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Three players with Duke ties will join head coach Mike Krzyzewski as members of the USA Basketball Senior National Team.

Former Blue Devils Shane Battier and Elton Brand, along with senior JJ. Redick, are three of the 23 players who will participate in a training camp in midJuly in anticipation of the World Championships in Japan Aug. 19 through Sept. 3. The Olympic team that will compete in Beijing in 2008 will also be comprised of members from this group.

“We set out to add players who fit job descriptions,” USA Basketball Managing Director Jerry Colangelo said. “We wanted a team not of individual stars, but athleticism, shooters, role players, distributors—all of the components that make up a good team. Basketball is the ultimate team game. Chemistry is something we all talk about, SEE TEAM USA ON SW PAGE 7

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Little more than a week after the death of a student who fell from a dormitory window, tragedy once again struck the University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill Friday.

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Indoor Stadium.

“We played very hard out there, and to come up short tonight against Carolina in this game is very hard to swallow,”

alumnus drove a rented silTaheri-azar ver Jeep Grand Cherokee through the Pit, a popular campus gathering place, striking bystanders and sending several to the hospital.

Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, a 22-year-old native of Iran who received his bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and psychology from UNC in December, is being held at Central Prison in Raleigh

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JJ.Redick and SheldenWilliams walk off Coach K Court for the final time Saturday after losing to North Carolina, 83-76.

UNC freshmen outscore Duke seniors in upset by

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It wasn’t the Senior Night that the Class of 2006 —a group that has won 111 games over four years—wanted to end its home career with.

An 11-0 North Carolina sec-

ond-half run that put the No. 13 Tar Heels (21-6, 12-4 in the ACC) ahead, 70-59, proved too much for the top-ranked Blue Devils (27-3, 14-2) to overcome, as JJ. Redick, Shelden Williams and the four other seniors lost their regular-season finale, 83-

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Duke’s rival across Tobacco Road suffered a non-basketball loss this week when Erwin Chemerinsky declined an offer to become the next dean for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School ofLaw. The University’s constitutional law standout opted to remain in Durham last week after being offered UNC School of Law’s top position, Chemerinsky confirmed Sunday.

“I’ve only got one thing to say: I’m thrilled to be remaining at Duke University,” said Chemerinsky, professor of law and political science. “I feel enormously happy to be here, and I look forward to being here for years to come.”

Chemerinsky had been in negotiations with the School ofLaw after it extended an unofficial offer last week. But he ultimately declined the position Thursday after deciding that UNC would not be able to provide the School of Law with the resources he sought, according to the School ofLaw website.

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GREENSBORO For the first time in seven years, the women’s basketball team was forced to watch the ACC Tournament finals, rather than play in the title game.

The No. 2 Blue Devils (26-3), losers for only the second time in 22 tries at the Greensboro DUKE 70 Coliseum, trailed most of the way MARYLAND 78 as No. 4 Maryland came away with a 78-70 win in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament Saturday.

Duke held its only lead of the game—a brief 54-53 advantage—after a 16-0 run with 9:35 to play in the second half. The Blue Devils looked like they finally would gain control when they switched from their usual man-to-man defense to a zone trap, forcing Terrapin turnovers on five

straight possessions.

“Once we got the lead, we were still anxious,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I think it took the wind out of our sails a little bit and we were a little fatigued at that point.”

Maryland (28-3) refused to let Duke completely seize SEE W. BBALL ON SW PAGE 5

ACC Rookie of the Year Marissa Coleman scored 16 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to help thelerps defeat Duke in the semifinals Saturday.

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Iran warns against U.N. pressure United Nations, said Sunday there was an urgent need to confront Iran’s “clear and unrelenting drive” for nuclear weapons.

Iran “must be made aware that if it continues down the path of international isolation, there will be tangible and painful consequences,” Bolton told the conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

But Iran’s government cautioned that putting the issue before the Security Council would hurt efforts to resolve the dispute

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enrichment if the U.N. nuclear agency presses for action over its atomic program, and a top U.S. diplomat warned the Islamic republic of possible “painful

consequences.”

The comments came as the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board prepared to meet Monday to discuss referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council, but delegates said whatever step the council might take would stop far short of sanctions.

John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the

diplomatically.

“lf Iran’s nuclear dossier is referred to the U.N. Security Council, [large-scale] uranium enrichment will be resumed,”

Iran’s top negotiator, Ali Larijani, told reporters in Tehran. “If they want to use force, we will pursue our own path,” He said Iran had exhausted “all peaceful ways” and that if demands were made contrary to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the nation “will resist.”

Larijani said Iran will not abandon nuclear research, or back down from pursuing an atomic program that Tehran insists has the sole purpose of generating electricity with nuclear reactors. lAEA delegates suggested the U.N. agency’s board will not push for conSEE IRAN ON PAGE 9

AT&T buys BellSouth for $67 billion million broadband subscribers in the 22 states where AT&T and BellSouth now operate. The deal appears to be the largest yet among U.S. telecom players.

In 1999, MCI WorldCom Inc. agreed to buy Sprint Corp. for an even larger sum, $ll5 billion, but that deal was blocked by federal regulators.

Internationally, Britain’s Vodafone Airtouch PLC paid $lBO billion in stock for Mannesmann AG of Germany in 2000.

The sale, which is subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals, would give San Antonio-based AT&T total control over Atlanta-based BellSouth’s nine-state network

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AT&T Inc. is buying BellATLANTA South Corp. for $67 billion in stock in a bid that further consolidates the telecommunications industry and would give AT&T total control of their growing joint venture, Cingular Wireless LLC. The proposed purchase, announced Sunday, also goes a long way toward resurrecting the old Ma Bell telephone system, which was broken apart in 1984.

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Together, the three companies employ more than 316,000 people, though that head count may fall as AT&T eliminates redundant operations.

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Tens of thousands of people massed in Pakistan and Turkey Sunday to protest cartoons of Islam's Prophet, Muhammad, that have fired anger throughout the Muslim world.

Denmark reopened its embassy in Indonesia Monday, three weeks after hard-line Muslims stormed the building and it closed.

Future to yield more obesity The number of overweight children worldwide will increase significantly by the end of the decade, and scientists expect profound impacts on everything from public health care to economies, a study published Monday said.

Troopers make heroic rescue Three men were trapped amid fire Saturday night 1,000feet up on a smokestack in northern West Virginia, where an explosion damaged the lift that had carried them to the top. Two state troopers made a dramatic helicopter rescue of the men.

Olmert plans more pull-outs Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert plans to withdraw from more West Bank settlements immediately after forming Israel's next government and to set Israel's final borders within four years if it wins upcoming elections, a top political ally said.

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Unknown to the majority of Cameron Crazies, students loyal to a different shade of blue took part in the sacred tradition of tenting in Krzyzewskiville this year.

More than 20 Robertson Scholars from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill —who are spending the spring semester at Duke as a part of their scholarship program—started tenting Feb. 25 to gain entry to the Duke-Carolina men’s basketball game in Cameron Indoor Stadium Saturday.

Though at times uncomfortable and inconvenient, tenting was “definitely one of my best experiences in college,” said UNC sophomore Katie Macpherson.

“It is what Duke is all about,” she said.

“That whole work hard, play hard attitude.”

The UNC Robertson tenters were wary of the reaction from Duke students, but not from their UNC peers.

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A handful ofRobertson Scholars from UNC tented in K-ville to get intoSaturday's men's basketball game.

roes, because to tent at Duke University as a Carolina student is pretty courageous,” said Vivek Chilukuri, a freshman from

UNC. “I feel closer to the UNC basketball team because I endangered my life for a whole week in Krzyzewskiville.”

It was easy to be admitted to the game undetected by other Duke students and fans, the undercover students said. They went into Cameron with Duke paraphernalia and T-shirts—but underneath they were wearing Carolina Blue clothing.

The Robertsons said they did not want to be discovered and harassed before tip-off, so they cheered with the rest of the crowd, even screaming “go to hell, Carolina.”

Once the ball was tipped, however, they took their Duke gear off, painted their faces and sprayed their hair. Standing right behind the UNC bench, the Carolina students cheered for their team SEE TENTERS ON PAGE 12

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After a controversial start, the clinical trials on the experimental blood substitute PolyHeme being conducted at Duke University Hospital have hit an ethical snag.

In documents recendy acquired and analyzed by the Wall Street Journal, Northfield Laboratories, Inc., stopped an early trial of PolyHeme several years ago on patients undergoing high-risk surgery. Preliminary results showed that nearly one eighth of the patients who received PolyHeme suffered heart attacks.

The lack of openness from the company has spurred some ethicists and physicians to call for a halt to the latest round of clinical trials being conducted on trauma patients.

PolyHeme is a promising blood substitute that, if successful, could be used in situations ranging from serious automobile

batdefield injuries. company refuses to disclose would have had ethical an adverse impact on the original approval the raises study Although legal, concerns because patients who receive the of the clinical trial,” said Dr. Philip Rosoff, director of clinisubstitute are cal shock ethics at Duke severe in University Hospiand conse“The ethics of the research could be tal. quently, are unThe clinical able to consent called into questions if the data that trials for Polyto their particithe company refused to disclose would Heme were inipation in the tially approved by study like typihave had an adverse impact on the the U.S. Food cal human reand Drug Adminsearch subjects of the trial.” original approval clinical the istration and have Now Dr. Philip Rosoff been ongoing at newly released clinical results Duke since the summer of 2005. have spurred a fresh round of Since then five criticisms against NorthfieldLaboratories patients from Durham have been enrolled “The ethics of the research could be in the study, said Dr. Ross McKinney, vice called into question if the data that the dean ofresearch for the School ofMedicine. accidents

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“We believe that publishing the full data upon closing the study would have shown that PolyHeme could not be isolated as the cause of the observed serious adverse events,” Dr. Steven Gould, chair and chief executive officer of Northfield Laboratories, said in a statement. “To suggest the [Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution] data were withheld to further the trauma trial is patently untrue.”

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Democrat James Carville, one of the talked-about political strategists in the nation, brought his blunt wit and insight to Duke Saturday, discussing the woes of the Democratic party and decrying Republican leadership during a question-and-answer session.

“If you are waiting for Democrats in Washington to come up with something, you should forget about it,” Carville told a standing-room-only crowd at the Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy.

Dressed in a sweatshirt and jeans, Carville nonetheless spoke with decades of Washington D.C. experience under his belt.

Carville worked as campaign manager for former President Bill Clinton.

He is also on CNN’s The Situation Room television program, and he is a former co-host of CNN’s political debate show Crossfire.

“Change is going to come from here.

Don’t wait for Washington,” Carville said, describing the Democratic leadership’s lack of strength and the need for Democrats outside of Washington to spark reform in the nation’s capital by “doing it out here” first.

Nicknamed “Ragin’ Cajun” for his animated debating style, Carville was bom and raised in Louisiana.

He touched on a personal note when he criticized President George W. Bush’s handling of the destruction of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

“When [President Bush] was told we were losing an important part of our country, and our president just sat there with a vacant look on his face...,” Carville said, most

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of moral and religious values in politics.

“Democrats have always tended to be a highly secular party,” Carville noted.

“But what have people learned from religious services?”

He said the Republican party is focusing on the wrong aspects ofreligion.

“Three thousand times in the Gospel, Jesus talked about helping the poor,”

Sixteen Duke seniors will appear today before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to advocate the reauthorization and revision of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act. ' The Ryan CARE Act serves as a safety-net provider of medical treatment and support services for uninsured or underinsured individuals living with the HIV disease. • The act, originally passed in 1990, was reauthorized in 1996 and 2000 but expired Sept. 30, 2005.

The students, members of Duke’s health policy certificate program, will give a 15-minute presentadon and participate in a 45-minute discussion with staffers and possibly senators from 16 different states—including Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and North Carolina.

Students cited the disease’s changing nature as one reason it is important to reauthorize and revise the RWCA. Benjamin Rowland and Nazaneen Homaifar were elected by their classmates to lead the presentadon. All students in the class will participate in the question and answer session.

“I feel very privileged to represent not only our class but the University,” Rowland

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Democratic strategist James Carville discusses the weaknesses ofU.S. political parties Saturday at Duke.

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“That was the most embarrassing thing have ever seen,” he added.

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“Our ports,” Carville said, referring to Bush’s recent support for selling operation rights at several American ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates His discussion also touched on the role

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It’s 6:30 p.m. in the Duke Coffeehouse, and the student band Makeshift is on stage. Unlike usual performances, however, saxophonist Chauncey Nartey, a junior, is facing the back wall as he releases a quavering, deliberate peal over the riffs of his bandmates and into the head of a recording mic. On the surrounding couches sit juniors Pulsar Li, Alex Cornell, lan Holljes and Clint Twaddell, among others. Bombadil and the Pulsar Triyo have already performed, and Twaddell is on deck.

“I think I know almost all of them here,” said Makeshift guitarist Nick Renner, a junior, after their set.

“I’ve jammed a lot with most of them.”

This assemblage of bands from Duke is no coincidence. Each band will have a single track, recorded onsite, for a compilation album whose proceeds will go to charity. The album is sponsored by All Campus Entertainment and produced by Wen Reagan and Stuart Pierce, Trinity ’O5.

“The bands aren’t getting paid, so it’s amazing to see them come together to support a cause like this, said organizer Shireen Khoury, a senior and Chronicle staff member. The compilation album will feature tracks from Running Lights, The Pulsar Triyo, Securitas!, Sonny Byrd, Bombadil, Makeshift and the duo ofChris Sung and Alex Cornell. The CD should see an early April launch, with copies available at many venues in Durham and possibly Chapel Hill.

“Music’s what we love,” said lead singer Farokh Irani, a senior. “We’d do it for any reason, but it’s all the better that it’s for charity. But whether it’s practicing in a basement or performing at K-ville or recording [at the Coffeehouse], we’d be doing it anyways.”

“The music scene at Duke is very intimate,” said Cornell, a member of Running Lights. “We often play with each other just because there are so few of us. Actually, one of the big reasons I’m staying to watch all the bands is because there are a few I hadn’t heard before, and I felt like I was slipping. Gotta stay on top of these things.”

An additional factor for most of the bands is the imminent audition for the Battle of the Bands competition between Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to be held April 8. “I’m fairly certain that most of these bands will be auditioning for [the Battle of the Bands],” said Khoury.

“It’s the inclusiveness of this project that makes it good because there are some bands that won’t have as much of a chance to get exposure,” said the Pulsar Triyo’s Li. “It’s an entire CD, so that means there’s at least 10 tracks, unlike the Battle of the Bands, which is going to include only three bands from Duke. It’s also good to see all of your friends in a musical context.” ”

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No murders in Durham for first two months of 2006 ly quiet two months,” he said.

After seeing a city record 37 homicides last year, the Raleigh, Greensboro, Fayetteville and Charlotte have city of Durham didn't have a single murder reported in reported a total of 18 homicides in 2006, with Charlotte, the first two months of 2006. the state’s largest city, reporting 10.

It was the first time in at least five years that the city and Durham County had gone two months without a slaying.

Major N.C. insurance provider garners record profits There were five homicides in the city during the first Blue Cross, the state’s largest insurer, reported Friday two months of 2005. record profits, but that would not equal lower premiums “We are very pleased that there have been no murders for its 3.3 million members. this year so far, but it is hard to say why this has happened,” The $34.2 million fourth-quarter profits results were said Durham Police Department spokeswoman Kammie the company’s highest profit ever for a year’s final three Michael. “Murders are hard to predict and hard to prevent.” months.

Newman Aguiar, a member of the Durham Crime CabBut Blue Cross representatives said as medical costs inet, said joint efforts of the police department and the keep rising, it'll have to keep pace by raising premiums.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Sunni Arab and Kurdish politicians increased pressure Sunday on Shiite Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari to abandon his bid for a new term, while leaders of Iraq’s Shiite majority struggled to overcome growing internal divisions.

Despite the squabbling, there were reports the new parliament would be called into session for the first time as early as the end of the week, starting the clock on a 60day period during which it would have to elect a president and approve a prime minister and Cabinet.

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LOS ANGELES The ensemble drama Crash pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture Sunday over the cowboy romance “Brokeback Mountain,” which had been the front-runner.

Crash, featuring a huge cast in crisscrossing story lines over a chaotic 36-hour period in Los Angeles, rode a late surge of praise that lifted it past Brokeback Mountain, a film that had won most other key Hollywood honors.

“We are humbled by the other nominees in this category. You have made this year one of the most breathtaking and stunning maverick years in American cinema,” said Crash producer Cathy Schulman.

Lead-acting prizes went to Philip Seymour Hoffman as author Truman Capote in Capote and Reese Witherspoon as country singer June Carter in Walk the Line, while corporate thrillers earned support-

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Targeted sectarian violence killed at least five people Sunday. Three men died in a gunfight at a Sunni mosque in Bagh-

human rights in the country, citing reports of excessive use of force, illegal detention centers and disappearances—many of them the responsibility of insurgents. dad and two The political relatives of a turmoil has left a top Sunni clerdangerous lead“I do not believe it has deep ic were slain in ership vacuum as roots. I do not believe that a armed drive-by Iraq’s forces, backed by shooting. Sunthey’re on the verge of civil war.” nis accused the U.S. military, deaths squads Gen. Peter Pace, chair batde to contain allied to the insectarian viothe joint terim governlence that has ment, allegapushed Iraq totions denied by ward civil war. the Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry.

The Pentagon’s top general said SunU.N. envoy to Iraq Ashraf Jehangir Qazi day he did not think a full-blown civil conexpressed serious concern Sunday about flict would break out, although he ac—

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ing-performer Oscars for George Clooney in Syriana and Rachel Weisz in The Constant Gardener.

Brokeback Mountain filmmaker Ang Lee did win the best-director prize for the tale of two old sheepherding pals who carry on a love affair they conceal from their families for years.

Lee, whose martial-arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won the foreign-language Oscar five years ago, became the first Asian filmmaker to win Hollywood’s main filmmaking honor.

“I wish I knew how to quit you,” Lee told the audience crowd, reiterating the film’s most-quoted line.

Witherspoon won a close race, over Felicity Huffman in a gender-bending performance as a transsexual in Transamerica.

“Oh, my goodness I never thought I’d be here in my whole life growing up in Tennessee,” said Witherspoon, who like SEE OSCARS ON PAGE 16

step down knowledged “anything can happen.”

“I do not believe it has deep roots. I do not believe that they’re on the verge of

civil war,” Gen. Peter Pace, chair of the joint chiefs of staff, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

A day earlier, the commander of the U.S. military’s Central Command, Gen. John Abizaid, said sectarian divisiveness had been worsened by the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra last month and was a threat to Iraq’s stability.

During a meeting with Iraqi leaders Saturday, Abizaid urged them to resolve the differences stalling the formation of a government.

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TOMORROW NIGHT— The man professors and administrators fear is coming to campus... to expose the intellectual corruption of universities like Duke.

This is the speech they don’t want you to hear.

DAW HOROWITZ BPM Page—Free—live On C-Span Followed by Q&A, Book Signing Proudly presented by the Duke chapter of Students for Academic Freedom David Horowitz is one of the most sought-after college speakers in America. He’s a multiple bestselling author who’s penned over 20 books and is a nationally heralded columnist and commentator who runs one of the most successful news and politics sites on the web frontpagemag.com. A life-long civil rights activist, Horowitz is the founder of Students for Academic Freedom and has moved legislation in over a dozen states to secure academic freedom for students at public universities. He’s pioneered the countrywide effort for reform and put students’ rights on the national agenda. He has just written a new book (which contains two Duke professors) ‘The Professors; The 101 Most Dangerous Academic In America,” which vividly documents the professorial abuses plaguing our universities and the widespread betrayal of educational

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“While mediocrity and incompetence have always had a place in the academic world, it is also the case that never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits. Nor has overt propagandizing had such a respected and prominent place in university classrooms. Even more disturbingly, the last few decades mark the first time in their history that America’s institutions of higher learning have become a haven for extremists.” The Professors -

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Pat Tillman (right) was killed in Afghanistan, possibly because ofcriminal negligence of U.S. soldiers.

Army re-examines death of football star by

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WASHINGTON A new inquiry into the fatal shooting of Army Cpl. Pat Tillman during combat in Afghanistan will examine possible criminal negligence by fellow soldiers involved in the friendly-fire incident, according to Pentagon officials.

Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday while there is no evidence as yet of a crime involving the former football star’s death, investigators will want to find out if any of Tillman’s fellow soldiers were “firing a weapon when they should not have been.”

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by the Defense Department’s inspector general could have a wide range -of conclusions, from a finding that warrants no further action or a written reprimand to a military court martial on charges of negligent homicide.

For the Tillman family, the fifth formal probe into the shooting could put to rest unanswered questions about the Army Ranger’s death along a canyon road near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in April 2004.

It also provides an opportunity to delve further into allegations by family members of a cover-up during the previSEE TILLMAN ON PAGE 12

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University officials have also defended Duke’s involvement in the study.

“The Wall Street Journal was simply not accurate,” McKinney said, noting that Duke had been informed of the information from the prior study before initiating the trials in Durham.

The results were provided in an investigator brochure that was given to Duke’s Institutional Review Board, the group that approves the ethics and legality behind research, and they was also presented by researchers from Johns Hopkins University at two separate meetings. “It’s not like it was completely hidden,” McKinney said.

In the initial study, PolyHeme was given to patients undergoing aortic aneurism repair, a high-risk surgical procedure.

“Five to 15 percent of people who have aortic aneurism repair will have a heart attack during the surgery,” McKinney said.

“It’s a big-deal surgery. You’re slicing open the aorta and patching it back again.”

In the current study, PolyHeme is administered to trauma patients suffering from shock and severe blood loss. The current study population is typically considered to be younger and in better health than those that underwent the aortic surgery.

McKinney said PolyHeme is considered advantageous in emergency situations because it provides an alternative to the saline solution that is typically administered.

Real blood is not carried aboard ambulances because of its short shelf life and the need to match blood-types between donors and recipients. In comparison, PolyHeme lasts for about a year and is universally compatible.

Furthermore, PolyHeme, unlike saline, can transport blood and thus has the capacity to minimize muldple organ failure —

often a major concern for trauma patients.

The PolyHeme trials were delayed initially at Duke because of a discrepancy between North Carolina and federal laws. Before launching the study, Duke held several meetings in Durham to inform the community about the research.

Those who do not wish to participate can still obtain an “opt-out” braceletfrom Duke.

Based on these measures, McKinney said the research is ethical.

“You sometimes need to do an experiment in people in order to figure out how to do things better,” he said.

Rosoff said failures to be forthcoming to the public can ultimately bring legitimate research into question.

“A lot of the research enterprise, be it basic science or clinical, is based upon trust and good faith amongst investigators,” Rosoff said. “Any assault on that trust and good faith brings into question the veracity of the research enterprise.”

PolyHeme, a blood substitute in trials at Duke, could create health problems for some surgery subjects.

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UNC Provost Robert Shelton was notified of Chemerinsky’s refusal via fax ThursChemerinsky admitted that he and day afternoon. Shelton then notified the law UNC administrators “couldn’t reach an faculty of Chemerinsky’s decision later that agreement” on the resources. He declined, afternoon. He also recommended that the however, to expound upon exactly which dean search committee reconvene in order to strategize a course of action for selecting resources he felt UNC neglected to provide the School of Law, citing that the nethe School ofLaw’s next top official.

Chemerinsky was identified as one of gotiations were confidential.

“They can say whatever they want about three finalists for the coveted position in the negotiations, but I would feel uncomJanuary, alongside Davison Douglas, profesfortable other than to say that I’m honsor at William and Mary School of Law, and ored to remain at Duke,” he explained.

Teresa Roseborough, a partner in the AtChemerinsky’s decision to stay may lanta-based Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan also have been influenced in part by his LLP law firm. “We have two other strong background at private universities, Mike candidates in the pool who we brought to Smith, chair of the dean search commitcampus, and we need to evaluate them very tee for the School ofLaw and dean of the carefully,” Smith told the DTH. UNC School of Government, told The The selection committee, which will reDaily Tar Heel.' “I think he didn’t feel he convene this week, will go back to the drawwould have the resources he wanted to ing board to make its next selection. It will realize his vision for the law school,” take one of three actions: extend the deanSmith said. “I felt the provost made a reship offer to one of the other two finalists, ally generous... unprecedented offer.... I select another group of finalists from the respect his decision, that’s his own judg- original applicant pool or reopen the appli-

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IRAN from page 2 frontation with Iran and said any initial decisions by the Security Council based on the outcome of the meeting will be mild.

They said the most likely action from the council would be a statement urging Iran to resume its freeze on uranium enrichment—an activity that can make both reactor fuel and the core of nuclear warheads—and to increase cooperation with the lAEA’s probe of the Iranian program.

Even such a mild step could be weeks down the road.

Still, it would formally begin council involvement with Iran’s nuclear file, starting a process that could escalate and cul-

Professor ofLaw Erwin Chemerinsky declined UNC's offer of a law school deanship last Thursday.

minate with political and economic saneRussia and China share the concerns of dons —although such action for now is the United States, France and Britain—the opposed by Russia and China, which can three other permanent council members veto with Security veto Council actions. power —t hat Bolton said a Iran could mis“The longer we wait to confront failure by the Seuse enrichment the threat Iran poses, the hardfor an arms procurity Council to address gram.

Iran er and more intractable it will would “do lastBut both become to solve.” have economic ing damage to the credibility of strategic Bolton, UN ambassador and ties with the council.”

Tehran. While “Th.e >onger 1 they voted with we wait to confront the threat Iran poses,” Bolton said, the majority of lAEA board members at a “the harder and more intractable it will Feb. 4 meeting to alert the council to susbecome to solve.” picions about Iran’s nuclear aims, they in-

sisted the council do nothing until after this week’s lAEA meeting in Vienna.

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Although more than 40 candidates applied for the position, Chemerinsky was not originally among the group of applicants.

UNC specifically sought him out, he told The Chronicle in January.

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He decided to make Durham his permanent home and joined Duke’s law school and political science department faculty in 2004. Chemerinsky previously had spent 21 years in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California Law School.

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Despite disappointing loss, Cameron Crazies celebrate seniors’ careers by

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It was the last game they’d play at Cameron Indoor Stadium as Blue Devils. It was the last time they’d hear the deafening chants of the Cameron Crazies as they set their feet to shoot.

It was the last regular season game of what will undoubtedly be a memorable season for seniors Sean Dockery, Patrick Johnson, Lee Melchionni, Ross Perkins, JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams.

Before their last tip-off at home Satur-

day, Duke’s six seniors had their moment to salute the fans, parents and the place

they have devoted the last four years to.

Holding back tears in what was an emotional night, Melchionni paid homage to his home in Durham. As he approached center court, he got down on his hands and knees, and kissed the hardwood, eliciting roaring cheers from the crowd.

And even though the night ended in a disappointing loss to No. 13 North Carolina, SEE SENIORS ON PAGE 7

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JJ. Redick and Sean Dockery embrace during senior introductions prior to the UNC game Saturday.

January stumble against Georgetown, the Blue Devils have been setting the pace at the head of the pack.

But with two straight losses—one at home against archrival North Carolina SaturC13!t16 day and the other at Florida State March 1— Duke is stumbling coming down the final stretch.

For the Tar Heels, it seems that they couldn’t have hit their stride at a better time. They have won every game since Feb. 7, when they barely fell to Duke, 87-83.

And immediately prior to upsetting the Blue Devils in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Senior Night, North Carolina had dismanded Virginia by 45 points.

“I think this team has done something that every coach wants to do, and that is gotten better as the season has gone along—each and every day and each and every practice,” Tar Heel head coach Roy Williams said after their game against Virginia. .“They’ve put the effort and the concentration in to make that happen.”

And even though Duke jumped out to an early 11-point lead Saturday, the Tar Heels took their time to attack Duke’s sluggish defense and pulled off the 83-76 win.

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski even admitted he was disappointed with his team’s defensive effort as oflate.

“I don’t think we’ve played very well defensively in the last few weeks,” Krzyzewski said. “The last time we played well defensively would have to be the Miami game [Feb. 19].”

Incidentally, that game clinched a share of the ACC regular-season tide for the Blue Devils. And though Duke didn’t secure outright first place in the conference until it defeated Georgia Tech three days later, the Blue Devils had little to worry about for the rest of the regular season—at least in terms of standings. Perhaps that explains the Blue Devils’ latest trip-up.

“In the big scheme of things, this game doesn’t really mean a whole lot as far as ACC [Tournament] seeding,” senior guard JJ. Redick said. “But it means something to us, and it meant something to them. So we’re obviously disappointed.”

The truth of the matter is that Duke still has the top spot in the conference. But losing twice to finish off the regular season— SEE STRIDES ON PAGE 7

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Before Saturday’s game against No. 4 Maryland, No. 1 Duke’s head coach Mike Pressler predicted the game would be a one-goal batde decided in the game’s final minutes.

He was absolutely right.

After playing to a 7-7 regulation tie, the Terrapins won the face-off to start overtime and waited for the opportunity to strike. Attacker Xander Ritz MARYLAND 8 took control of the DUKE 7 ball on the right side of the field.

When he reversed field behind the goal he lost his defender, giving him the chance to send a diving wrap-around shot past Duke goalie Dan Loftus for the 8-7 victory.

In a game marred by poor play and missed opportunities, Duke (3-1, 0-1 in the ACC) appeared flat against Maryland (2-0, 1-0) Saturday at Koskinen Stadium and never capitalized on good scoring situations.

“It’s tough to say you’re not ready for a Maryland game, but we weren’t ready,” attacker Matt Danowski said. “We weren’t playing the way we normally play. We weren’t playing with the heart we usually play with.”

The Blue Devils came out strong, and built a 2-1 lead after the first period. But Duke quickly lost its advantage as the Terrapins—aided by Duke penalties —scored three quick goals in the opening minutes of the second quarter.

Ritz scored his second goal of the afternoon just 33 seconds into the quarter and

game. He controlled the ball from the of the period and ran from behind the right side of the net to create an opening. He then launched a laser-beam shot that beat Maryland goalie Harry Alford low to take a one-goal lead with 14:24 remaining in the game.

Danowski’s goal would be Duke’s last score of the afternoon, and the Blue Devil lead was short lived. Six minutes later, Joe Walters bounced a shot over Loftus’ left shoulder to tie the game and force overtime.

Loftus ended the contest with a careerhigh 20 saves as he was constandy peppered with tough shots. Maryland had 42 shots on the day, while Duke totaled 30.

“He kept us in the game,” Danowski said ofLoftus. “I don’tknow how many saves he had—2o something—but he played unbelievable. He made some big plays and the way he chased on the end line was a momentum-turner for us... it could have been a lot worse if it weren’t for him.”

Despite Loftus’ effort, penalties and failure to finish offensive opportunities ultimately doomed the Blue Devils. Duke was also handicapped in the second half without leading scorer Dan Flannery, who injured his shoulder at the 3:03 mark in the second quarter.

“It’s one of the most intense rivalries in lacrosse—both teams played their hearts out today,” Pressler said. “I didn’t think it was a very good game as far as skills, but I think Maryland kind of brings that out of you. I was just disappointed because we didn’t execute in the offensive end.” start

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Midfielder Matt Zash scored two goals in a losing effort against Maryland Saturday at Koskinen Stadium. then assisted two minutes later on Dan Groot’s lone score of the contest. Maryland added its third goal in less than four minutes shordy after Brad Ross and Tony McDevitt were charged with penalties, leading to a two-man Maryland advantage.

Playing six on four, Ritz found himself wide open to the left of the goal with only Loftus to beat. He flicked an easy shot to the top-left comer to put the Terrapins ahead, 4-2, and finished the contest with a game-high five goals and six points.

“We had a lot of penalties,” Loftus said.

“I think both teams played a little sloppy in the first half. But you know what, it’s an ACC game and that’s what’s going to happen when you play someone good. They’re going to know our stuff and we’re going to know their stuff.”

At half, Pressler said he challenged his players’ manhood in an attempt to get them to play harder, and the Blue Devils responded with a much more technicallysound second half.

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After Duke’s 9-7 win over No. 5 Maryland Feb. 25, head coach Kerstin Kimel was not happy with the Blue Devils’ mental preparedness for that game, -something she stressed this past week in practice. g<>t

two ofChrest’s five goals and Chrest found Waagbo with both of her assists.

“They definitely have an idea of where to find each other on the field—they had it last year, but they even have it more so this year,” Kimel said. “They played aggressively, but they let the game come to them

and that made a difference not just in their own play, but in the overall play of Just over a the offensive unit.” minute into SaturThe 14-2 halftime margin allowed Kimel day’s game against Duquesne, sophomore to play many of her younger players in the Rachel Sanford fired a pass through the second half. Every Blue Devil has seen accenter of the Duquesne defense to junior tion this season, and Saturday eight differLeigh Jester, who quickly shot from the left ent players scored and nine caused a turnover. Kimel said the larger rotation has side of the net for an easy goal. The seemingly effortless score was Duke’s third goal sometimes resulted in sloppier play, but the long-term benefits far outweigh the costs. in the first 96 seconds.

The Blue Devils (4-0) effectively ended “It gives us depth over the course of the season,” Kimel said. “We know if we want the game in the first nine minutes by opento have that depth available, we have got to ing a 6-0 lead, before cruising to a 19-8 vicDuquesne (2-2). younger players now. And how they over play tory “We came out really ready to play develop in the coming weeks is going to today,” Kimel said. “There are areas in our determine how much depth we are really game that we’ve really got to work on in going to have.” the next couple days before we play CaroliWith less than eight minutes remaining na, but this was a much better effort today and the game well out of reach. Duke’s secthan it was last week.” ond-team defense had given up three goals Duquesne broke the Blue Devil run in a row, and Chrest, an attacker who was with Krista Mann’s goal less than 10 minnamed National Player of the Year last seautes into the game, but Duke exploded son, came back into the game as a defender.

“She asked to go back in because she again with eight straight goals over the next 19 minutes. The Blue Devils dominatfelt like the defense needed a little more ed possession throughout the first halfand direction back there—which they did. And outshot Duquesne 27-7 in the period. she felt—which she does—she needed Senior Katie Chrest and junior Kristen more practice on defense,” Kimel said.

Waagbo led the attack, combining for “Anytime a kid who’ is a prolific scorer eight goals and five assists. The two played wants to go back in and do something off each other well, as Waagbo assisted on completely different, I’m all for it.”

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North Carolina freshman Tyler Hansbrough scored a game-high 27 points Saturday, as the Tar Heel freshmen outscored Duke's seniors 55-51 It was Duke's first loss on Senior Night since Feb. 27,2001. .

sophomore DeMarcus Nelson said. “It makes it even harder because you put so much effort into it to win this game for the seniors and to end our last game at home on a positive note. It’s a bad feeling we have to leave home with.”

It was the second-straight loss for Duke, which began the conference schedule 14-0 and had wrapped up the regular-season tide with a win over Georgia Tech Feb. 22. Still, with the Cameron Crazies out in full force to honor the team’s six seniors, and ESPN broadcasting the game on nearly all of its channels, the hype around the game that paired the ACC’s top two teams was bigger than any other Duke game this season.

“There’s going to be other big games,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski. “This is a big game because it’s Duke and North Carolina. It wasn’t big because of what it would do in the standings or anything else. We are going to be in games now that mean that, and we can’t do this.”

With 9:17 left in the contest, Reyshawn Terry banked in a spinning jump shot that put the Tar Heels ahead two, 61-59. Over the next three and a half minutes, North Carolina appeared nearly unstoppable.

Freshman Tyler Hansbrough, who scored a game-high 27 points, faked to get Williams in the air and maneuvered around him for a layin. Then Byron Sanders took a Quentin Thomas pass along the baseline for a layup, which he followed up with another easy bucket off a , , f , _, Redick missed ,

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After a Blue Devil timeout, North Carolina tacked on three more points to increase its lead to 11 points, 70-59.

“I think I’m confident,” UNC head coach Roy Williams said. “I hope it’s not over the edge of cockiness, but I felt like we were the only team in the country that could come in here and win this game, and I believed we could if we played. We couldn’t come in here and win unless we played our best game.”

As has become expected in the historic Duke-Carolina rivalry, the game was far from over, however.

Trailing 77-66 with just 2:32 remaining, the Blue Devils hurried down the court and found Nelson in the left comer for a three-pointer. Shelden Williams blocked a Bobby Frasor shot at the defensive end that led to a Lee Melchionni basket. Then Nelson hit another three-pointer, bringing the game within three and sending the Cameron Crazies into an absolute frenzy.

“We put ourselves in that position by being stupid,” Roy Williams said. “I told Bobby after the game, ‘You’ve got to be a little more intelligent.’ He’s not the biggest jumper I’ve ever seen, and the guy’s trying to lay it up over the leading shot-blocker in America, and that’s not very smart. Reyshawn’s shot from over there—l had no idea what on God’s earth would get someone to shoot that ball. He did tell me I did a good job by taking his rear-end out, and I told him, Thank you.’

I appreciated his approval.”

After Nelson stole the ball from Frasor, Dockery had the chance to close the game to, \vithiji one. His (drive to the basket,

though, came up empty, and with 24 seconds left, Duke had no choice but to foul.

North Carolina’s freshmen, which had come up big all game long, weathered the storm and calmly sank free throws down the stretch to secure the upset.

“Those kids are tough kids, they’re competitive kids,” Roy Williams said of his crop of freshmen, who outscored Duke’s seniors 55-51. “They were raised in athletic households. They’ve heard the word focus; they’ve heard the word poise; they’ve heard the word toughness. And I think they did it.”

Duke allowed the Tar Heels to shoot 44.1 percent for the game and failed to execute on the defensive end for the fourth straight game, Krzyzewski said.

“We didn’t keep up the intensity defensively,” Krzyzewski said. “We’re not playing defense like we should. We do it in spurts, and you can’t beat good teams that way.”

Williams recorded his 17th double-double of the season, notching 18 points and 15 rebounds to go along with six blocks.

Melchionni chipped in 13 points, as well, in what Krzyzewski called his best game in more than a month.

But Redick struggled from the field again. Despite making four of his first five shots, the senior finished the game with just 18 points and was l-for-16 from the field the rest of the way.

“We’re probably not going to beat a good team with JJ. going 5-for-21,” Krzyzewski said. ‘You are who you are, and we’re 27-3 because of using that. When it’s taken away or when he’s human, it makes

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“It’s not bad to hurt,” Krzyzewski said.

“That’s one of the great things about sport. Sometimes you don’t learn things until you’re hurt. We got hurt tonight.

Let’s see what we do with it.”

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Still this was the ACC Tournament, and this conference belonged to no one except Duke or UNC. But from the outset of Saturday’s semifinal, the Terrapins were efficient, and the Blue Devils looked sloppy. Duke took better care of the ball than the day before and even found open shooters, but the hoop just seemed too small for the Blue Devils.

Maryland missed just 12 shots in the first half, while Duke misfired on 25.

Down eight at the break, the Blue Devils returned to the court sluggish and slow.

The Maryland lead grew as star forward Crystal Langhome took over the game.

After just three points in the first half, she scored 10 more and pulled down six ofher 10 rebounds as the Terrapins built a 15point lead with 13:32 remaining.

Then the Duke team everybody had been expecting finally arrived. Forcing the Terrapins to take bad shots and turn the ball over, Duke held Maryland scoreless while converting on eight straight possessions. Wanisha Smith’s layup with 10 minutes left capped the Blue Devils’ 16-0

streak, gave them their first lead of the game and brought the Duke faithful to their feet at the Greensboro Coliseum.

The sinking ship appeared righted and headed back to its expected destination—the ACC title game.

But it was just a one-point lead and it was just a three-minute span.

Suddenly, the outcome of the game became sealed with one quick error. In fact, the play epitomized Duke’s performance over the last several games. After forcing another turnover, guard Lindsey Harding sailed a pass over ths head of open teammate Abby Waner. Instead of extending their lead, the Blue Devils’ spurt came to a screeching halt. They had all the momentum and then instantly lost it, scoring only four points over the next eight minutes.

“We were a little fatigued at that point too, because that group had just really worked their tails off to get to that point,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said.

“We made our run, and they withstood it, and they came back and made a run of their own.”

Duke never challenged the lead again.

The team predicted to bring home the program’s first national championship was the first in seven years to not even reach the ACC title game. The team that crushed powerhouse Tennessee Jan. 23 has seemed absent of late —replaced by one that has become more associated with sloppy play and untimely turnovers.

The Blue Devils certainly entered the season with unfathomable expectations, but reaching the ACC title game was almost a given. Now they must bounce back in time for the NCAA Tournament, where they will undoubtedly have to face some high-caliber teams to win it all.

“This is only going to make us better,” junior Lindsey Harding said. “We still have a chance to win our ultimate goal. We'll only get better from this.”

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ils with 18 points, but struggled from the field hitting only 6-of-17 shots. Duke as a team shot only 35.9 percent, after shooting 54.3 percent from the field Friday night in the quarterfinals against Virginia Tech.

While the Blue Devils consistendy missed layups, the Terrapins were boosted by the strong inside play of sophomore forwards Laura Harper and Langhome, who

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JuniorAlison Bales had eight points and six rebounds for the Blue Devils in theirloss to Maryland Saturday. combined for 30 points and 16 rebounds.

The Maryland duo shot a combined 11-for-21, while Duke centers Alison Bales and Chante Black shot a collective 2-for-12.

Maryland guard Shay Doron played a limited 17 minutes in only her second game in a reserve role this season after suffering a deep thigh bruise earlier in the week in practice. Despite the absence of the All-ACC Second Team player, freshman guard Kristi Toliver and ACC Rookie of the Year Marissa Coleman were able to control the pace of the game, helping the Terrapins build a lead that reached 15 points early in the second half.

“They knocked down almost every shot they took,” Duke guard Lindsey Harding said. “They did a great job of moving the ball, going inside and outside.... They knocked down big shots when it counted.”

With the loss, the Blue Devils failed to reach their seventh consecutive ACC Tournament Final. Duke also lost to Maryland for the first time in 15 games.

“It’s really disappointing to not make it to the finals and not have a chance to win it,” Harding said. “We all felt that this was our tournament.”

Despite the disappointment of not contending for the ACC crown, the Blue Devils said they recognize the season is far from over and much still lies ahead.

“This loss helps us know that now, you win or you go home for the rest of the season,” Currie said. “We want to continue playing to reach our ultimate goal.”

The Blue Devils have now dropped two of their past three games, including the regular-season finale to North CarolinaFeb. 26.

Still, Goestenkors said the three losses were against the No. 1 and No. 4 teams in the country, and that her team has arguably played the nation’s toughest schedule, which will provide good preparation for the NCAA Tournament.

Despite its sluggish finish, Goestenkors said she does not expect the team’s stumble to affect its seeding when the selection committee announces the tournament field.

“We just lost to two great teams... but I think people are looking at our record thinking we’re on a downslide,” Goestenkors said. “Because Maryland is such a great team, I don’t think it should affect our seeding.”

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Duke opened its ACC season with its first series loss of the year, dropping two of three at Jack Coombs Field to Maryland this weekend.

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however, when Nick Jowers laced a two-run double in the seventh inning to snap a 3-3 tie. Brett Cecil closed the door on Duke, working the final inning and two-thirds for his third save of the season.

Sunday’s game was an extra-inning classic as the Terrapins rallied for a 9-8 win in 12 innings. The Blue Devils surrendered a five-run lead and squandered an opportunity to pull out the win in the final inning.

“The more we get our guys in tough situations, the more experience we’re going to have,” head coach Sean McNally said. “That was a really well-played game on both sides, and it’s disappointing to be on the wrong end ofit. We just didn’t get the right hit at the right time.”

Maryland jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second when Jowers ripped a basesclearing, three-run double with two outs.

Duke responded quickly, however, with consecutive singles to lead off the third by Kyle Kreick and Jonathan Anderson.

Shortstop Brett Bartles worked a walk two outs later, loading the bases for clean-up hitter Jimmy Gallagher. The sophomore rocked the first pitch he saw from Maryland’s Mike Sufczynski over the right field wall for a grand slam and a 4-3 lead.

Duke played small ball in the middle

offour times during the fourth and fifth frames on only four hits. A sacrifice by Kreick and groundout by Anderson plated a run in the fourth to make it 5-3. In the fifth, an Adam Murray RBI single and some Terrapin miscues led to three more runs and an 8-3 lead.

“We did a really good job early,” McNally said. “Jimmy got a big hit and we were able to manufacture runs.”

Maryland began its rally in the bottom of the sixth with four consecutive hits off Blue Devil starter Jonathan Anderson to cut the deficit to 8-5. Anderson responded by inducing back-to-back fly-outs, before surrendering a two-out, two-run triple by Wink Nolan to cut the lead to one.

The Terrapins continued their rally in the ninth. Jowers was again the spark, leading the inning off with a bloop double to left. He advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt and scored the tying run on a groundout by Gerry Spessard.

In extra innings, Cecil once again shut down Duke. The Maryland reliever retired the first nine Blue Devils he faced in the ninth through eleventh innings, before Duke loaded the bases with no outs in the top of the twelfth. Cecil bore down, however, inducing a Gallagher foul popup and striking out Murray and pinch-hitter Ron Causey to escape unharmed.

“That says a lot about the kind of courage [Cecil’s] got,” McNally said.

“He’s tough, he’s a confident lefty, and he went right at us.”

The Terrapins finally broke through in the bottom of the inning with a two-out rally of their own. Matt Maropis worked a walk from Duke reliever Jim Perry before Chad Durakis singled to left. With two out and two on, Dan Benick gave Maryland the win in the game and the series with a bloop single that dropped in front of Daniel Palmer in left field.

Cecil (3-1) got the win for the Terrapins while Perry (0-2) absorbed the loss for Duke.

The Blue Devils will next take on LaSalle in a pair ofhome games March 7 and 8, both at 3 p.m.

After two days of competition this weekend, the men’s and women’s track and field teams placed 47th out of 51 teams and 14th out of 34 teams, respectively, at the IC4A/ECAC Championships in Boston.

Junior Debra Vento defended her 2005 ECAC Indoor Championship title in the high jump event Saturday to highlight the Blue Devils’ weekend action. Vento’s 5-11.25 foot jump meets the qualifying height for the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships.

Bids will be announced Monday. .Vento has participated in the indoor and outdoor meets in each of her first two years at Duke.

“This year, she’s finished her indoor season doing her best jumping,” associate head coach Kevin Jermyn. “Last year she hit her qualifiers early in the season but this year she’s going into the NCAAs with confidence.”

If Vento receives her bid Monday, she will become the first woman in school history to qualify for the national meet five times in her first five chances.

Sophomore Lara Jones claimed a fourth-place finish in the pole vault by matching her career best indoors.

Several other members of the women’s squad stumbled, though. Freshman Molly Lehman finished first in the 1,000-meter qualifier Saturday with a time of 2:53.18, but was disqualified in the finals Sunday after tripping and stepping outside of the lane. In the 4xBoorelay event, Duke also qualified for finals but the team dropped the baton in -

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All-American Debra Vento won the high jump event to earn her second ECAC IndoorChampionship title. the first leg of the final race. Despite good splits from the next three runners, the Blue Devils could not recover from the fumble and the squad finished eighth.

“There were missteps, but they showed good heart and character,” Jermyn said.

On the men’s side, sophomore Peter Lewellen broke his own Duke record in the 500-meter race and qualified for the finals.

Lewellen, however, tweaked an old injury when crossing the finish line in the qualifying race, preventing him from competing in the finals Sunday and removing him from the lineup in the 4x400-meter event.

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The woes of Duke’s regular season continued into the postseason as the Blue Devils finished last out of six teams at the ACC Championships Saturday in Lexington, Va.

defended its ACC tide. N.C. State followed in second with 64 team points.

The Blue Devils struggled primarily in the lower weight classes—Duke wrestlers in each of the five lowest classes lost both their opening round matches and consolation bouts.

“We are a very young team in a tough conference,” head coach Clar Anderson said. “We expected to compete a little better, but we are competing against five fullyfunded programs.”

Despite the Blue Devils’ disappointing finish, sophomore Konrad Dudziak claimed third place in the 197-pound weight class.

After losing his first-round match, Dudziak won his two consolation matches—one against Maryland’s Jerry Afari, who defeated Dudziak earlier this season.

“He pinned an opponent who had beaten him earlier in the year,” Anderson said.

“I fought hard for him to go to nationals.”

Dudziak, however, did not earn a NCAA bid, ending the hopes of any of the Blue Devils for further postseason

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competition.

“I’m hoping they take the sting of de-

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Kobe Bryant, Leßron James and Dwyane Wade headline the list of 21 NBA and two college stars. The roster includes seven of the NBA’s top eight scorers, with Allen Iverson being the only omission from that group.

[We have] versatility on the staff, and we also have that versatility with the team members,” Krzyzewski said. “I’m really looking forward to this summer when we bring everyone together and start developing our program, not just for this summer but for the next three years. I think we’ll be able to build some continuity, some big time relationships and make sure everyone is included and takes ownership of this team.”

This team will look to restore USA Basketball to the level it achieved in the early 19905, when it regularly crushed international competition and was hardly ever challenged.

The United States finished out of medal contention with a 6-3 record at the World Championships in 2002 and then earned a disappointing bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Although Krzyzewski did not push specifically for the Duke players to be added to the roster, he said Sunday that he welcomes the opportunity to coach them again, particularly because it will help in the creation of the National Team.

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SENIORS from page 1 that almost seemed secondary to lauding the seniors.

“I want to thank our fans,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said after Saturday’s game. “They were unbelievable. They were positive. They were classy. They honored our seniors in such a magnificent

way.”

As cheers of “Thank you, seniors” echoed throughout the night, Duke’s graduating class batded against the Tar Heels’ freshmen, who carried the game for North Carolina. But even in the loss, the seniors were hailed by the fans for their Duke careers.

The appreciation was reciprocated as each of the seniors told the sold-out crowd how special their time at Duke has been, playing in front of such knowledge-

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Senior JJ. Redick (left) and former Blue Devils Shane Battier (top right) and Elton Brand (above right) were named to the USA Senior National team that will compete at the World Championships this summer.

completely foreign experience in bringing this group together.”

Colangelo added that each of the three Duke players fill some of the needs of the USA Basketball program.

Brand has garnered some most-valuableplayer consideration this season, while ranking in the top eight in both points and rebounds for the Los Angeles Clippers.

Battier is expected to fill a more specialist role for the squad, Krzyzewski said. A career 10.6 points per game scorer, Battier is known for his exceptional defense.

“He’s the kind of guy—if you ask [Memphis Grizzlies head coach] Mike Fratello or [Grizzlies President of Operations] Jerry West—who can play with anybody,” Krzyzewski said. “His ego will be good. He can come in and if he doesn’t play at all, able and passionate basketball fans.

“One of the reasons why I really chose to come back was because of you guys,” Williams said of the Cameron Crazies when he addressed the crowd after the game.

With sharpshooter Redick and defensive stopper Williams back for their senior seasons, this year has been tabbed by many as a historical one for Duke and its players.

Redick’s 2,638 career points gives him the ACC and Duke men’s record, and Williams holds the school’s career blocked shots record with 391 —both are considered contenders for National Player of the Year.

But the depth of the class runs deeper. Dockery, who has been called the consummate teammate by his fellow Blue Devils, is tied for fifth in the ACC in steals, averaging 1.89 steals per game.

And no one will forget his long-shot buzzer-beater against Virginia Tech anytime soon.

“We lost tonight, but this season is nowhere near over, I can assure you of that,” Melchionni, one of the team’s emotional leaders, said to the fans in the postgame ceremony.

And even though the fans were sad to see the seniors lose to the Tar Heels, it seemed they were more upset by the sheer fact that it was their final home game.

Saturday’s was the last game the seniors would play together in Cameron, and they —along with their fans —hope it will be their last loss as Duke teammates.

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One of Colangelo and Krzyzewski’s objectives was to add a pair of college players to the mix so all levels of the basketball community would be included in the USA Basketball experience—high school senior Greg Oden has also been extended an invitation, but logistics regarding his involvement are still being ironed out.

In creating the first-ever National Team, Colangelo has attempted to create a pipeline for future international competitions as well, he said.

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“It is a huge honor to be selected to participate on the USA Senior National team,” Redick said. “I will be playing with some of the best players in the world. I don’tknow what the chances are for me to make the team, but I am excited about the opportunity to work hard and have that honor of playing for the United States.”

Following the training camp, which will be held in Las Vegas, the roster will be trimmed to 12 for the World Championships. The entire 23-man group will reconvene the following summer for more training and some exhibitions games before a final roster is set for the Olympics.

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STRIDES from page 1 no matter the tangible significance—does bode well for the Blue Devils.

On top ofits defensive struggles, Duke has been experiencing a bit of an offensive slump as oflate. The Blue Devils have scored fewer than 80 points in their last four games, and Duke’s leading scorer Redick averaged about 20 points in those contests—his season average is 27.8.

“We won the league,” Krzyzewski said.

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So, with about one week until the postseason rolls around, the Blue Devils will need to refocus their attention not only on the game at hand but also on that April 3 goal.

“Our two losses just came at the end,” senior Shelden Williams said. “It’s just something that we’re lucky we’re experiencing now, and hopefully we don’t have that same problem down the line.”

Now that every game counts, it’s up to the Blue Devils to pick themselves up, brush it off and get back in stride.

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under a $5.5-million bond At a press conference Saturday, Derek Poarch, campus police chief, confirmed that Taheri-azar told investigators he wanted to “avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world.”

Taheri-azar will appear in court Monday and face nine counts of attempted first-degree murder and nine counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury with intent to kill.

Five students and a visiting scholar were briefly hospitalized, and three other victims declined treatment.

Shortly after the incident, Taheri-azar called the police from a street two miles from campus to turn himself in.

Taheri-azar has cooperated with local investigators and was also interviewed by officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

He told police officials that an inspection of his apartment would illuminate his motives.

The State Bureau of Investigation found nothing seemingly related to the crime in his Carrboro apartment, according to several reports.

James Moeser, chancellor of UNC, and Peggy Jablonski, vice chancellor for student affairs, sent an e-mail about the incident to members of the UNC community Friday evening.

“This is a time when it is important for us all to remember the uncommon spirit that ties our campus community together so strongly,” they wrote in the e-mail.

The Muslim Student Association released a statement condemning Friday’s incident. The episode followed the Feb. 9 publication of a controversial cartoon in The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s student-

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run newspaper. The cartoon featured a picture of the prophet Mohammad that upset several MSA and other community members.

“Campus religious tensions have been running high as of late, and so we renew our commitment to work with the campus community and leaders to strengthen the bonds of friendship, cooperation, and faith in the community,” the MSA release noted.

Several students are rallying Monday to “protest the news media’s reluctance to label [the act] terrorism,” according to a press release the participating students disclosed. Senior Jillian Bandes, a former DTH columnist who was fired after writing an editorial advocating racial profiling of Arabs in airports, is one of the or-

ganizers.

Many students on campus expressed shock in response to the news.

Freshman Neil Fisher, who witnessed the incident Friday, said the scene quickly reminded him of the death of UNC sophomore Keith Shawn Smith, who fell from Stacy Residence Hall Feb. 24.

“There is a period of reflection and mourning on campus,” Fisher said.

“These tragedies are inexplicable.”

Fisher said he was five to 10 feet away from a girl who was hit and thrown “like a rag doll” off the hood of the car.

“I was amazed she was able to get up and walk,” he said.

UNC freshman Jasmine Miller said she was confused when she heard an engine and saw a flash of silver in the Pit. “At first I thought it was a rally for the Duke game, but when I heard people screaming and running, I knew it couldn’t be,” she said.

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TILLMAN from page 8

there was criminal activity” involved in the friendly-fire incident. For example, he continued, “was that fire by the friendly forces fire that should have been going on or was someone potendally firing a weapon when they should not have been?”

The Army Criminal Investigation Command will prepare a report on the not

ous investigations “The prior reviews had a certain sense of cover-ups than an honest fullfledged review,” Dan Goure, a defense analyst at the research firm Lexington Institute, said Sunday. “It’s essentially to raise it a notch from a standard review to a now criminal review. When you have people taking testimony under oath, it makes it harder to cover things.”

The Army first reported that enemy fire killed Tillman.

Later, mill-

investigation’s findings, After that, a decision on a course of action, which may also include nonjudidal punishment such as a written reprimand, would be made by a unit commander. The commander also has the power to con-

in martial, “The prior reviews had a certain consultation that he had r sense of cover-ups than an honbeen shot durwith a staff a confused ing Judg e adv est fu ll-fledffed review.” confrontation cate attorney, between his DdU GoUT6, the official unit and other said analys Tillman, U.S. troops. played 27, The military’s football for handling of the case has angered the Tillman family. the Arizona Cardinals but left the NFL to Pace, speaking on NBC’s “Meet the join the Army after the attacks of Sept.

11, 2001.

Press,” promised Tillman’s family SunHe died April 22, 2004, when he was day that investigators will examine all the facts in the criminal investigation. struck by gunfire during a firelight along The Defense Department’s inspector a canyon road near the Pakistangeneral determined it was an additional Afghanistan border.

The Army said at the time that the barstep that needed to be taken even though there is no evidence of criminal rage ofbullets came from enemy fire.

A report by the Army later found that activity, Pace said.

A Pentagon official told The Associattroops with Tillman knew at the time ed Press on Saturday that a criminal inthat friendly fire had killed the football star. Officers destroyed critical evidence vestigation would focus on possible charges of negligent homicide. The offi- and concealed the truth from Tillman’s cial spoke on condition of anonymity bebrother, also an Army Ranger, who was nearby, the report found. cause the new investigation had not forTillman’s parents have been highly mally begun.

Pace said that earlier investigations critical of the Army for its handling of “did not specifically look at whether or questions about their son’s death.

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TENTERS from page 3 throughout the rest of the game.

“I talked to people around me to let them know that I was human and to make it harder for people to pick on us later,” Chilukuri said. “Some people threw stuff at us and some told us to get out, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.”

Some Duke students raised questions about whether the UNC students should have been allowed to tent, since according to the basketball tenting policy, only students enrolled at Duke are eligible to tent in K-ville.

The Robertson Scholars program stipulates, however, that participants are awarded full access to each respective university’s facilities during the exchange program.

“They are technically Duke students for

a semester,” said senior Jesse Longoria, Duke Student Government president. “It was perfecdy fine that they tented.”

The Robertson Scholars said they saw tenting as a rite of passage at Duke and wanted to be included in it while they were at the University.

“Tenting is a quintessential part of the Duke experience ...[and] Cameron Indoor Stadium is such an awesome venue,” UNC sophomore Chris Kearns said. “I really wanted to be a part of that whole experience.”

Macpherson explained thatfor her and her peers, tenting came down to supporting Carolina rather than attacking Duke.

“It was not a matter of trying to sabotage Duke. We weren’t even cheering against them,” Macpherson said. “We were supporting our team and it happened to work out in our favor.”

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stores as Cingular stores and hundreds of

millions of dollars more on marketing the new Cingular after its $4l billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless in October 2004, Cingular will now become AT&T if the merger with BellSouth is completed.

The BellSouth name also would be absorbed in the deal.

“It’s going to be confusing,” said industry analyst Jeff Kagan. “This is the reinvention of the telecommunications industry.”

AT&T will pay 1.325 of its own shares for each BellSouth share. Based on Friday’s closing price of $27.99 for AT&T shares, that works out to be $37.09 for each BellSouth share, an 18 percent premium from the Friday closing price of $31.46 for the company.

TESTIFY from page 4 said. “This is a great opportunity for seniors to move beyond the academic realm into a contemporary political setting.”

Although the specific recommendations will not be released until 11 a.m. today, Homaifar said the main focus of the recommendations are on medical adherence and disparity of care.

“I am very excited. Many of us in class want to get involved on the policy level, and this is a great opportunity to practice the skills we need,” she added.

Kathryn Whetten, an associate professor at Duke’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and the professor teaching the health policy certificate capstone course, said this is the first time a group of college students will present before a senate subcommittee.

Whetten tried to prepare the students

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AT&T Inc. was formed by SBC’s acquication of the Baby Bells, the eight regional sition of AT&T Corp. in November. The telephone operators that were spun off deal added a substantial national reach from the old AT&T in 1984 under a federto the former Southwestern Bell’s local al court order. At that time, and in a differbusiness, which ent regulatory is concentrated climate, AT&T in 13 states, inwas largely a “We built a business. Is the brand cluding Texas, long-distance California, and an important part of that business? company. the Midwest.

Cing u 1 a r Yes. But it is a business that is made BellSouth is spokesperson the dominant Mark Siegel disprimarily up of people. None of local telephone missed the nothat changes.” tion there provider in the Southeast. would be pub—Cingularspokesperson Mark Siegel lic perception The shift in the U.S. telecom switch back to landscape—movthe AT&T name for the wireless company. ing from four to three regional Bell operators—is sure to gamer close review from “We built a business,” Siegel said. “Is the Washington. The deal furthers the reunifi- brand an important part of that business?

Yes. But it is a business that is made primarily up of people. None of that changes.”

Siegel said sole ownership by AT&T “gives us clarity of decision-making, and that is a good thing.”

Widi cable companies increasingly vying for traditional phone companies’ share of local telephone service, such mergers in the industry have been commonplace of late.

Kagan said more could be on the horizon.

“We’re not over it yet,” Kagan said.

The combined company will be based in San Antonio, and Ed Whitacre, AT&T’s chair and chief executive, will keep those positions. His counterpart at BellSouth, Duane Ackerman, will run BellSouth’s operations in a “transition period” after the merger.

Cingular’s headquarters will stay in Atlanta, as will the Southeast regional headquarters for the merged company.

for the challenges inherent in such a massive project.

“I told the students on the first day, ‘You guys are going to hate each other because you will be working so closely with one another, and you have one goal,’” Whetten said, laughing.

Rowland agreed there were obstacles during the semester-long preparation for their presentation.

“The greatest challenges were incorporating every individual’s research and presenting them coherently in 15 minutes, which really isn’t a lot of time,” he said.

In order to help them prepare, Whetten made sure the students understood how different programs such as Medicare and Medicaid worked in relation to the Act. The students also learned the areas of expertise of their fellow classmates so they could answer questions immediately instead of hesitating or interrupting each other.

Whetten also scheduled a mock pres-

stronger talking points, on important topics that need to be researched further and on their presence during the presentation.

“They did a great job. They were very thorough, and they were well prepared,” said Dr. Michael Mugavero, an Infectious Disease fellow.

Whetten said she will be accompanying students in the session but will let them lead the entire presentation unless they come across a question they do not know how to answer. “I really want it to be clear they are the presenters,” Whetten said.

“These are not necessarily the recommendations I would have made. These are the ones they came up with.”

Senators will make recommendations to the White House concerning the RWCA later in March.

entation Friday afternoon with faculty members posing as actual senators and staffers, so the students could prepare for the types of questions or accusations that may arise Monday.

Although the atmosphere was for the most part serious—and at times hostile—in order to create the type of atmosphere the students will experience, even the faculty could not help occasionally relishing in their brief acting stint as senators and staffers.

When a faculty member, posing as the representative of North Carolina, accused the students that the act would be more helpful to states like New York than ones like his own, Whetten, posing as the staffer from New York, leaned across the table and stared at him. “Do you know how powerful I am in the Senate?” Whetten quipped.

After the question and answer session, the panel offered suggestions to the students including recommendations for

“Hopefully [our presentation] will influence policy,” Rowland said. “We would like our recommendations to be sincerely considered.”

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Surfing on a wave of Crazies

Carville said. “It mentioned homosexuality zero times.”

He quipped he does not feel “gays are a threat to [his] marriage.”

Carville is married to Republican strategist Mary Matalin.

He added that he thinks the Bush administration is leading the nation’s future generation toward crisis.

“Their hands are in your kid’s pocket,” Carville said, referring to his belief that the Bush administration lacks fiscal re-

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sectarian fissures that have been apparent for a while, but it was the first dme I’ve seen it move in a direction that was unhelpful to the political process,” Abizaid said afterward.

The U.S. government sees a government with participation across Iraq’s communities as a key step toward improving security and weakening support for insurgents, which would allow Washington and its allies to lower troop numbers.

Under the constitution, the Shiites’

United Iraqi Alliance, the largest bloc in parliament, has the first crack at forming a government and chose al-Jaafari as its nominee for prime minister.

But the Alliance has too few seats to act alone. And it is facing a drive by Sunni, Kurdish and some secular parties that want to prevent al-Jaafari from continuing at the end of the government, favoring instead current Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi.

Abdul-Mahdi lost in the Shiite caucus by one vote to al-Jaafari, who won with the support of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Abdul-Mahdi is backed by Abdul-Aziz alHakim, a powerful Shiite leader who is fre-

quently at odds politically with al-Sadr.

Both have strong militias behind them.

Underlining the divisions within the Alliance, some Shiite leaders are troubled by al-Jaafari’s ties to the radical and openly anti-American al-Sadr.

The Sunni Arab minority, meanwhile, blames al-Jaafari for the Shiite militiamen who attacked Sunni mosques and clerics after the Feb. 22 bombing of the shrine in Samarra. More than 500 people died in the violence that followed, according to police and hospitals.

Khalaf al-Olayan, a leader of the main Sunni bloc in parliament, said Iraq has

He added that the federal government’s $9-trillion deficit poses a growing economic problem. “If you are going to do something like that, do it to me, not my kids,” he said.

Carville said that although Democratic leadership has problems, it possesses hope for the future.

“Democrats in the nation need to stand with those in Washington,” he said, adding that his party is a “great reform party.”

“The Republicans are hopeless. Even they know that,” he said. gone from “bad

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worse” under al-Jaafari.

government failed to solve the chaos that followed the Samarra explo-

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sions and did not take any measures to solve the security crisis that could have pushed the country into civil war,” he said in comments posted on the Web site of the Iraqi Accordance Front, a Sunni group.

Kurds are angry because they believe alJaafari is holding up resolution of their claims to control of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq.“lf al-Jaafari tries to form a government, he will not get any kind of cooperation,” said Mahmoud Othman, a leading figure in the Kurdish bloc.

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Alpha Epsilon Pi sponsored a rally against genocide in Darfur (left) on the quad Friday. A summit on family values (right) also took place on campus this weekend and included Rep. David Price (third from left).

OSCARS from page 6 co-star Joaquin Phoenix as Carter’s soul mate, country legend Johnny Cash, handled her own singing in Walk

the Line.

“People used to ask June how she was doing, and she would say I’m just trying to matter. I know what she means,” said Witherspoon, who told the audience the Oscar made her feel she was doing work that matters.

Hoffman’s performance nimbly straddles the magnetic qualities of raconteur Capote and the effete, off-putting egoism of the gay author.

“Wow, I’m in a category with some great, great, great actors, fantastic actors, and I’m overwhelmed. Really overwhelmed,” said Hoffman, who asked the Oscar audience to congratulate his mother for bringing up four children alone.

“We’re at the party, mom,” Hoffman said. “Be proud mom, because I’m proud of you.”

Clooney’s win capped a remarkable year, during which he made Oscar history by becoming the first person nominated for acting in one movie and directing another.

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the Edward R. Murrow tale Good Night, and Good Luck, which earned him directing and writing nominations and was among the best-picture contenders.

In Syriana, Clooney effaced his glamour-boy looks behind the bearded, heavyset facade of a CIA patriot who grows jaded over U.S. oil policy in the Middle East.

“All right, so I’m not winning director,” the first-time winner joked, adding that an Oscar always would be synonymous with his name from then on, including in his obituary. “Oscar winner George Clooney, sexiest man alive 1997, Batman, died today in a freak accident.”

Clooney also lauded Oscar voters for their daring.

“This group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the back of theaters,” Clooney said, referring to the supporting-actress winner from Gone With the Wind, the first black performer to receive an Oscar.

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The Oscar for original screenplay went to the ensemble drama Crash, written by the film’s director, Paul Haggis, and Bobby Moresco.

The raucous hip-hop tune “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” from Hustle & Flow, whose expletive-laden lyrics had to be toned down for performance at the Oscars, won the prize for best song. The song was written by the rap group Three 6 Mafia, aka Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard.

Featuring dancers dressed as hookers and pimps gyrating on stage, the song’s performance stood in sharp contrast to the other nominated tunes and the general stateliness of the Oscars.

‘You know what? I think it just got a little easier out here for a pimp,” joked Oscar host Jon Stewart.

The stop-motion family tale Wallace Of Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit won the Oscar for best animated feature film.

Co-director Nick Park, who also made the hit stop-motion film Chicken Run, thanked voice stars Helena Bonham Carter and Peter Sallis, who has done the voice of cheese-loving Brit Wallace for 23 years, since the filmmaker came up with the character in his student days.

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K-ville incompetently run As someone who tented from Jan. 10 to March 4,1 feel it is necessary to say that this year’s tenting process was run in an incompetent fashion (though by nice people). I hope in fixture years the following problems from this year, among others, are not re-

peated: Freshman Vivek Chilukuri, a Robertson scholar from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on tenting in Krzyzewskiville to watch Saturdays men’s basketball game at Cameron Indoor Stadium. See story page 3.

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monitors were standing around talking to their friends. This resulted in incredibly long waits.

Duke students deserve better.

Joel Wiles Trinity ’O6 Catholics unfairly portrayed I truly admire Boston Cote for having the courage to tell the readership that you are “more comfortable feeling unsetded by my faith than feeling complacent with it” (“The road to Hell,” March 3). As someone who shares a similar background of striving to find an order to the way of things, the differences in our conclusions interested me.

I have never found a more welcoming, accepting, and genuinely caring community than among the Catholics here. Many of these very same are seeking, like the both of us, a better understanding of our own spiritual lives.

I, however, cannot agree or condone your condescending tone towards so many, Catholic and otherwise, who feel themselves validated through lives of faith. It would seem that the acidic anger that you direct toward those who have, in your mind, done you wrong, is an argument against yourself. Simply by reading the harshness ofyour appeal, I found that I looked at the contrasting kindness of the Catholic community with more appreciation than before. I sincerely hope that people can try to discover their true feelings toward spirituality, regardless of their denomination, without the destructive monologue you delivered to them.

David Walker Pratt ’O7

1. The IM building was not left open for the first week of tenting.

This meant that students had nowhere to go to the bathroom from midnight until 6 a.m. This had predictable results.

2. The night when N.C. State wristbands were given out, the weather forecast showed that it was going to rain. When it started raining at 11:30 p.m. the line monitors started giving out wristbands a half hour early. It took 90 minutes to give out the wristbands. This process could have been started earlier or sped up.

3. The last night of personal checks before the UNC game exemplified this incompetence. Despite there being at least 1500 people and thousands of cans of beer in K-ville, the IM building had the only available bathrooms.

The building’s main area was reserved by graduate students who refused to let undergraduates in from the small entrance area, despite the low-thirties temperature outside.

Senior Ajay Kori, a member of DSG Executive Cabinet, tried to negotiate with the graduate students. This resulted in talk that seemed designed primarily to delay for the entire night (which it did). It is not clear how the IM building came to be reserved by a small group of graduate students and unavailable to undergraduates who had been tenting for weeks and weeks. Over the Abolishing the superficial I recently IMed a friend (and course of almost three hours no one could reach senior Lauren fellow member of the Class of Troyer, the head line monitor, to 2005) with the link to the aphave her deal with the situation. palling journal—the Dukeobsrvr She was completely unaware of it blog—-detailing the perceived social status of various campus at 1:20 a.m. when she arrived back in K-ville at the time of the groups, noting “Aren’t you glad first check. we're done with Duke?”

I just don’t get it. Two very Only five or six line monitors were doing the personal checks short years ago, we were in a conTor. TOO. .tents, _.Most,, of ihe line-. -jstani. battle to the “effortless

perfection” epidemic on campus and even elected a DSG president who vowed to fight eating disorders as part of his campaign platform. Yet Duke seems to have regressed. Our newspaper now publishes links to superficial and judgmental commentary that will incite many to shame and selfhate.

To those that might have been stung, know that there is another universe outside the Duke bubble where judgment is not so quick and you are valued for your contributions in many fields. I encourage you to take action on Duke’s campus to combat the selfhatred rampant among the student body, starting with you own social network and spreading outward. Tell your friends and neighbors how much and why you value them. You might be surprised what you hear in response.

Mimi Wachendorf Pratt ’O5 The Catholic stereotype After reading Boston Cote’s hyperbolic account on the Catholic Church (“The road to Hell,” March 3), I was instantly reminded of the reason why I became Catholic. I am proud to be an active Catholic on campus because I am comforted by the fact that there are students out there like me still working on their spirituality—in which ever arena that may be. It saddens me to hear that you have boxed your faith experience into the stereotypes that infiltrate our society today. You painted an unfairly cruel and intolerant picture for us Catholics, when our faith is grounded in love, mercy, social justice, and respect.

And through her dismissal of the Catholic Church’s traditional “silly rules and rituals,” I am sure Cote have come to the very same conclusion I have through my three years of embracing Catholicism at Duke: People are more important than rules; and offending people by being condescending to them through exaggerated stereotypes is simply wrong.

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week was one of the worst at Duke during my four years on campus. First, we back-to-back ACC basketball games against unranked Florida State and UNC. Secthe ond, women’s bas-

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united we stand precedented feat of underhandedness, the administration effectively ended the social scene at Duke for the foreseeable future by purchasing the bulk of off-campus houses.

Platitudes aside, we know why the administration bought the student leases, and we can be sure by the sheer magnitude of the purchase that all parties involved engaged in intensive, covert negotiations for a significant period of time.

I do not think the underclassmen understand the ramifications of such a purchase. In spite of the rumored relaxation of underage drinking regulations on West, the residence coordinators and resident advisors continue to maintain a vigilant watch over the hallways. Two new fraternities may have gained sections in Edens, but they hardly compensate for the loss of the entire offcampus scene.

I have no doubt that the Duke’s ad hoc realty agency will attempt to complete its sweep by negotiating with the handful of other realtors who own the remaining properties. I understand that the neighbors are delighted by the purchase. For those who have lived off campus for years, I sympathize with the noise and filth depreciating their property values. But I have no sympathy at all for those who knowingly moved next to fraternity houses during a period of decreasing social options on campus.

As it has been said ad nauseam in this paper, we are college students and we want to party before we begin the monotonous bore ofadult professional life. I agree with the school and local neighborhood council that the current situation is absolutely untenable, and I cannot help but laugh at the absolute absurdity of trying to develop programs for orienting students to off-campus life. But I did not expect the administration to undercut the established tradition of off-campus living until it renovated Central Campus and thus could offer a viable alternative to the students.

By strictly enforcing local zoning regulations, a significant portion of the current leases will be null and void. The University also has the option of enforcing Duke-specific laws and meting out Duke-related punishments that are likely to have ramifications beyond the courtroom. Thus, rising seniors and any other students currently planning to inhabit the recently purchased properties should break their leases and try blocking at Erwin, the Belmont or Partners Place.

The real shame is that inter-greek competition between assorted fraternities prevents IFC from presenting a united front against the administration. This outlandish maneuver should not stand but like the British Empire during the heyday of imperialism, the administration has managed to divide and conquer the on and offcampus greek groups and thus weaken our collective power.

I wish I had an answer, but I honestly do not know what to do at this point. The only thing I know for sure is that all rising juniors should go abroad next fall so they are at least guaranteed one semester offun.

Adam Yoffie is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Monday.

We want to educate the Duke Community about revisions to the autoerotic policy in effect for this year.

Last year, the Durham Fire Marshal revoked the remaining 2005 self-pleasure permits following a session that, in his view, had gotten out of control. The University, with student input, has agreed upon operating instructions that will govern all future “practices” and will help ensure them to be safe, celebratory events. The Durham Fire Marshal has clearly stated that we will lose our privilege to have future touch sessions if we are unable to adhere to the guidelines below.

1. The University has requested City autoerotic permits for March 4, 2006, April 3, 2006, and April 4, 2006. The Fire Marshal has not issued official permits, but will make a game-dayruling when the operating procedures have been fulfilled.

2. The only permitted autoerotic site is in front ofHouse P. A 40-foot boundary will be placed around the area. All self-pleasure is to take place wholly within the boundary and “members” of the Duke Community are to remain outside the boundary.

3. Stacked members should be no more than six inches in length. No more than two members may be stacked horizontally on top of one another. Members should not be placed on end.

4. Intermittently, the member must “bum down” to a safe height. During “bum down” periods, no additional fuel may be added to the member. This includes anything flammable. There are no exceptions.

5. Use a plastic or metal container. There will be additional receptacles on the Quad 6. Do not sit or stand on building roofs

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fuel more than two hours after the beginning of the session

9. The use of gasoline or any other accelerant is prohibited 10. Self-pleasure on any other days or location will not be permitted by the City and are, therefore, illegal. Anyone who participates in self-pleasure on any other day or another location will be subject to University discipline and potential criminal prosecution.

The Durham Fire Marshall reserves the right to revoke this and future permits if theserules are not followed or the crowd gets out of control. Let’s not abuse this privilege. Celebrating A grades with selfpleasuretis a Duke tradition. Follow these basic safety rules so we can maintain this tradition for years to come.

Jesse Longoria

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