NEW YORK (AP) — A federal campaign finance report shows embattled New York Rep. Charles Rangel has spent more than $111,000 on legal bills since July.
A House ethics panel has charged the Harlem Democrat with 13 violations, including using a rent controlled Manhattan apartment as a campaign office and failing to pay taxes on a rental property in the Dominican Republic.
Rangel has vowed to fight the charges. He's expected to face …
The deputy mayor of Kabul was arrested Saturday for alleged misuse of authority, a senior Afghan official said, part of a crackdown in the wake of massive international criticism of corruption in President Hamid Karzai's government.
Wahibuddin Sadat was taken into custody at Kabul International Airport when he returned from Mecca, Saudi Arabia, according to deputy Atty. Gen. Fazel Ahmad Faqiryay. He said the deputy mayor was accused of misuse of authority but did not elaborate.
The arrest comes five days after an Afghan court convicted the capital's mayor, Abdul Ahad Sahebi, of awarding a contract without competition and sentenced him to four years in jail. …
SPRINGFIELD The defense in the Management Services of Illinoistrial rested its case Thursday after prosecutors grilled a formerPublic Aid official about his contradictory testimony involving aSuper Bowl trip he received.
After seven weeks, the federal corruption trial involving oneof Gov. Edgar's biggest campaign donors appears to be nearing its end- with closing arguments possible by Monday and without former MSIowner Michael Martin taking the stand.
Defense lawyers ended their case with testimony from ex-PublicAid supervisor Ron Lowder, who is accused with MSI owner William Laddand Martin in a bribery-related scheme that allegedly bilked thestate out of at …
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A career Chilean diplomat has taken up his post as head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti.
Mariano Fernandez Amunategui (Ah-mu-NA-te-gee) is the special representative of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He replaces Edmond Mulet, a Guatemalan diplomat who left the …
Results Sunday from the Grand-Am Rolex 24-Hour endurance race at Daytona International Speedway (with drivers, team, car and laps completed:
1. (58) David Donohue, Antonio Garcia, Darren Law and Buddy Rice, DP; Brumos Racing; Porsche; 735.
2. (01) Juan Pablo Montoya, Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas, DP; Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates; Lexus; 735.
3. (59) Joao Barbosa, Terry Borcheller, JC France and Hurley Haywood, DP; Brumos Racing; Porsche; 735.
4. (10) Max Angelelli, Brian Frisselle, Pedro Lamy and Wayne Taylor, DP; SunTrust Racing; Ford; 735.
5. (02) Scott Dixon, Dario Franchitti and Alex Lloyd, DP; Chip Ganassi …
Men arrested
following chase
Two Mercer County men were arrested after leading police on an 18-mile pursuit, authorities said. Fabian Small, 21, of Bluefield andJason Thompson, 22, of Princeton were arrested just before midnightFriday, said a spokeswoman for the Turnpike detachment of the StatePolice.
About 11:10 p.m., Small and Thompson allegedly drove away fromBluestone Travel Plaza - located at the 17-mile marker of Interstate77 - without paying for gas, the spokeswoman said.
Sr. Trooper J.C. Gillespie tried to stop them, but they fled, thespokeswoman said.
Sr. Trooper B.W. Clendenin of the Princeton detachment put roadspikes in their path, …
To pass the time at my flower delivery job, I listen to music. For three straight days, Burn the Maps was the only album that I heard. This is that rare work that demands your attention and never disappoints. Each song has been passionately and carefully crafted into a chilling masterpiece, simultaneously original from the rest of the album and delicately entrenched in the overall aura that emanates from Burn the Maps as a complete work.
The Frames' heartfelt and genuinely penned lyrics aren't always exceptional (though they often are) but they explore dark territory without falling into traps of cliche. The words that may not stand alone are propped up by a haunting voice that …
U.S. retail sales plunged far more than expected in December, a record sixth straight monthly decline as consumers were battered by a prolonged recession, a severe credit crisis and soaring job losses.
The Commerce Department says retail sales dropped 2.7 percent last month, more than double the 1.2 percent decline …
SAN DIEGO Hugo Perez scored an unassisted goal five minutes intoovertime Tuesday night to lead the San Diego Sockers to a 5-4comeback victory over the Sting.
The loss snapped the Sting's four-game winning streak.
Perez, using his left foot, kicked a 35-foot shot past goalieChris Vaccaro into the upper right corner of the net. It was Perez'seventh goal of the season and second in overtime.
The Sockers had tied it 4-4 with 1:25 left in regulation on agoal by Brian Quinn.
The Sting …
VIENNA, Austria - Benchmark oil futures held above $80 a barrel Wednesday after falling for three straight days from the near-record levels of last Thursday.
Light, sweet crude for November delivery rose 38 cents to $80.43 a barrel by noon in European electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The Nymex crude contract fell 19 cents to $80.05 a barrel Tuesday.
November Brent crude rose 30 cents to $77.68 a barrel on the ICE futures exchange in London.
Many analysts say investors taking advantage of the weak dollar drove oil prices to record levels above $83 a barrel in September. The supply and demand fundamentals of the oil market simply do not …
State police were investigating after the body of an 8-year-old boy was found with his head pinned in a church elevator as his family was cleaning up after his grandmother's wedding reception.
No foul play is suspected in the death of Zachary Waddell at First Christian Church in Sturgis, Kentucky State Police said in a statement Monday.
The church's pastor, the Rev. Nate Harper, found the boy's body Saturday in the doorway at the lower level of the shaft connecting the church's first and second floors, authorities said.
Union County Coroner Stephen Shouse said the boy died as a result of compression asphyxia, meaning he couldn't breathe after the …
SEATTLE Dave Gallagher, who felt he never got a fair chance withSeattle, got a chance to foul up the Mariners' evening Thursday.
He had the game-winning single in the eighth inning to give theWhite Sox and Jerry Reuss (8-7) a 4-3 victory over Seattle. BobbyThigpen pitched the final two innings for his 25th save.
It was only the fourth victory in the last 15 games for theWhite Sox but put them six games ahead of the Mariners in the race toavoid last place.
"It's not revenge at all," Gallagher said. "People think theymistreated me and they didn't. I didn't feel they had any interestin me at the Triple-A level and so I packed up and went home."
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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's office may have leaked an incriminating video of a Canadian terror suspect facing a war-crimes trial, according to a claim filed by the suspect's lawyers in Guantanamo Bay military court.
Lawyers for Omar Khadr say the video, which apparently shows their client making a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, may have been leaked to the television program "60 Minutes" to counter publicity that has focused on legal setbacks in the case and descriptions of Khadr as a child soldier.
"60 Minutes" aired the tape in November.
Air Force Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor-turned-critic of the Guantanamo tribunals, said Cheney's office may be the source of the video, according to the claim.
Cheney's office did not have any contact with "60 Minutes" on the matter and did not provide the tape, said spokeswoman Megan Mitchell.
A spokesman for "60 Minutes," Kevin Tedesco, also denied the allegation, saying the program had "absolutely no contact" with the vice president's office regarding the story.
Khadr, who was 15 when captured in Afghanistan in 2002, is expected to be one of the first to go to trial at the Guantanamo Bay military base, where the U.S. plans to prosecute about 80 detainees before military tribunals.
A POLITICAL EDUCATION: COMING OF AGE IN PARIS AND NEW YORK BY ANDR� SCHIFFRIN HOBOKEN, NJ: MELVILLE HOUSE. 281 PAGES. $23.
A bout halfway into his memoir, Andr� Schiffrin notes that after his father died in 1950, Andr� and his mother lived on New York 's Upper East Side on only a few hundred dollars per year, well below the city's poverty line. Yet as the distinguished French-born editor of the New Press explains, he never felt lower-class: Back when his family lived in Paris, his mother had detailed the different layers of the French bourgeoisie, concluding that "[o]n top of them all were the intellectuals. That was us, and therefore there was never any question of our feeling underprivileged." Though Schiffrin may misremember the timing of this remark-he turned five the day the German army invaded Paris in 1940 and was just six when his family reached New York, perhaps too young to grasp such concepts-it contains everything he wants us to take away from A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York.
These are the memoirs of a twentiethcentury, Continental-born intellectual, for whom most everything happens in the world of ideas. Consequently, there are hardly any sights, sounds, smells, or emotions here, unless they are related in some manner to Schiffrin's intellectual pursuits, where men seem to rule. Besides Hannah Arendt and other female writers he has published, the only women worth a nod are his mother; his girlfriend at Cambridge, who reappears in the epilogue as his wife of several decades and the mother of his two daughters; and the assistant who follows him to the New Press after he resigns from a thirty-year stint at Pantheon. Also unsurprisingly, this lifelong Socialist Democrat reformist, who first visited the New York Socialist Party headquarters at fifteen, occasionally launches into tirades about the superiority of publicly owned companies and national health services and the evils of globalization and publishing conglomerates.
At its best, however, Schiffrin's comingof-age story acts as a springboard for a series of vivid and insightful vignettes about political developments in the United States (including the rise and long-term effects of McCarthyism), the evolution of the left, and his own political maturation. This last topic is capped by a fiery account of his 1989 showdown with Random House head Alberto Vitale, a former banker whose office "featured only a photograph of his yacht" and whose policies forced Schiffrin out of the job in which he had published the likes of Studs Terkel, Noam Chomsky, Eric Hobsbawm, Michel Foucault, G�nter Grass, and Art Spiegelman.
Above all, these are the poignant memoirs of a precocious only child who fashioned himself after his famous father, Jacques, the first editor of the prestigious Biblioth�que de la Pl�iade and a close friend of Andr� Gide and numerous other European intellectuals. It was Jacques who asked a very young Andr� whether he should publish Curious George (yes!), who sent his fourteen-year-old son on a solo trip back to France to meet Gide with a fresh-off-the-press copy of Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms, and who defined their relationship as so rooted in the life of the mind that he neglected to tell Andr� that he was dying of emphysema. Given the enormous expectations and rewards that came with Schiffrin p�re's love, it's no wonder that Andr� never felt underprivileged or that A Political Education is bathed in his father's aura.
-CHRISTINE SCHWARTZ HARTLEY
Paperboy 2: Overwhelming Odds by Oman Jeremiah Illustrated by Bernie Rollins Morton Books, Inc., January 2005 $12.99, ISBN 1-929-18810-2
Ages 10 and up This is a thrilling, actionpacked novel about living a double life: one as a young schoolboy known as Michael, the other as the elusive Paperboy, who defends his school from the L.O.E.P (League of Evil People). After the previous book, Paperboy, Michael has to face more obstacles, old and new, each one dangerous and difficult. Luckily, he meets two other kids in his school (James and Nina) who have powers like his. They become good friends and help him take on his enemies.
Jeremiah's writing is fine, but sometimes it gets slightly repetitive. I like his dialogue and his ideas are very creative. I also really like the fact that he's a kid, like me. It's cool that he wrote a book. And I would recommend this book to others because it is exciting. In fact, I was disappointed when I was finished reading it. So I hope the third one comes out soon. On of scale from one to 10, I give Paperboy 2 a nine.
-Reviewed by Julian, age 12, a New York City sixth-grader.
In a stunning and sudden move Friday, the San Francisco Giantswere sold for $111 million to a group of Florida investors, whoannounced they would move the team to St. Petersburg for next season.
The proposed sale and switch of the Giants, who moved from NewYork to the Bay Area in 1957, caught most of baseball off-guard.
Giants owner Bob Lurie, a Chicagoan, is tired of being rebuffedin efforts to build a new stadium in the San Francisco area. Votershave turned down four proposals to replace windy and cold CandlestickPark. The investors plan for the team to play its games in thealready-open Florida Suncoast Dome.
The move has to be approved by three-fourths of National Leagueteams - including the expansion Florida Marlins and Colorado Rockies- which should be no problem, and a majority of American Leagueteams.
That could be a problem because a move would allow the NationalLeague to have all the lucrative southeast markets of Miami,Tampa-St. Pete and Atlanta. But the American League would have thelucrative Bay Area all to itself with Oakland.
The proposed sale also throws the National League schedule,which is already in trouble because of the Cubs' lawsuit, up in theair.
Will the Tampa-St. Pete Giants be in the East or West?
One guess is the Giants, pending the outcome of the Cubs'lawsuit over realignment, would remain in the West for one year andthe league would adopt a 13-12 schedule - 13 games against each teamin its own division and 12 against each team in the other division.
"That would really be a strange thing," ownership committeechairman Fred Kuhlmann said. "But you already have Atlanta in theWest, so it's not such a strange thing."
"There are just a lot of `ifs,' " National League spokeswomanKaty Feeney said. "I would assume that any other realignment move(of the Giants to the East) would have to be voted on, pendingoutcome of the (Cubs') lawsuit."
White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, a member of the ownershipcommittee, was involved in meetings Friday and had no comment.
Reinsdorf is a key figure in this scenario because he reportedly"promised" St. Petersburg a team after his Sox failed to move there.He tried to deliver the Seattle Mariners but failed when Japaneseownership purchased the team.
Reinsdorf also is a major mover and shaker among American Leagueowners. It is not known, however, whether he would be in favor ofgiving the entire southeast part of the country to the NationalLeague.
Just a few days before, though, Reinsdorf addressed the issue bysaying, "We have to look at this from the standpoint of what's goodfor baseball and not league vs. league."
"Baseball works in mysterious ways," said Florida Progresschairman Jack Kritchfield, a leader of the Tampa-area effort. "Inever felt good we were going to get the Mariners, but I feel awfullyconfident about this one."
Cubs chairman Stanton Cook said his position would be "nocomment, simply because of what's happening. It would be moreappropriate for us to let this play out. We'll let this take itscourse."
The expansion Marlins originally opposed the move of anotherNational League team to Florida but later retracted that. Marlinspresident Carl Barger said, "We stand by our earlier statements thatwe welcome and support another team in Florida."
No team has been moved since 1971, when the Washington Senatorsbecame the Texas Rangers.
Meanwhile, in a 43-page brief filed Friday, Vincent asked the7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to lift a preliminary injunctionblocking realignment next season. The Cubs now must submit a replybrief by the Aug. 19 deadline.
Contributing: Toni Ginnetti, Associated Press.
The Atlantic World, 1450-2000. Edited by Toyin Falola and Kevin D. Roberts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xv + 385 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-253-34970-5; paper, 978-0-253-21943-5.
Reviewed by Mariana P. Candido
This collection of fifteen essays was organized by Toyin Falola and Kevin Roberts. Falola, a prolific Africanist, is the author of several books on African history, and Kevin Roberts is a specialist in the history of the American South. In their introduction, the editors note that they reject the customary definition of the Atlantic world as one dominated by Europeans or synonymous with colonial British America, pointing out that "Africans, Amerindians, Creoles of the New Worlds, poor Europeans, and women of all groups were active participants in the creation and shaping of the Atlantic world" (p. x). Rather than a study of political elites, this book emphasizes the role of the masses, including African slaves. It is more than the "world slaveholders made." The authors of every chapter, by emphasizing the participation of common people and showing how "subaltern peoples [became] central figures in the Atlantic drama" (p. xi), show their commitment to Falola and Roberts's approach.
In the first of four sections, entitled "Nations and Migrations," Patricia Pearson writes about Africa, Europe, and the Americas before "the formation of the Atlantic world" (p. 3), that is, before 1450. She prepares the way for subsequent contributors by describing how trade brought people together and dispersed cultures. Timothy Grady compares the ways in which Europeans arrived in Africa and the Americas. Whereas, in the Americas, a small group of Spaniards controlled the political structures, European power in Africa was limited to control of small trading ports. Relying on secondary sources, Grady shows that "the Atlantic world evolved from the 14th to the beginning of the 17th centuries to tie these three regions together economically, politically and socially in such a way that their histories could no longer be considered individually but only as a single entity" (p. 47). In this section's final chapter, one of the few to consider the role of women in the Atlantic world, Alison Games adheres closely to the editors' theme of heterogeneity in the New World. Exploring the lives of three individuals, Games surveys the various circumstances that drove people to cross the Atlantic in search of freedom.
The theme of the second section, "Empires and Slavery," is the role of institutions in the formation of European empires across the Atlantic. In a fascinating study, Douglas Chambers argues for a new theoretical debate on the Black Atlantic. Ken Aslakson describes geographic mobility of black and white free women in St. Domingue and New Orleans during the revolutionary age. In his chapter on the eighteenthcentury slave trade, Timothy Bucker discusses some of the stereotypes that were applied to the use of African slave labor in the Americas. He explores how the development of sugar plantations promoted capitalism and the expansion of the slave trade and fueled the debates over abolition. Michael Guasco and Aribidesi Usman look at the establishment of slavery and the African presence in the New World.
In the third section, "Independence and Abolition," David Cahill and Joel E. Tishken survey independence movements in Brazil and Africa. Although he refers to the influence of the Portuguese priest Manoel Ribeiro da Rocha in anriabolitionist thought, the focus of Maurice Jackson's chapter on abolition is North America. Four chapters look at globalization and its discontents. Notable among these is a good study by Carol Anderson of the cold war as an Atlantic phenomenon. E. G. Iweriebor and Amanda Warnock expand on Cahill and Tishken's study, emphasizing the Atlantic links of Caribbean nationalism and stressing the significance of pan- Africanism. Maxim Matusevich offers an interesting discussion of the cold war and the role of international financial institutions in an Atlantic world affected by globalization.
The authors in the final section, "Repair or Repay?" which is concerned with the present-day Atlantic world, consider poverty, inequality, and economic reforms. One chapter traces the historical roots of the debate on reparation; another assesses antiglobalization movements.
A book of this scope covering a wide landscape and a long period of time cannot be without shortcomings. While criticizing the view that Atlantic history is synonymous with histories of the British Empire or British America, the essays, with their close attention to the North Atlantic world, end by adopting the very perspective that they condemn. West Central Africa and its inhabitants hardly figure in this book (with the exception of Anderson's chapter, which devotes a few pages to U.S. involvement in the Angolan civil war). Since recent studies show that most people who crossed the Atlantic left from West Central Africa, a more thorough analysis ofthat region is required. Other topics, such as the role of enslaved women in the economy, receive only brief mention and deserve more attention, as do the regions south of the equator.
However, this caveat does not detract from the book's value. By linking contemporary problems to historical events, The Atlantic World offers a useful survey of Atlantic history. The essays shed light on the activities of common people, who, while they "may not have used the terms Atlantic worlds or Black Atlantic," nonetheless behaved in "ways . . . [that] indicate[d] a strong connection among Atlantic people" (p. xii). Some of the essays indicate that subsequent researchers should begin to view the Atlantic as a unit, one where people and ideas migrated between its shores. By its close scrutiny of the roots of globalization and recognition of the importance of common people in the construction of history, this study is sure to attract the interest of students of the Atlantic world.
[Author Affiliation]
Mariana P. Candido is assistant professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of several articles on slavery and slave trade, including "Merchants and the business of the slave trade in Benguela, 1750-1850," African Economic History (2007). Her book, Fronteras de la Esclavizaci�n: Esclavitud, Comercio e Identidad en Benguela, 17801850, will be published by El Colegio de Mexico Press in 2009.
into a sub-Stephen-King-style tale of tension, horror andcatharsis.
Up to a couple of weeks ago, our bike racks, or cycle parkingspaces, or whatever the appropriate name is, were rather ordinary-looking affairs. The majority resembled nothing more nor less thanan unfolded staple with its pointy ends stuck into the pavement.
(Although in the course of the in-depth preparation for thispiece - which involved standing up and looking out of the backwindow of Chronicle Towers - one of our researchers did discoversome odd spring-shaped stands at the bottom end of Kingsmead Square.But two of them are so badly bent that they could only be used byone of those racing bikes that goes round a banked circuit at 45[degrees]. Can a square have an end? We digress.) The new bike racksare a much classier proposition. They're painted the shade of greyyou normally find on your very rich friends' new kitchen units, andwhat's really clever about them is that they're shaped like cars.
For a number of reasons, this is a very good idea.
First off, it continues Bath's long tradition of thought-provoking street art. Three years ago it was pigs, last year it waslions, now it's battleship-grey automobiles.
Second off, real cars will be less likely to drive "accidentally"into the new bike racks. Cars never deliberately attack their ownkind (it's always the other car's fault), and they aren'tintelligent enough to tell the difference between the real thing anda clever simulacrum. Thus the new stands are less susceptible toattack. QED.
Third, and most importantly, it will sow doubt in the minds ofdrivers. "Here's this bike rack," they'll think. "It takes up thesame space as my car, but they've managed to fit 12 bikes into it.If we all got out of our cars and onto our bikes, wouldn't life begrand!" Do drivers really think like that? Well, hope springseternal...
So far, the racks have been spotted in Milsom Street, QueenSquare and Westgate Buildings.
There are doubtless others, but our researcher was getting tiredand had to have a sit-down.
They encourage cycling, they don't bung up the pavements, theydon't spoil the view, and what's more they annoy inveterate cardrivers.
The more, the merrier.
They came in the night, silently and without warning. Dark grey,purposeful, skeletal shapes, they embedded themselves at strategicjunctions, pierced the streets with their alien roots, lockedthemselves down firmly, and waited.
Hugh DIXON Few saw their coming. Even fewer saw them change, fromtheir original, otherworldly, insectoid forms into a disguise soeerily accurate that in the cold light of dawn they very nearlyblended in with the scenery.
Nearly, but not quite. A few observant souls realised as theytrod Bath's early morning streets that something had changed.Forever.
Enough of this nonsense. The arrival of Bath's new bike racks isa serious matter, not to be trivialised
MORGANTOWN - What's most frustrating for West Virginia defensivecoordinator Jeff Casteel is not that his side of the ball is capableof allowing 31 points and 221 yards of offense in a half, as theMountaineers did against Rutgers.
What puzzles him most is the same players seem just as capable ofplaying the way they did after halftime. WVU allowed just 165 yardson eight drives and turned the Scarlet Knights into the fourthoffense this season that couldn't score in the second half.
"They're going to end up probably killing all of us coaches asthe year wears on," Casteel said after the 24th-ranked Mountaineers'41-31 win.
Casteel's patience will be tested again at noon Saturday at homeagainst Louisville (4-4, 2-2 Big East). The Cardinals are last inthe conference in scoring offense and seventh out of eight teams intotal offense. Louisville fired its offensive coordinator after a 2-2 start and then lost two straight, but have won consecutive gamesagainst Rutgers and Syracuse.
"Hopefully what we saw in the second half is something we canbuild on and a level we can continue to play at throughout thecourse of the rest of the year," WVU Coach Dana Holgorsen said.
Norfolk State, Bowling Green and Connecticut were all heldscoreless against WVU in the second half. The Mountaineers hadproblems with all three in the first half, though on a much smallerscale than what they experienced against Rutgers.
WVU (6-2, 2-1) had chances to end drives with stops andturnovers, but instead committed penalties and let opportunitiesslip through its fingers. Defenders missed tackles and were beatenon pass plays. Pressure on the quarterback didn't find the target.
"The kids have got to learn to make some plays," Casteel said."There were a lot of - I don't know what else to say - dumb thingsin the first half. People are putting up points on you and you havea chance to make plays, but you drop an interception in the end zoneand they score a touchdown.
"You have a fourth-down penalty and they score a touchdown. Wehad two (pass interference penalties) on one drive. You're not goingto be very good if you keep doing those things."
In 52 games from 2007-10, Casteel's defenses have allowed justone 40-point game and four more 30-point games. In the first sevengames this season, the defense has allowed 40 points twice and 30points once.
Rutgers had 31 points by halftime.
"It's unacceptable," Casteel said. "You're not making anyprogress when you've got to come and fight your way out of a 31-point half. It's the eighth game of the year. That's over. We needto get better at it, but hats off to the kids for being able to hangin there and not throw in the towel. That's hard to do."
The defense that last week allowed more points than any WVU teamsince 1991 went into the locker room Saturday having allowed themost points in a half since Oct. 5, 2002 when Maryland managed 35 inthe first half. In 18 possessions against Syracuse and Rutgers, thedefense allowed 10 touchdowns and a field goal.
It was cold. The players were wet. The second half figured tofeature more the same.
"We tried to keep things from going the wrong way," WVUlinebacker Najee Goode said of the mood at halftime. "Once a teamgets momentum, they try to build on it. You definitely don't want itto keep going against you."
Defensive end Julian Miller said about half of the defense wasdown and nearly out.
"The other half was trying to pick everyone up," Miller said.
That other half spoke louder.
"We were telling each other we've got to start buying into theplan and start buying into ourselves," Goode said. "The coaches weretelling us we've got to make the adjustments and we've got toexecute. A lot of guys this year weren't making plays last year. Wedidn't execute in the first half, but we were able to make the playsin the second half."
The Scarlet Knights had one three-and-out in the first half.
WVU forced two to start the second half and the offense used oneto start a touchdown drive. Cornerback Brodrick Jenkins had thefirst of his two interceptions on the next drive and then theMountaineers followed by forcing a third punt in the third quarter,one more than the first half.
The Mountaineers did allow one sustained drive in the second halfand Rutgers moved from its 30-yard line to the WVU 11, but safetyDarwin Cool broke up a pass attempt in the end zone on a fake fieldgoal. Cook dropped the interception in the end zone in the firstquarter, but finished with 11 tackles and two pass break-ups.
"I know the talent level of the players around me and I know allthe guys around us can make plays," Goode said. "It's hard to do itsometimes, but it's more mental. The game is won when you play withconfidence. The big thing with the younger guys is playing withconfidence and believing you can keep doing it."
The confidence was contagious and affected the offense, which wonthe game.
After Cook's play, quarterback Geno Smith took the offense fromthe WVU 11 to the Rutgers goal line. On fourth down and behind 31-28, Holgorsen didn't hesitate to go for a touchdown rather than agame-tying field goal with 6:18 left to play.
"We were playing well on defense and if you don't get it, they'restill backed up inside the 1-yard line and you can use that to youradvantage on defense," Holgorsen said. "I just felt like the defensewas playing well and we had the right play called."
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Syracuse quarterback Ryan Nassib (12) throwsagainst West Virginias Jewone Snow (56), Julian Miller (97) andCasey Vance (43) as teammate Antwon Bailey (29) looks on.
Contact sportswriter Mike Casazza at mikec@dailymail.com or 304-319-1142. His blog is at blogs.dailymail.com or 304-319-1142.
MORE THAN 18 months since submitting a bilateral agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the Senate for approval, the Bush administration has finally completed and delivered the implementing legislation to Congress. Pentagon officials have reportedly raised concerns about IAEA oversight of U.S. nuclear fuel cycle activities, which in turn delayed efforts to secure Senate approval to allow the Additional Protocol's entry into force.
The Additional Protocol is designed to reinforce and improve the IAEA's safeguards against the use of "peaceful" nuclear activities for illegal nuclear weapons purposes by non-nuclear-weapon states. U.S. agreement to sign its own version of the Additional Protocol has been a significant factor in securing international support for the enhanced safeguards system. To date, 78 countries have signed additional protocols with the IAEA on the basis of the 1997 Model Protocol.
The U.S. Additional Protocol, signed on June 12, 1998, would provide the IAEA with non-military information on U.S. research, development, enrichment, and reprocessing activities; locations and capacity of fissile material production sites; export and import of nuclear material; and uses of fissile material and waste products. The agreement allows the United States to invoke "managed access" for IAEA inspectors seeking to confirm the information provided by Washington and allows the United States to make "national security exclusions." Kenneth Brill, U.S. ambassador to the IAEA in Vienna, informed Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei on April 30, 2002, that President George W. Bush would seek the Senate's consent. Bush transmitted the agreement to the Senate on May 9, 2002.
Administration and congressional sources familiar with the issue said that the Pentagon had raised concerns over the extent of the protocol's oversight provisions, particularly on-site verification of U.S. facilities housing nuclear weapons-related materials. As a result, the executive branch had difficulty reaching interagency agreement on the implementing legislation that would give the administration authority to inspect private facilities under the protocol.
Consequently, it is unlikely that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will schedule a hearing this year for the protocol. A congressional source frustrated with the protocol's slow progress told Arms Control Today Nov. 19 that committee members "hope to move the resolution of ratification on the IAEA protocol early next year."
The Bush administration has said the protocol is crucial to its global nonproliferation efforts. Bush indicated in the letter of transmittal that the protocol's passage "is in the best interest of the United States." He emphasized that U.S. leadership in enacting the Additional Protocol will enhance U.S. and global security and "greatly strengthen our ability to promote universal adoption of the Model Protocol, a central goal of my nonproliferation policy."
The holdup in Senate action is coming at a particularly awkward time. U.S. officials have been pressuring Iran to sign and ratify an additional protocol as part of the U.S. effort to curb what it sees as Tehran's nuclear-weapon ambitions. Iran's agreement to strengthen its safeguards is the centerpiece of international efforts to slow down its advanced nuclear programs. -Christine Kucia
Evans in close race for top Circuit Court judgeship Wednesday
An election of great significance will take place in Chicago on Wednesday, but only a special handful of citizens are eligible to vote.
The prize -- if such language is acceptable in a judicial contest -- is the chief judgeship of the Cook County Circuit Court. The voting will be restricted to the 258 elected circuit judges of the county court.
Under ordinary circumstances, this sort of lackluster race would be a nonevent, based largely upon which Irish candidate had the stronger political clout. To be declared winner, the Irish candidate need only to corral 130 votes from 258 elected circuit court judges and the election would be over.
Of the three chief judges since 1960, when the position was established, all have been Irish.
However, the candidacy of Judge Timothy Evans, 58, who made political history as the late Mayor Harold Washington's City Council floor leader, has added much excitement to the Wednesday election.
Of the five candidates for chief Judge, the man for him to beat appears to be County Division Judge Michael J. Murphy.
Evans is believed to have gained the admiration of many fellow judges who look beyond. His support has come from both whites and Blacks. Evans has served as the Law Division's presiding judge for the past year and has been presiding judge of Domestic Relations for over four years.
The winner will succeed Presiding Chief Judge Donald P. O'Connell, who resigned last July.
Although every chief judge over the past four decades has been Irish, don't count Evans out. He has gathered a wide respect among fellow judges who look beyond color and race. Evans was appointed Law Division Presiding judge by outgoing Chief Judge O'Connell.
Distinguished Sun-Times political pundit Steve Neal has written that O'Connell awarded Evans his last appointment because of "Evans' first-rate judicial record and his administrative skills."
In his appeal to fellow judges, Evans notes that the "Circuit Court of Cook County is the largest unified court system in the world," and that "it's daily operation coalesces the work of hundreds of judges and staff members and involves complex relationships with government agencies, community groups and the public."
Evans is convinced that he has the education, "people skills" and judicial experience to excel as chief judge. He practiced law for 23 years and has served as a motion judge, trial judge, supervising judge and Presiding Judge of two divisions -- not to mention his years as 4th Ward Committeeman and City Councilman.
He also is aware that his appeal must be race. A racial breakdown of the 258 voting judges shows 157 white, 58 Black, eight Hispanic and one Asian-American. Among the whites, 53 are female and an estimated 25 are Jewish. However, there is indeed an awareness of race in this election. Evans supporters do not believe it insignificant that Judge Murphy has chosen Juvenile Justice Division Presiding Judge Curtis Heaston, a Black man, to place his name in nomination Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Chicago and Cook County would make national news if Evans is elected. The chief judge administrates a court system with a budget of $187 million, while managing 400 circuit and associate judges and nearly 3,000 employees.
Other announced candidates include: Anthony S. Montelione, presiding judge of the 5th Municipal District; Judge Stuart A. Nudelman, 3rd Municipal District, and Presiding Judge Nancy Sidone Salyers of the 2nd Municipal District.
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CYBER SECURITY
CYBER ATTACKS on the U.S. government's computer networks are occurring at a fast and furious rate. They're also becoming more sophisticated. Yet Washington is finding it increasingly difficult to recruit skilled computer defense experts with the necessary security clearances, the Washington Post reports. Over the next three years, the Department of Homeland Security wants to bring 1,000 computer scientists on board. To beef up its cyber workforce, the government has relied on a National Science Foundation program, Scholarships for Service, which pays for two years of college in exchange for two years of federal service. But between 2001 and 2009, fewer than 1 ,000 students applied for the stipend. And those who have used the program are often cherrypicked by industry once their two-year stint is up. Conversely, computer software engineers were fifth on a list of hardest-hit job categories in 2009. Perhaps the best advice to laid-off computer engineers is: Move to Washington. -TG
Defending champion Mike Small shot a course-record 7-under 65 on Tuesday to take a four-stroke lead entering the final round of the PGA Professional National Championships.
Small, the Illinois men's coach, was at 9-under 205. He broke the record of 69 set on Monday by Bruce Smith, the PGA director of instruction at Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas.
After his round, Small was back on the driving range and putting green.
"I have work to get done," he said.
Danny Balin, the PGA assistant pro at Burning Tree Country Club in Greenwich, Conn., was second at 5-under 209 after shooting a 68.
Small, who also won the PGA National in 2005, dominated the 7,174-yard course with precision drives, approaches and putts. He birdied six of his first 10 holes, needing 10 putts.
"I made some adjustments in my putting and rode with it," he said.
Small is trying to become the second three-time winner. Larry Gilbert of Lexington, Ky., won in 1981, '82 and '91.
"Anybody can play well tomorrow," he said. "The conditions are perfect. I'm just trying to play good golf."
Small built a five-stroke lead, three-putted for a par at the 320-yard No. 11 after driving the green.
"That was a little bit of a letdown," he said.
Small held firm until the 17th hole. He drove into a fairway sand trap, missed the green and made his only bogey. He birdied the 18th.
Balin had four birdies on the back nine to try to pressure Small.
"I've been chipping and putting well all week," Balin said. "I left a couple shots in the wrong spots, but I'm happy with how I played. Now I have to do it again."
Second round co-leader Sonny Skinner and Ryan Benzel were tied for third at 210. Skinner, the PGA teaching pro at River Pointe Golf Club in Albany, Ga., shot a 1-under 71. Benzel, the PGA teaching pro at Battle Creek Golf Course in Tulalip, Wash., shot a 70.
Troy Pare and Mitch Lowe tied Balin for the second-best rounds of the day with 4-under 68s. Lowe, the PGA director of instruction at Del Rio Country Club in Modesto, Calif., is tied for fifth at 3-under 211. Pare, the PGA head pro at Wannamoisett Country Club in Rumford, R.I., is tied for seventh at 212.
Rob Moss, who shared the second-round lead with Skinner, shot a 1-over 73 and is also at 212.
Chip Sullivan's hole in one on the 192-yard par-3 13th hole earned him a new golf cart. The PGA director of golf at Hanging Rock Golf Club in Salem, Va., used a 6-iron to record his 12th career hole in one, and second in competition. He shot a 71 and was tied for 11th at 213.
At stake is the $75,000 first-place prize out of the $550,000 purse. The final top 20 will earn spots in the PGA Championship on Aug. 12-15 at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.
The Houston Rockets on Monday released 11-year guard Eric"Sleepy" Floyd and acquired swingman Mario Elie from the PortlandTrail Blazers for a second-round draft pick in 1995.
Floyd, 33, was waived to create room under the NBA salary cap.He averaged 11.5 points and 5.4 assists in six seasons with theRockets. In 52 games last season, he averaged 6.6 points and 2.5assists. Elie signed as a free agent with the Trail Blazers lastsummer and played in all 82 games. He averaged 8.6 points and 2.6rebounds. The attorney for former Michigan State basketball player ParishHickman said Hickman passed a lie-detector test last month that showshe received cash from Spartans booster Fred Tripp during his 1988-91stay at the university.
BOXING: Former world middleweight champion Marvelous MarvinHagler, 39, will be arraigned next week on a drunken-driving chargestemming from a July 8 incident in Bartlett, Mass.
FOOTBALL: Mike Mayweather, who rushed for 4,299 yards during hisfour-year career at West Point, has been granted early release fromactive duty to pursue a career with a professional team.
AUTO RACING: Stanley Smith, who was severely injured in the July25 DieHard 500 stock-car race, continues to improve at CarrawayMethodist Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala. His condition wasupgraded over the weekend from critical to guarded.
BOWLING: Pete Weber averaged 240 over eight games to take an11-pin lead over Hall of Famer Mark Roth in the $250,000 ChoiceHotels Summer Classic in Edmond, Okla. Amateur Sean Swanson wasthird, Ron Williams fourth and George Branham III fifth. Gene Stus averaged 231 for six games to take a 25-pin lead over DonGilman early in the first round of the $100,000 Pacific PBA SeniorOpen in Lakewood, Calif.
TENNIS: Former Stanford star Alex O'Brien upset seventh-seededMark Woodforde 7-6, 4-6, 6-2 in a first-round match of the $300,000Volvo Tennis/Los Angeles.
The Olympic torch has made its way to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at Downing Street, even as protesters continue to scuffle with police.
Campaigners had called on Brown to ignore Sunday's torch relay. But he has always insisted that taking part does not mean he condones China's human rights record.
Olympic gold medalist Denise Lewis carried the torch through Downing Street's famous black gates and handed it on to a man in a wheelchair as Brown and Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell looked on.
Meanwhile, police and protesters clashed outside the prime minister's residence.
Benda, Hans von, German conductor; b. Strasbourg, Nov. 22, 1888; d. Berlin, Aug. 13, 1972. He was a descendant of the Benda family of Bohemia. He studied at the Stern Cons, in Berlin; also at the Univs. of Berlin and Munich. He was director of music of the Berlin Radio (1926–33); then Intendant of the Berlin Phil. (1934–39); in 1939 he organized the Berlin Chamber Orch., with which he toured throughout Europe, South America, and the Far East. From 1954 to 1958 he served as director of music of Radio Free Berlin.
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Mbeki disputes AIDS is main killer in S. Africa
President Thabo Mbeki, who has attracted a storm of controversy for questioning the link between HIV and AIDS, said on Monday violence and not AIDS was the biggest killer in the country.
"You know what the largest single cause of death in South Africa is? The largest single cause of death as we sit here is what in the medical statistics is called `external causes' and that is violence in this society," Mbeki said in an interview broadcast by the BBC.
The remarks are likely to attract further doubts over Mbeki's stance on HIV-AIDS which affects close to five million South Africans, more than any other single country.
United Nations modeling estimates that seven million South Africans will die from AIDS-related diseases within the decade.
South Africa has a reputation as one of the most dangerous places outside a war zone and current police statistics point to a total of about 220,000 murders over the next 10 years.
Mbeki has acknowledged that the Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a cause of AIDS, but does not accept it is the only cause, arguing that poverty plays a key factor in the pandemic that affects more than 25 million Africans.
He has denied life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs on cost and safety grounds and appointed scientists who argue AIDS is caused by recreational drug use to his own panel on the disease.
Mbeki, in his interview on the BBC "Hard Talk" program, said more than half of those who die between the ages of 16 and 45 will die of "external causes."
"I am saying that the majority of people in this country are dying from that.
"You cannot say to me I must ignore that and not take into account the fact that the majority of the people in that particular age group, which is the working population, is dying from the violence that is so terrible in this society," Mbeki, who came into power in 1999, said.
Popular mayor in race for Madagascar presidency
The mayor of Madagascar's capital will stand in presidential elections this year against the country's long-standing leader Didier Ratsiraka.
Marc Ravalomanana, a business tycoon and independent politician, announced his candidature on Sunday in the small village of Imerinkasiana, where he was born, just outside the capital Antananarivo.
Ravalomanana is popular in the capital for transforming the crowded and impoverished city, and is well known throughout the country due to his Tiko range of dairy products and drinks. He also owns three radio stations and is launching a television station.
Ravalomanana said his campaign would focus on the rapid development of Madagascar.
The elections are due in November or December, and Ratsiraka has already announced he will stand for a fifth term as president of the Indian Ocean island.
The 64-year-old Ratsiraka, a former naval officer, served as president from 1975 to 1993 and then again from 1997 to the present.
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