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WASHINGTON C u t yt y n
House to confront
presidentonIraq to create urban buzz
next week

Democratic critics of the Iraq
war seized the offensive at both
ends of the Capitol yesterday, dis-
closing plans for a symbolic rejec-
tion by the House of President
Bush's decision to deploy additional
troops and filing legislation in the
Senate to require withdrawal of
U.S. military personnel.
"We're going to stand by our sol-
diers, but we're not going to stand
by a failed policy that exposes more
of our soldiers to death and suffer-
ing," said Sen. Richard Durbin of
Illinois, rebutting charges that the
war's critics may be undermining
the morale or even the safety ofU.S.
forces.
Democrats pressured Bush to
change course as Defense Secre-
tary Robert Gates told lawmakers
that U.S. forces might be able to
start leaving Iraq before the end of
the year - if daunting conditions
including subdued violence and
political reconciliation are met.
WASHINGTON
Romney to launch
'08 campaign in
Dearborn
RepublicanMittRomneywillfor-
mally announce his candidacy for
president next week in Michigan,
his native state and an important
early test for the GOP nomination,
campaign aides said yesterday.
The former one-term Massa-
chusetts governor will make his
announcement Feb. 13, and then
will visit Iowa, New Hampshire and
South Carolina - the first states to
hold 2008 contests.
In Dearborn, Romney will hold
what amounts to a made-for-TV
coming out event at the Henry Ford
Museum in the state where he was
born. He has abase ofsupport in the
battleground state and deep roots.
His father, George Romney, was
governor in the 1960s, and served
as chief executive of the American
Motors Corp.
He will return to Boston two
days later, where he will hold what
his campaign is calling "a unity
event" with supporters, aides said.
They spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity because the plans were not
public.
ORLANDO, Fla.
Astronaut in love
triangle charged
with murder
A NASA astronaut accused of
trying to kidnap a romantic rival
for a space shuttle pilot's affec-
tions was charged with attempted
first-degree murder yesterday and
released from jail after posting
$25 000 bail.
"The intent was there to do seri-
ous bodily injury or death," said
Orlando Police Sgt. Barb Jones,
referring to a new steel mallet,
knife, rubber tubing and large gar-
bage bags that police found in Lisa
Marie Nowak's possession.
Nowak, a 43-year-old Navy cap-
tain and married mother of three,
had already been charged with
attempted kidnapping, attempt-
ed vehicle burglary with battery,
destruction of evidence and bat-
tery.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia
Palestinian leaders
set for talks
Palestinian factions on the brink
of civil war gathered yesterday in
Mecca, Islam's holiest city, in a last-
ditch effort to end their bloody con-

flict. The Saudi-led push is key to
any future peace talks with Israel
- and to Arab efforts to blunt Iran's
growing power.
Palestinian President Mah-
moud Abbas of Fatah and Khsled
Mashaal, leader of the militant
Hamas movement, flew to the
Saudi city of Jiddah before heading
to Mecca to meet their host, King
Abdullah, ahead of the start of talks
yesterday.
The talks are open-ended, a
reflection of Saudi Arabia's deter-
mination to keep them going until
the Palestinians reach a deal for
power-sharing in a new coalition
government.
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Daily wire reports
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Percentage of Republican mem-
bers of Congress who believe it
has been proven beyond a reason-
able doubt that the Earth's warm-
ing is caused by human activity,
according to a poll conducted by
the National Journal magazine. In
the same poll, 95 percent of Demo-
crats disagreed, as do most main-
stream scientists.

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Similar projects are under way
arban oases to at about a dozen other institutions
nationwide, including the Univer-
ttract students sity of Connecticut in Storrs; the
University of Notre Dame; Fur-
man University in Greenville, S.C.,
By ALAN FINDER where a retirement community
The New York Times on campus is being planned; and
Hampshire College in Amherst,
NWAY, Ark. - Across from Mass., where construction will
ed-brick, Collegiate Gothic begin soon on 120 condominium
ts of Hendrix College in cen- apartments on campus for working
rkansas lie a few beat-up ball people and retirees.
tennis courts and an expanse "It's part of a pattern of colleges
ods. Downtown Conway is and universities realizing that they
half-dozen blocks away, but have elements that are appealing to
not overflowing with ameni- a population far broader than 18- to
as Frank H. Cox, a member 25-year-olds," said Ralph J. Hexter,
Hendrix board of trustees, president of Hampshire College.
natically put it. "It's often said of a college educa-
decades, colleges like Hen- tion, 'It's a shame it's wasted on the
n rural areas of the country young.'" The distinctive marks of
ced a pastoral ideal, present- many of these campuses are shops,
emselves as oases of scholar- restaurants, offices and housing
urrounded by nothing more that, together, create a destination.
cting than lush farmland The ideais to produce street life and
ling hills. But many officials to promote social interaction.
h institutions have decided Nearly.all of these developments
tudents today want some- are being built by institutions with
completely different: urban vast tracts of unused land; officials
"You can't market yourself hope to take advantage of that asset
olic," J. Timothy Cloyd, the to help build endowments. General-
ix president, said. ly, these are also institutionsthatare
:he same time, officials have not looking to expand significantly
ed that a more urbanized the size of their student bodies.
n of the ideal campus could Students graduating from high
t a population well past its school these days seem particular-
e years - working people ly attracted to urban settings, said
etiring baby boomers - if Cloyd, the Hendrix president who
is housing to suit them. And is a political scientist. Many come
new concept of the college from the suburbs, he said.
us is taking root: a small city "I think students crave the kind
country that is not reserved of vitality you have in an urban
ly the young. space," Cloyd said.
e at Hendrix, construction Storrs, for example, has a 20,000-
this year willbegin creating a student flagship state university,
urban-style village on the 130 but it is a hamlet in the rural hills
of ball fields and-woods that of eastern Connecticut. Down-
llege owns across the street town consists of three small strip
he main campus, with stores, malls, and university officials say
rants, offices and hundreds of the lack of a vibrant college town
ments and town houses. Soon, is frequently cited by students who
ils hope, will come nearly 200 decline offers of admission or decide
-family houses, many with totransfer. officials are seeking final
apartments above the garage, zoning approvals for a large mixed-
own houses, apartments and use complex that will include shops,
yle condominiums and a office space and as many as 800
rr school with the college as a apartments and town houses.
ipant. "This would make it easier for
the corner of the property, them to attract students," said Cleo
e student fitness center is Szmygiel, a UConn freshman from
ly being built, which will be New York City. "There is really not
ble to the owners of houses alot to do here."
condominiums and to the Keelan King, a sophomore from
ment dwellers, probably for Scotia, N.Y., said of the university,
as will many of the college's "It's a nice campus, but there's noth-
cultural and educational ing around here, a place to eat, some-
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place to go after abasketball game."
The new complex, Storrs Center,
is meant to provide a place to go.
"We're never going to be Boston,"
said M. Dolan Evanovich, the uni-
versity's vice provost for enrollment
management. "But having a quint-
essential New England town with
100 businesses and a town green
will be the missing link for us."
Housing for people unaffiliated
with the university is essential to
the project's long-term success,
said Cynthia van Zelm, executive
director of the Mansfield Down-
town Partnership, a coalition of
university, town and community
officials working with a developer
to create the complex. (Storrs is a ANGELA CESERE/Daily
hamlet in the town of Mansfield.) Flooding on the first floor of West Hall last night after a fire suppression pipe burst on the
"You need to have a population fourth floor. Pipes have been breaking around campus as a cold snap grips campus.
of people living downtown," van
Zelm said.
Even the overwhelmingly urban
University of Pennsylvania is
building a large complex on land c
it owns across the street from itsT i-
law school in Philadelphia; the 295
apartmentsowill be available to the English Teaching Program in
public. So will other housing Penn
plans to build on a 25-acre site it is Sh en z h en, Ch i na
purchasing next to campus.
"When you picture a global uni- Spend a year in Shenzhen teaching English and
versity, you picture urban," said
Amy Gutmann, the Penn president. learning Mandarin Chinese. This well-established,
"You picture restaurants, artgaller-
ies, you picture day and night, tak- government-sponsored program is now in its 10th year.
ing in movies, live performances."
IfPennthinks it needsto make its
campus more dense and lively, imag- Training in English teaching methods and in Mandarin
ine the yearning for some touches of Chinese language (at 4 levels) for 3 weeks in August in
urban life at Hendrix, a small liberal
arts college in Conway, a modest but Beijing, with housing and tours
growing town of 53,000. o Free housing at a Shenzhen public school where you
Like the developments in Storrs, will teach oral English, 12 classroom hours per week,
the Hendrix project will be built
in a style known as new urban- Sept. 1 to June 15; one or two participants per school
ism. Buildings will be close to the * Monthly salary, paid vacation, and travel bonus
street and roads kept narrow to
encourage pedestrian traffic and * Chinese classes continue in Shenzhen, a Mandarin-
de-emphasize the use of cars. The speaking modern city of 5 million near Hong Kong
neighborhood and its buildings are
meant to recall the housing and * On-Site Coordinator
shops built in American towns in * Free airline tickets
the first half of the 20th century.
"It is about creating walkable
places that are sustainable and Prior study of Chinese not required. Must be a native
gratifying on a human scale," said
Robert L. Chapman, managing speaker of English with college degree (by July 2007).
director of Traditional Neighbor-
hood Development Partners, the
developer of what will be called For more information and to apply, visit our web site
the Village at Hendrix. The college
is contributing the land and will W m .chinaprogram.org
invest $8 million to $10 million in
the project's first phase, said Cloyd, or phone 901-857-2930
the Hendrix president, and it will
share profits with the developer.



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