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OUT OF THE WATER

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minutes of the first period. All of
a sudden, the game was looking a
little too similar to that now-infa-
mous 3-2 comeback win against
the Irish at Yost Ice Arena.
There was still hope, right?
Then, the Fighting Irish struck
once more. Sauer was collapsing
for the second straight year in
Denver.
The first period mercifully
ended.
And at the start of the second,
Bryan Hogan was between the
pipes for the Wolverines.
That's when I thought I was
watchingthe last Michigan hockey
game of the season.
Michigan coach Red Berenson
called Sauer rock-solid nearly all
season, yet pulled him after one
period and three goals allowed.
He replaced the junior with a
freshman who has played just five
games all season.
But the magic of this team, the
reason the Wolverines got to the
Frozen Four, is that regardless of
the situation, they've fought back.
It's worked for them all season.
It's made us all spoiled.
When the Wolverines scored
twice in 15 seconds to narrow
Notre Dame's lead to one, it felt
like it might happen.
When Chad Kolarik poked the
puck in the net to tie the game,
sliding headfirst on the ice in cel-
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50 people in attendance, Schauer
called for the doubling of the num-
ber of college graduates in the
state. When askedwhatehe would
say to graduating seniors who are
deciding between finding a job a
in Michigan and moving to a state
with a healthier economy, Schauer
said he hoped that graduates would
stay in state, despite the seemingly
bleak economy.
"Don't assume there is no oppor-
tunity here," Schauer said. "Be part
of Michigan's future."
Michigan is showing economic
promise in life sciences, alterna-
tive energy research and the movie
industry, he said.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm
signed a bill Monday that pro-
vides significant tax incentives
for those in the entertainment
industry who bring their projects
to Michigan.
In his speech to the partisan
audience, Schauer asked the Col-
lege Democrats in attendance to
canvass in his district. The elec-
tion, he said, will be highly conten-
tious.
In 2006, Walberg won the dis-
trict with just 50 percent of the
vote, defeating the only chal-
lenger, Sharon Reiner. Reiner, a
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comeback win in the final minute of
regulation.
After a 22-second span in last
night's first period, Michigan was
in an eerily familiar two-goal hole.
Notching its second goal of the

night before the announcer could
call the first, Notre Dame went up
2-0 less than six minutes into the
game. The Wolverines saw their
stock crumble from the favorite to
win the Frozen Four to ateam that
looked wholly unprepared for col-
lege hockey's biggest stage.
A year removed from giving up
seven goals in an NCAA Regional
game at the Pepsi Center, junior
goaltender Billy Sauer entered the
same building last night hoping to
prove his mettle in big games.
Nine shots on goal, six saves and
three lamp-lighters later, the net-
minder skated into the locker room
for the first intermission without a
single acknowledgment from a fel-
low Wolverine.
During the break, Michigan
associate head coach Mel Pearson
had a simple message for his team.
"Just like in Ann Arbor."
And for the next two periods,
it looked like the Wolverines took
those words of encouragement to
heart. Notre Dame (27-15-4) got
just 15 shots through to freshman

ebration, it looked like it would
happen.
But after clawing back and forc-
ing everyone to believe they could
do it again, the Wolverines saw
their season end as suddenly as it
began.
It started almost exactly six
months ago with an improbable
4-3 overtime win against Boston
College and a fluke goal by Louie
Caporusso.
It ended with an overtime loss,
but the slaying shot was so dead-
on that the puck rocketed right
back out of the net. Hogan was
frozen on the ice in the same half-
sprawled position in which he had
tried to save the puck.
He was there for fifteen seconds,
maybe more, until Kolarik skated
up and said something in his ear.
"He's a freshman, and he played,
what, four or five games all year?"
Kolarik said. "I just thanked
him because he gave us seniors
a chance, and that's all you can
ask from a goalie is to give you a
chance."
He did give them a chance. The
seniors, especially Kolarik with his
two goals, gave them a chance.
And all year, this team turned
doubters into believers. Even in its
last game, even in overtime, Michi-
gan made fans believe it could get
what it wanted one more time.
That's why, until I saw the lamp
light up behind the Wolverines'
net, I didn't know I was watching
the last Michigan hockey game of
the season.
Democrat, received 46 percent of
the vote.
Renier, organic farmer, is run-
ning against Schauer in the pri-
mary, but the national Democratic
party has thrown its weight against
Schauer.
TherDemocratic Congressional
Campaign Committee has high-
lighted the district as a key race in
it's Red-to-Blue campaign, which
aims to increase the current Demo-
cratic majority in the United States
Congress.
College Democrats Chair
Nathaniel Eli Coats Styer said the
College Democrats are excited to
campaign for Schauer and get Wal-
berg out of office.
"Tim Walberg is so conserva-
tive - he's to the right of President
Bush," Styer said. "These kind of
policies are hated in America. The
DCCC sees a serious opening here
to add to the Democratic major-
ity."
Styer said the group will hold
"district invasions" and campaign
door-to-door for Schauer, in addi-
tion to fundraising and helping
with office work.
Styer said the opportunity to
work for Schauer's campaign in the
fall has been met with enthusiasm
among the organization.
"The excitement; intensity and
the ability to affect change is in the
7th congressional district," he said.
goalie Bryan Hogan, who replaced
Sauer after the first frame, in the
final two periods of regulation.
With the Irish offensive
onslaught successfully derailed,
Michigan vaulted itself back into
contention with two goals in a 15-
second span.
The ressofregulationwas aback-
and-forth struggle for momentum

and ended in a 4-4 tie.
"Games like this, allithe games in
the tournament are going to be roll-
er coaster games," freshman Aaron
Palushaj said. "And you just have to
take it shift by shift, and go as hard
as you can."
Althoughthe Wolverines seemed
to carry momentum into the sud-
den-death stanza, the Irish domi-
nated the play, controlling the puck
inside the Michigan zone.
"We didn't look good in over-
time," Michigan coach Red Beren-
son said. "We were on our heels.
We're a team that plays to win, and
we like overtime. I felt good about
our team. Our team felt good about
it, but we didn't play well."
And when Irish freshman Calle
Ridderwall's tip-in goal hit the
back of the net, the biggest differ-
ence between tonight and Mich-
igan's first classic matchup with
Notre Dame became clearly evi-
dent.
That night's maize-and-blue
celebratory mob was replaced by a
raucous blue-and-gold one.

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Passengers struggle with
airline cancellation

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American Airlines
problems leave
thousands stranded
By JEFF BAILEY
and MARINA
TRAHAN MARTINEZ
The New York Times
DALLAS - On Monday, Karin
Peyregne was in Mobile, Ala.,
kissing her husband and two
young sons goodbye, on her way
to a base near Chicago for basic
training in the Navy.
Unfortunately, shewasflyingon
American Airlines, and connect-
ing through Dallas-Fort Worth
International Airport. She joined
thousands of other travelers here,
and in other cities like Chicago,
who were stranded as American
canceled more than 3,000 flights
through Friday because of main-
tenance inspections ordered by
the Federal Aviation Administra-
tion.
As of last night, Peyregne (pro-
nounced PUR-in), 25, and a group
of six young male Navy recruits
she was traveling with to the

Great Lakes Naval Station, were
still stuck in and around the air-
port here.
They were learning one of the
harsh realities of air travel these
days. Because flights are full
everywhere, there are virtually
no open seats available on other
airlines when something goes
wrong. And more cancellations
could roll through the airline
industry as the FAA steps up its
scrutiny of carriers' compliance
with safety directives.
The group of new recruits
arrived Tuesday afternoon in Dal-
las from New Orleans to connect
to a flight to Chicago. But that
flight was among 460 canceled
that day. Wednesday and Thurs-
day brought no relief. Friday, they
will be waiting - hopeful, yet
skeptical - to see if a promised 8
a.m. flight materializes.
"I'm ready to get to boot camp
or get back to my babies," Peyreg-
ne said. She had left Mobile with
$10 in her pocket.
Her group has lived off USO
food and drinks, available to mili-
tary in the airport, since Tuesday.
They also were given cash from
another organization that helps

soldiers, and have used meal
vouchers from American.
They ran out of clean clothes
long ago, since the Navy told
them to carry nothing with them
because they would be issued
military attire. They showered in
discount hotel rooms, paid for by
the Navy, then donned their only
outfits again.
"I'm a little OCD when it comes
it neatness," Peyregne said. "This
is definitely not good for me."
Her chances of flying out Friday
morning were not great, either.
American, which canceled 1,094
flights on Wednesday and more
than 930 flights on Thursday, said
it expected to cancel an additional
570 on Friday, with 170 of its 300
MD-80 jetliners back in service
by Friday morning. The airline
is inspecting and, in many cases,
rewrapping and reattaching wir-
ing bundles inside wheel wells on
the MD-80s.
American, the airline hard-
est hit by the FAA .crackdown,
inspected the planes two weeks
ago and thought it had done the
work properly. But the FAA,
after scrutinizing nine of them
Monday, ruled that the bundles

had not been properly wrapped
and fastened to prevent chaf-
ing of the wires. Chafing could
cause a wire to short-circuit,
and thus interrupt power to
some backup systems. In a
worst-case situation, sparking
wires could ignite fuel vapors
and destroy a plane.
"We failed to get it right,"
Gerard Arpey, American's chief
executive, said in a news confer-
ence on Thursday. The MD-80
is the workhorse of American's
route system; representing close
to half its total fleet of big jets.
And the extensive cancellations
overwhelmed the airline's ability
to accommodate passengers or to
even answer their phone calls at
times.
Other airlines that fly MD-80s
were re-inspecting the wiring
bundles this week, too.
Delta Air Lines, for example,
said it had made adjustments to
about 20 percent of its fleet of 117
MD-88s, an updated MD-80. That
resulted in a handful of cancella-
tions on Wednesday and Thurs-
day morning. But by Thursday
evening the airlines operations
were back to normal.

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Nepalis vote in election that
could transform their country

Contest will end
monarchy, bring
Maoist guerrillas
into government
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
The New York Times
KATMANDU, Nepal - Braving
a string of pre-election violence,
millions of Nepalis went to the
polls on yesterday for landmark
elections that could end a bloody
chapter in the country's history
even as they usher in a raft of new
worries for the future.
The elections are poised to abol-
ish the monarchy and turn Mao-
ist guerrillas into elected officials.
Having quit their 10-year war
against the state, the former rebels
are vying for seats in a 601-member
Assembly thatwill rewritethe con-
stitution and govern the country in
the meantime.
Final election results are not
expected for what could be several
weeks - a period that many fear
could breed unrest, as rival par-
ties contest one another's margins
of victory. Political analysts here
have said it was unlikely that any
one party would win a landslide.
In the end, who loses will count
as much as who wins, and how
gamely the leaders of the three
main parties, including the Mao-
ists, accept defeat, no matter what

the margin.
"After a longtime there is hope
things will change," said Gita
Dahal, 26, as she stepped out of a
polling station in Panauti, a town
east of this capital. "I hope we
can live peacefully after this. I
hope we can live without fear."
In the center of Panauti stood
a searing reminder of fear: the
shell of a building that housed
the local government office and
that the Maoists bombed about
two years ago, their last major
attack before signing a peace deal
in November 2006.
Election-day violence was far
less intense than widely feared,
given the insecurity of the cam-
paign season. The chief of U.N.
Mission in Nepal, Ian Martin, said
he was pleasantly surprised to call
it "overwhelmingly peaceful."
"The bigger challenge," he said,
"is the political parties' respect-
ing the outcome and working
together."
The Election Commission
confirmed that two people were
killed yesterday. One was a can-
didate in the southern plains
plagued for several months by
violent demands for greater
autonomy, according to The
Associated Press.
An international monitoring
group said one man was killed in
another southern district, Sun-
sari, amid clashes between the
Nepali Congress Party and a new
ethnic political party represent-

ing the plains people, known as
Madhesis. Agence France-Presse
said a third was killed in a fight
between opposing political par-
ties in Mahottari district.
Out of nearly 21,000 voting
booths, the Election Commission
said, voting had to be suspended
in 33, after rival parties sought to
seize and destroy voting materi-
als, in one case pouring water
on a ballot box and burning it in
another. The number of stations
where votes have to be cast again
is likely to rise.
Of Nepal's 17.6 million regis-
tered voters, about 60 percent
participated.
The Constituent Assembly, as
it is called, will decide everything
from whether Nepal remains
a Hindu kingdom to what new
rights will be extended to its long
marginalized communities to the
very system of government.
Former U.S. President Jimmy
Carter called it the most "trans-
formational" of the 70 elec-
tions he had observed around
the world. His Carter Center
is among several international
observer teams deployed across
the country.
In a hamlet nestled in the
hills of Kavre district, east of the
capital, a group of men sat on the
grass and recalled how during
the war, the Maoists would storm
their homes, demanding food
and shelter. After they had left,
the security forces would come

demanding to know why they had
fed and sheltered the rebels.
One man, Khetraj Kafle, 60,
said he hoped the Maoists would
win a few seats and lose their
appetite for war. "If the new ones
get a chance, it might be easier
for them to live a normal life," he
said.
His relative, Ram Hari Kafle,
52, echoed thefears ofmanywhen
he said he feared that the Maoists
would not accept a resounding
defeat, and that it would be bet-
ter if they won a few seats for the
sake of peace.
The Maoist chairman, known
by his nom de guerre, Prachanda,
or in Nepali, the Fierce One, has
promised to abide by the election
verdict.
Even some of the staunchest
critics of the former rebels said
the elections would force the for-
mer rebels to behave, in exchange
for any shot at power. That the
Maoists would use the polls to
try and seize power once and for
all was a "stereotypical and unre-
alistic fear," said David Pottie,
associate director of the democ-
racy program at the Carter Cen-
ter, which is based in Atlanta.
The U.S. ambassador, Nancy
Powell, said in an interview that
the Maoists, whatever their num-
bers in the would-be constituent
assembly, would be "constrained"
by the logic of parliamentary pol-
itics even as they tried to assert
their ideological agenda.

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