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FOOTBALL
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ting Manningham in stride. The
sophomore cradled the ball and
sprinted the rest of the way for a
69-yard touchdown.
The scenario would repeat itself
twice over the next 16 minutes,
with Manningham smoking man-
coverage for virtually identical 29-
yard and 20-yard touchdowns in
the corner of Notre Dame's slash-
marked end zone. By late in the
second quarter, Manningham had
amassed 111 yards receiving on
three touchdown grabs, leading the
Wolverines to a commanding 34-7
lead.
"Mario was excellent," said
Henne, who completed 13-of-22
pass attempts for 220 yards and
three touchdowns. "We practiced
deep balls all spring and summer
with him and one-on-one routes.
And he showed his talent and
speed today."
The Wolverines' stellar defense
made sure that advantage would
stick. Weis's offense - led by
preseason Heisman hopeful Brady
Quinn - came into the game with
the national hype machine singing
its praises. But Michigan's defense
had an answer for every wrinkle
Weis threw at it.
Notre Dame's running game
never got off the ground, and the
Fighting Irish finished with just
four yards rushing on 17 carries.
GOOGLE
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palities for properties on which to
build the permanent office, which
is expected to cost between $20
million and $50 million.
But Mayor John Hieftje said
Friday he wasn't worried about
not hearing from Google.
"I have the phone number of
the gentleman at Google who's in
charge of the new building, and
I can call him anytime I want,"
Hieftjesaid. "Thepeople atGoogle
are going through their processes,
and we'll have to let them."
Google spokesman Michael
Mayzel said the City Council has
no reason to worry.
"We've always had interest
in Ann Arbor - and that inter-
est didn't wane," Mayzel said.
"We're very excited, but we don't
like to go to press with no news,
so that's why we were silent for
Meanwhile, Michigan's defense
may have dealt an irreparable blow
to Quinn's Heisman dreams. With
the Wolverine front four getting
in his face on nearly every pass
play and the secondary blanket-
ing Notre Dame's receivers, Quinn
never found his rhythm. He com-
pleted 24 of 48 passes and threw
three touchdowns, but tossed three
interceptions for the first time since
the Notre Dame-Michigan game
two years ago. Senior linebacker
Prescott Burgess, in particular,
had a field day with Quinn, pick-
ing up the first two interceptions of
his career and returning one for a
touchdown.
"If you let (Quinn) sit back there
in the pocket, he'll pick you apart,"
Burgess said. "We just thought that
we had to come out here and put
pressure on him, and I thought we
did that and we got the job done."
To so much as dent Michigan's
defense, Notre Dame needed some
of its famous luck of the Irish.
Down 40-14 early in the fourth
quarter, Notre Dame took advan-
tage of consecutive pass interfer-
ence whistles against Michigan to
score and cut the Wolverines' lead
to 19.
But the Wolverines' defense
shrugged off the controversial
touchdown and went back to work.
On Notre Dame's next drive, Mich-
igan cornerback Leon Hall literally
took matters into his own hands.
The senior jumped Notre Dame
receiver Jeff Samardzija's route,
dove and picked off the ball, effec-
tively ending any hope of a miracle
comeback.
"I don't think anybody thought
(the defense was) going to play the
way we played, at all" linebacker
Shawn Crable said. "I think (we
were) the only people who thought
we were going to play the way we
played."
The Wolverines' emphatic victo-
ry puts them in recently unexplored
territory. The last time Michigan
entered the Big Ten season unde-
feated was 1999, when the Wolver-
ines finished 10-2, concluding the
season with an Orange Bowl vic-
tory over Alabama.
But this year Michigan comes
into the conference schedule riding
even higher. After losing 17-10 to
Notre Dame in the Big House last
year as the third-ranked team in
the nation, the Wolverines flipped
the script on the Fighting Irish in a
monumental way.
"I think (we won this way)
because we were under the radar,"
said Hart, who ran for 124 yards
on 31 carries. "We knew they were
coming here No. 2 in the country,
Heisman candidates, expecting to
go to the national championship.
... So we knew we had to come out
here and prove ourselves, and that's
what made us play a lot harder.
Whereas last year they were hunt-
ing us, we were hunting them this
time."
Washtenaw Country MCRI chair Ryan Fantuzzi at yesterday's afternoon's Democratic political rally on the
Diag bearing large signs that bore only his own face. Fantuzzi did not seem to be protesting anything in
particular, only repeating the word "No."
a while. This is the news we
wanted to announce, and we
look forward to a lot more going
forward."
Google is accustomed to
working with the University as
a result of "Google Print," an
ongoing digitization project of
several libraries.
By 2010, Google hopes to
copy all 7 million volumes in the
University's libraries and make
them searchable online.
Larry Page, Google's co-
founder and president for prod-
ucts, is also a University alum.
He has tried to bring Google to
Ann Arbor for years, University
President Mary Sue Coleman
told The Michigan Daily in July.
The University has been cru-
cial in bringing Google and
other high-tech industries to
Ann Arbor, Hieftje said.
"Ann Arbor wouldn't be the
same town it is without the Uni-
versity of Michigan," he said.
"It's very hard to separate the
two."
The company plans to hire
about 1,000 new employees for
the new division in the Ann
Arbor area over the next five
years.
. Burnett, a University alum,
said Google representatives will
participate in the fall recruit-
ing process and hold events at
the University to attract new
employees.
"We've had great success hir-
ing from the University of Mich-
igan in the past," Burnett said.
"The University has made itself
very available and very accom-
modating as we've come to town,
and we look forward to working
with them."
Any University graduates
joining AdWords would find
an office already full of fellow
alumni. There are also several
Michigan State University grad-
uates, Burnett said.
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Arbor. Attendees paid $150 for
tickets, and some paid $1,000 to
attend a pre-brunch event and to
take photos with the senators:
Following the fundraiser, the
senators spoke at a rally orga-
nized by the College Demo-
crats. In an attempt to appeal
to the students, rally organizers
played "Clocks" by Coldplay
and "American Baby" by the
Dave Matthews Band.
Stabenow led her Republi-
can challenger, Oakland Coun-
ty Sheriff Mike Bouchard, by
19 points in a recent poll, but
speakers at the rally warned
their faithful constituents not to
become complacent.
Ann Arbor City Council-
woman Wendy Woods (D-Ward
5) encouraged Democratic sup-
porters to work for Stabenow's
campaign. Six Democratic sen-
ators speaking in Ann Arbor
might be an example of preach-
ing to the choir, she said, but "a
choir has to sing."
Landrieu stressed Woods's
point by recounting her close
2002 re-election in Louisiana,
where she said she won her seat
by one and a half votes per pre-
cinct.
Throughout the rally, there
were several mentions of the
Michigan football team's vic-
tory over Notre Dame, earning
cheers from the crowd.
"We're going to see a com-
pletely different kind of blue
victory," College Democrats
chair Jamie Ruth said.
The success of female Dem-
ocrats was a dominant theme
throughout the event. Amos
Williams, the Democratic can-
didate for state attorney gen-
eral, summed up his experience
with women like Stabenow and
Gov. Jennifer Granholm: "They
don't have hot flashes. They
have power surges."
Stabenow was the last to
speak. She rose to the podium
amid the loudest cheers of the
day. Supporters waved their blue
and green signs with the word
"Debbie!" emblazoned on them.
"I'm just proud to be a part
of that team," Stabenow said,
motioning to the senators sit-
ting behind her. She went on to
echo previous speakers' themes
- criticizing President Bush,
stopping the war in Iraq, keep-
ing jobs in Michigan and fund-
ing education.
Support for Granholm, who is
in the middle of a tense re-elec-
tion campaign, was a popular
topic for the speakers. Boxer,
the California senator, called a
series of negative ads against
Granholm some of the "nasti-
est" she'd ever seen.
After the speeches finished,
the senators spent a few min-
utes shaking hands and talk-
ing to students - Sen. Lincoln
even received a blue University
of Michigan hat - before rally
organizers ushered them Away.
An event with such big names
is bound to attract some detrac-
tors.
Speckled throughout the
crowd were signs varying in
political agenda. Some, such as
the anti-Israel protesters, were
issue-specific.
Other signs were more gen-
eral.
Ann Arbor residents Megan
Andrews and Libby Hunter pro-
tested Stabenow and the other
Democrats, saying they did not
accurately represent their par-
ty's liberal constituency.
There was also a small con-
tingency of Republican protest-
ers, including Morgan Wilkins,
an intern for the College Repub-
lican National Committee who
recently made news for radical
campaign event ideas such as
"Catch An Illegal Immigrant
Day."
The Republican protest-
ers brandished signs attacking
Stabenow's physical appear-
ance and her stance on abortion.
Wilkins held a sign that read,
"Debbie kills babies."
As the rally went on, several
of the protesters began to get
closer to the front of the stage
to get their signs noticed. The
supporters tried to block out the
unfriendly signs with their own
signs, which organizers had
handed out earlier.
At one point, a student sup-
porter and an elderly woman
began elbowing each other for
a space in the crowd. A party
organizer settled the scuffle and
the student yielded.
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Tens of thousands,
mostly in Iraq, have
passed through U.S.
detention
BAGHDAD (AP) - In the few
short years since the first shackled
Afghan shuffled off to Guantana-
mo, the U.S. military has created a
global network of overseas prisons,
its islands of high security keeping
14,000 detainees beyond the reach
of established law. Disclosures of
torture and long-term arbitrary
detentions have won rebuke from
leading voices including the U.N.
secretary-general and the U.S.
Supreme Court. But the bitterest
words come from inside the sys-
tem, the size of several major U.S.
penitentiaries.
"It was hard to believe I'd get
out," Baghdad shopkeeper Amjad
Qassim al-Aliyawi told The Asso-
ciated Press after his release -
without charge - last month. "I
lived with the Americans for one
year and eight months as if I was
living in hell."
Captured on battlefields, pulled
from beds at midnight, grabbed
off streets as suspected insurgents,
tens of thousands now have passed
through U.S. detention, the vast
majority in Iraq. Many say they
were often interrogated around
the clock, then released months
or years later without apology,
compensation or any word on why
they were taken.
Defenders of the system say it's
an unfortunate necessity in the
battles to pacify Iraq and Afghan-
istan, and to keep suspected ter-
rorists out of action.
Every U.S. detainee in Iraq "is
detained because he poses a secu-
rity threat to the government of
Iraq, the people of Iraq or coali-
tion forces," said U.S. Army Lt.
Col. Keir-Kevin Curry, a spokes-
man for U.S.-led military detainee
operations in Iraq.
But dozens of ex-detainees, gov-
ernment ministers and lawmakers,
human rights activists, lawyers
and scholars in Iraq, Afghanistan
and the United States interviewed
by The Associated Press said the
detention system often is unjust
and hurts the war on terror by
inflaming anti-Americanism in
Iraq and elsewhere.
Reports of extreme physical
and mental abuse, symbolized by
the notorious Abu Ghraib prison
photos of 2004, have abated as the
Pentagon has rejected torture-like
treatment of the inmates. Most
recently, on Sept. 6, the Pentagon
issued a new interrogation manual
banning forced nakedness, hood-
ing, stress positions and other abu-
sive techniques.
The same day, President Bush
said the CIA's secret outposts in
the prison network had been emp-
tied.
Whatever the progress, small or
significant, grim realities persist.
Human rights groups count
dozens of detainee deaths for
which no one has been punished
or that were never explained. The
secret prisons - unknown in
number and location - remain
available for future detainees.
The new manual banning torture
doesn't cover CIA interrogators.
And thousands of people still lan-
guish in a limbo, deprived of one
of common law's oldest rights,
habeas corpus, the right to know
why you are imprisoned.
"If you, God forbid, are an
innocent Afghan who gets sold
down the river by some warlord
rival, you can end up at (Bagram
prison, Afghanistan) and you have
absolutely no way of clearing your
name," said John Sifton of Human
Rights Watch in New York.
The U.S. government has con-
tended it can hold detainees until
the "war on terror" ends - as it
determines. "When we get up to
'forever,' I think it will be tested"
in court, said retired admiral John
D. Hutson, former top lawyer for
the U.S. Navy.
In Iraq, the Army oversees
about 13,000 prisoners at Camp
Cropper near Baghdad airport,
Camp Bucca in the southern des-
ert, and Fort Suse in the Kurdish
north.
Neither prisoners of war nor
criminal defendants, they are just
"security detainees" held "for
imperative reasons of security,"
said command spokesman Curry,
using language from an annex to
a U.N. Security Council resolu-
tion authorizing the U.S. presence
here.
Others say there's no need to
hold these thousands outside of
the rules for prisoners of war
established by the Geneva Con-
ventions.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan declared last March that
the extent of arbitrary detention
here is "not consistent with pro-
visions of international law gov-
erning internment on imperative
reasons of security."
Meanwhile, officials of Nouri
al-Maliki's 4-month-old Iraqi
government say the U.S. detention
system violates Iraq's national
rights.
At the Justice Ministry, Deputy
Minister Busho Ibrahim told the
AP it has been "a daily request"
that the detainees be brought
under Iraqi authority.
The cases of U.S.-detained
Iraqis are reviewed by a com-
mittee of U.S. military and Iraqi
government officials. The panel
recommends criminal charges
against some, release for others.
Almost 18,700 have been released
since June 2004, the U.S. com-
mand says, not including many
more who were held and then
freed by local military units and
never shipped to major prisons.
Some who were released, no
longer considered a threat, later
joined or rejoined the insurgency.
The review process is too slow,
say U.N. officials. Until they are
released, often families don't
know where their men are - the
prisoners are almost always men
- or even whether they're in
American hands.