The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com NEWS BRIEFS BAGHDAD Iraqi authori- ties claim 250 extremists dead POWDER TO THE PEOPLE 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. more than 250 corpses had been _______ -----__eft,______d___s___rst__a____ a___ ews_-__ ndbeause__ fthat,_eventh 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 Provincial officials said the piV lpg an e duroianac r Lbarriers, found political voice gnmndleduattcradnede dt b p e t 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 From page 1A in class at Angell Hall or the Chem- istry Building, you'll be able to boot up your laptop and enjoy service. 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