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NEWS BRIEFS
ROME
Italian premier
ousted after losing
Senate vote
Premier Romano Prodi resigned
yesterday after nine months in
office following an embarrassing
loss by his center-left government
in the Senate on foreign policy,
including Italy's military mission
in Afghanistan.
Prodi aides did not rule out the
possibility that President Giorgio
Napolitano would ask Prodi to try
to form a new government.
"We are ready to reconfirm
our full faith in the Prodi govern-
ment," said Dario Franceschini, a
leader of the Olive Tree, the larg-
est grouping in Prodi's coalition.
Napolitano's office said politi-
cal consultations would begin
today on which leaders might have
enough support to form a new gov-
ernment. In the meantime, it sAid,
the president, who met with Prodi
yesterday night, has asked him to
stay on in a caretaker role.
BAGHDAD
U.S. helicopter shot
down by insurgents
near Baghdad
A U.S. helicopter was shot down
and crashed north of Baghdad
yesterday, the military said after
initially stating that the chopper
made a "hard landing." All aboard
were safely evacuated by a second
helicopter.
At least seven U.S. helicopters
have crashed or been forced down
under hostile fire since Jan. 20.
Military officials have said that
militants are increasingly targeting
helicopters amid the buildup of U.S.
troops in Baghdad, firing simultane-
ously with an assortment of weap-
ons from different directions.
The military has also detected
another deadly insurgent tactic in
recent weeks - the spreading of
toxic chlorine gas by combining it
with explosives.
WASHINGTON
University for the
deaf could lose
accreditation
The nation's only liberal arts
university for the deaf could lose
its accreditation unless it address-
es concerns about weak academic
standards, ineffective governance
and a lack of tolerance for diverse
views, an education oversight
group warned.
Gallaudet University was rocked
by student demonstrations last fall
that shut down the university for
several days and forced the board
to revoke the appointment of a new
president.
Afterward, the Middle States
Commission on Higher Educa-
tion said it was delaying a decision
on whether to renew the school's
accreditation because of concerns
raised during the protests and
because of a 2005 federal report that
rated Gallaudet "ineffective." The
federal Office of Management of
Budget this month gave Gallaudet an
improved evaluation, to "adequate."
LONDON
Blair says Britain
will pull 1,600
troops out of Iraq
Britain will withdraw around
1,600 troops from Iraq in the com-
ing months and aims to further cut
its 7,100-strong contingent by late
summer if Iraqi forces can secure
the country's south, Prime Minis-
ter Tony Blair said yesterday.
The announcement, on the same
day Denmark said it would with-
draw its 460 troops and Lithuania
said it was considering pulling out
its small contingent, comes as the
U.S. is implementing an increase of
21,000 more troops for Iraq - put-
ting Washington on an opposite
track as its main coalition allies.
Blair told the House of Com-
mons that British troops will stay
in Iraq until at least 2008 and work
to secure the Iran-Iraq border and
maintain supply routes to coali-
tion troops. He told lawmakers that
"increasingly our role will be sup-
port and training, and our numbers
will be able to reduce accordingly."
STUDENTS IN THE MIST
Presidential contenders
throw books into the ring
By JULIE BOSMAN
TheNew York Times
The lineup of potential presi-
dential candidates is a mishmash
of senators, governors, former big-
city mayors and a retired four-star
Army general.
But nearly all of them share one
title: published author.
"You're not a real candidate,
Pinocchio, if you haven't written
your own book," said Mark Hal-
perin, the political director of ABC
News. "If you know everybody else
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is a way to make money, build
gravitas and grab media attention.
(They can also use a memoir as a
dumping ground for past unpleas-
antries, paving the way for the
campaign-trail line "I addressed
that in my book.")
For publishers the 2008 cam-
paign season is the time to rer-
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unpublished candidates and, if
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Dees also said that many com-
panies depend on immigrant work-
ers. For example, Latino workers
rebuilt 98 percent of the roofs in
New Orleans damaged by Hurri-
cane Katrina, he said.
"The bed I slept in last night
would not have been made this
morning if an undocumented work-
er had not been here," he said.
LSA junior Clark Ruper, co-chair
of the University's chapter of the
Young Americans for Freedom, said
the lecture was too vague for his*
taste. Ruper said that he expected
to hear "solid, concrete specifics."
"It was the same lines over and
over again," Ruper said.
Andrew Bronstein, an LSA
junior who attended the lecture at
the suggestion of his grandparents,
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The crowded field of early can- David Rosenthal, the publisher of pla
didates has created a traffic jam Simon & Schuster. Obama's latest gha
what University students can do to of titles, from the rags-to-riches book, for example, has sold more sot
prevent hate and build community memoir to the earnest political than a million copies in hardcover. cia
tolerance. manifesto. Obama's publisher, Crown, just son
There has been a recent rise in All of them could be called reissued his 1995memoir, "Dreams Ari
the number of hate groups in the candidate lit, a publishing mini- of My Father," in hardcover to cap- pr
United States, Dees said during a genre that includes runaway best italize on renewed interest.
panel discussion before the lecture. sellers ("The Audacity of Hope" Obama's recent success has Co
The number of groups monitored by Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois) revived the notion of experiencing did
by the Southern Poverty Law Cen- and unqualified duds ("Between the pace and trappings of a presi- sio
ter has increased by 35 percent in Worlds," a memoir by Gov. Bill dential campaign through a book toc
the last five years, he said. Richardson of New Mexico). tour, said Chuck Todd, editor of the mo
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register," he said.
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"I guess the question that we
have here is that if Chief Illini is
hostile and abusive, then why isn't
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nois alum Steve Schilling said. "You
can't have it both ways."
Some went even further. - a
"What bothers me more than if
it's offensive or inoffensive is the
fact that a minority has made a
change that goes against the major- Y
ity opinion," said retired Univer-
sity of Michigan employee Nancy
Testory. "Removal of the symbol is
more racist than keeping it."
During pregame warm-ups, Illi- 'F
nois players wore commemorative .
shirts in honor of "the last dance"
of Chief Illiniwek. On the backs of
the shirts was a picture of the Chief 106
and the words "Courage. Honor. a
Tradition."
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"The book publishing busi-
ss has become the new explor-
ry committee," Todd said. "For
ama, it was a way of testing the
ters. That's when you find out:
e you interesting enough to get
ough interviews? Can you get
ople to show up for a signing?"
Thetraditionofcandidatebooks
tes back at least to the 1950s,
en John P. Kennedy, then a U.S.
nator, introduced himself as a
ble presidential candidate with
rofiles in Courage," which won a
litzer Prize in 1957.
But even now that book is
gued by accusations that it was
ostwritten by Theodore Soren-
n, a Kennedy aide. Many politi-
ns employ ghostwriters, and
me, like Sen. John McCain of
izona, are careful to give them
ominent credit on the covers.
Still, memories of "Profiles in
urage" have driven many can-
lates to produce their own ver-
ns. "They all think they're going
capture the 'Profiles in Courage'
ment," Todd said.
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didate Dick DeVos spent per vote
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number of votes he or she received
in analyst Josh Goodman's calcu-
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vote she received.