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HARARE, Zimbabwe
Election results still
not made public
Zimbabwe's main opposition
party claimed an early lead in na-
tional elections but the govern-
ment did not release results Sunday
and sent riot police into the streets,
raising fears of aviolent dispute.
No results were officially an-
nounced by evening, 24 hours af-
ter the end of voting. Independent
election monitors said riot police
and other security forces were
deployed in densely populated
suburbs of the capital, Harare, a
traditional base of opposition to
President Robert Mugabe, 84. Dis-
content with Mugabe has grown
nationwide as inflation has soared
beyond 100,000 percent and the
election was seen as the toughest
challenge to his 28-year rule.
In past elections, officials have
released results as they were tal-
lied by district, often within hours
of the close of voting.
CHICAGO
Cities turn off lights
for Earth Hour
From the Sydney Opera House
to Rome's Colosseum to the Sears
Tower's famous antennas in Chi-
cago, icons of civilization went
dark Saturday for Earth Hour, a
worldwide campaign to highlight
the threat of climate change.
The environmentalgroup WWF
urged governments, businesses
and households to turn back to
candle power for at least 60 min-
utes starting at 8 p.m. wherever
they were.
The campaignbeganlastyear in
Australia.
Earth Hour officials hoped 100
million people would turn off their
nonessential lights and electronic
goods for the hour.
In Chicago, lights on more than
200 downtown buildings were
dimmed Saturday night, including
the stripe of white light around the
top of the John Hancock'Center.
NEW YORK
Famed journalist
Pran dies at 65
Dith Fran, the Cambodian-born
journalist whose harrowing tale
of enslavement and eventual es-
,ape from that country's murder-
ous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries
in 1979 became the subject of the
award-winning film "The Killing
Fields," died Sunday. He was 65.
Dith died at a New Jersey hos-
pital Sunday morning of pancre-
atic cancer, according to Sydney
Schanberg, his former colleague at
The New York Times.
Dith was' working as an inter-
preter and assistant for Schanberg
in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian
capital, when the Vietnam War
reached its chaotic end in April
1975 and both countries were tak-
en over by Communist forces.
Schanberg helped Dith's fam-
ily get out but was forced to leave
his friend behind after the capital
fell; they were not reunited until
Dith escaped four and a half years
later.
SEOUL S. Korea
N. Korea threatens
to attack S. Korea
North Korea threatened South
Korea with destruction Sunday
after Seoul's top military officer
said his country would consider
attacking the communist nation ifit
tried to carry out a nuclear attack.
The statement from North
Korea's official news agency
marked the third straight day of
bellicose rhetoric from the North,
which is angry over the harsher
line the South's conservative new
president has taken against the
country since assuming office last
month.
"Our military will not sit idle
until warmongers launch a pre-
emptive strike," said an unidenti-
fied KCNA military commentator.
"Everything will be in ashes, not
just a sea of fire, if our advanced
pre-emptive strike once begins."
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Daily wire reports
SANDALS
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a good job of protecting that spot.
But it doesn't matter the rankings or
anything like that. It's all about how
we play in Denver."
The team is right to keep looking
forward. But while the arena staff
didn't have any sentimentality for
the moment, fans should.
Not so long ago, it almost made
sense that fans, players and coaches
alikeshruggedoffthesignificanceof
making the Frozen Four. Michigan
appeared in nine of them between
1992 and 2003.
But fans shouldn't skate past the
Wolverines' accomplishment this
weekend so quickly.
This squad deserves more than a
half hour in the spotlight, and with
the national semifinal game versus
CCHA rival Notre Dame still almost
twoweeks away,hopefullyeveryone
will use that time to let the reality of
this success sink in.
Just take another look at Por-
ter and Kolarik, two players who
ECONOMIST
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like consumer spending and income
levels, suggest current market condi-
tions williworsen in coming months.
But she said there are some prom-
ising signs both at home and abroad
for Ford, citing a recent increase in
vehicle sales in places like China and
India, where many people are pur-
chasingvehicles for the first time.
Hughes-Cromwick said the
decline in the auto industry has
WIND ENERGY
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state for wind potential," he said,
"And 98 percent of that comes
from the coast."
Duncan Callaway, a professor
in the School of Natural Resources
and researcher in the Center for
Sustainable Systems, said wind
resources are better over lakes
because the smoothness of water
provides less friction.
But Andrew Hoffman, a profes-
sor in the Department of Natural
Resources, said wind energy isn't
always the most reliable energy
source because it's only available
when the wind is blowing.
Robben said another challenge
facing wind energy is the trans-
portation of the energy.
He said most wind farms are in
remote locations, making it diffi-
cult to move the energy to urban
areas. That requires transmis-
sion lines, which are expensive to
build.
Instead, turbines could be
mounted on building roofs so
power could flow directly into the
building, he said. But less energy
would be harvested from those
turbines.
The House passed a bill March
13 classifying wind energy sys-
tems as personal property, making
them exempt from taxation.
considered not returning for their
senior year. Imagine this team
without them, this weekend or any
other.
"Kevin has set the bar for this
team and Kolarik is right there with
him, making sure that he holds it
high," Berenson said. "They make
the difference on this team, there's
no question. I've never seen two
seniors take over a team the way
these two have and have everyone
follow so completely."
Sauer sat between Berenson
and the seniors at Saturday's press
conference. Arguably the nation's
biggest question mark in net enter-
ing the season, Sauer exercised the
demons of last year's NCAA region-
al, stopping 43 of 44 shots he faced
on the weekend.
Beingnamed the All-East region-
al goalie means even more, consid-
ering where Sauer sat a year ago.
After giving up seven goals in a
first-round loss to North Dakota,
many doubted whether Sauer would
ever be able to handle the pressure
of big games. Nobody is wondering
now.
forced manufacturers to become
more innovative, for example by,
developing gasoline-saving technol-
ogy for cars.
Engineering senior Prateek
Chourdia said the presentation was
"very decent," criticizing Hughes-
Cromwick for not being more spe-
cific about Ford's future plans.
"She had a lot of uninformed
opinions about the auto industry, the
industry she works in, and no strong
opinions on what really heeds to be
done by one of the biggest contribu-
tors to the U.S. economy - the auto
If passed by the Senate and
signed by Granholm, the law
would make it easier for building
owners to install wind turbines on
their houses to harvest their own
energy.
Robben said the University is
considering installing these tur-
bines.
Callaway said mounting wind
turbines in the Great Lakes seems
logical and might a most cost-
effective solution.
But he said there are techni-
cal and legislative challenges that
need to be overcome for the idea
to. become feasible. While no one
has tried to put wind turbines in
the Great Lakes, Callaway said
past efforts in other states have
been met with fierce opposition
from neighborhood committees
because residents claimed the tur-
bines spoiled the view.
"It's impractical to actually
connect the wind turbines to the
floor of the lake except very close
to shore," he said.
If engineers mounted turbine
on the floors of Lake Michigan
and Lake Superior; they would
also need to find a cost-effective
way to protect the turbines from
ice during winter.
Callaway said the engineer-
ing technologies exist today, but
that the. cost of anchoring the
turbines to the floor and ensur-
ing they aren't damaged by ice
"That was a pretty tough thing to
swallow," Sauer said. "You don't get
over that too quick. All last summer,
it's kind of in your mind. It's some-
thing where you want to come out
and prove everybody wrong."
This whole season has been about
providing answers to some glaring
questions about Michigan hockey.
Is a team with 11 freshmen capa-
ble of standing up to postseason
pressure? Sure.
Is "senior leadership" more than
a catchphrase? You bet.
Is this still one of the top pro-
grams in the country? Absolutely. .
"I know they doubtedus,"Kolarik
said. "We were supposed to finish
fourth in our league, and here we
are. We're the No.1 seed in the coun-
try, and we're going to Denver."
The season is by no means over,
and the biggest weekend of the year
is still to come. But now is a great
time to take a glance back at how
it all started, before facing forward
and imagining how it could end.
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at nsandals@umich.edu.
industry," he said.
LSA freshman Agnes Kucharski
said she too wanted to hear more
about Ford's plans.
"I feel like she couldn't tell us a
lot of stuff about Ford specifically,
because it's probably confidential,"
she said.
LSA junior Vikrum Vora, the vice
president of MES, said the presenta-
tion gave a realistic outlook on the
nation's economy.
"We haven't hit rock bottom yet,
which I think is the main point to
take home from this," he said.
exceeds the profit of selling the
electricity.
For now, wind farmers will set-
tle for land leased out by agricul-
tural farmers, like Harvest Wind
Farm in Huron County.
The farm's 32 wind turbines
began operating this month and
generate enough electricity to
power 15,000 average homes.
Singer said renewable energy
is still in its infancy and that the
odds of wind energy becoming
more widespread anytime soon
are slim.
"There is certainly a role for
wind energy as we go into the
future," he said. "But the ability
for, say a wind farm, to replace one
of our baseload power plants is
something that is likely not going
to happen."
HOCKEY
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shaking, maize mob, celebrating
their 2-0 win Saturday and first
Frozen Four berth since 2003.
In last weekend's CCHA Tour-
nament games, the top-ranked
Wolverines (20-4-4 CCHA, 32-5-4
overall) relied on fourth-line for-
wards like Miller and Naurato to
score key goals. But at the Times
Union Center in Albany, Michigan's
usual top performers were again
the center of attention - senior
captain Kevin Porter scored five
goals and Sauer allowed just one
goal in two games.
The Wolverines began play Fri-
day against No. 19 Niagara (12-6-2
College Hockey America, 22-10-4)
with an uncharacteristically slug-
gish start, taking five minutes
to record their first shot on goal.
But on the first shift of the second
period, freshman Max Pacioretty
notched Michigan's first score.
From then on, it was all Porter.
TheseniorforwardscoredMich-
igan's last four goals in its 5-1 win
against the Purple Eagles, setting
an NCAA record for most goals in
a tournament game and prompting
"Hobey Baker" chants that echoed
through the half-empty arena.
The first line of Pacioretty, Porter
and senior Chad Kolarik combined
for 13 of the team's 15 points Friday.
"If you look at the scoresheets
of our games, it's been Porter, Por-
ter, Kolarik," Michigan coach Red
Berenson said. "I've never seen
two seniors take over a team the
way these guys have and then have
everyone follow."
Niagara couldn't get off a shot in
more than 22 minutes of play dur-
ing the first and second periods.
"I was trying to not snooze off
DP DAY
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will rebuild the home so it can be
sold to a new family.
A few miles away in downtown
Brightmoor, another group of stu-
dents worked with a local artist to
paint murals in hopes of improving
the community's atmosphere.
"It's a way to give back to the
community, both locally and glob-
ally," said LSA senior Miriam
Schwartz, who helped paint the
murals.
Local artistCharlesMiller direct-
ed Schwartz and the other students
Monday, March 31, 2008 - 3A
for a while there," Sauer said. "I
really just tried to stay in it, be
vocal and skate around to just keep
myself into it. Those games are
tough when you're not seeing a lot
of shots."
The next night, the 10th-ranked
Golden Knights (15-4-3 Eastern
College Athletic Conference, 22-
12-4) proved to be a feisty, aggres-
sive team. The Wolverines jumped
to an early lead in the first period
after a Palushaj deke left Clarkson
goalie David Leggio confused and
the forward's wraparound found
a wide-open net. But Clarkson's
defensive-minded play kept the
Wolverines scoreless until Porter
tallied his fifth goal of the weekend
26 seconds into the third period.
"They always bad three or four
guys back, so it was pretty frustrat-
ing," Porter said. "But it was great
getting thatgoal, and afterthat, we
kept itrolling."
Despite their 6-on-4 advantage
in the game's closing moments, the
Golden Knights couldn't push the
puck past Sauer. The junior goalie
preserved the Wolverines' first
shutout in an NCAA Tournament
game since a 4-0 win against New
Hampshire in 1998 - Michigan's
last national championship season.
Michigan will play Notre Dame
in a national semifinal on Apr. 10 at
the Pepsi Center in Denver.
After Michigan was named the
No. 1 overall seed and the favor-
ite to win the national title in last
week's NCAA selection show, this
weekend's victories were almost
expected. But for a team with 11
freshmen, each of the Wolverines'
big wins this year has continued to
prove October's preseason predic-
tions of mediocrity wrong.
"We're going to enjoy this when
we get back," Kolarik said Saturday.
"But right now, we're pretty tired."
whohelped paintthe murals. Miller
is a founding member of Public Art
Workz, a nonprofit organization
that works with Blight Busters to
improve Detroitby paintingmurals
throughout the city.
Some studentsworked alongside
Miller and helped prime city walls
for larger projects, while other
students filled in designs that the
Detroit-native created.
O'Brien said the experience also
helped students break down the
stereotypes surroundingDetroit.
"When you can see a tangi-
ble difference, then you can ask
yourself, 'What more can I do?'"
O'Brien said.
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identified yesterday:
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