he would insist in the future that all grant recipients be specified in the final budget bill.

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Mary and Bob Schindler meet with reporters in Florida after visiting their daughter,Terri Schiavo.

Still, Neeley contends Basnight may have broken a law that says money cannot be spent on programs that “the General Assembly has considered but not enacted” for the same fiscal year. He and Rhodes, RMecklenburg, plan to ask the Attorney General’s Office for opinions on whether legislative leaders overstepped their authority without Easley’s consent.

“If the governor knew about this, then the governor needs to be questioned as to why he allowed this to happen,” Rhodes said.

Easley spokesperson Sherri Johnson said it was “nothing short of amazing” that some lawmakers “would now attempt to transfer blame to the governor for the money that they authorized spending.”

Republican legislators who attended Neeley’s news conference said the flap is just part of the problem with a budget process in which legislators were given minutes to review a $l6 billion spending plan before voting on it last summer.

“The people of North Carolina has a right to know where this money is being spent,” said Rhodes, a frequent critic of the legislative leadership. “We need more accountability.”

Black said he would support providing a list of future grant recipients to a legislative oversight committee. If that happens, he said, then all grants should be submitted to similar scrutiny.

“If we’re going to clean up, we’re not going to take a sponge bath,” he said.

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After viewing the movie, Pierce-Baker's class sat down for a meal and discussed their critical interpretations of the film.

“It's much easier to discuss this kind of thing over hamburgers and Coke,” she explam^L^^ Without the be sort of careful pitf digestion, Pierce-ffl that Bamboozled whelming, prod fort, embarrassment “You wanted to look away,’ Pierce-Baker said, “and audiences made that quite clear.”

Indeed, the film stayed in theatres for just five weeks, earning less than $2 million.

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Despite a cheap-saloon straight from a late-model tablecloths seemingly left over from Robert Redford’s romance-western The Horse Whisperer, Ted’s provides extremely tasty food for relatively reasonable prices.

The specialties of the chain, not surprisingly, are its buffa-

lo-based food items. Best of all are the Bison burgers ($7.0010.75), served in delicious 7-ounce portions and topped with goodies as wide ranging as chili, cottage cheese and even fried egg. These burgers get sloppy in a hurry, due in part to the meat, which drips with tenderness and mouth-watering juices. The buns are “floated,” meaning they spend a small

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Krinsky's alter e;go, “Chloe Carrington,” is harming in the palisages spliced between her selfreflec■qve short essays (re-formatted original articles previously published by the author). She is both wittily sarcastic and endearingly innocent, glamorous yet slightly disheveled. She is a girl who tries her darndest to solicit approval from other people, even as she struggles to maintain an identity independent of outside judgment. This is one recipe for a potentially profound statement about a persistent challenge that plays a part in every wornian's life: hom to confront the internal chafing of 'insecurities whifle as both ,*ae world. :onfident and comp -»gs short of the top Sadly, Krinsky fell of the women's sUr „o ladder; despite the win(.cs of its narrator, this is a story ning characteristic about a girl, no >t a womanl This distinction alone ik from the venerable category of sep iture and squarely places it in r P i —also known as the “young-of m. While random gems lor complement its erratic jrs from a self-conscious style umber the already cliche-ridden that text.

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What's hot on the Playground recess' top 5 5. Revenge planned in song A pissed-off narrator throws her philandering boyfriend into the state penintentiary on roots rock troubadour Kathleen Edwards’ “In State” from her new LP Back To Me. A prequel to her hit single “Six O’Clock News,” where a pregnant woman lamented the untimely demise of her fugitive lover, this song finds Edwards warbling her usual grit with added ferociousness, signaling yet another step for women’s lib—this time in perfect melody and realistic lyrical poetry.

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While you can expect the usual scantily clad coeds acting drunk and gyrating their hips like kids do, recess has a list of shows that might spice up what will otherwise be a week of over trodden pedestrian fare.

Alan Keyes hosts: Qiteer Body Shots Everyone’s favorite anti-Christ finds rebounding from his blowout loss to Barack Obama in the Illinois senatorial race isn’t as easy as it seems after the brilliant but flawed Keyes gets stuck hosting one ofhis own worst nightmares: an all-gay drunken skin fest.

4. Hip-hop truces In the wake of 50 Cent and The Game’s decision to end their feud, The New York Times reported on -

Wednesday that Eminem has dropped his lawsuit against The Source. While The Game and 50 Cent may have brought peace to the G-Unit community, Eminem’s action indicates that the rest of his music rivals may soon be forgiven. After all, if Eminem and Moby could declare peace, then there’s no reason why we can’t all get along.

Paul McCartney and Meatloaf host the Greased Pecs competition The two aging and suddenly talentless rockers show off their bodies (increasingly flabby for McCartney, always been flabby for Meatloaf) while staying in close proximity to coked-up U of Miami sorority girls.

Carson Daly and John Kerry host Slangback The Senator, a notoriously poor loser, attempts to prove that he actually IS hip by co-hosting a slang-based gameshow with massive tool Daly. Things go awry after Daly shows up to work in a Diet Pepsi truck, apparently missing the memo that his commercial with P.Diddy was not grounded in reality. Kerry then regresses, claims he has “a plan” to save the show, then begins to vigorously state that his SAT-based speech is a slang-based language.

3. Pepsi Commercials From the i-Tunes commercial where the song is “in” the Pepsi bottle to the “I am Spartacus” clip, Pepsi has found away to revive an old product with memorable, funny commercials.

Sobering Up with Billy Joel The piano prodigy hosts this a m. music fest while sharing his own personal tips to beadng that wicked hangover or talking your way out of the drunk tank. As Joel will attest the only way to make the most out of every night is to make sure you’re coherent by noon.

track that’s soon to be a hit, Mariah’s current hit, “It’s Like That” is a generic party song, that with its lack of vocals, is a poor venue for the artist. Backstreet’s return, meanwhile, signals the revival of one of the late ‘9os biggest acts. But while you’re screaming or laughing at the boys from the backstreets, those of us at recess, are more excited about Billy Idol’s rumored comeback, and we’ll be dancing with ourselves.

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The show is somewhat unbelievable as Jackson is certainly not “Tanner.” If anything, he’s less tan.

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they remain unfazed. is just a whole different universe, a whole different dimension,” Li explained. “You have to listen more and be more attentive to the music itself.”

Moreover, to The Pulsar Triyo, jazz music is simply more provocative. “There are so many intricacies in jazz than most other music forms,” Bishop said.

“We seek to be ambitious in our music, and modern jazz-funk allows us to do that,” Li said. “We like to funk out, and so does everyone else. Everybody wins that way.”

What the band prides itself on is its live show. An audience member at a Pulsar Triyo concert can expect anything from improvised six-song medleys to covers of Britstream yet

recess Last November, the winner of the Duke/UNC Battle of the Bands was announced. Duke emerged triumphant as The Pulsar Triyo walked away with the prize package, which included $750 in winnings and a gig at the Lincoln Theater in Raleigh. Now, four months after the battle, The Pulsar Triyo is showing no signs of slowing down.

“It's an interesting time for us right now,” Pulsar Li, the band's pianist, said. “This is prime time. We're at our best.”

The Pulsar Triyo formed last year after a fortuitous meeting between Li and sophomore drummer Eric Bishop—also a member of the Duke band Kody —at a jazz ensemble practice. When they finally began to play together in the second semester, Li and Bishop auditioned other musicians When they heard bassist Zach Kilgore, they knew he was right for the position. “He was perfect,” Li said.

Originally, the band was going to call themselves “Trio,” but originality intervened and a “y” was added. It still didn't seem right. “'Triyo' by itself was too ambitious,” Li explained. “While we do embody the true culmination of a trio, we're just not that cocky.”

And so, they added Li's name in front to display humility.

Instead of following the normal college band routine and playing rock and roll, The Pulsar Triyo tried something new. As a self-proclaimed “modern jazz-funk” unit, they understand that their music is not main-

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“There were so many great bands out there,” Bishop said. “I was sure they were going to win. However, winning only made us work harder at our music. It put a pressure on us to be even better.”

To some students, the musical caliber of the Duke music scene may be in question. The Pulsar Triyo attributes this critique not to the talent ofother Duke bands but rather to the interest of the student body as a whole.

“I'm from New Jersey, and whenever there was a free show there, the floor would be packed,” Li explained.

“Here, it's totally different. People here are going to be CEOs and doctors. Music often isn't on their radar.”

However, Kilgore sees the scene here as improving.

“Because of All Campus Entertainment [a Union-sponsored outlet for Duke bands on campus], the music scene has been much more publicized,” he said.

Ire the end, though, The Pulsar Triyo will continue to play regardless of the state of interest in Duke students.

“This is music made for ourselves,” Kilgore said. “If people enjoy what we dig on, then that's alright with me.”

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The record moves quickly from a murmur to a bang as the opener “This Lullaby,” apdy lulls the listener with its sofdy strummed melody. The next track “Medication” explodes the album into high gear with a gritty guitar line and echoing drum beat.

This frenetic pace propels the first half of the album with outros and intros that spill into one another while still miraculously retaining a distinctive character to their respective melodies.

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Homme is considered one of today's best guitarists.

The riffs flow flawlessly into one another and never appear to be rushed—no matter how hectic the rhythm. A guest appearance from ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons on “Bum die Witch” only augments this quality by setting up a contrast; Gibbon's nimble fingering of the guitar against Homme's strummed stacatto melodies. And when this guitar-work is layered in with the rest of the instruments the songs take on a crunchy, textured sound heavily laced with static and amp squeals.

QOTSA is at its finest with quick tempo catchy songs like these and the positively infectious first single “Litde Sister.” So when they abandon this formula a litde over halfway into the album everything seems to grind to a halt. The long and meandering “Someone's In the Wolf” and “Blood is Love,” though excellendy executed songs in and of see QUEENS on page 7

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recess As the charts have already shown, the music-buying public for the last two years has impatiendy anticipated the new Mars Volta record. The band picks up from where it left off with its first LP De-Loused in the Comatorium, continuing to move away from its punk roots of its predecessor At the Drive-In while simultaneously distinguishing itself as a unique mix of progressive rock, salsa and jazz.

With Led Zeppelin-esque vocals, psychedelic guitar rife, a creative array of percussion and driving bass lines, Frances The Mute displays each band member's singular talent In addition, the band recruited salsa legend Larry Harlow to create an authentic soundwhile remaining innovative in their musical direction.

This album is guitarist Omar Rodriguez Lopez's first attempt at production and his attention to the details of the process is noticeable. There are no gaps between tracks; instead, transitions are filled with something you could call ambient “noise.” The songs are lengthy—clocking in at anywhere from six to 32 minutes—but you hardly notice because you're so entranced by the assemblage of their rock opera. Basically, if you insist on threeminute songs, then this album's not for you.

Frances is the definition of a well-rounded release. With graphic lyrics in both Spanish and English, each song is given its own flavor. The second track, “The Widow,” has garnered mass appeal as a single without falling prey to the shallow pop song formula characteristic of the rest of the Top 40. Ultimately, the final song returns to the opening theme of the first, bringing some conclusiveness to the sprawling 32-minute track.

The album is not Only a great musical achievement, it's also a conceptual masAnd terpiece. while concept albums usually get a bad rap, the vagueness of the lyrics conceal—intentionally or not—the message from the listener.

The underlying narrative that inspired Frances was an anonymous diary found by late band member Jeremy Ward.

Each song takes you along the musical journey of a man who's looking for his biological parents. The song titles are named after the people who helped the main character along the way to find his mother Frances. However, this is as much detail as the band is willing to reveal; the rest of the lyrics are left up to personal interpretation.

The lyrics are dark and desperate; here, you don't have to play the songs backwards to find a secret message. “Decrepit prowl she washed down the hatching / Gizzard soft as a mane of needles / His orifice icicles hemorrhaged / By combing her torso to a pile,” taunts singer Cedric BixlerZavala in “Cassandra Gemini.” It would be hard to find two people who agree as to what exacdy all of that implies, but I guarantee it’s probably deeper than any interpretation of what Britney Spears means by “not a girl, yet not quite a woman.”

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recess Citing budget constraints, Durham’s Carolina Theatre has morphed its annual Jewish Film Festival into a fivemonth series, featuring a single showing of a differentJewish film each month. Instead of featuring an average of a dozen new and classic Jewish titles over a single weekend, theatre director Jim Carl explained in an e-mail, the Jewish film series consists of one classic and four new titles, exploring themes of Judaism and Jewish culture.Last month kicked off the series with the 1968 Mel Brooks film The Producers.

For the remaining four months, the series will showcase international films new to the Carolina area. This month features Rosmzweig's Freedom, a German film about a young Jewish attorney defending his brother, accused of murdering a neo-Nazi leader in the 1990 (showing March 28th, see review below). April brings Nicholas Winton: ThePower of Good (2001), a documentary about an unassuming Englishman who quiedy saved 669 children during the Holocaust. The film, out of the Czech Republic, is the first effort at bringing his remarkable story to light (showing April 25th). May’s film, When Grandpa Loved Rita Hayworth (Czech Republic 2000), is a drama about a Czech girl that emigrates to Germany with her family in 1969. They struggle to find their footing in the new land just as Neil Armstrong is doing the same in the first moon

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Unfortunately his brother Michael is not quite so well represented. Gareissen, looking like a degenerate hybrid of Will Ferrell and David Hasselhoff, is lost under the layers of make-up supposed to make him look “haunted.” He tries desperately to invoke empathy, but his overwrought performance only manages to leave the audience wondering, "So, is he, uh, like mentally handicapped, or what?"

Nevertheless, with the exception of Gareissen, every other actor does an admirable job of conveying the gravity of theirroles. The neo-Nazis all look like fanatical murderers (laughing hysterically at a video game titled Concentration Camp Manager III) and conversely, each one of the good guys maintains an icy resolve to stand up for human rights.

The undercurrent of systematic prejudice and subsequent distrust brought to life by these characters throughout the film is positively harrowing. Targownik's Germany is still clearly plagued by the shadow of the Holocaust.

The most intriguing moment of the film occurs when German lawyer Fritz Ahrendt is leafing through the Rosenzweig family photo album with Jakob's mother Rosa. The film has already cleverly established that now good guy Ahrendt had been a Hitler Youth, while Rosa spent her teenage years in a concentration camp, where her entire ,

landing. (showing May 23rd). Finally, in June the series concludes with the Israeli Watermarks -a documentary about the legendary Jewish sports club Hakoah and seven fearless female swimmers, who battled the odds and managed to become champions in the face of Nazi repression (showing June 27th) Rosenzweig’s Freedom Neo-Nazism is alive and well in modern Deutschland according to Liliane Targonwik's troubling 1998 German courtroom drama, Rosenzweig's Freedom. The less-than-optimistic fictionalized story of modern anti-Semitism was originally commissioned for television, but, thanks to a solid script and several fine acting performances, has gained recognition beyond Europe. Targonwik's dreary pessimism is gripping, but it's at the expense of every German in the film portrayed as at least mildly anti-Jew. Fiery Benjamin Sadler plays Jakob Rosenzweig, a Jewish lawyer in 1991 defending his blue-collar brother Michael (Christoph Gareissen) against a legal system that has prejudices waiting around every corner. Michael stands accused of murdering a neo-Nazi leader, following a Skin-head assault on a refugee shelter where Michael's Vietnamese fiancee was housed.

Sadler steals the show with a bold and compelling performance, responding to the film’s shockingly casual racism with a sharp anger that seems frighteningly organic. Sadler’s Jakob regards every non-Jew with thinly-veiled cynicism, having spent a lifetime on his toes in a hostile environment. Sadler brings such searing intensity to the role that we embrace his suspicions despite our own inclination to see the good in humanity.

family was murdered. Ahrendt's sincere, yet stumbling, attempts at reconciliation and understanding

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though drastically different, past. Rosa reacts with insistent amnesia, demanding that those years remain “forgotten”— otherwise they'd “never have been able to start over.” This is the film at its best, most resonant point. These themes will linger long after the courtroom drama has ended.

Targownik wants the audience to remember that the Holocaust is only gone because the country has chosen to ignore it, but the continuation of rampant ethnic violence and resentment has left little room for healing. an

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BAMBOOZLED Duke, where professors from a wide range of departments including AAAS and cultural anthropology frequently show it in their classes. Jackson has used the film in everything from an introductory cultural anthropology class to a film class on the documentary experience.

Jackson finds the film's exploration of the corrosive abilities of media representations to be so powerful because it refuses to let anyone —even the filmmakers themselves—off the hook for their complicity in the creation of these images. “It does a good job trying to depict how unwieldy and Frankenstein-like our cultural images have been,” Jackson explained. “Spike Lee and Damon Wayans are depicting these cultural representations, but at the same time they're referencing their own previous works and their contribution to this monstrous creation.” Jackson referred specifically to Wayans’s role in the sketch comedy show In Living Colorand earlier Spike Lee films.

Cultural anthropology graduate student Johnetta Pressley has led discussions on the film focusing on these issues. “It's a hard film to watch because everyone is implicated in it,” Pressley said in an e-mail. “No one is exempt from Lee's critique, so people's initial reaction is to reject it.” In the film, when a group of gangster rappers takes issue with Delacroix's minstrel show, Lee uses the opportunity to at once criticize the role of rap and hip hop culture in creating a crippling image of black people that allows racism to

persist.

Sophomore Tiffany Locus has elected to

show the film as a resident advisor program in Gilbert-Addoms dorm to focus on precisely

this issue. “MTV and BET inspired me to show this film,” she said. “In my opinion, blatant acts of sexism, racism and other disrespectful acts have taken place under the approval of those channels...! wanted my residents to partake in a contemporary analysis of overt acts of racism.” Bamboozled is a useful catalyst for. this discussion, she asserted, because it explicitly addresses “self-degradation and racism and how people passively allow discrimination to occur so long as it is labeled entertainment.”

As cultural anthropology professor Lee Baker explained, “Despite the move towards multiculturalism and a milieu ofvigilant political correctness, Hollywood still traffics in the very profitable and entertaining images that were initially cast during the late 19th century and are ensuring today.”

Having found a welcoming venue in the classroom, Bamboozled forces students to examine their own complicity in the creation and perpetuation of these images and the effect such so-called entertainment can have on minority communities. Pressley noted that even educators must be willing to question their own roles in cultural creation. Just as the filmmakers in Bamboozled could not claim to be passive mediators, so do those who teach Bamboozled become both interpreters and cre ators of a cultural document. “The film is addressed not only to those who've never thought about those issues,” she explained, “but also to those of us who like to believe we're savvy to them, because we still might be contributing to the problem.”

Even if the film offends you, she said, “it forces you to think about the issues it presents.” No one is off the hook. :

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the first half of the album. With the exception of the engrossing “Broken Box,” complete with its own “Do-do-do” chorus, during the rest of the album, QOTSA can't seem to get back in step.

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Nick Oliver! on the bass, who previously collaborated to form an intensity that is almost unmatched. But that doesn't mean that the drive of QOTSA is completely extinguished.

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SEX The popularity of movies such as American Pie (and any film produced by MTV) is proof of the interest both male and female coeds have in the unique subculture of sex in college. The immense success and cult following of the HBO series Sex and the City demonstrates the fascination of Krinsky’s target audience, women, with analyzing the intricacies of male/female relationships. It is a fact further underscored by the entertainment industry and confirmed by exchanges overheard on the Central Campus bus, discussions among friends at brunch and jokes told at bars: hook-ups, break-ups and make-ups make for interesting conversation.

If universal relevance counts for something, then Krinsky may have hit at least one manicured nail on the head. She deserves points also for her candidness—exemplifying the most important trait of any adviser worth her words, she is close to fearless in both her quest for accurate information (via peer surveys) and her explicit reporting of answers. fler objective to clarify and enlighten regarding various questions of sexual/dating etiquette within her demographic milieu is successfully accomplished, albeit with conclusions that aren’t terribly exceptional (much like those from her obvious primary influence, Sex and the City—from whom she derives topical inspiration as well as Chloe's tributary surname, “Carrington”).

To use a rather extended analogy (a device borrowed from Chloe/Krinsky herself), this novel has all the substance of an Easter-basket Marshmallow Peep: colorful, shimmering with sugar, delightful to the palate but mostly nutritionless. Experiencing it once is pretty tasty, in that cheap-candy sort of way, but if you focus too hard on the actual content you may find yourself with a mild hyperglycemic headache and a slight sense of guilt from your indulgence.

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The men’s and women’s basketball not have the Director’s Cup on their minds this weekend, but with trips to the Final Four on the line, their success could help Duke to its best Cup finish ever.

At the end of the fall season, Duke was ranked fourth in the National Association of Collegiate Directors ofAthletics Director’s Cup, a competition that awards points based on NCAA Championship results in a school’s top 10 men’s and top 10 women’s sports over the course of an academic year.

Duke topped the rankings for the first time in history Dec. 16, after six championships had been completed. In the 11 years since the NACDA first awarded the cup, Duke has finished in the top 15 in the final standings only once—a seventhplace finish in 1999.

Duke’s results, however, have improved each of the last three years, and with the strength of the school’s spring sports, the Blue Devils have a chance to eclipse the 1999 mark. In addition to the basketball teams, both of Duke’s tennis and lacrosse squads rank in the top 10, the women’s golf team is No. 1 in the nation and the men’s golf team is ranked 11th. Championship results account for all the points, so it will all come down to the postseason.

“I do think it is very difficult to win it,” Athletic Director Joe Alieva said after the fall rankings were released. “I do think we can be in the top 10.”

A Final Four appearance for either basketball team is worth 83 points and a national title in any sport is worth 100. As of Jan. 11, Duke had 327 points and trailed first-place Notre Dame by only 10.

When the latest standings of the Cup come out today, Duke will almost certainly have dropped out of the top five. Fencing, wrestling, indoor track and field and skiing

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When Duke and Michigan State collide in the Sweet 16 Friday, it will be more than a clash of two storied college basketball programs.

It will be a batde of two patriarchs.

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski has been at the helm of his team for 15 years longer than Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, but both have built substantial “coaching trees” of assistants who have become head coaches elsewhere.

Krzyzewski’s tree includes five active head coaches and eight overall.

Three ofhis former assistants currently lead big-time programs—Tommy Amaker (Michigan), Mike Brey (Notre Dame) and Quin Snyder (Missouri). Tim O’Toole continues to coach at Fairfield while David Henderson serves at Delaware.

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Duke struggled early in the doubles matches. Alex Liles and Nina Suvak of Florida (8-2) defeated Blue Devils Clelia Deltour and Parker Goyer 8-1 to clinch the doubles victory and jump to a 1-0 lead.

Poor doubles play has plagued Duke all season, forcing the Blue Devils to win four of six singles matches to take a victory. Despite a 3-2 record over the last five matches, Duke has failed to win the doubles point every time.

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Pearl confronts past when he faces Illinois

by Nancy Armour THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The few dozen Illinois fans barely mustered a yawn, let alone righteous indignadon, at the sight of Bruce Pearl coaching his team through a practice.

Come gametime Thursday night, though, the Wisconsin-Milwaukee coach knows the reception will be as hostile as any he’s ever seen.

It’s been 16 years since Pearl gave the NCAA a secretly recorded tape that he said was proof Illinois was cheating.

He moved on a long time ago, and no one connected to the incident is left at Illinois.

But for Illinois fans, the bitterness toward Pearl remains as fresh as it was the day sanctions were imposed. Instead of another step toward the Final Four, the Illini’s game against the 12th-seeded Panthers in the Chicago Regional Thursday night has become a chance to finally avenge past wrongs.

“Regardless of who takes the floor against Illinois, do you think that team’s

going to be cheered?” Pearl said Wednesday. “Will there be a little more noise because I’m coaching the opposition? Sure there will. I understand that.”

Pearl was a young assistant at lowa in 1989 and working hard to sign Deon Thomas, a Chicago prep star who was one of the top recruits in the country.

Thomas had given the Hawkeyes a verbal commitment but later changed his mind, opting to stay close to home and go to Illinois.

Pearl kept chasing Thomas, though.

Convinced Illinois was up to something shady, Pearl secretly tape-recorded one phone call in which Thomas seemed to confirm that Illini assistantjimmy Collins had offered him $BO,OOO and a Chevrolet Blazer. To this day, Thomas denies Illinois did anything improper, saying his comments were simply those of a naive 17-year-old trying to get Pearl off his back without offending him.

“I’m not that person that coach Pearl tried to say that I was. That’s not me at all,” Thomas said Tuesday from Israel, where he plays professionally.

(Southern Methodist).

Izzo’s tree has already sprouted five branches despite his shorter tenure. Izzo disciples include Stan Heath (Arkansas), Tom Crean (Marquette), Brian Gregory (Dayton), Stan Joplin (Toledo) and Mike Garland (Cleveland State), all of whom are active.

“One, it means that we’ve been coaching a long time so we’ve been able to keep our own jobs,” Krzyzewski said. “Secondly, it probably means that we’ve hired real well, and they made us better while they were on our staffs.”

Because three ofKrzyzewski’s former assistants were fired, two have been investigated by the NCAA and none has reached a Final Four at his new school, observers question Krzyzewski’s ability to teach his assistants how to be top college coaches.

The investigations involved Snyder and O’Toole. Snyder’s staff was alleged to have given cash, meals and gifts to players and recruits. O’Toole’s staff was also accused of giving cash to players, as well as falsifying drug tests and doing schoolwork for players. ranked North Carolina Sunday, 6-1.

In a lone bright spot on the day for Duke, Saras Arasu led Boglarka Berecz 6-4, 2-3 when the match was halted.

“She did a good job of batding and fighting,” Ashworth said. “Saras took some chances and was pretty good mentally.”

As the team gears up for the final weeks of the season, it will focus its energy on the doubles matches and team aggressiveness, Ashworth said.

Duke has prided itself on its attitude entering each match. Wednesday, however, that attitude never showed itself.

“I’ve been at Duke for eight and a half years aggressiveness is what we’ve built our team on,” Ashworth said. “It comes from our grit and fight. We need to have a never say die attitude. We had nothing today. We need to recapture it.”

Kristin Cargillcould only muster two games in her match against Florida's Nina Suvak Wednesday.

Three former Krzyzewski assistants are no longer with the programs they took over; Bob Bender (Washington), Chuck Swenson (William & Mary) and Mike Dement

Former Duke assistant Tommy Amaker has had both success and turmoil since leaving Durham.

W. TENNIS from page 9 doubles,” Ashworth said. “If you keep losing doubles points, it is going to catch up to you. It got us tonight.”

Duke lost its first three singles matches in quick fashion. Florida’s Suvak set the tone by breaking serve in the first game on

her way to a 6-2,6-0 win over Kristin Cargill.

Fellow Gator Whitney Benik took down Del tour 6-3,6-1, and Liles delivered the final blow in beating Duke’s Jenny Zika 64, 64).

“Tonight’s victory was especially fun,” Florida head coach Roland Thornqvist said. “We out-hustled them today, and we wanted it more. I’m more proud of our effort than anything else.”

This was Florida’s second consecutive win over a top-10 team. It defeated ninth-

of 121-65 in six seasons, Heath went from MSU to Kent State, where he was immediately successful in his only season. He won 30 games, advanced to the Elite Eight and took Nolan Richardson’s old job at Arkansas a few days later, It is not a coincidence that Crean, Heath and the other three former MSU as* sistants have succeeded at a high rate. Besides a focus on building a winning program, Izzo is widely known as a coach who dedicates himself to turning his proteges into successful head coaches, “After my third year [at MSU] and we went to the Final Four, [lzzo] pulled me aside and said, ‘You have to think like a head coach, Heath told the Detroit News. ‘“You are going to be in a position to be a head coach, and I want to make sure you are ready.

Krzyzewski said Tuesday that MSU’s Doug Wojcik has accepted an offer to coach Tulsa at the conclusion of this season, which would raise the total of Izzo assistants now coaching to six.

Will Izzo continue to gain on KrzyzewsId, or are some of the Duke assistants ready to move on as well?

“The guys on my staff, Fm not announcing any jobs for them, but Fm sure that they’ll be very successful head coaches,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s something you’re proud of, and Fm sure that Tom is, also.”

None have reached Krzyzewski-esque heights, but the apprentices have achieved levels of success that other coaches would dream of attaining. Snyder’s Missouri squad reached the Elite Eight in 2002, the middle season in a strong three-year stretch for the Tigers.

Amaker surprised many when he led Seton Hall to the Sweet 16 in 2000, and he used his success to jump into the driver’s seat at Michigan in 2001, less than a decade removed from the days of the “Fab Five.” But the early 1990 have come to haunt Amaker as NCAA sanctions, a result of the program’s transgressions, and the University’s self-imposed punishments have hindered the coach’s ability to recruit and compete in the Big Ten. Brey has been the most consistent of the former Duke assistants. During his first head coaching tenure at Delaware, Brey led his squad to two NCAA Tournament appearances before leaving for Notre Dame’s more lucrative opportunity in 2000. With the Fighting Irish, Brey has advanced as far as the Sweet 16, in which he appeared in 2003.

Besides avoiding NCAA investigation, Izzo’s clan has been more successful in NCAA Tournament play Crean’s Golden Eagles made the Final Four in 2003 with a team starring Dwayne Wade, now an All-Star for the Miami Heat, and the coach has posted a record

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since 2001, 11 of this year’s 24 NBA All-Stars never played a collegiate game.

The new rule would also undoubtedly have a large impact on many college programs, especially Duke. Had the 20-year-old age limit existed previously, William Avery, Corey Magette and Luol Deng —three of seven early-entries in Duke’s history—would not have made the cut when they declared and likely would have been forced to remain in college.

Shaun Livingston, who committed to Duke but decided to opt for last year’s draft, would currently be living on East Campus.

“There needs to be a lot of clarification on [the age limit], but I think overall it’s a step in the right direction,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We won’t know more about it until the players’ union and the NBA get together and figure out whether they’re going to have it, when it’s implemented and how it’s done. It could be very good for basketball—it just depends how it’s done.”

The age minimum would not only raise the talent level of the college game by forcing players to stay at least two years, it would also significantly change the recruiting landscape for this year and in the long run.

In the short term, the threat of the measure passing and going into effect for the 2006 draft could tempt an overwhelming number of high school seniors into declaring early before they are obligated to stay in school for the next two years. More permanendy, the change could open up a whole new wave of star talent for schools to attract. Many top programs have publicly declared that they have not recruited specific players because of the near certainty that theyoung phenoms would turn pro.

are the sports that have completed their seasons, but the Blue Devils will not pick up many points.

Duke only competes in 25 of the 31 sports, although most schools do not field teams in all of the point-scoring programs.

The University also does not award the NCAA-maximum number of scholarships in some of its programs.

“It is very difficult to compete with schools like Stanford, Ohio State,” Alieva said. “[They] have many more sports than we do and fully scholarship them all.”

Duke’s varsity athletic teams have combined for just six NCAA championships—three in men’s basketball, two in women’s golf and one in men’s soccer. Stanford, the university to which Duke is most often compared athletically, recorded six tides in 1996-1997 alone and has won 46 since 1991. The Cardinal has also won the last 10 Director’s Cups.

But Duke has recently invested more in sports it did not fund as significantly in the past. Of the four programs that scored points this fall—field hockey, women’s cross country and men’s and women’s soccer—the field hockey and women’s cross country programs have been upgraded in recent years and each finished as the national runner-up in 2004.

The University now awards numerous in scholarships women’s cross country and hired field hockey head coach Beth Bozman two years ago in hope of building the program intdfa national power. The former Princeton coach has produced results, leading Duke to the NCAA finals in each of her two seasons.

“I couldn’t be more proud of field hockey,” Alieva said. “Beth Bozman has done a remarkable job of turning that program around.”

Jake Poses contributed to this story.

Shaun Livingston committed to play at Duke but, without an age limit, decided to jumpstraight to the NBA in 2004.

Regardless of the potential benefits, the implementation of an age limit in any form will largely depend on the agreement of the NBA Players’ Association, and it does not seem that support is widespread. A survey conducted by the Rocky Mountain Newspaper polled more than one-third of the NBA’s players and reported that more than 70 percent of them opposed the minimum age.

Even if the NBA does secure the support of its union, the league could face legal challenges by players who are excluded by the new system. Alan Milstein, a lawyer who represented Maurice Clarett in his suit against the NFL’s similar rule,

said the decisions of NBA franchises and not an age limit should decide who is ready for the pros.

“If someone is able and ready to play in the NBA and the market is there where teams will compete for these players, there is no reason for such a limit,” Milstein said. “There’s no profession other than sports where these types of age limits are even

remotely permissible.”

A number of basketball insiders still believe the players’ union will warm up to the idea of an age limit because younger players with potential take roster spots away from older journeymen. The NBA continues to grow younger in part because it

is cheaper for franchises to keep less experienced players than veterans. In fact, players with three years of NBA experience or less make up more than half the players on league rosters.

“It always trips me out when I look and see that the NBA Players’ Association is the only association that looks out for the rights of future members as opposed to the rights of the current union members,” Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt said. “Wait a minute, you are going to insure somebody’s right to take your job over a paying member? Why wouldn’t you put an age limit in?”

Sometime this summer, that question—and all the ones that come with it—will get an answer.

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Brodhead and the rest of the adstead of sitting by idly, they took acministration handled the situation tion—unfurling a banner emblazoned with a question about their with aplomb. When Brodhead cause on the stage as Brodhead was moved to the side of the stage to deliver his remarks, he acted entirely about to speak.

But while the protesters should be appropriately. He made it clear that applauded for their devotion, there is he is willing to listen to students’ cona fine line between making a powercerns and answer any questions they pose to him. He was not, however, ful statement and taking that statement too far. going to allow the protest to detract from his talk.

Unfortunately, the protest at BrodThe administrators did not head’s speech crossed that line.

By standing on stage with that banforcibly remove the protesters, which ner, the protesters ensured that nearwould have only been more disruply 500 students thought about this tive. Again, this was the correct move issue, and perhaps students who were on the part of the administration. unaware of what the cause was beWe applaud Brodhead and the adcame more informed. The point the ministrators for the manner in which they dealt with the protest. protesters were trying to make, however, was made after a minute. It was We are encouraged by the passion the protesters feel about what they unnecessary for the protesters to remain on the stage the entire time consider to be a worthy cause. In this Brodhead spoke. setting, however, the way the protest An effective protest wins people to was carried out was not appropriate the cause; this protest probably alienand may well have been counterproated people. ductive. We would like to see more acBrodhead, as soon as he saw the tivism on campus and more discusbanner, told the protesters that he sion about these important issues. was more than happy to discuss the That activism, however, needs to take issue with them. At that point, the place in a tasteful and appropriate protesters would have done well to manner in order for it to have an imgraciously exit the stage and engage pact on campus. «

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MOUNTAIN, Nev. Driving tory process —which already has taken more northwest into the desolate vastness of than twice as much time as it took to plan the Nevada Test Site where the naand accomplish the moon landing, and tion’s nuclear arsenal was tested, one sees a which is now a matter of dueling scienspindly tower, outlined against a ridgeline, tists—might last 10,001 years.

The dueling is about whether safe storrising 1,527 feet out of the desert. That is the approximate height at which the atomage of the waste can be guaranteed for ic bomb exploded over Hiroshima. The 10.000 years, or perhaps a million years tower was used to study radiation effects on the span of projected geological stability for life at different elevations. the mountain area. That is quite a while: Beyond the ridge is Frenchman Flat, 10.000 years ago, agriculture was just being where above-ground nuclear tests were a born as humans, moving beyond a hunterspectator sport between 1951 and 1962. Resgatherer economy, were learning to domesidents ofLas Vegas took lawn chairs into the ticate plants.

Nevada asks: Can the safekeeping of the mountains to watch mushroom clouds rise into dawn skies. The Flat, still flecked with waste be absolute, forever? seared and twisted metal from vehicles and The answer, of course, is no—nothing is structures exposed to the blasts, is 65 miles that certain. The Nuclear Regulatory Comfrom the Las Vegas Strip. mission will decide whether That is America’s nuclear the repository can begin receiving waste after evaluating past. The future—perhaps; george Nevada says “never!”—is bescientific studies conducted guest commentary within the bowels of this neath this mountain, 25 mountain. Two federal agenmore miles northwest. Here a crucial component of the nation’s nuclear cies are investigating accusations that some capability, civilian and military, is being federal scientists falsified data to make the built. mountain seem safe.

So far, preparing this nuclear waste Storing nuclear waste, which decays very repository has cost $5 billion, most of it slowly and emits great heat while doing so, has been studied since 1955, when nuclear from fees paid by customers of utilities generating electricity by nuclear power. The submarine propulsion technology was rest of the money is government’s payment adapted to generate electricity. After confor the military’s waste. sidering storage on the seabed or a remote island or in the polar ice sheets, or rocketSculpting the mountain’s interior—carving 41 miles of storage tunnels and 16 miles ing the waste into orbit around the sun, of access tunnels—and doing the science to deep geologic storage became the pregauge its geologic suitability is a challenge ferred solution. Some Kansas salt mines almost as daunting as the construction of were considered, but the mines were too the Panama Canal. It is supposed to solve difficult to seal and, besides, Kansas bethis problem: came, as Nevada is now, obstreperous.

One-fifth of the nation’s electricity is The crucial questions are how water permeates this mountain, and how heat from generated by nuclear power.

Were that share substantially increased, the waste might affect the mountain’s hythat would reduce dependence on fuels drology. The federal government’s case for this mountain’s suitability is: (oil, coal, natural gas) that have large environmental and geopolitical drawbacks.

The volcanic and seismic risks are facAlso, 40 percent of the Navy’s fleet is nutored into designs. Average annual precipitaclear-powered. Nuclear power plants have tion is very low, 7.5 inches, 95 percent of created almost 50,000 metric tons of spent which runs off the mountain or into vegetafuel, with more produced daily. Once solidtion root systems. Even assuming that comified, today’s 100 million gallons of nuclear ing millennia will be slighdy cooler, hence waste from prior reprocessing activities will wetter—the evidence of fossilized pack rats’ also be placed in the repository. nests at least 35,000 years old—hydrological Nuclear waste is stored at 125 aboveand chemical conditions in the mountain ground—inherently temporary and inse- would cause corrosion of just 0.03 inches in 10,000years, such is the metallurgical sophiscure—sites located in 39 states, mostly near rivers, lakes and seacoasts, and within 75 tication of the proposed waste containers. miles of 161 million Americans. Most nuScientists here say their confidence in clear power plants are located near populathe repository’s safety rests on assumptions tion centers to reduce the loss of power durthat “are almost absurdly conservative.”

Nevada’s vehement disagreement will be exing transmission.

The waste might be buried in this mounamined in a subsequent column. tain, 1,000 feet underground and on 1,000 feet of rock, for at least 10,000 years. One George Will is a syndicated columnist for The can only say “might be” because the regula- Washington Post.

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a lot of interesting people last week, none more We finished our meals and said our goodbyes. “So,” than Joe &nd Tim. said my friend as we left, “who was the pitcher and who Tim and I were acquainted last Wednesday, at was the catcher?” We all chuckled, and not just because our cruise ship’s dinner buffet. It all started when I enthe answer was obvious. “Okay, I shouldn’t say that,” he tered the dining room with two friends and the host said, “they were really nice guys.” seated us on one side of a small six-person table.

Joe and Tim certainly were nice people, and I was I got my food first and sat down. Soon thereafter glad to have met them. I bet most people my age have Sarah, a college freshman with Just-braided hair, joined had similar experiences with homosexual people, most me. of whom are not in-your-face about their private lives, Sarah and I had just started introducing ourselves especially to strangers. when two men sat down beside her. Sarah was from Such suggests a potentially huge increase in the Massachusetts, and she explained that chances of Americans one day supportshe had not been on the same spring ing gay marriage. Because while today’s break trip I had, but was just spending voters overwhelmingly oppose it, many the week in Florida and on our cruise for are elderly or middle-aged people who the day. have never met, yet alone befriended, “I came with my dad,” she said. “This homosexuals, and who in some cases put is Joe them on par with child molesters.

I nodded at Joe, a strapping 50-someTwenty years from now, the situation thing fellow with a goatee and a bodywill be much different. Most Americans nathan building shirt. will have friends who are homosexuals, “And this is Tim,” Sarah said. and will have grown up watching shows poker I said ‘Hi’ to Tim: a younger, smaller, like Will and Grace. They’ll remember man who was wearing a hat. dinners with Joe and Tim, and they’ll My friends soon joined us at the table, and Sarah inwonder what the problem is. troduced them to herself and her father Joe. She also in“Why shouldn’t Joe and Tim be allowed to get martroduced them to Tim. ried,” many will think. “They’re not hurting anybody.”

We talked with Sarah, Joe and Tim over dinner, disSupporters of gay marriage are already a step ahead cussing our travels and our food. Sarah, Joe and Tim left on this. See, the question should never be whether Joe at one point for more, leaving the three of us by ourand Tim should “be allowed” to get married, as marselves. riage is not an autonomous action that the government “You know what would make*this conversation really now prevents homosexuals from engaging in. Marriage awkward,” my friend jokingly said, “if one of us said he is instead a designation society gives to people, historihad a boyfriend and was here to visit him.” cally and religiously to protect women. The question “Uh... I actually think they are,” said my other friend. should be whether society should “marry” gays, not let “What? No way” them get married.

“Yeah, I think that’s who Tim is. But I’m not sure at Joe and Tim’s wedding would hurt no one. But to take all.” a libertarian perspective and simply marry them because I was surprised at my friends’ uncertainty. It seemed they love each other and want to share workers’ benefits is illogical, as it would require a government to recognize pretty clear to me that Joe and Tim were indeed a couple, and I pointed out their matching earrings and the groups of people as “married” if they so wanted. awkward' introducing of Tim to support myself. All But gay activists are a step ahead, as most people just doubts were erased orice it catne time for dessert, and ask whether gays should “be allowed” to get married. If we witnessed a flirtatious exchange between the two. that remains the question at hand, then gay marriage in “Why aren’t you eating your key lime pie,” Joe said to America will one day become a reality.

Tim, while eating four squares of it himself.

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argument over Social Security privatization isn’t about rival views on how to secure the program’s future—even the administration admits that private accounts would do nothing to help the system’s finances. It’s a debate about what kind of society America should be.

And it’s a debate Republicans appear to be losing, because the public doesn’t share their view that it’s a good idea to expose middle-class families, whose lives have become steadily riskier over the past few decades, to even more risk.

As soon as voters started to realize that private accounts would replace traditionalSocial Security benefits, not add to them, support for privatization collapsed.

But the Republicans’ loss may not be theDemocrats’ gain, for two reasons. One is that some Democrats, in the name of centrism, echo Republican talking points. Hie other is that claims to be defending average families ring hollow when you defer to corporate interests on votes that matter.

Let’s start with the case of the bogus $6OO billion.

In his Jan. 15 radio address, President Bush made n ...| Lmnm'tn aUI KrU 9 man a startling claim: “Accordguest commentary ing to the Social Security trustees, waiting just one year adds $6OO billion to the cost of fixing Social Security.”

The $6OO billion cost ofeach year’s delay has become a standard administration talking point, repeated by countless conservative pundits—who have apparently not looked at what the trustees actually said.

In fact, the trustees never said that waiting a year to “fix” Social Security costs $6OO billion. Bush was grossly misrepresenting the meaning of a technicaldiscussion of accounting issues (it’s on Page 58 of the 2004 trustees’ report), which has nothing to do with the cost of delaying changes in the retirement program.

The same type of “infinite horizon” calculation applied to the Bush tax cuts says that their costs rise by $1 trillion a year. That’s not a useful measure of the cost of not repealing those cuts immediately. So anyone who repeats the $6OO billion line is helping to spread a lie. That’s why it was disturbing to read a news report about the deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration, who must know better, doing just that at a pro-privatization rally.

But in his latest radio address, Bush —correctly, this time—attributed the $6OO billion figure to a “Democrat leader.” He was referring to Sen. Joseph Lieberman, who, for some reason, repeated the party line—the Republican party line—the previous Sunday.

My guess is thatLieberman thought he was being centrist and bipartisan, reaching out to Republicans by showing that he shares their concerns. At a time when the Democrats can say, without exaggeration, that their opponents are making a dishonest case for policies that will increase the risks facing families, Lieberman gave the administration cover by endorsing its fake numbers.

The push to privatize Social Security will probably fail all the same—but such attempts at accommodation may limit the Democrats’ political gain.

Meanwhile, die party missed a big opportunity to make its case against increasing families’ risk byacquiescing to the credit card industry’s demand for harsher bankruptcy laws.

As it happens, Lieberman stated clearly what was wrong with the bankruptcy bill: “It failed to close troubling loopholes that protect wealthy debtors, and yet it deals harshly with average Americans facing unforeseen medical expenses or a sudden military deployment,” making it unfair to “working Americans who find themselves in dire financial straits through no fault of their own.” A stand against the bill would have merged populism with patriotism, highlighting Democrats’ differenceswith Republicans’ vision ofAmerica.

But many Democrats chose not to take that stand. And Lieberman was among them: His vote against the bill was an empty gesture. On the only vote that opponents of the bill had a chance of winning—a motion to cut off further discussion—he sided with the credit card companies. To be fair, so did 13 other Democrats. But none of the others tried to have it both ways.

It isn’t always bad politics to say things that aren’t true and claim to support things you actually oppose: just look at who’s running the country. But Democrats who engage in these tactics right now create big problems for a party that has been given a special chance—maybe its last chance—to remind the country of what Democrats stand for, and why. "

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