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BAGHDAD
Iraqi authori-
ties claim 250
extremists dead
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U.S.-backed Iraqi forces killed
about 250 militants in a daylong
battle near Najaf aimed at prevent-
ing attacks on religious pilgrims
during major Shiite rituals, Iraqi
authorities said.
Iraqi officials said aUS. helicop-
ter crashed duringthebattle, which
began early yesterday when Iraqi
forces attacked militants about 12
miles northeast ofdNajaf. ROtMIgRIe/Dary
Col. All Nomas, spokesman for Four people have a snowball fight Friday on Palmer Field. Cold and snowfall finally replaced unseasoealy warm temperatures
Iraqi security forces in Najaf, said last week.
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found at the scene. Army Maj. Gen.
Othman al-Ghanemi also spoke of
250 dead but said an exact numberes H at vadnce froM r t e
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emonies marking Ashoura, which By JODI KANTOR nizer who had spent years search- Friends say he did not want any-
commemorates the 7th centuIy The New York Time ing for his idencity by the time he one to assume they knew his mind
death of Imam Hussein. His death-bg a d-s s left, he had his first national news - and because of that, even those
began the schism between Sunnis CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The media exposure, a book contract close to him did not always know
and Shiites. peers who elected Barack Obama as and a shot of confidence from run- exactly where he stood. It is a ten-
the first black president of the Har- ning the most powerful legal jour- dency that could prove perilous on
DAVENPORT, Iowa vard Law Review say he was a nato- nal in the country. the campaign trail, as voters, rivals
dal leader, an impressive student, a Obama proved deft at naviga- and the news media try to fix the
bCli tol to Bush: al l nice goy. ing an institution scorched with positions ofasenatorwith onlytwo
.xIn his two memoirs and the ideologia battles, many of which years in office.
troops out of Iraq I biographical video on his website, revolved around race. He devel- "He then and now is very hard
O bamas legal education is barely a oped a leadership style based more to pin down," said Renneth Mack,
by January 2009 blip, one of the least known chap- on furthering consensus than a classmate and now a professor at
ters of his life. But for the Illinois on imposing his own ideas. Sur- the law school.
Sen. HillarytRodhamrClintonsaid Democrat who is all but certainly rounded by students who enjoyed Charles Ogletree, another Har-
yeserday thatPresidentBushshould running for the presidency, Har- the sound of their own voices, yard law professo' and a mentor of
withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq ard was the place where he first Obama cast himself as an eager s- Obamas, said, "He can enter your
before he leaves office, asserting it became a political sensation. tener, sometimes giving warring space and organize your thoughts
would be "the height of irresponsi- He arrived there as an unknown, classmates the impression that he without necessarily revealing his
bility" to pass the war along to the Afro-wearing community orga- agreed with all of them at once. own concerns and conflicts."
next commander in chief.
"This was his decision to go towar
with an ill-conceived pian and an
incompetently executed strategy,"
the Democratic senator from NewIng."en i then t als dn t
York said in her initial presidential
campaign swing through Iowa.
The White House condemned 3,000 cen1trifuges WAR
Clinton's comments as a partisan
attack that undermines U.S. soldiers. Lawmaker had said trifoges, underlining that the coun-S
"The height of irresponsibility," try would continue to developit
White House spokesman Rob Sail- Iran was committed disputed nuclear program despite
terman said, "would be to cap our U.N. sanctions.
troop numbe rs at an arbitrary fig- to nuclear ambitions It was notcimmediately clear why%
ore and to cut off their funding.". the two officials made contradict-
WIRELESS
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in class at Angell Hall or the Chem-
istry Building, you'll be able to boot
up your laptop and enjoy service.
A growing number of students
and faculty have been calling for
more coverage on campus, LSA
administrators said.
Withonly20 percent ofLSAbuild-
logs served by wireless, the Univer-
sity has fallen behind schools like
Ball State University and Western
MichiganUniversity, whichcame in
first and second on Intel's list. Ball
State and WMU have entirely wire-
less campuses, as do most of the col-
leges in Intel's top SO.
Only 11 percent of the top SO
schools on the Intel list had entire-
ly wireless campuses in 2004. In
2005, though, that percentage had
jumped to 74 percent.
Monday, January 29, 2007 - 3A
"It is vital for the campus to
have easy access to the latest com-
puter technology," said Terrence
McDonald, dean of LSA, in a press
release. "This will allow students,
faculty and staff to access the
Internet, research data, personal
documents and e-mail anywhere
on campus."
LSA sophomore Senay Mekonen
said wireless Internet helps stu-
dents get the most of their lec-
tures.
"Laptops are a big part of col-
lege," Mekonen said. "Every stu-
dent these days has a laptop. Being
able to access the supplements to
what you are using in class can be
really helpful."
An increase in wireless coverage
is also likely to mean more students
behind computer screens in lecture.
"More people will probably start
bringing laptops to, class," LSA
sophomore Katie Jones said.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.
Huckabee begins
bid for White
House in 2008
Republican Mike Huckabee, the
former Arkansas governor and a
fayorite of conservatives, will take
the first step in a 2008 presidential
bid, an official told The Associated
Press on Friday.
Huckabee, 51, plans to file papers
today establish'g an exploratory
committee that will allow him to
raise money and hire campaign
staff, said the official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity to avoid pre-
empting a formal announcement.
Huckabee faces difficult odds
as he enters a crowded Republican
field topped by better-known, bet-
ter-funded candidates like Sen.
.ohn McCain of Arizona, former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
and former New York City Mayor
Rudy Giuliani.
JERUSALEM
Israeli president
asks for time to
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Ira-
nian nuclear agency official has
denied claims made by a top law-
maker that the Islamic Republic
had begun installing 3,000 centri-
fuges at an uranium enrichment
plant, Iran's state-run news agency
reported late Saturday.
Hossein Simorgh, spokesman
of Iran's Atomic Energy Organiza-
tion public relations department,
said "no new centrifuges have been
installed in Natanz," referring to
the nuclear facility in central Iran,
the official Islamic Republic News
Agency reported.
Earlier Saturday, lawmaker
Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Iran was
currently installing the 3,000 cen-
ing statements. Iranian officials
have in recent weeks said the coun-
try was moving toward large-scale
enrichment involving 3,000 centri-
fuges, which spin uranium gas into
enriched material.
The United States and its allies
believe that Iran is using its nuclear
program as a cover to produce an
atomic weapon. Iran has repeat-
edly denied the allegations, saying
its program is only for peaceful
purposes including generating
electricity.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokes-
man Mohammad Ali Hosseini
refused to elaborate on the dis-
crepancy yesterday, saying only
that the contradicting remarks
were a "technical matter."
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clear name
Israeli President Moshe Katsav
rebuffed growing calls for his res-
ignation yesterday.
Katsav asked parliament to tem-
porarily suspend him from office
while he fought to clear his name.
But momentum was building for To play: Complete the grid so that ev
lawmakers to open unprecedented
impeachment proceedings against and every 3x3 box contains the
the president, and top officials,
including Prime Minister Ehud There is no guessing or math
Olmert, urged Katsav to stop cling- ust use logic to solve. Good Lu
ing to office and allow the nation to
heal.
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The 2007
Hopwood
Underclassmen
Awards
Academy of American Poets Prize
Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize
Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry
Jeffrey L. Weisberg Poetry Prize
Roy W Cowden Memorial Fellowship
Will be announced
Tuesday,January 30, 3:30 p.m.
Rackham Amphitheater
(fourth floor of the Rackham Bldg.)
Poetry Reading by
Linda Pastan
Author of:
Qeen of a Rainy County
Carnival Evening: New and Selected Rents 1968-1998
An Early Afterlfie
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The Five Stages ofGrief
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high bid was $8,285 - up from an
opening bid of $12.50. The auction
closes on Saturday. The collection
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