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Early voters line up Friday afternoon before entering the Cleveland County Election Board offices at 122 S. Peters Ave. The line of early voters wrapped around the corner of Peters Avenue and Main Street. The election board remains open today for early voting from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Regular voting will run from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, and long lines are expected at polling places across the county.

WHAT’S INSIDE • Military sources say qualifications for medical attention for soldiers have been so relaxed that many soldiers in hospitals are not seriously in medical need. Page 3B.

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• The Democrats are favored to win many races across the U.S., but Republicans are poised to take the Oklahoma State Senate for the first time in history. Page 3B.

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• Campaigns are uncorking get-out-the-vote operations as the days count down to hours before the 2008 election. Page 6B.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Dan Eldon’s photography exhibit, currently on display in Gaylord Hall, chronicles the late photographer’s experiences in war-torn Somalia. Page 1B.

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OU Student Media took home several awards from the 2008 College Media Advisers conference held Thursday through Sunday in Kansas City.

The 2007 Sooner yearbook won a Pacemaker award, the prize is considered the Pulitzer of college journalism.

The yearbook also finished third in the conference’s Best in Show competition.

The Daily won a fourth-place Best in Show award for daily broadsheet newspapers. Its spring special section on privacy won a fourthplace Best in Show for special sections.

Yearbook adviser Lori Brooks won an Honor Roll award, which recognizes college media advisers with fewer than five years of experience but who have demonstrated distinguished service to their publications.

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• State had last third-party presidential candidate on ballot in 1992 CAITLIN HARRISON Daily Staff Writer very state in the U.S. will have at least one thirdparty presidential candidate on its ballot this year — except Oklahoma.

Oklahoma ballot access laws required a third-party candidate running for president this year to obtain 43,913 signatures from registered voters before receiving a spot on the ballot, a requirement which is the most restrictive

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of any state, said Thom Holmes, state chairman of the Constitution party.

The law has been in place since the early 1970s, and recent attempts to change it by Oklahoma legislatures have been unsuccessful.

The law is meant to prevent too many presidential candidates from gaining ballot access, said Michael Clingman, secretary of the Oklahoma State Election Board. He said obtaining tens of thousands of signatures demonstrates that a party truly can mount a viable campaign.

“I think if you just paid your money and got on the ballot, you would find dozens of candidates on the ballot,” he said.

Holmes, however, said there are not dozens of people who want to run for office. He said there have never been more than four presidential candidates on a ballot in U.S. history.

“It seems that the Democrats and Republicans want to have a monopoly,” he said. “When you limit the choices on

Former ambassador challenges US policy • Jones: Bush administration silent on Iraq exit strategy RYAN BRYANT Daily Staff Writer A former ambassador to Mexico under the Clinton administration said Friday that the U.S. involvement with Iraq will be remembered as a “disaster.”

James Jones, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico from 1993-1997 and an OU alumnus, said he has viewed the war as a mistake from its inception.

“The most important question now is how do we get out of Iraq in a responsible way?” Jones said.

Jones said he discussed with Gen. Richard Myers, former chair-

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the ballot to only two, that limits the discussion, the free exchange of ideas.”

Clingman said the signature requirement is also in place to prevent third party candidates from intentionally siphoning votes from of the major parties’ candidates, Clingman said.

“Otherwise it would be a campaign tactic to have a candidate who would draw away support,” he said.

About 35 to 40 percent of Oklahoma candidates have no challenger on Election Day, Holmes said. It might not be this way if third party candidates had easier ballot access.

“They don’t have to go out and campaign and hear about what the voters care about because they’ve got a free ride,” Holmes said of unopposed candidates. “That’s why people are more displeased with their government.”

Oklahoma voters can register as independents, but they still only have the option to vote for Democrat

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Making money being green • Lecture to focus on carbon trading KATE CUNNINGHAM Daily Staff Writer While outrageous gas prices may be curbed for the time being, environmentalists see no reason to put the brakes on the discussion of alternative energy.

With this in mind, three centers at OU are joining forces for the last of a three-part lecture series encouraging students to think green — environmentally and financially.

“We wanted to find something involved with entrepreneurship that students will be interested in,” said Kim Saylor, Center for Economic Wealth fellow. “High energy prices and OU’s new partnership with Oklahoma Gas & Electric have made energy an important issue.”

BE THERE What: Lecture “Carbon Conundrum: Getting Paid to Save the Earth” When: 7 p.m.

Where: Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Hosted by: Joe C. and Carole Kerr McClendon Honors College Leadership Center, The Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth and The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Tonight’s lecture will focus on the entrepreneurial and technological aspects of environmental management, specifically carbon trading.

Carbon trading helps mitigate the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through openmarket trades, which brings buyers and sellers of carbon credits to the same playing field with the

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International students host bazaar • 1,000 people attend annual event TROY WEATHORFORD Daily Staff Writer The Molly Shi Boren Ballroom was buzzing Friday night, not with ghosts, goblins or ghouls, but with foreigners, food and fun.

The International Advisory Committee hosted the International Bazaar, which allowed 26 international student associations to display national pride and trade items like flags, posters, statues, masks, instruments and a plethora of other souvenirs and cultural displays.

Close to 1,000 people attended the Bazaar, but only a handful of American students were present.

The theme of the event was “A crossroads of cultures: finding common ground,” said Lauren Ballinger, IAC special events chair and international studies and French senior, and dance music from around the world filled the ballroom as students from many countries danced, socialized and shared their cultural history with one another. “[The International Bazaar] is amazing because you can see different cultures, learn about each

of them: the way they dress, their music, and customs,” petroleum engineering sophomore Gerson Montez said.

Montez is an international student from Angola and a member of the African Student Association. At the Bazaar he wore his countries traditional dress — a brightly decorated, loose fitting, matching shirt, pants and hat.

In addition to allowing the international organizations to mingle among cultures, the event was also a chance for them to raise money for their individual cultural nights and for charity, Ballinger said.

Last year the International Programs Center at OU was named one of UNICEF’s “Emissary Schools,” because it raised $5,300 in a Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF campaign.

The bazaar contributed to this year’s drive by placing a orange “Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF” donation box at each table.

Some students embraced the Halloween spirit, and dressed up as UNICEF boxes, encouraging students to attend the bazaar.

“We’re all very involved with raising Trick-or-Treat money for UNICEF,” Ballinger said. “It means a lot to [the international students] because the UNICEF money could be going to their countries back home.”

The Bazaar also included cultural performances by stu-

dent groups from several different countries, including Japan, Nepal, France, the Latin Dance Club and the Arab Student Association.

Lunch was also served at the event, but the lack of ethnic choices disappointed some.

“The food was tasty … But unfortunately they only had one dish,” Montez said. “I was expecting to have some more choices, instead of it being from just one country.”

The lack of variety in dishes didn’t deter Montez and other students from enjoying themselves. Many said they would attend next year’s bazaar.

Around 300 meal tickets were purchased and an estimated 1,000 people attended the bazaar, Ballinger said.

“When I studied abroad I would have liked to have had events like this,” said Sarah Schmeltz, Psychology Senior, who studied in Chile. “OU seems like a really nice school to study abroad at.”

Meghan Perdue, International Area Studies Senior, agreed that an event like Friday’s bazaar would have helped her fit in when she studied abroad in Spain.

“All the international students I’ve met so far this year have lots of friends and lots of things to do,” Perdue said. “It’s nice they have that, when I studied abroad I didn’t.”

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or Republican presidential candidates when they go to the polls.

Holmes said independents are the fastest-growing category of voters in Oklahoma. The number of voters registered as independents has increased by 300 percent in the last decade.

Third-party candidates on the Oklahoma ballot have been few and far between since the ballot access law was put into place, but Reform Party presidential candidate Ross Perot secured a spot on the ballot in 1992. No third parties have gained ballot access in Oklahoma since then, Holmes said.

Whitney Boutin, a Libertarian party supporter, said he does not plan to vote for a presidential candidate this year because he cannot vote for a thirdparty candidate. Ballots in Oklahoma do not have a blank that would allow voters to write in a candidate’s name.

“For civic society to exist, there should be representation,” Boutin said.

“No matter how much our senators or our House representatives say they do, there is still dissatisfaction with the Republicans and Democrats.”

Grant McLoughlin, presi-

dent of Young Democrats, said this may be so because two major parties are already doing a good job of serving the people.

“If you look at third parties, they don’t get as much traction [in Oklahoma] as much as in states like Minnesota,” said McLoughlin, political science sophomore.

Holmes said a bill to change ballot access laws has been introduced in the legislature every year for the past four years, but it has never been approved.

Holmes thinks Oklahomans should have more choices when they go to the polls.

He said the 2004 Afghan presidential election had 18 candidates on its ballot.

“Are we not as free as [Afghanistan]?” he said.

“What is it going to take in Oklahoma for us to have a democratic process in elections?”

Reforming Oklahoma’s ballot access laws would require more than 200,000 petition signatures and a large sum of money, Boutin said.

“There’s got to be some rich people who are interested in changing the way we are, but there’s not,” he said. “People would come out of the woodwork if there was enough money.”

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“I asked him if [the Bush administration] had discussed any of the mistakes we made in Vietnam,” he said. “It turns out, they had not discussed any of that.

They discussed how you have a military operation, how you defeat the Iraqi army, and ultimately, how you take over their government.”

Jones said the current administration’s silence on an exit strategy from Iraq is

troubling. He said he remains hopeful that the next president will take steps to develop a responsible plan.

Jones said the war has become increasingly difficult from a lack of understanding about the cultural and religious sensibilities in Iraq.

“There was nobody advising that knew about their cultural sensitivities or religious sensitivities before we went into Iraq,” he said. “I thought it was going to be a disaster, and I think it is a disaster.”

Jones said he is disappointed with the

current anti-immigration rhetoric from several politicians, which he said spreads a negative image of the U.S. “Others interpret it as meaning ‘We really don’t want you here — we want you out,’” Jones said.

He said anti-immigration politics and building a wall along the Mexican border are a waste of time and money.

“I think you can build as high of a wall as you want, but the people who are trying to get to the United States are doing it to find work so they can send money

back to their families,” he said. “They’re going to scale the walls, so we’re going to spend billions on a wall that serves no purpose.”

Jones said the $6 billion spent on a wall to keep Mexican immigrants out of the U.S. could be spent on something more beneficial like building alternative energy that could be shared on both sides of the border.

“If we did something constructive, I think we could strengthen our relationship with Mexico,” he said.

same rules, according to carbontrading. com.

In other words, a large factory that releases great amounts of carbon dioxide into the air can buy “carbon credits” — that is, the right to pollute more than the law allows — from other corporations that are not polluting as much as they could by law.

Deborah Dalton, professor and director of OU’s Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment Program, will be one of three speakers during tonight’s lecture, and plans to discuss global climate change and the leadership needed to deal with environmental issues.

Those issue will play a factor in Tuesday’s presidential election, she said, and that the U.S. must take notice of the growing carbon market.

“Currently there are no laws in the United States addressing carbon emissions beyond the Clean Air Act that addresses air pollution in general,” she said. “The issue of carbon taxes or capand-trade will be coming up in the next session of Congress after the elections.”

Environmentalist businessmen and innovators, Peter Najera and John Savage will also be at the symposium, which have more than 10 years combined experience in energy and carbon finance markets.

Najera is currently the director of operations for Intinergy, a renewable energy company, but he has performed unconventional research all over the world as a strategist for environmental issues.

He recently traveled to the Dominican Republic, where he helped build a renewable boiler-house that provides electricity by burning coconut and rice waste.

“Any student interested in learning more about humans’ impact on climate change and who wants to get paid to devise innovative solutions to save the Earth should attend,” said Chris Howard, director of the Honors College Leadership Center.

“The Earth needs our help and we can make good money by doing the right thing as leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators and ordinary citizens.”

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Voters could change state Constitution Tuesday FOUR BALLOT INITIATIVES COULD AMEND STATE CONSTITUTION, LAWS State Question 473 is just one referendum that will be on the ballot Tuesday. Oklahomans will also be able to vote for ballot measures that deal with property taxes, privileges for veterans and hunting and fishing rights.

Oklahoma State question 741 is an amendment to article 10 of the Oklahoma Constitution. It would require property owners to file for property tax exemptions by a specific deadline. No exemptions, current or retroactive, could be granted to a person or business prior to filing an application.

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Wine glasses in Oklahoma could be filled with Oklahoma wine that wasn’t distributed by wholesalers, if State Question 743 is approved by voters Tuesday.

• Ballot referendum could ease distribution for state wineries JERRY WOFFORD Daily Staff Writer If Gene Clifton wants to sell the wine his winery produces to the liquor store down the street, he has to go through a middle man.

But that could change if Oklahomans pass State Question 743, which would allow most wineries to sell directly to retail stores and restaurants, like they did a year ago.

In 2000, Oklahomans voted to allow wineries to self-distribute rather than going through wholesalers.

Wholesalers filed suit against the law, arguing that the law discriminated against out-of-state wineries. The petitioners won this suit last year,

sending winery owners like Clifton back to the wholesalers.

“They took that away from us last year, and we lost half of our business,” Clifton, co-owner of Canadian River Winery in Slaughterville, a small town south of Norman.

The new law would allow both in-state and out-of-state wineries to sell directly to stores and restaurants in Oklahoma, as long as they produce fewer than 10,000 gallons of wine a year and transport the wine with their own vehicles.

Calls made to several wholesalers in the area were not returned.

Since most wineries in Oklahoma fit the law’s requirements, many are very supportive.

“We’re big-time for it,” Clifton said. “Everyone I’ve talked to is voting for it.”

Clifton said the ability to sell their products directly to stores will give wineries more control over their products and make sales more personal.

“It makes it a lot more convenient,” Clifton said.

Joe Ebrey, manager of The Cellar liquor store

on Main Street, said the new law would have little effect on his store. So far this year, Ebrey has sold 544 bottles of Oklahoma wine. He has sold more than 9,500 bottles of cabernet.

The new law isn’t expected to affect prices of Oklahoma wine very much, Clifton said. If anything, prices will decrease.

Bottles of Oklahoma wine generally cost between $10 and $20.

Ebrey said price changes won’t affect his decision on whether to offer Oklahoma wine.

“If it costs the same, I could [not] care less,” Ebrey said. “We carry based on what people ask for.”

Oklahoma law still has some restrictions on wine sales in the state.

Wineries cannot ship their products directly to consumers in Oklahoma, but they can ship the wine outside the state.

That stipulation and the issue regarding the amount of wine that classifies a winery as “small” are two issues Clifton would like to see change.

“But this is kind of a compromise for us and the wholesalers,” Clifton said.

BEFORE YOU VOTE, GET THIS . . .

In the race for State Representative that includes OU The Candidate who is 46 years old, an attorney, with a civil rights background and a history of fighting for minorities, against extremism, and campaigning on a message of “CHANGE” is the REPUBLICAN - Tod J. Barrett

The Candidate who is 66 years old, a five-term incumbent, in politics for approximately 20 years, up at the State Capitol for the last 10 years, and says “this is no time” to elect a “freshman” is the DEMOCRAT – Bill Nations “The current five-term incumbent Bill Nations is a nice and decent guy. I’ve even voted for him myself in the past. But he’s been at the State Capitol now for 10 years, and I believe tuition has increased the last 9 years in a row. I think it’s time to try something different.

I believe it’s time for a new, progressive and effective voice for District 44 and OU. I will work to ‘END the TREND’ of tuition increases. I will fight for leadership positions on the Higher Education Committee—something my opponent simply cannot do as a member of the minority Party.

I grew up in Norman and I graduated from OU Law School. I am a former civil rights attorney and a former Administrative Judge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (U.S. EEOC).

I have had the pleasure of meeting and visiting with many of you at several OU events, including Sooner Kickoff, the Homecoming Parade, and the “Race to the White House” 5K run (which I ran with my 15-year-old son).

Unfortunately, the first debate that was scheduled between me and my opponent at OU was cancelled for some reason. Then it was re-scheduled, and then cancelled again for some reason. So this is my last, best hope to earn your support and your vote.

If you are voting for McCain, I respectfully ask for your vote. If your voting for Obama, please remember . . . I’m not running for President. I believe it’s time for CHANGE right here in our own backyard.

I respectfully ask that, as OU Democrats, Independents and Republicans, you join with other Republicans, Democrats and Independents in Norman who are already supporting me and voting for me, in order to make that CHANGE happen.

Respect the past. Vote for the future. Thanks.”

-- Tod J. Barrett ON NOVEMBER 4th, JOIN OTHER REPUBLICANS and DEMOCRATS and INDEPENDENTS WHO ARE VOTING FOR

State Question 735 asks voters to decide whether disabled veterans should be exempt from personal household property taxes.

Veterans would need to meet six requirements in order to be eligible for the exemption. According to the Oklahoma State Election Board, veterans would need to be honorably discharged from active service, Oklahoma residents and heads of their households.

Eligible veterans would also be 100 percent permanently disabled according to the military’s disability ranking system, have had their disabilities certified by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and have disabilities that occurred while in active service.

— JAMIE HUGHES/THE DAILY

State Question 742 would give Oklahomans the right to legally hunt, fish and trap without purchasing a license.

If passed, all Oklahomans will be able to hunt and fish freely on Oklahoma’s more than 1.6 million acres of Wildlife Management Areas.

The initiative will add a new section to Article II of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma.

The referndum would make hunting and fishing the preferred means of managing game and fish that are not protected by law.

The Wildlife Conservation Commission, an eight-member panel appointed by the governor, will approve the methods and practices for the capture of game and fish. Traditional methods of hunting and fishing will be permitted, unless the commission identified the game as threatened.

— ELLIS GOODWIN/THE DAILY

Opinion

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Hailey Branson, opinion editor dailyopinion@ou.edu phone: 325-7630, fax: 325-6051 For more, go to oudaily.com.

Third party candidates sorely needed in Okla.

We need to hear from more people like Ross Perot.

OK, maybe that is debatOUR VIEW able, but is an editorial selected and debated Oklahoma by the editorial board definitely and written after a needs the majority opinion is ability to formed and approved by the editor. Our View hear from is The Daily’s official more thirdopinion. party candidates, like

Perot, the last third party candidate to make it onto Oklahoma ballots.

In Oklahoma, it is far too difficult for third-party candidates for president to get on the ballot.

Candidates must get enough signatures to equal 3 percent of the number of votes cast in the last presidential election, which would be 43,913 to get on this year’s ballot. (See page 1 for details.)

We are embarrassed that

Oklahoma is the most difficult state in the nation for third party candidates to get on the ballot.

Competition is always healthy.

Two parties do not represent every view.

When there is no competition, Democratic and Republican candidates can retreat within party lines and appeal to partisan arguments rather than making reasoned arguments about the issues.

Candidates in a representive

democracy should not be able to win elections by default.

Oklahoma should do everything it can to prevent that from happening.

For state elections, third-party candidates are only required to fill out paperwork and pay a fee.

If it is so easy to get on the ballot for state elections, it should not be so difficult for third-party presidential candidates to be considered.

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We highly doubt an influx of crazies would take the trouble of plaguing the ballot.

Oklahoma should lower the number of signatures it requires for third party candidates to be on the ballot.

Candidates should not have to spend more time gathering signatures than campaigning.

This takes away valuable time that could be spent discussing issues.

Oklahoma also should allow write-ins on the ballot. It is imperative that people get to vote for the candidates of their choice, even if they are not represented on the ballot where they vote.

We do not think elections should become monopolies run by the two parties with the most money and power.

We thought we lived in a Democracy, not a duocracy.

Shape up, Oklahoma.

Matt Reed— broadcast and electronic media senior

Our View endorsement of Andrew Rice containted multiple errors One of the deficiencies of the Bill of Rights lies within the First Amendment. There should be an ignorance clause that limits freedom of speech to those who have enough brain cells to rub together.

For lack of this caveat, we have the Our View.

The irony of this editorial is clearly stated in the first line of Thursday’s Our View stating, “We are not ignorant.” It is my intention to prove otherwise.

Perhaps Oklahomans are a “political punch line,” not because of their elected officials, but because of constituents’ lack of understanding of the U.S. Constitution.

The U.S. (this stands for United States) Constitution outlines the separation of powers between the Judicial Branch, Executive Branch and Legislative Branch. The Legislative Branch consists of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House.

Jim Inhofe and Andrew Rice are running for the U.S. Senate, not the U.S. Congress. I hope the Daily staff is still following my explanation, but for the rest of you who believe I have digressed, please look back to the Thursday Our View. You will find that it failed to make the distinction between U.S. Senate and U.S. Congress on three occasions.

Concerning the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), the editorial board is mistaken when it makes the connection to “big oil.”

The IPAA was instituted in 1929 for the reason of conservation. This was an agreement among domestic independent producers (small oil) to conserve oil and natural gas resources. Without this agreement, we would still have all of those nasty wooden oil derricks, five feet apart, bleeding mother earth’s blood all over the ground.

Luckily for Oklahoma and Texas public schools’

tax base, the IPAA has protected our natural resources. Incidentally, T. Boone Pickens happens to be an oil man.

Concerning global warming, perhaps the editorial board should read the U.S. Senate report containing 400 prominent scientists disputing man-made global warming claims. I realize this is the non-issue of our time, but the Bill Clintons of this world still believe that slowing our economy is necessary to sustain our environment.

Concerning gay marriage, the Our View reports that Andrew Rice is “indifferent.”

I hate to resort to the age-old slippery-slope argument, but this is where it absolutely applies.

At some point, marriage must be defined. There must be a clear definition to ensure monogamous and heterosexual marriages and to avoid incestual and pre-teen marriages. To be “indifferent” on this issue reveals the lack of morality in this man.

Concerning change, what Oklahoma needs in the U.S. Senate, is an “unwavering” senator. This would be someone who votes no to increasing taxes, economic stimulus packages, funding abortions, carbon emissions cap and trade, barring immigrants with certain criminal histories, etc.

Something the editorial board must realize is that just because something is “new” does not mean it is progressive.

The Our View may represent the American Idol and Dancing with the Stars demographic that plagues the South Oval, but it is not representative of the student body or the state of Oklahoma.

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Can the Bible justify opposition to homosexuality?

relations with each other. It would not make sense for God to create people who would do something contrary to his original design.

The New Testament makes a good case for the origin of homosexuality and therefore justifies the text’s condemning of it. Romans 1:21-24 states that homosexuality is not a result of genetics or birth, but of rebelliousness against God and refusal to acknowledge him. This leads to misconceptions and lies about God, which manifest themselves through various lusts and sins, including homosexuality.

A person is not born homosexual. However, all people are born in sin and with the desire to rebel against God, thus giving them the capacity to commit homosexual acts.

But, regardless of where homosexuality truly stems from, the question still remains of why it is a sin. 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 tells people to “Flee from sexual immorality.

“Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his or her own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

This verse explains why homosexuality, as a form of sexual immorality, is an abomination and why it is worse than other sins. It is wrong to commit sins against our body because we are temples of God’s spirit and were made to glorify Him. We cannot fulfill this purpose if we commit sexual sins.

In his letter to the Corinthians, the apostle Paul says all members of the church were all once sinners, but they were washed of their sins, including homosexuality, through Christ’s self sacrifice. Therefore, people are responsible for their sins if they do not accept salvation through Christ.

As sexual beings, we can glorify God through proper sexual relations within marriage between a man and a woman, as outlined in the second chapter of Genesis. Homosexuality is a grave sin that prevents people from fully glorifying God and reflecting his image. It also defiles their bodies.

An understanding of what the Bible says about homosexuality makes it clear that its claims are morally justifiable. There are sanctions against it so

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I agree with the majority of conservative Christians that the Bible speaks clearly on the supposed depravity of homosexuality.

I agree as well that attempts by liberal Christians to “reinterpret” or otherwise marginalize these verses are nothing but muddling of the information clearly stated in the Bible.

However, having a Biblical justification behind your opposition to homosexuality — or behind any other attitude, for that matter — is pretty much worthless.

Furthermore, the Bible instructs its readers to kill homosexuals, not just snip away at their rights, something that few Christians are willing to do any ZAC longer.

SMITH Throughout history, the Bible’s incoherent moral decrees have lent justification to actions from the admirable to the abominable.

That homophobes can point to the Bible now and claim justification for their attitudes means nothing more than it did when southern Baptist slaveholders of the 1830s could point to the Bible and claim the same thing.

Historically, ideologues from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Adolf Hitler have declared that the Bible supported their actions, and have been able to do so with credibility.

This is due to the variation of the Bible’s information.

To illustrate, the Bible tells readers to value criticism over flattery (Ecclesiastes 7:5), to speak out on behalf of the downtrodden (Proverbs 31:9), and to be nice to strangers (Exodus 22:21).

This is good information.

However, the Bible also says new brides who can’t prove their virginity can be bludgeoned to death (Deuteronomy. 22:13-21) and that it’s OK to beat your slaves as long as you don’t kill them (Exodus 21:20-21).

That one can point to the source of these statements and find things that confirm one’s views is, to put it delicately, less than impressive.

I’d argue that, if the fact that your perspective is biblically justified is the strongest point in its favor, you’re probably wrong.

Even Christians who think the scriptural word

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Despite confusion as to what the Bible says about homosexuality, it is clearly addressed in the Bible and is indeed a sin.

Homosexuality is addressed in both the Old and New Testaments, through verses about ceremonial laws and through verses about moral laws. In the Old Testament, it is addressed through ceremonial law — the ancient law of the Hebrews concerning notions such as cleanliness and what to eat.

Leviticus 18:22 states, “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is abomination.” A few chapters later, Leviticus 20:13 states, “If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they JELANI shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.”

SIMS The verses in Leviticus condemn homosexuality, calling it an abomination. Those who practice it, according to the verses, commit a capital offense and are condemned to death. Because these verses exist among verses that also condemn eating seafood, there is a question of whether such a strict moral code can be taken seriously. There is also question of whether a law that requires the stoning of homosexuals can be a perfect moral law.

An understanding of the whole Bible provides a solution to these problems.

Concerning issues of strict ceremonial laws, the New Testament reveals that the solution is Jesus Christ. Through his life, death and resurrection, Christ fulfilled Mosaic ceremonial laws according to Matthew 5:17. Christ’s fulfillment rendered these laws obsolete.

However, it is incorrect to discredit what the Bible says about homosexuality because of the passing of Mosaic law. Homosexuality falls under a different category than mere ceremonial law. It was addressed through moral laws also. These laws are the ones that say we shouldn’t lie, steal or cheat.

As for the capital punishment of homosexuals, Jesus took that punishment himself on the cross, satisfying God’s judgment of sin and homosexuality.

Some argue that people are born homosexual, making it wrong to condemn people for what they cannot control. When God created men and women, he sanctioned them to have relationships and sexual

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is good enough reason to oppose gay marriage fail to follow the Bible’s actual directions.

The Levitical injunction against homosexuality (Leviticus. 18:22, 20:13), which memorably declares it an “abomination,” also says homosexuals (or non-celibate male homosexuals, anyway) “shall surely be put to death.”

Responses to this passage usually run along the lines of, “But that was the Old Testament,” or, “But Levitical laws were only meant to apply to the ancient Jews, and their culture was so different,” as if it were any more or less moral to execute capital punishment upon homosexuals in a different culture 2,500 years ago than it is here and now.

Some theologians also have tried to classify Leviticus’s decree of death for homosexuals as part of a set of ceremonial religious laws.

According to this interpretation, Leviticus speaks of gay sex as a type of idolatry, and does not in any sense class it as a sexual crime.

This is, however, pretty obviously contradicted by the verse’s placement — right between the prohibition against sleeping with one’s daughter-in-law and the prohibition against sleeping with one’s mother-in-law, neither of which anyone argues would be anything other than sexual crimes.

I’m certainly happy Christians would rather try to rationalize Leviticus’s death sentence than enforce it.

But the truth is, the Bible does unambiguously condemn gays to be executed, and conservative Christians who attempt to brush Leviticus 20:13 aside are engaging in exactly the same sort of excuse-making that allows liberal Christians to discard the Bible’s statements on homosexuality entirely.

I don’t hold the Bible as the definitive moral authority on homosexuality and, unless you’re a Westboro Baptist Church type, most Christians and non-Christians don’t either.

If you need a credible justification for your homophobia, the Bible will be next to worthless except for posturing among other conservative Christians.

I’d suggest manipulating STD statistics instead.

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There’s hope, but OU still has work to do he moment when Texas Tech wideout Michael Crabtree grabbed the football from two Texas defenders and muscled his way into the endzone, he practically rendered every reporter in Oklahoma powerless this week.

No matter what the question, how it’s worded, or how many times it’s asked, every Sooner will give the same answers.

“You have to take it one game at a time.”

“There’s still a lot of football to be played.”

“The only thing we can control is ourselves.”

And while those quotes are nothing more than coach-taught (or maybe common sense) clichés, they’re true.

The real question is, can the Sooners take their STEVEN own advice?

JONES There is a difference between last Friday and today. Although OU still needs many things to fall its way to make it to the Big 12 title game and possibly the BCS championship, it all began with a Texas loss.

And now OU has hope.

But there are a lot of things out of the Sooners’ hands. It is pivotal for them to have the same mindset today that they’ve had ever since the Texas loss.

They need to think as if the Texas/Texas Tech showdown was just another game. But can they?

If it was just another game, then why did the crowd erupt when score updates flashed on Oklahoma Memorial Stadium scoreboard on Saturday night?

If the game was insignificant, then why were hundreds of people gathered outside O’Connell’s after the game watching the Red Raiders’ victory on the big screen?

The fact is, in Norman, Tech’s win felt like a big deal. It wasn’t meaningless, because if Texas had won, the Sooners could have practically kissed their chances of winning the Big 12 south goodbye.

But the Texas loss doesn’t hand the title to OU either, it simply extends that hope for one more week.

And the rest of the season won’t be easy.

The Sooners appear to still be adjusting to the changes at middle linebacker. The special teams may be improving, but isn’t solid.

And OU is going to face some talented teams at the end of the season.

So Texas Tech’s win helps the Sooners, but there’s still work to be done. If they become so focused on elements that are out of their control, they’ll drop a game themselves.

The players know it, and all week they’ll say the right things.

They need to play the rest of this season one game at a time. They have to focus on their next opponent and nothing else. OU can only control OU. But will they believe the words coming out of their own mouths?

It shouldn’t take much time to find out.

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KYLE BURNETT Daily Sports Writer The Sooners scored 28 points within six minutes of kickoff and didn’t look back on the way to a 62-28 rout of rival Nebraska.

The Cornhuskers got off to a dreadful start, with turnovers on three of their first five plays.

The turnovers began with an interception returned for a touchdown by sophomore cornerback Dominique Franks on the ‘Husker’s first play from scrimmage.

Franks successfully read a wide receiver screen and jumped into the passing lane for an easy interception.

“Franks really ignited us by jumping that screen,” head coach Bob Stoops said. “He read it well and anticipated it, he just got in position and made an aggressive play.”

After Nebraska received the ball again, Keenan Clayton forced a fumble and OU responded with a 48-yard strike from sophomore quarterback Sam Bradford to senior wide receiver Quentin Chaney.

This put OU up 21 points, and the blowout didn’t stop there. Nebraska’s senior quarterback Joe Ganz’s pass was deflected and subsequently intercepted by senior safety Lendy Holmes.

Nebraska’s statline at the time: five offensive plays, three passes, three turnovers and 16 total yards.

A quick strike to junior tight end Jermaine Gresham put the Sooners up by 28 points.

“When you get all over someone really quick, and jump on them, it really gets them on their heels,” defensive coordinator Brent Venables said. “It creates momentum, creates points, and gets things a lot more comfortable out the gate.”

Stoops said he couldn’t remember a quarter where his team scored so much in so little time.

“I looked at the clock and I couldn’t believe that was all the time that was gone,” Stoops said. “You know, when you get turnovers and have a short field and making plays, it’s going to happen like that.”

At halftime, the Sooners led 49-14.

Bradford contributed much of the scoring, tossing five touchdowns to four different receivers on the day.

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Wide receiver Quentin Chaney (84) outruns two Nebraska defenders to the endzone during OU’s victory Saturday. Chaney’s touchdown came after the Sooners forced a fumble on Nebraska’s thid play of the game.

Bradford, who went 19-for-27 for 311 yards, has reached the five touchdown mark four times this season.

“Yeah, he’s protected well and he can step into his throws,” Stoops said. “And he has such accuracy and throws such an easy ball to catch.”

Bradford’s ability to connect with multiple receivers kept the Nebraska defense stumbling all day.

OU recorded 508 yards of total offense — 193 rushing and 315 passing.

Bradford completed passes to eight different receivers, and Chaney led them all with five catches for 128 yards.

The Cornhuskers finished with 418 total yards — including 165 rushing yards from Roy Helu — but turnovers crippled their chances of mounting a successful comeback.

“You know when our defense takes one to the house and gets us a short field it makes our job a whole lot easier,” Bradford said. “And I feel like we have a very good chance of scoring when we touch the ball.”

Kickoff coverage was one area of concern coming into the game, but Stoops said he was pleased with the performance of his special teams.

He said he liked how much OU was getting on their returns and the effectiveness at stopping Nebraska’s returns.

The Huskers returned seven kickoffs on the day for 145 yards for an average of 20.7 yards per return, the Sooners’ best special teams performance since the season opener.

OU’s next game comes this Saturday will in College Station, Texas, against Texas A&M, ranked fifth in the Big 12 South.

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Staff Pick Results

The Daily Consensus Corey DeMoss This week: (5-3) Overall: (51-21)

Joey Helmer This week: (6-2) Overall: (49-23)

3 Texas 2 Georgia 2

Nebraska at (4) OU (1) Texas at (7) Texas Tech (8) Florida at (6) Georgia (15) Florida State at Georgia Tech West Virginia at (25) Connecticut Kansas State at Kansas Wisconsin at (21) Michigan State Pittsburgh at Notre Dame

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3 Florida 3 Florida State 2 West Virginia3 Kansas 3 Michigan State 3 Notre Dame2 Texas Tech

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Kyle Burnett This week: (5-3) Overall: (49-23)

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3 3 Florida State 2 Connecticut 2 Kansas3 Michigan State 3 Notre Dame2 Texas Tech Florida

Steven Jones This week: (6-2) Overall: (41-31)

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Eric Dama This week: (4-4) Overall: (42-30)

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MJ Casiano This week: (4-4) Overall: (43-29)

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Annelise Russell This week: (5-3) Overall: (51-21)

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Sooners try to avoid watching scoreboard • OU stays focused on task at hand despite Texas Tech’s success JOEY HELMER Daily Staff Writer With OU driving midway through the second quarter and about to add to its already insurmountable lead, the stadium scoreboards flashed “Score Alert.”

Texas Tech 19, Texas 0.

The crowd instantly erupted. The Sooners were on the 10-yard line and about to add another score, but the fans’ attention was transfixed on the game in Lubbock that could help save the Sooners’ Big 12 title hopes.

But the players maintained a clear focus despite knowing that the big game in Lubbock had a major impact on what happens in the upcoming weeks as far as Big 12 play is concerned.

Offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson said he stressed that importance.

“I told them afterwards they can watch that scoreboard or watch that TV all they wanted, but it really doesn’t matter,” Wilson said. “It’s really what we do. Whether Texas were to win or lose or Tech win or lose, there’s a lot of ball, and we have a lot of ball [left].”

Wilson said many teams lose focus because of glancing at the scoreboard and mentally exiting games.

“The worst thing that can happen this time of year is too many teams scoreboard watch,” Wilson said.

But the importance was obviously there.

From the interview room after OU completed its 62-28 blowout victory, as head coach Bob Stoops spoke in the postgame press conference, media members checked their phones to see how Texas Tech was faring.

Moments later, roars exploded from the OU stadium concourse and Stoops jokingly said, “Well, I guess you know what just happened.”

As players entered the room, it was apparent the upset the Sooners needed to get back into the conference race had come true.

Texas Tech had just won 39-33 thanks to last-second heroics from Michael Crabtree.

While the players wanted to keep the focus on the win over Nebraska, the significance of the Tech victory could not be ignored.

“Anytime a top-10 ranked team goes down, it always helps you out,” said senior wide receiver Quentin Chaney.

OU must now focus on its next opponent and make sure it does not have an emotional letdown.

“We have Texas A&M next week, so we can’t look forward to anyone except for them,” Chaney said.

For a team that has seen its share of misfortunes — including a season-ending injury to junior middle linebacker Ryan Reynolds, a number of other injuries and the heartbreaking loss to Texas — players said they have now been given a second chance.

“We should never have been in a position to count on Texas losing, but since we are and Tech beat Texas, we are in control of our own destiny now,” said sophomore defensive tackle Gerald McCoy. The Sooners still need help to qualify for the Big 12 Championship, but the biggest hurdle is now out of the way.

If Texas Tech only loses once and that comes against OU, and the Sooners win the rest of their games, the Big 12 tiebreaker would come down to which team is ranked highest in the BCS. Texas Tech is currently No. 2, Texas is No. 5 and OU is No. 6. However, if the Sooners are able to defeat Tech and Oklahoma State, they would likely finish with the highest BCS rank.

Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good, and in this case fortune has begun to smile on the Sooners.

AP Photo “We just have to make sure we take care Texas Tech wide receiver Michael Crabtree (5) pulls in the game-winning of business,” McCoy said. “That game is over now, so we just need to handle what touchdown against Texas cornerback Curtis Brown (3). Crabtree scored with one is in front of us.” second left to give Texas Tech a 39-33 win over previously unbeaten Texas.

TEXAS/TEXAS TECH RECAP • Texas Tech led 19-0 at one point and 22-6 at halftime.

• The Texas offense did not score its first touchdown until there were 12 seconds left in the third quarter.

• Texas took its first lead with 1:29 left in the game.

• Down by one point, Texas Tech drove 62 yards in six plays and scored with one second left on the clock.

• Texas quarterback Colt McCoy finished with 294 yards, two touchdowns and one interception — which was returned for a touchdown. Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell finished with 474 yards, two touchdowns and zero interceptions.

• After the upset, Texas Tech jumped to No. 2 in the BCS rankings, while Texas fell to No. 5. Tech now has to play Oklahoma State and OU in its next two games.

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Slain photographer’s work displayed in Gaylord Hall f you get the chance to experience “Journey: Dan Eldon’s Images of War and Peace,” a photography exhibit on display in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication through Nov. 23, you should brace yourself for an emotional viewing.

CASSIE Eldon, who was killed in 1993 RHEA LITTLE at the age of 22 while working for Reuters in Africa during the Somalian conflict, was a photojournalist who created and collected a compilation of journal entries and collages during his expedition. The display of his work is filled with longing faces and compelling text that express the emotions he felt throughout his stay in Somalia, and the emotions of the people living in Africa at the time.

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with compelling eyes gazes at the viewer. The word “ROTTING” is splashed across the bottom of the photo. In another work, sketches of surreal artwork along with a Somalian photo creates an uneasy feeling with martyr-like tension. In the photos displaying the artist himself, it is easy to see his self-sacrificial attitude and his love for the Somalian people.

Almost every photo in the exhibit has been crafted in at least three mediums, which mesh together to create a well-rounded display of the artist’s emotions at the time of his journey.

The exhibit is one that would appeal to almost anyone. It has a wealth of artistic value but also displays a great deal of human courage and selfsacrifice. The display tugs at the heart and is pleasing to the eye but more than anything, it expresses a story that will inspire viewers and leave a lasting image in their minds for many years to come.

— CASSIE R HEA LITTLE IS A JOURNALISM SOPHOMORE.

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Artwork by late photojournalist Dan Eldon is displayed Wednesday evening in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Eldon was killed in 1992 in Somalia while working for Reuters. The exhibit, entitled “Journey: Dan Eldon’s Images of War and Peace,” will be on view through Nov. 23.

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A&E BRIEFLY McCain pokes fun at campaign on ‘SNL’ NEW YORK — John McCain was a hit on “Saturday Night Live,” just not as big a hit as his running mate.

The Republican, who poked fun at his presidential campaign’s financial shortcomings and his reputation as a political maverick in Saturday’s appearance, led the show to its second-best overnight ratings since a December 1997 holiday episode.

NBC estimated Sunday that when the final national viewer estimate is known later this week, it will be a little less than 12 million people. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s appearance two weeks ago was seen by 15 million people, according to Nielsen Media Research.

The presidential hopeful made a cameo appearance at the beginning of the show, with Tina Fey reprising her memorable impersonation of Palin.

McCain, who is trailing Democrat Barack Obama in most battleground state polls, also appeared during the show’s “Weekend Update” newscast to announce he would pursue a new campaign strategy in the closing days of the campaign.

“I thought I might try a strategy called the reverse maverick. That’s where I’d do whatever anybody tells me,” McCain said.

And if that didn’t work, “I’d go to the double maverick. I’d just go totally berserk and freak everybody out,” the Arizona senator quipped.

Def Jam exec dies from self-inflicted gunshot

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Well wishers wait to enter a community memorial celebration honoring Darnell Donerson, Jason Hudson and Julian King at the Pleasant Gift Memorial Baptist Church Sunday in Chicago. Friends and relatives of Jennifer Hudson gathered at her childhood church in Chicago for an evening memorial service to mourn the Oscar-winning actress’ slain mother Darnell Donerson, brother Jason Hudson, and nephew Julian King.

Slain Hudson relatives remembered RUPA SHENOY Associated Press CHICAGO — Mourners in Jennifer Hudson’s childhood church Sunday listened as the second-grade teacher of the entertainer’s slain nephew read aloud from journals written by his classmates — including one who lamented that Julian King didn’t live long enough to become president.

With three of Julian’s classmates standing by her side, Carmen Williams of Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy remembered the 7-year-old as a smart boy who liked to tell knock-knock jokes.

“When Julian raised his hand, he had that enthusiastic light in his eyes, and he always — always — had the right answer,” Williams said.

Friends and relatives gathered for the memorial service at Pleasant Gift Memorial Baptist Church on the city’s South Side to listen to spiritual songs and reminisce about Julian, as well as Hudson’s mother and brother, who were found shot to death late last month.

Many of those songs featured Hudson, a former “American Idol” contestant with a new album and an Academy Award, who did not attend the service for Darnell Donerson, 57, Jason Hudson, 29, and Julian. Jennifer Hudson’s sister, Julia, also did not attend. Private funeral services are scheduled for Monday.

Mourners dressed in black or white hugged and greeted one another Sunday while music played on the chapel speakers. Large pictures of Jason Hudson and Julian King stood at the front of the room, and relatives took turns recounting stories.

Shari Sweat, a cousin of Darnell Hudson Donerson, called Donerson by her nickname, “Doll,” as she recounted how important the upcoming election was to her.

“Doll refused to be left out of this historical moment in this nation, and before she left these shores she cast her vote,” Sweat said.

Several of Julian’s young cousins sang “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” as the audience clapped along. Julian’s classmates said he shared his school supplies generously and loved Spider-Man. One wrote a journal entry after learning of Julian’s death that read, “Julian was smart. I’m sad he didn’t get to be president of the United States.”

Sean Howard, executive assistant to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, said he was with the Hudson family when they went to the medical examiner’s office last week to identify Julian’s body.

“When Jennifer and her family walked in, Jennifer was a pillar in that room,” Howard said. “You have a true leader in your family in Jennifer.”

Painting by Italian master turns up in Texas JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS — A painting by Italian master Sebastiano Ricci, long presumed to be lost, has turned up in Texas after a 300-year journey from the hands of a European nobleman playboy to a fur trader and finally through generations of one family.

Ricci’s “The Vision of St. Bruno” will be offered by Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries on Nov. 20. Heritage officials say the painting has been conservatively estimated to fetch at least $600,000.

The family that owns the work asked Heritage chairman of fine arts Edmund Pillsbury a year ago to take a look at a painting they had stored in a warehouse. They thought it could be a Ricci, but Pillsbury was skeptical.

He was floored when he realized that the 3-by-4 foot painting — depicting a robed St. Bruno looking up at a colorful grouping of angels — did indeed appear to be the work of

the famous Venetian painter.

“I was not prepared for something that was as good and beautiful as this,” said Pillsbury, former director of Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum.

Pillsbury said Ricci probably painted St. Bruno around 1705.

Ricci, who died at 74 in 1734, worked for all of the major courts of Europe, Pillsbury said.

“His paintings are in all of the great museums,” he said.

The last known documentation of the St. Bruno painting was a 1776 catalog of the collection of Count Francesco Algarotti, an 18th century art connoisseur from Venice who advised royalty on their collections and was also known for his colorful love life.

“He was definitely a playboy, but a welleducated playboy,” said Marianne Berardi, senior fine arts expert for Heritage.

The painting had most recently been passed down through the descendants of Charles Rannells, a St. Louis lawyer and legislator who acquired it in the 1840s. It graced homes in

Maplewood, Mo.; Webster Grove, Mo; Dexter, Mo.; Stillwater, Okla.; and Dallas.

Berardi said Rannells’ descendants thought that the painting was a payment of legal fees from a client of Rannells, Joseph Philipson.

Berardi’s research found the painting was in an 1844 probate list of works owned by Philipson — a fur trader, banker and brewer whose dry goods store outfitted explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

Philipson probably acquired the Ricci around 1814 in Paris.

Laura Taylor of Dallas, a great-great granddaughter of Charles Rannells, remembers the painting hanging in her grandparents’ parlor and then in her parents’ living room. She said her mother took an interest in the painting, deciding it was a Ricci after seeing another work by the artist in a St. Louis art gallery.

“She knew it was an important painting,” Taylor said. “She’s spent her whole lifetime trying to find out for sure.”

Taylor said her family has enjoyed watching some of the mystery of the painting unravel.

“The story’s been fascinating. It kind of brings these people to life,” she said.

ATLANTA — The executive who succeeded Jay-Z as the head of hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound near Atlanta, police said Sunday.

Executive vice president Shakir Stewart, 34, died on Saturday, his New Yorkbased label said in a statement.

Stewart was found Saturday afternoon in the bathroom of his home in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, Cobb County police spokeswoman Cassie Reece said Sunday. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

Police described the shooting as self-inflicted and would not say who discovered Stewart.

Stewart signed such artists as Rick Ross and Young Jeezy to the label before being named in June to the post once filled by Jay-Z. The Oakland, Calif., native came to Atlanta to attend Morehouse College, where he graduated in 1996, his label said in an announcement for his promotion in June.

Fox’s long-running ‘King of the Hill’ canceled LOS ANGELES — “King of the Hill” is over the hill at Fox, which is canceling the long-running animated comedy.

Final episodes of the half-hour series, now in its 13th year, likely will air during the 2009-10 season, Fox said Friday. The network recently ordered 13 new episodes, and animated series have a long production schedule.

“King of the Hill” chronicles the life of blue-collar family man Hank Hill of Texas and his family and friends. Hank is voiced by series co-creator and executive producer Mike Judge. Others in the cast include Kathy Najimy, Brittany Murphy and Stephen Root.

The picture is brighter for another Sunday night animated show on Fox, “American Dad,” which was renewed for its fifth season. It has posted singledigit ratings gains among advertiser-favored young adult viewers and total viewers.

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Republicans may take Senate for first time in state history TIM TALLEY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — A century after statehood, Republicans are poised to take over the Oklahoma Senate for the first time ever and give the GOP historic control of both houses of the Legislature.

But Democrats who have dominated the state Capitol for much of the past 100 years have a different plan. Four years after Republicans took control of the House, Democratic leaders believe they still have enough support among voters in Tuesday’s legislative elections to hang on to the Senate and keep the two chambers politically divided.

“It’s going to be close, no matter what,” said Sen. Kenneth Corn, D-Poteau, chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus. Control of the 48-member Senate, which has been evenly divided with 24 Republicans and 24 Democrats the past two years, could be decided by the election of a single new member of either party.

“You’re not going to have a large majority either way,” said Senate co-President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee, R-Oklahoma City.

Randy Swanson, executive director of Oklahoma Republican Senatorial Committee, said the GOP’s goal is “to break the tie.”

“We’re in a good position to take over,” Swanson said. “But the Democrats aren’t giving up their tie easily right now. After 100 years, it’s tough for Democrats to consider being in the minority.”

Republican House Speaker Chris Benge of Tulsa

said a GOP win in the Senate would place new political emphasis on issues like lawsuit reform and road and bridge improvements that House Republicans have supported since they took control of the chamber for the first time in 80 years in 2004.

“Never in state history have we had both houses of the Legislature,” Benge said. “Much more exciting than that is for us to be able to build on what House Republicans have done for the past four years.”

Republicans enjoy a 57-44 majority in the state House. And both Republicans and Democrats expect to increase their presence in the chamber following Tuesday’s election.

“I think we’re going to surprise the Democrats with how many seats we’re going to win or come real close to winning,” said Rep. Trebor Worthen, R-Oklahoma City, Benge’s political director.

“The House Republicans will have no problem hanging on to their majority and it’s very likely we could see some modest gains,” Worthen said.

Democratic Leader Danny Morgan of Prague said it is unlikely Democrats will capture the seven seats they need to retake the majority. But they still have a chance to win between three and six new seats and could regain control of the House by 2010.

“We will certainly close the gap to get closer to the majority,” Morgan said. “We put some really good candidates on the ground. Now it’s up to the voters.”

House and Senate leaders said candidates in key

legislative races will spend the final hours before the general election knocking on doors and placing phone calls to make personal contact with voters in the hope of winning their support.

“Our members are out in the field helping to knock on doors,” Corn said. “We’ve really got a ground game that is taking place that is unprecedented for Senate Democrats.”

“The personal contact of a candidate with voters is the most important thing,” Worthen said.

“These candidates for the most part have literally been going door-to-door and campaigning since the beginning of this year. It’s been a long process for them.”

Many hotly contested races are being waged in open seats vacated by incumbent lawmakers due to term limits. Among them, former Oklahoma State University President Jim Halligan is the GOP candidate seeking to replace term-limited Senate President Pro Tem Mike Morgan, D-Stillwater.

Halligan is opposed by Democrat Bob Murphy, a former state judge.

Sen. Nancy Riley of Tulsa has been the target of Senate Republicans since she switched from Republican to Democrat in 2006 after the primary election when she was an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor.

She is facing Republican Dan Newberry, a mortgage broker, in a district where Republicans hold a significant edge in voter registration.

In another key contest, Democratic Sen. Richard Lerblance of Hartshorne is opposed by Republican Kenny Sherrill of McAlester.

Soldiers recieve unnecessary medical care • Clinics admit soldiers with lighter injuries LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — In a rush to correct reports of substandard care for wounded soldiers, the Army flung open the doors of new specialized treatment centers so wide that up to half the soldiers currently enrolled do not have injuries serious enough to justify being there, The

Associated Press has learned.

Army leaders are putting in place stricter screening procedures to stem the flood of patients overwhelming the units — a move that eventually will target some for closure.

According to interviews and data provided to the AP, the number of patients admitted to the 36 Warrior Transition Units and nine other community-based units jumped from about 5,000 in June 2007, when they began, to a peak of nearly 12,500 in June 2008.

The units provide coordinated medical and mental health care, track soldiers’ recovery and provide broader legal, financial and other family counseling. They serve Army

active duty and reserve soldiers.

Just 12 percent of the soldiers in the units had battlefield injuries while thousands of others had minor problems that did not require the complex new network of case managers, nurses and doctors, according to Brig. Gen. Gary H. Cheek, the director of the Army’s warrior care office.

The overcrowding was a “selfinflicted wound,” said Cheek, who also is an assistant surgeon general.

“We’re dedicating this kind of oversight and management where, truthfully, only half of those soldiers really needed this.”

Cheek said it is difficult to tell how many patients eventually will

be in the units. But he said soldiers currently admitted will not be tossed out if they do not meet the new standards. Instead, the tighter screening will weed out the population over time.

“We’re trying [to] change it back,” to serve patients who have more serious or multiple injuries that require about six months or more of coordinated treatment, he said.

By restricting use of the coordinated care units to soldiers with more complex, long-term ailments, the Army hopes in the long run to close or consolidate as many as 10 of the transition units, Cheek said during an interview in his Virginia office near the Pentagon.

AIDS-hit Swaziland promotes circumcision CLARE NULLIS Associated Press MBABANE, Swaziland — Nelson Mdlovu strides out of the small clinic with a spring in his step and a smile on his lips just minutes after being circumcised.

Mdlovu swallowed his fears to line up with nine other equally nervous men for the 30-minute operation. They joined the ranks of hundreds of Swazi men who have opted for circumcision, after the U.N. said last year that it could cut the risk of contracting the HIV virus by as much as 60 percent.

With the help of training from Israeli surgeons, Swaziland now leads the African rush to embrace an ancient surgical intervention against a modern scourge.

Its zeal is born of desperation. Swaziland suffers from the world’s highest AIDS rates _ nearly 40 percent of pregnant women and 19 percent of its 1.1 million people are infected.

This is the equivalent of 56.6 million Americans, 11 million Britons, 212 million Indians and 248 million Chinese. Life expectancy has halved to 31 years in just a decade.

Mdlovu says he thinks circumcision will change his life.

But there are rumbling fears that the “kindest cut” may actually be a double-edged sword, if men fool themselves that circumcision gives them immunity and indulge in risky sexual behavior.

“It doesn’t mean you are 100 percent protected,” nurse Prudence Mkhatshwashe tells the men clutching pink numbered tickets in the freshly painted waiting room.

“You are just 60 percent protected, and you can get infected with the other 40 percent.”

“Use a condom always. Don’t compromise,” she orders, before giving care and hygiene instructions like no running and no playing football _ and above all no sex for the next six weeks until the healing process is complete. The scene repeats itself daily at the clinic run by the Family Life Association of Swaziland.

The AIDS epidemic has reversed all Swaziland’s economic and social gains since independence from Britain 40 years ago. Mass male circumcision, which requires local anesthetic and a surgeon, will add additional demands to overstretched facilities in a country which has only 170 doctors.

But both the government and the family life association are determined to press ahead, saying the benefits of the operation far outweigh the costs.

“If you had a vaccine with a 60 percent effectiveness rate, every government would force people to line up and have it,” says Derek von Wissel, director of Swaziland’s National Emergency Response Committee on HIV/AIDS. Universal male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa could prevent 5.7 million new infections and 3 million deaths over 20 years, according to modeling studies cited by the U.N.

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Details NEWS BRIEF Teen pregnancies tied to sexy TV shows CHICAGO — Groundbreaking research suggests that pregnancy rates are much higher among teens who watch a lot of TV with sexual dialogue and behavior than among those who have tamer viewing tastes.

“Sex and the City,” anyone? That was one of the shows used in the research.

The new study is the first to link those viewing habits with teen pregnancy, said lead author Anita Chandra, a Rand Corp. behavioral scientist. Teens who watched the raciest shows were twice as likely to become pregnant over the next three years as those who watched few such programs.

Previous research by some of the same scientists had already found that watching lots of sex on TV can influence teens to have sex at earlier ages.

Shows that highlight only the positive aspects of sexual behavior without the risks can lead teens to have unprotected sex “before they’re ready to make responsible and informed decisions,” Chandra said.

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Kristina Anne Sokolowsky, 20, 1100 block Brandywine Lane, Thursday Alfreda Denise Amartey, 40, Imhoff, Thursday, also driving under suspension Jay Carlton Cox, 24, 100 block Beacon Circle, Friday Marv Ledell Johnson, 45, 200 block W. Gray Street, Friday Malcolm Rashad Lewis, 22, 12th Avenue S.E., Friday Paul Matthew Sampson, 29, 1400 block 24th Avenue, Friday Jacob Travis Baker, 25, Oakhurst Avenue, Friday Alvin Lewis Draper, 23, 2500 block W. Brooks Street, Saturday Tiffany Nicole Laster, 27, 200 block W. Gray Street, Saturday

DISTURBING THE PEACE Marvin Leroy Diamond, 32, 100 block W. Acres Street, Thursday

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE-LIQUOR OR DRUGS/ACTUAL PHYSICAL CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE Marina Chasity Mckane, 30, Miller Avenue, Thursday Nicole Denise Bergschneider, 20, E. Main Street, Friday Jeffrey Alan Boren, 48, 1200 block W. Robinson Street, Thursday Gregory Lee Ellis, 46, W. Tonhawa Street, Friday, also transporting open bottle Patrick Tyler Glidden, 22, Technology Place, Saturday, also driving with license canceled/ suspended/revoked

PETTY LARCENY Jada Marie Miller, 39, 300 block N. Interstate Drive E., Thursday Johnny Dale Campbell, 39, 1200 block E. Alameda Street, Thursday, also trespassing

PUBLIC INTOXICATION Joshua Dean Milligan, 31, 1700 block E. Lindsey Street, Wednesday Christopher Glenn Shirey, 24, 1000 block E. Alameda Street, Thursday Logan Calaway Branch, 18, 60th Avenue N.E., Saturday Benjamin Alexander Duperroir, 23, 1000 block Miller Avenue, Saturday Matthew Chance Hollingsworth, 20, 1300 block Classen Boulevard, Saturday Spencer Lewis Mabry, 20, 500 block Buchanan Avenue, Saturday Justin Bryce Taylor, 22, Jenkins Avenue, Saturday

POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA Jeremy Jesse Workman, 22, E. Alameda Street, Thursday

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE William Scott Wilson, 21, Lindsey Street, Wednesday, also failure to carry owner’s security form in vehicle Olivia Angeles-Mendez, 25, Frank Street, Friday Caitlin Lillian Hill, 19, Jenkins Avenue, Friday

OUTRAGING PUBLIC DECENCY Taylor C. Graham, 20, 700 block Asp Avenue, Friday

INTERFERENCE WITH OFFICIAL PROCESS Quincy Toliver Taylor, 37, 800 block Jona Kay Terrace, Friday

MOLESTING PROPERTY Dijon Lamont Allen, 19, 3400 block Bob Bush Drive, Friday

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POSSESSION OF ALCOHOL Devon Beachem, 20, 1400 block McKinley Avenue, Saturday

POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA Madestelle S. Clark, 30, 1300 block Glen Oaks Court, Friday

ASSAULT AND BATTERY Joseph Edward Click, 20, 200 block Skylark Court, Friday Benton Phillip Flusche, 21, 100 block Page Street, Saturday Shawn Kevin Guschel, 36, 200 block Skylark Court, Friday

ASSAULT AND/OR BATTERY WITH DANGEROUS WEAPON Barry A. Harrison, 47, 800 block Ash Court, Saturday, also county warrant Barry Lee Harrison, 21, 800 block Ash Court, Saturday

NUISANCE PARTY Alaina Janae Jones, 21, 1400 block McKinley Avenue, Saturday

POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES Hugo Rene Morales-Fernandes, 47, 1900 block Fillmore Avenue, Friday, also public drunk

AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE/ACTUAL PHYSICAL CONTROL

Heather Len Allison, 33, 400 block S. Berry

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TUESDAY SCHOOL OF MUSIC There will be a free concert at noon at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS

UNION PROGRAMMING BOARD • A seminar on procrastination will be at 1:30 p.m. in the Carnegie Building, room 200.

• A seminar on careers will be at 3 p.m. in the Carnegie Building, room 200.

SOKA STUDENTS ASSOCIATION The opening ceremony of the Victory Over Violence Exhibit will be at 4 p.m. in Beaird Lounge of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

There will be a Bible study at noon in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Frontier Room.

OU VOTES: 2008 IN 2008 ELECTION WATCH PARTY There will be an election night watch party at 5 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom.

PRE-NURSING CLUB There will be a meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the Physical Sciences Center, room 122.

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There will be a meeting on campus sustainability issues at 9 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Presidents Room.

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SAN FRANCISCO — As California voters prepare to decide on Tuesday whether to eliminate the marriage rights same-sex couples won just five months ago, gay people and their allies have been encouraged to tell co-workers and neighbors why gay marriage matters to them.

Same-sex couples who have married since June knocked on doors in neighborhoods across the state on Sunday to share stories with the voters they hoped to persuade to defeat Proposition 8.

In recent weeks, other gay opponents of the ban, including a Roman Catholic priest, a former Republican mayor and a small-town newspaper editor, came out of the closet to show how the issue cuts across religious and social lines.

TONGO, Congo — Tutsi-led rebels tightened their hold on newly seized swaths of eastern Congo Saturday, forcing tens of thousands of frightened, rain-soaked civilians out of makeshift refugee camps and stopping some from fleeing to government-held territory.

Aid organizations said they were increasingly worried about a lack of food and shelter.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- If you can position yourself to be the one who determines the conditions and the course of action, you’ll accomplish a great deal. Don’t relinquish any authority you already have.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Lady Luck will cooperate once she sees you are making a strong effort to do your best with what is given to you; it behooves you to do so because there are large financial gains to be made.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Even if you know someone who has chased a dream but failed, it doesn’t mean you will suffer the same fate. The more determined you are, the greater your chances will be.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -Don’t hesitate to swim against the currents, because you’re stronger than you think and will have a great chance to reach your destination. Plus, Lady Luck will assist any willing contender.

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Campaign News

Monday, Nov. 3, 2008

WILL YOUR VOTE COUNT? The

mourning after

• While some celebrate, others will mourn after election day TED ANTHONY Associated Press PITTSBURGH — The meteorologists tell us that Wednesday morning in southwestern Pennsylvania’s largest city will be crisp and sunny with a high of 64.

That’s about all we know. Being a weather forecast, it offers nothing about the political climate that will have been created by the election the day before.

The outlook is obvious but often overlooked: In a deeply divided nation, on the first dawn after we choose a new leader, every ray of victory’s sunshine brings a corresponding thundercloud of defeat and bitterness.

“There are going to be a whole bunch of people who are distraught and who won’t know what to do — no matter which side wins,” says Chris Ivey, 36, a Pittsburgh filmmaker and ardent Barack Obama sup-

porter. “People will try to go back to their routine, but there’s going to be a lot of soul-searching to do.”

On Wednesday, roughly half of Americans will awaken to find that the horse they backed disappointed them. That presumes we even have an immediate result; don’t forget 2000, when America had to wait more than a month.

Yet there is, in the national conversation, surprisingly little talk about not accepting the winner if things don’t go your way. Sure, some Democrats joke about moving to Canada, but gauging the severity of responses on the day after is a gauzy exercise in tarot-card reading that even television’s loudest mouths rarely discuss.

While the spectrum of possible morning-after reactions runs from water-cooler grousing to partisan lawyering to violence, the depth of sentiment this year — more impassioned, many say, than even the last two elections — could make for a bumpy ride, particularly if the results are close.

This is, after all, the culmination of a political season that saw people weeping at rallies, schoolchildren taking sides and, in one case, a teenager getting shot after trying to remove a sign for John McCain from an Ohio lawn. As David Gergen, a White House adviser during the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton

administrations and now a CNN analyst said on air a couple of weeks ago: “We’ve got a country now that we’re sneering at each other across cultural lines.”

Will blacks, craving a victory that could offset the albatross of American racism, accept a negative outcome? Will Christian conservatives who got so energized about Sarah Palin reject the system and grow isolated if she’s sent back northward? Will “real America” accept a victory by “Eastern elites,” or vice versa? How will Hillary Rodham Clinton’s supporters — and the Clintons themselves — emerge from it all?

And the question no one wants to articulate: Will anyone unhappy with the outcome resort to uglier methods of registering disapproval?

Ask around and you’ll find partisans casting about to figure out how they’ll cope with an undesired outcome.

If Obama wins, says southwestern Virginian and McCain backer Steve Nagel, he’ll put nation above politics. “I’m not going to do anything to undermine him,” Nagel said last week at a Palin rally in Salem, Va., “I’ll support the country.” Nearby, though, Julie Thornton of Roanoke expressed trepidation at Democrats’ reaction should McCain prevail. “I’m hoping they’ll be civil,” she said, “but I’m worried.”

Campaigns uncork get-out-the-vote operations NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Barack Obama and John McCain uncorked massive getout-the-vote operations in more than a dozen battleground states Sunday, millions of telephone calls, mailings and door-knockings in a frenzied, fitting climax to a record-shattering $1 billion campaign. Together, they’ll spend about $8 per presidential vote.

With just two days to go, most national polls show Obama ahead of McCain.

State surveys suggest the Democrat’s path to the requisite 270 electoral votes

— and perhaps far beyond — is much easier to navigate than McCain’s.

Obama exuded confidence. “The last couple of days, I’ve been just feeling good,” he told 80,000 gathered to hear him — and singer Bruce Springsteen — in Cleveland. “The crowds seem to grow and everybody’s got a smile on their face. You start thinking that maybe we might be able to win an election on November 4th.”

In Peterborough, N.H., McCain held his final town hall-style event in the state that put him on the national map in 2000 and launched his GOP primary comeback eight years later. “I come to

the people of New Hampshire to ask them to let me go on one more mission,” said McCain, who is looking for an upset victory against Obama.

Polls show the six closest states are Florida, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Nevada and Ohio. All were won by Bush and made competitive

by Obama’s record-shattering fundraising. The campaigns also are running aggressive ground games elsewhere, including Iowa, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Colorado and Virginia.

All that’s left now for the candidates is make sure people vote Tuesday — if

they haven’t already.

Indeed, Election Day is becoming a misnomer. About 27 million absentee and early votes were cast in 30 states as of Saturday night, more than ever.

Democrats outnumbered Republicans in pre-Election Day voting in key states.

That has Democrats — and even some Republicans — privately questioning whether McCain can overtake Obama, even if GOP loyalists turn out in droves on Tuesday. Obama may already have too big of a head start in critical states like Nevada and Iowa, which Bush won four years ago.

WASHINGTON — Voting for president and having your ballot be the deciding one cast — statistically, that is like trying to hit the lottery. The odds for the average person are 60 million to 1 against it, a study shows.

In some states, the odds of being the vote that tips the election to your candidate are much better. In others they are astronomically worse.

The study by three prominent statisticians used millions of computer runs of polling data to examine the likelihood that a single vote will carry a state and that that particular state will tip the balance in the Electoral College. The statisticians were trying to answer the question: “What is the probability your vote will make a difference?”

The answer is very low. You are far more likely to be hit twice by lightning.

Trying to figure out what the odds would be if the polls are wrong and the race is tighter than expected, the statisticians made some more calculations after boosting John McCain’s numbers across the board and figured the average person would then have a 1 in 12 million chance of their vote deciding the election.

Either way, “it’s still a chance, it’s like buying a Powerball ticket,” said study lead author Andrew Gelman, a professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University.

For some people, though, the odds approach fathomable numbers. Residents of swing states have the best odds of swinging the election. That’s based not on the size of the state but the likelihood that the race will be close and that their state will make the difference in the Electoral College.

In New Mexico, the odds are 1 in 6.1 million of a voter casting the ultimate deciding vote.

“If you’re in New Mexico, you have a better chance of having your vote matter than winning the New York Lottery,” said study co-author Aaron Edlin, a professor of economics and law at the University of California, Berkeley.

In Virginia, the odds are 1 in 7.9 million. New Hampshire residents have 1 in 8 million chance of being the key vote. In Colorado, the odds are 1 in 9.9 million. In those states, voters are more likely to decide the election than die by dog bite this year.

For everyone else after those four states, fat chance. The next lowest odds — for Nevada — are 1 in 28.2 million, worse than death-by-dog bite odds of 1 in 10.9 million in one year.

Thirty-four states have odds greater than 1 in 100 million; 20 states have odds worse than 1 in 1 billion. Alabama’s odds are 1 in 12.2 billion.

Oklahoma’s odds are 1 in 20.5 billion. But the nation’s capital has it the worst. The odds of a District of Columbia resident casting the vote that decides the election are 1 in 490 billion.

That’s essentially zero, but Gelman said: “We never like to say zero in statistics.”

— AP

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