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NEWS BRIEFS
WASHINGTON
No crow on menu
during Bush, Pelosi
lunch chat
President Bush and incoming
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, per-
haps the biggest loser and winner
on Election Day, pledged over lunch
yesterday to bury the hatchet and
cooperate. When possible.
At the White House, where Bush
had invited Pelosi for lunch, presi-
dential aides joked that there was no
crow on the menu for Bush to eat.
Bush ate a little anyway, and he
saluted Pelosi, not only as Tuesday's
victor but as the first woman who
will ascend to the position of House
speaker, third in line to the presi-
dency.
"The elections are now behind
us, and the congresswoman's party
won," Bush said. "But the challeng-
es still remain. And therefore, we're
going to work together to address
those challenges in a constructive
way."
The president and his guests sat
down for a make-nice luncheon of
pasta salad and chocolate in Bush's
private dining room off the Oval
Office.
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip
Palestinians call
for revenge during
funeral in Gaza
Women collapsed in grief, a
man hoisted his dead baby aloft
and tens of thousands of Palestin-
ians called for revenge yesterday
as they jammed a cemetery for the
funeral of 18 civilians killed in an
errant Israeli artillery attack.
Despite the deadly incident,
Israel said it would keep attacking
Gaza as long as Palestinian rocket
barrages persist, although the
army ordered artillery fire to stop
pending the results of an investi-
gation.
Amid the anguish, Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas called
his main political rival, Hamas'
supreme leader Khaled Mashaal
- a move that could help prevent
the Islamic militant group from
renewing attacks on Israel and
pave the way for a moderate Pales-
tinian government.
The shells landed Wednes-
day as residents were sleeping in
the northern Gaza town of Beit
Hanoun, and witnesses said many
were killed as they fled their
homes in panic.
WASHINGTON
Millions of
headache relief pills
recalled
A pill designed to give people
relief from headaches is instead
causing them.
Consumers are having to read
the fine print on bottles of acet-
aminophen to see if the ones in
their medicine cabinet are being
recalled because of possible con-
tamination with metal.
Perrigo Co. said yesterday it was
recalling 11 million bottles of acet-
aminophen after finding bits of
metal, including portions of wire
as long as one-third of an inch, in
some of the 500-milligram pills it
made.
The company is no household
name, but it makes and sells acet-
aminophen to more than 120 of
America's best-known retailers,
including Wal-Mart, CVS and Safe-
way. Those companies in turn sell
Perrigo products under their own
or other private labels.
There were no immediate
reports of injuries or illness.
The Food and Drug Adminis-
tration warned that consumers
who take any of the contaminated
pills could suffer minor stomach
discomfort or possible cuts to the
mouth and throat. Even though the
riskis remote, anyone whosuspects
they have been injured should con-
tact a doctor.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports
WHO APPROVEDOF PROP 2
AND WHO DIDN'T
(AP) -AnAssociated
Press poll found that the
ballot proposal to end affir-
mative action was popular
with white men, voters from non-
unionhouseholds, college graduates,
Republicans, Catholics,suburbanites
and those who said they were getting
ahead financially.
It was opposed by blacks, union
members, postgraduates, Democrats
and big-city residents.
Allen concedes defeat in
pivotal Senate race
ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DAH
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -
Republican Sen. George Allen
gracefully conceded defeat Thurs-
day after a bruising battle against
Democrat Jim Webb, sealing the
Democrats' control of Congress
and the political downfall of a man
once considered a White House
contender.
Allen said the "owners of gov-
ernment have spoken and I respect
their decision."
"The Bible teaches us there is a
time and place for everything, and
today I called and congratulated
Jim Webb and his team for their
victory," he said.
Webb, a former Republican and
Navy secretary under President
Reagan, claimed victory early
Wednesday after election returns
showed him with a narrow lead of
about 7,200 votes out of 2.37 mil-
lion ballots cast.
Allen chose not to demand a
recount when initial canvassing of
the results failed to significantly
alter Webb's lead.
"I see no good purpose being
served by continuously and need-
lessly expending money and caus-
ing any more personal animosity,"
he said. "Rather than bitterness, I
want to focus on how best Virgin-
ians can be effectively served by
their new junior senator."
The Virginia contest was the last
undecided Senate race in the coun-
try, and Webb's victory tipped the
scales, giving the Democrats con-
trol of 51 Senate seats and majori-
ties in both the House and Senate
for the first time since 1994.
Earlier in the day, Sen. Conrad
Burns conceded the Montana Sen-
ate race to Democrat Jon Tester,
catching Tester on the phone as he
headed for a barber shop to get his
famous flattop hair trimmed.
The call was "very cordial, very
professional. It was positive," Tes-
ter, a farmer and state legislator,
told The Associated Press.
Burns, a three-term GOP senator
whose campaign was troubled by
gaffes and voter discontent, made
no public appearances. But he
released a written statement saying
he was ready to "help as Montana
transitions to a new United States
senator."
"We fought the good fight and
we came up just a bit short. We've
had a good 18 years and I am proud
of my record," he said.
In the Virginia race, Allen had
been expected to cruise to a second
term this year and make a run for
the White House in 2008.
The son of a Hall of Fame foot-
ball coach, Allen served as gover-
nor in the 1990s and was popular
for abolishing parole and institut-
ing other conservative reforms.
But in Webb he faced an uncon-
ventional challenger. Supporters
drafted Webb, a political neophyte,
to run because of his early opposi-
tion to the Iraq war.
Allen, 54, was comfortably ahead
in polls until August, when he
mockingly referred to a Webb cam-
paign volunteer of Indian descent
as "Macaca," regarded by some as
a racial slur. The incident, caught
on videotape, became international
news. Some former football team-
mates from the University of Vir-
ginia also charged that Allen had
commonly used a slur for blacks
- something he denied.
Webb, a 60-year-old Naval Acad-
emy graduate and decorated Viet-
nam veteran, tried to tie Allen to
President Bush and the war during
the campaign.
JOROMYCHO/Daily
Milan resident Sally Walsh looks up at Athena, her Congo African Grey parrot
at the Ann Arbor Community Center yesterday.
Transit planners focus
on Detroit-to-A2 rail
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TMI Guest Speaker
DETROIT (AP) - Regional
transportation planners have ruled
out light rail and other options for
a mass transit connection between
Detroit and Ann Arbor, but still
believe there is potential for a
streamlined commuter rail.
The Southeast Michigan Council
of Governments released a study on
five transit alternatives for the SO-
mile corridor. None of the options
- which included locomotive-pow-
ered commuter rail, light rail and
bus routes on high-occupancy-vehi-
clelanes - proved feasible, said Alex
Bourgeau, SEMCOG's coordinator
of intermodal transportation.
"The numbers that we got as far
as ridership and costs on the five
alternatives are not competitive
nationally," he said yesterday. "We
have to compete for that (federal)
money against the New Yorks and
Chicagos."
However, that doesn't mean the
region should give up on the idea,
Bourgeau said. He said of the five
alternatives, SEMCOG picked a
commuter rail option that uses an
existing track owned by Norfolk
Southern Corp. Planners will now
focus on a streamlined model of
that option that involves less fre-
quent service and avoids some
additional capital investment that
was part of the original model.
In addition to using the track
owned by Norfolk Southern, the
option would rely on existing
Amtrak stations.
"Right now we have to really
roll up our sleeves and start talking
to the people who own the stuff,"
Bourgeau said.
Bourgeau said a revised model
should be ready by January and
regional officials could conceivably
have a proposal ready to submit to
the federal government by March.
He said a cheaper option would
be more competitive for funding,
or the region's governments could
choose to put something in the
ground on their own and hope fed-
eral money would come later for
expansion.
"At Toyota: Growth Through Localization"
Yasuhiko Ichihashi
President, Toyota Technical Center
Friday, November 10, 2006
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
0750 Wyly Hall, Ross School of Business
Hosted by the Tauber Manufacturing Institute (TMI)
for Global Operations Excellence
www.tmi.umich.edu
Gates aims to revive Iraq policy
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi-
dent Bush's sudden selection of
former CIA Director Robert Gates
as defense secretary brings back
a member of the team that waged
the successful first Gulf War with
just two years to resuscitate the
faltering U.S. policy in Iraq.
Explaining his decision on
Wednesday, Bush portrayed Gates
as a force of change.
He said he was a solid leader
who will make the necessary
adjustments in Iraq.
"He understands we're in a
global war against these terrorists.
He understands that defeat is not
an option in Iraq," Bush said. "And
I believe it's important that there
be a fresh perspective."
Gates' resume as a government
policymaker is not untarnished.
Critics dredged up his 1991 confir-
mation hearings to be CIA direc-
tor as evidence he is the wrong
man for the job.
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