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Corrections agreement paves way for session to adjourn

TITLE IX COMPLAINT

Are school districts playing fair? Bend-La Pine, Redmond among those accused of having inadequate girls’ sports By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

Sports programs at two Central Oregon school districts are not offering equal access to female students under federal Title IX legislation, according to a complaint filed with the U.S. Department

of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The complaint names 60 school districts in Oregon. Schools cited in the complaint include four high schools in the Bend-La Pine district — Bend, La Pine, Mountain View and Summit — and Redmond High in the Redmond School District. No other

Central Oregon districts are named in the complaint. Large school districts, including Portland, Eugene, Salem-Keizer and Beaverton, are listed. Now the Office for Civil Rights must determine whether to investigate the claims. The complaint alleges that the percent-

ages of female students at these schools who participate in athletics are disproportionately low; that schools have padded their participation numbers using girls on cheerleading and dance teams; and that the schools aren’t fully meeting the needs of their female students because they’re not offering a full array of female sports. See Title IX / A4

By Lauren Dake The Bulletin

SALEM — Key lawmakers have reached an agreement on the state Department of Corrections budget, ending an impasse that has prevented lawmakers from adjourning. “We started this process in a very inclusive manner and looked for IN THE broad-ba sed LEGISLATURE solutions, and we’re ending it with a compromise in the Inside same way,” • Kitzhaber said Rep. Pesigns bill ter Buckley, to create D-Ashland, a education co-chair of the oversight Legislature’s Ways and board, Means budget Page C1 committee. The legislative leaders in charge of crafting the budget have agreed on a package of bills that would fill an approximately $20 million gap in spending for the Department of Corrections. The department’s total budget is $1.4 billion. In part, lawmakers agreed to extending sentencing limits that would curb the maximum penalty for a parole violation to 60 days, as long as the violator isn’t convicted of another crime. This was one of the major sticking points between the two parties. In the end, the limit will only last until 2013. This freed up about $9.8 million that lawmakers could put toward the department’s budget. Other details will emerge today as lawmakers meet in committee to discuss the package. Buckley said it was important that the deal struck also addressed other “pressing needs.” See Session / A4

At the end, bin Laden lost control of al-Qaida

THE CYMBALS OF SUMMERTIME

By Saeed Shah McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Photos by Andy Tullis / The Bulletin

A STUNNING SPECTACLE A massive blast of lightning bolts shoots down toward Bend during Monday night’s storm. The U.S. Forest Service said it recorded 483 lightning strikes in Central Oregon during the storm, which caused a small fire near Cultus Lake.

LIGHTNING STRIPE Al Cline stands by a pine tree that was struck by lightning in Monday’s storm, near his Bend home Tuesday morning.

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“I saw this huge flash and this thunderous boom, and I went out because I thought it hit our motor home,” he said.

TALIBAN: NATO forces end hotel raid, Page A3 WILDFIRE: Nuclear lab under threat, Page A3

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Decades after duty in OSS and CIA, ‘spy girls’ find each other in retirement II mission. Even though it turns out that Bohrer, 88, was an opWASHINGTON — To her, it erative in the war, too: OSS, then looked like a harmless piece of CIA, just like McIntosh. coal, about the size of her fist. To most other residents of the She remembers passing it to a suburban retirement community, Chinese secret agent. She rethese two elegant, well-coiffed members later learning about widows, Betty and Doris to evthe train, the bridge, the exploeryone, are just part of the anonsion. Sometimes she thinks she ymous parade of aged men and has suppressed many wartime women who play mixed bridge memories, but even after almost and talk about the day’s menu at 70 years, they can creep back. the dining hall. Elizabeth “Betty” McIntosh, How curious that, although 96, says that is part of being a their paths never crossed durspy: the doubts about whether Submitted photo ing their undercover careers, you did the right thing, and Doris Bohrer during McIntosh and Bohrer would find hearing about those who died her time in the Office each other here, neighbors on because of what you did, and of Strategic Services. the same street in the Westminwhether you had alternatives. ster at Lake Ridge seniors vilBut it was a war. lage in Prince William County, Her friend Doris Bohrer would under- Va. Two women who laugh like girls when stand, but even so, McIntosh still hasn’t di- they reminisce, who are nearly inseparable. vulged everything about every World War McIntosh says she calls Bohrer almost

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan — Osama bin Laden was out of touch with the younger generation of al-Qaida commanders, and they often didn’t follow his advice during the years he was in hiding in northern Pakistan, U.S. and Pakistani officials now say. Contradicting the assertions of some American officials that bin Laden was running a “command and control” center from the walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, officials say that bin Laden clearly wasn’t in control of al-Qaida, though he was trying to remain involved or at least influential. “He was like the cranky old uncle that people weren’t listening to,” said a U.S. official, who’d been briefed on the evidence collected from the Abbottabad compound and who spoke only on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. “The younger guys had never worked directly with him. They did not take everything he said as right.” Nearly two months after bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs who raided his hideout in the early morning hours of May 2, a more detailed picture is emerging of how the world’s most wanted fugitive lived out his final years secreted in the walled compound in this town in the Himalayan foothills, where neighbors still deny ever having an inkling that he was there. See Bin Laden / A3

Docs suspected of fudging data on spinal product for financial gain

By Ian Shapira

The Washington Post

By John Fauber Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Katherine Frey / The Washington Post

Doris Bohrer, left, and Elizabeth McIntosh share a past of wartime service and adventures, some of which they cannot reveal even today. every morning, just to make sure she’s still alive. Bohrer, for her part, can still drive and runs errands for her friend, who is eight years older and finds it less easy to get around. “How’s it doing today, Betty?” Bohrer asks recently, stepping inside McIntosh’s living room, where paintings by a Japanese prisoner of war hang on the wall. See Spy girls / A5

MILWAUKEE — Enthusiasm bubbled over in 1999 as a group of surgeons from around the country began to implant a new spinal fusion product in patients that initially appeared to safely grow bone and help fuse vertebrae. Then something bad happened. Only a few months into one of the first clinical trials of the Medtronic product Infuse, CT scans showed unwanted bone had formed in the spinal canal of 70 percent of patients. The trial, intended to include hundreds of people, was halted after only 34 patients received Infuse implants. See Spinal / A4


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