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Additional 00piesmnay be prckerO ap at tsDailys otta tar52. RSusariptionsforf tall torm starting in septeber, via U.S. nail ass 5010. Witerterm (Jadarysothough April s $15,t.yearlogI(Sptemnrthrough Aril) is $195. University affilates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Melinda Duckett, 21, the mother of missing 2- year-old Trenton Duckett, holds a picture of her and her son in Leesburg, Fla. Suicide shakes up Florda case Friends blame media for pushing mother of missing child over the edge LEESBURG, Fla. (AP) - Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melin- da Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV's famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace. Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?" A day after the taping, Duckett, 21, shot herself to death, deepening the mystery of what happened to the boy. Police have refused to say whether she left a suicide note, and said nothing they have found so far in their investiga- tion of her death has shed light on the whereabouts of her 2-year-old son, Trenton. Investigators have stopped short of calling her a suspect but have focused increasing attention on her movements just before the boy vanished and the notes, computer, cam- era and other items seized from her house. Duckett's family members disputed any suggestion that she hurt her son. They said the media sent her over the edge. "Nancy Grace and the others, they just bashed her to the end," Duckett's grandfather Bill Eubank said. "She wasn't one anyone ever would have thought of to do something like this. She and that baby just loved each other, couldn't get away from each other. She wouldn't hurta bug." Janine Iamunno, a spokeswoman for Grace, said Duck- ett's death was "an extremely sad development;' but that the program would continue covering the case. "We feel a responsibility to bring attention to this case in the hopes of helping find Trenton Duckett, who remains missing' " Iamunno said. Duckett had told police that after she finished watch- ing a movie Aug. 27, she went to check on Trenton in his bedroom, and all she found was an empty crib - and a 10-inch cut in the window screen above it. At the time, she was living with her son, wading through a messy divorce with the boy's father and trying to get her life back on track after getting laid off from her job with a lawn care company. NEWS IN BRIEF WASHINGTON White House, GOP senators clash Negotiations between the White House and a trio of powerful GOP senators snagged yesterday over Bush administration demands that Congress reinter- pret the nation's treaty obligations to allow tough CIA interrogations of ter- rorism suspects. Sen. John Warner, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said his panel would meet today to finalize an alternative to President Bush's plan to prosecute ter- ror suspects and redefine acts that constitute war crimes. Warner said he was aware the White House may come out in opposition of his legislation. The Supreme Court ruled in June that Bush's court system established to pros- ecute terrorism suspects was illegal and violated the Geneva Conventions. Since then, Congress and the administration have been drafting legislation that would authorize Bush to continue with the military commissions. BAGHDAD 65 tortured bodies found in latest violence The leader of Iraq's biggest Sunni Arab group demanded yesterday that the beleaguered Shiite-led government take steps to disarm militias after police said the bodies of 65 tortured men were dumped in and around Baghdad. On a violent day even by the standards of Baghdad, car bombs, mortars and other attacks also killed at least 39 people and wounded dozens. Two U.S. soldiers also were killed, one in enemy action in restive Anbar province on Monday and the other in a roadside bombing south of Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S. military command said. UNITED NATIONS Annan: Iraq war a 'disaster'. for Mideast U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said yesterday that most leaders in the Middle East believe the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and its aftermath "a real disaster" for the region. Annan said many leaders believed the United States should stay until Iraq improves, while others, such as Iran, said the United States should leave immediately. That means that the United States has found itself in the dif- ficult position where "it cannot stay and it cannot leave." "Most of the leaders I spoke to felt the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath has been a real disaster for them," Annan said. "They believe it has desta- bilized the region." WASHINGTON Progress slow in fighting childhood obesity One-fifth of children are likely to be obese by 2010, yet the government killed a promising program that portrayed exercise as cool. Other efforts to turn the tide of childhood obesity are scattershot and don't have enough money, the Institute of Medicine said yesterday. The institute did find some encouraging signs that the threat to children's health is being taken seriously. Programs that target youngsters' growing waistlines are sprouting nationwide, it said. But no one knows which programs really help kids slim down, the insti- tute said in calling for research to identify the best methods. - Compiledfrom Daily wire reports CORRECTIONS M A story on the front page of yesterday's paper (By The Books) mistakenly said Ulrich's bookstore made $169 million last year. Ulrich's parent company, Nebraska Book Company, earned that sum. On the same page, a story (Ford to attend Weill Hall Opening Event) incorrectly stated the location of the new Joan and Sanford Weill Hall. It is at State and Hill streets. Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com. 4 I 4 A All MONTH you can get a FREE Tall Cosi Premium Coffee NO COUPON NECESSARY - JUST HENTION THIS AD Ann Arbor 301 S. State Street Rochester Hills 84 N. Adams Rd. Birmingham Farmington Hills 101 N. Old Woodward Ave. 37652 Twelve Mile Rd. East Lansing 301 E. Grand River Ave. Southfield 28674 Telegraph Rd. a Visit www.getcostco for restaurant hours. 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