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Brown professor theauthoratative translator of famedTurkish poetpage 3

Professor of PoliticalScience Darrell West unveils newe-government findingspage 3

Field hockey drops twoto Vermont, Dartmouthon late goals in weekendplaypage 12

Eric Perlmutter says it’shigh time the rest of theNFL gives the Pats therespect they deservesports column,page 12

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BY MONIQUE MENESESAfter an extensive six-month renova-tion, the Verney-Woolley Dining Hallopened its doors this semester to ravereviews from students.

The V-Dub has not always been a stu-dent favorite thanks to long lines andmediocre dining facilities, but manystudents say the recent changes are wellworth the past two years of planning byUniversity Food Services.

The renovation process, which start-ed in March 2002, was instigated to fixcongestion and improve the presenta-tion of food.

“One of the major things was thecongestion and how little flow there wasin the Verney-Woolley,” said AssociateDirector of UFS Virginia Dunleavy. “Itwas almost impossible to have anenjoyable experience. The other thingwe wanted to change was how webrought the food to the students.”

Students who eat at the V-Dub havenoticed changes to the ambiance andpraised the entire makeover, from thebigger glasses to the clear labels of eachdining section.

“The person who does stir-fry seemsa lot happier,” said Kaytrue Ting ’04.Many students used adjectives like“awesome,” “fresher” and “cleaner” todescribe their experiences at the new V-Dub.

Numbers support the reports of

increasing popularity. One night inSeptember, the V-Dub served 1,245people, while the Ratty only served1,107.

“The chicken is the same chicken.We’re not buying from a different chick-en person,” Dunleavy said. “We’ve justchanged the method with which weprepare the food.”

But many students said they thinkthat the quality of the food hasimproved.

“It’s more logical, fresher, cleaner,”said Elissa Brown ’05.

The dining hall staff also praised therevamped V-Dub. Alisha Soares, a UFSemployee, raved about the changes say-ing, “I love it. It’s excellent.”

Sonya Tat ’05, who works at the V-Dub, helps organize the food in eachsection.

“A lot of the times, especially duringbig rushes, we run out of, for example,desserts, and we have to improvise tomake something else,” she said.

Some students said the V-Dubreminded them of home.

“When we were picking what wouldlook good, we kept on thinking of akitchen. We wanted you to feel like youwere in a kitchen in your own house,”Dunleavy said.

New cupboards and butcher block-

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After extensive renovations, the V-Dub is now open and sporting a brand newlayout to better accomodate student diners.

New V-Dub a model of design

Memorialservice heldin memoryof GunzbergBY BRIAN BASKINLate Associate Dean of the College LynnGunzberg, who succumbed to cancer onJuly 4, was outspoken, elegant, sophisti-cated, courageous and an academic atheart.

So said her friends and co-workersTuesday in a near-full Manning Chapel ata memorial service that interwove remem-brances with prayer and musical pieces byBach and Corelli.

“She crusaded for students even whenshe could not crusade for herself, evenwhen walking up the stairs of UniversityHall exhausted her,” said Sara Colangelo’02, who spoke about working withGunzberg as a potential Fulbright scholarand in a seminar on Italian-Jewish litera-ture.

Almost every speaker mentionedGunzberg’s passion for supporting fellow-ship candidates that manifested itself inaggressive interviews and free time spentporing over applications and composingletters praising each candidate in minutedetail.

Gunzberg’s probing questions andabsolute honesty helped students discoverthemselves and find new ways toapproach the world, said Omar Haque ’02.

“She showed us the primacy of thequest to discover all within you that wasenduring; to follow your bliss, to thinkwhen it hurts. For once in your life to livewith your eyes wide open,” Haque told thegathering.

Gunzberg was equally challenging inher dealings with fellow academics, saidDean of the College Paul Armstrong. Shecould always be counted on to raise a con-trary viewpoint and speak her mind whenshe didn’t like an idea, he said.

“She was a challenging colleague in thebest way,” Armstrong said. “She was inmany ways the quintessential academicdean.”

In her work, Gunzberg applied that samepassion and implacable nature. With aninsatiable appetite for all things Italian, shefocused on Italian-Jewish literature in hercoursework and writing. Her book,“Strangers at Home,” challenged academictrends of the time by focusing on popularrather than classic literature and discover-ing consistent anti-Semitism in the fictionof a nation that had denied any historichatred of Jews, said Chair of the Departmentof Italian Studies Massimo Riva.

Critics labeled “Strangers at Home” a“seminal work,” Riva said.

Even as she earned a reputation as atough interviewer, administrator andauthor, Gunzberg brought a unique stampto her corner of the deanery. LowryMarshall, professor of theatre, speech anddance, said when she asked Gunzberg totake care of her terrier while she was onvacation, Gunzberg set up a desk for thedog with a placard reading “Dean of

Latest crimereport detailslarcenies andassault aroundcampus

New UCS initiativeaims to makee-mail available —anywhere, anytime

BY SAM SHULMANBrown Police responded to several on-campus larcenies and an assault at Max’sUpstairs between Sept. 1 and 15, accord-ing to Department of Public Safetyreports.

On Sept. 5, a woman who tried to enterMax’s Upstairs on Thayer Street at approx-imately 11:28 p.m. reported that a malebouncer assaulted her. After giving theman an ID, the woman was asked to dis-close her address. She reported that thebouncer made several inappropriateremarks and pushed her shoulders,according to DPS reports.

On Sept. 4, between 5 and 7 p.m., awoman reported that her Sovereign BankATM card was stolen from the ATM acrossfrom Dunkin Donuts on Thayer Street. Asuspect used the card at several locationsafter the woman accidentally left her cardin the machine.

A large folding table was placed in thelobby of the University Post Office at noonon Sept. 2, and was reported missing thefollowing morning.

The first two weeks of classessaw an altercation at Max’sUpstairs on Thayer Streetand a string of on-campusthefts

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BY ALAN GORDONE-mail communication at Brown couldsoon get even easier, thanks to anUndergraduate Council of Students initia-tive that would install quick-use e-mailkiosks in strategic locations across cam-pus.

“The general idea is to increase studentproductivity,” said UCS Campus LifeCommittee Chair Justin Sanders ’04.

The construction of e-mail kiosks couldbe made relatively simple, Sanders added,by using old machines that became avail-able when the University purchased newones for the CIT this summer. Brownwould only need to install browser and e-mail software on the computers.

Building desks along with the com-puters wouldn’t be necessary, Sanderssaid, because a student would stand at a

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BY BAMBOO DONGListening to her gentle voice discuss British and Americanpoetry, students would never guess that Mutlu KonukBlasing is the official translator of Nazim Hikmet, aTurkish poet whose works are rapidly being recognized onthe international scale.

A professor of English, Blasing is partly responsiblefor shaping the path of contemporary poetry by intro-ducing Americans to Turkey’s arguably most revolution-ary poet.

Though Hikmet’s poetry has been translated into over50 languages, it was not available in English until Blasingbegan her work.

Blasing, who attended high school in Turkey, contin-ued her schooling in the United States at Carlton Collegeand the College of William and Mary. She obtained herPh.D. from Brown in 1975.

Although she grew up in Turkey, Blasing did not hear ofHikmet until college since his works were banned in thecountry. Hikmet was imprisoned in Turkey for 30 years forhis communist ideals after studying in Russia during theBolshevik Revolution.

Blasing stumbled on Hikmet by accident when sheand her future husband Randy found a French transla-tion of the Turkish poet’s works. Upon reading Hikmet’spoetry, Blasing said they “were stunned — it was sogreat.”

She and her husband collaborated in converting hispoems into English. She translated the poems while herhusband worked on the stylistic aspects.

The challenging part, she said, was retaining the poet’soriginal emotional intent while keeping the form.

Blasing said it is easy to rhyme in the Turkish language,but the English language doesn’t rhyme as easily.

“Certain emotional qualities come out differently indifferent languages,” she said.

Shortly after sending a few translated poems to theAmerican Poetry Review, Blasing and her husband pub-lished Poems of Nazim Hikmet, a book of translatedpoems in 1978. Since then, Blasing has continued totranslate more of Hikmet’s works.

Blasing said Hikmet’s poems teach others about thesocial and political history of 20th-century Turkey.

“He revolutionized the language — revolutionizedTurkish poetry,” she said. “It’s a voice that can speak to allkinds of people. … He will be read by anyone who readspoetry.”

The appeal that he extends to readers is encased in hisdirect speaking and openness, Blasing said.

“He’s already been influential on American poetry,” shesaid. “He’s got many admirers among American poets.”

Blasing said that translating a poet’s works is challeng-ing but presents a wonderful learning experience, aidingin understanding both Hikmet’s works and poetry as awhole.

“You really get inside a language. You understand howpoetic language works,” she said.

In addition to her work on translating Hikmet, Blasingis the reigning expert on American poetry at Brown. Shehas published many books discussing poetry, all ofwhich she “was inspired” to work on and enjoyed, shesaid.

Blasing ties together her knowledge of Hikmet withthat of American poetry, comparing him with WaltWhitman.

They both promoted “nation building,” she said.Blasing said she is interested in writing a book on

Hikmet himself, because “his life reads like a novel.”And, as an added incentive, “I just love to work,” she

said.

BY STEPHANIE HARRISGovernment Web sites are more concerned with secu-rity and privacy but less responsive than in previousyears, a study by Professor of Political Science DarrellWest reveals.

The study also shows an improvement in accessibil-ity for people with disabilities and for those non-English speakers, as well as an increase in the numberof restricted areas online.

“Governments are devoting a lot more attention tothe Internet,” said West, who directs the A. AlfredTaubman Center for Public Policy. “We wanted to seehow much success they were having.”

The 2002 findings from the third annual study of “e-government” showed “a significant improvement”over the previous two years, West said.

The study rated Web sites of state and federal agen-cies on a 100-point scale. Ratings were based on accessfor the disabled and for non-English speakers, as wellas on privacy, security, number and types of servicesoffered, responsiveness and ease of use, among others.

“We bring a citizen’s perspective to bear on e-gov-ernment,” West said. He developed the scale by“look(ing) at government Web sites the way a citizenwould,” determining what characteristics are mostimportant to a general user and rating a site’s perform-ance on each.

“We created an index to measure how many fea-tures we thought were important could be found oneach site,” he said.

Overall, governments are taking privacy and securi-ty more seriously than in previous years, West’s studyfound. Forty-three percent of government Web sitesexamined displayed a privacy policy, up from 28 per-cent last year, and 34 percent have a visible securitypolicy, up from 18 percent last year.

“I think it’s a response to post-Sept. 11,” West said.“Governments in general are paying more attention tosecurity. Also, there have been citizen complaintsabout the lack of security and privacy online.

“People are worried about what the governmentwill do with their information,” West said.

Along with improvements in security has come anincrease in the number of restricted areas, which needa password or a fee to enter. “This creates barriers to cit-izen usage,” West said. “A two-class society is emergingwhen it comes to e-government,” where some infor-mation is not free and easily available to all citizens.

West tested the responsiveness of e-government bysending an e-mail query to each site asking the hoursof the agency. Only 55 percent of the e-mails wereanswered, down from 80 percent last year.

“The volume of e-government usage has increased.There are more people contacting the Web site. Andthe government wasn’t making changes” to keep upwith the increase in usage, West said.

Federal Web sites were generally better than stateWeb sites, the study showed. This may be due to con-gressional mandates requiring federal sites to meetcertain standards, West said.

A big change from last year, and one that West saidhe hopes will catch on in the future, is the creation ofportals, a front page from which a user can reach othersites. A number of states already have these entrypoints through which any state agency can beaccessed, making it easier for a citizen to locate infor-mation.

In addition to the widespread use of portals, Westalso hopes future Web sites will be more user friendlyand easier to navigate, he said. One way to do this is tostandardize the features of all government Web sites.Currently, each Web site uses its own format, and usershave to familiarize themselves with the setup of eachsite in order to use it.

“It’s like a Tower of Babel,” West said. “People wastea minute or two each time they open a new site.”

West said he hopes the Web sites of state agencieswill be standardized within a state as well as acrossstates.

“There’s still a lot of work to be done in making e-government available to everyone,” West said.

Stephanie Harris edits the academic watch section. Shecan be reached at [email protected].

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BY ZACH BARTERA recently released study authored by Clinical AssistantProfessor of Medicine Dr. Andrew Nathanson is the mostcomprehensive effort to determine whether surfing, cur-rently riding a wave of popularity, is as dangerous assome people believe.

The study, titled “Surfing Injuries,” is based on datafrom 1,348 responses to an Internet-based survey andappeared in the May 2002 issue of the American Journalof Emergency Medicine. Previous studies examined only200 to 300 surfers, Nathanson said.

Though he said the study did not determine the actualincidence of acute surfing injuries, Nathanson said itexamined the issue in more detail than any other finding.

The study, co-authored by Dr. Philip Haynes andDaniel Galanis, was the first to investigate the mecha-nisms, maneuvers, surf board types, crowd sizes and druguse that led to acute injuries.

“I think surfing is significantly less dangerous thanpeople believe it to be,” Nathanson said, though heacknowledged the sport still has its dangers. “The imagesurfing has is one of an extreme sport.”

One Brown student who surfs off the coast ofMassachusetts said the sport is hazardous.

“Surfing is inherently dangerous because you are deal-ing with something extremely powerful,” said PatrickRynne ’05. “Surfing is a sport where if you screw up, theresult can be devastating.”

The survey respondents reported sustaining 1,237acute injuries and 477 chronic injuries. The injuries wereevenly divided between the head and neck region and thelower extremities. Lacerations and contusions accountedfor the majority of all injuries. The study cited contactwith a surfer’s own board, the ocean floor or anothersurfer’s board as the main causes of injury.

“There were also a lot of injuries when people weren’tsurfing,” Nathanson said. The sheer hydraulic force ofsome waves accounted for 7 percent of injuries, and inone finding, the authors determined that dolphins causedas many injuries as sharks.

To conduct the survey, Nathanson and his colleaguesdevised a 30-question, multiple choice, Web-based ques-tionnaire, used in conjunction with a paper survey from a

study he conducted in 1997. A comparison of his 1997paper and Internet responses showed no significant dif-ferences, which demonstrated the accuracy of Internet-based results.

“It’s certainly a way to reach a large number of peoplein scattered locations,” Nathanson said of the practice,which has become commonplace in recent years.

Previous studies typically focused on surfers in onlyone location or country. The Internet survey, whichNathanson and his colleagues advertised on surfing Webpages and in surfing publications, collected data fromsurfers in 48 countries.

The survey made several recommendations forimproving surfer safety, including the adoption of finswith duller edges, rubber shock absorbers and roundednoses and tails.

“There is equipment out there now that peopleshould be using,” said Nathanson, who uses a wetsuit,sunscreen and occasionally a helmet as his primary linesof defense.

Still, Nathanson said existing data suggests that surfingis safer than football but more dangerous than tennis,though no hard data exists on the subject. Nathanson’scurrent project on competitive surfing injuries focuses onfilling in the gaps in injury rates.

Nathanson started surfing on the beaches of Cape Codat age 14 and translated that passion into an interest inmarine medicine, which encompasses subjects as diverseas sea sickness, marine stings and water sports. Today hedescribes himself as an above-average New England surfer.

“If you put me in the middle of the pack in Hawaii, I’dlook like a chump,” Nathanson said.

Blasing translates famed Turkish poet

New Brown study examines surfing safety

“E-government” moreaccessible to public,new West study shows

“Surfing is inherently dangerous

because you are dealing with

something extrememly powerful.”

Patrick Rynne ’05Surfer

Blasing stumbled upon Hikmet by

accident when she and her future

husband Randy found a French

translation of the Turkish poet’s

works. Upon reading Hikmet’s poet-

ry, Blasing said that they “were

stunned — it was so great.”

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kiosk for five to 10 minutes at atime.

The project is still “in a stage ofinfancy,” Sanders said.

Though Dean for CampusLife Margaret Jablonski said shesupports the project, it stillneeds approval from VicePresident for Computing and

Information Services EllenWaite-Franzen and more logisti-cal planning by the Campus LifeCommittee.

Still, Sanders is hopeful that itcould be implemented “nottomorrow, but at some point dur-ing the year,” he said.

Several college campuses havealready installed successfulquick-use e-mail clusters.Harvard has 33 computer kiosksaround campus. MIT boasts over350 computers in their “Athena

Cluster” campus computing sys-tem.

Jablonski and Sanders bothstressed the usefulness of suchcomputer kiosks.

They could help students usetime more efficiently, Jablonskisaid.

If Brown had kiosks on cam-pus, students could check their e-mail between classes or activitieswithout having to go to theirrooms or to a library, Sanderssaid.

Two more large folding tableswere taken from the post officelobby between 5 p.m. on Sept. 9and 8 a.m. on Sept. 10. The totalestimated value of the tables is$350.

A pocketbook was stolen froma function at Marcy Housebetween 11 p.m. on Sept. 14 and1 a.m. on Sept 15. The pocket-book, left unattended behind a

DJ booth, contained a Brown IDcard, a Nokia cellular phone andvarious other accessories.

On Sept. 14 a man on a bicyclewas seen taking a hedge clipperfrom the back of a University-owned pick-up truck parked inLot 64 at 61 Charlesfield St.Police searched the area for thesuspect, described as a malewearing a Tommy Hilfiger shirtand a baseball cap, but did notfind the man.

At approximately 12:38 p.m.on Sept 15, a backpack and sev-eral other small items were

stolen from the BrownBookstore. DPS Police OfficersJesse Perez and James Masseylocated and arrested the subject.The stolen items were returnedto their owners.

Officers patrolling the areaaround Brown’s East Side boat-house at approximately 3:23 a.m.on Sept. 10 noticed a stolen,damaged and apparently aban-doned vehicle parked in the rearof the boathouse.

The vehicle had replacementtires, a popped ignition andother minor damage.

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Interspecies Relations.” Whenever the dog napped in a

bed below its desk, Gunzbergwould put up a sign reading “thedean is out.”

In her personal life, Gunzbergwas as dignified and elegant asthe neat row of red tulips shemaintained alongside her house,said University Chaplain JanetCooper Nelson.

Gunzberg maintained a zestfor style, always sporting themost fashionable jewelry andclothes, Marshall said. Herappetite for the symphony andopera often took her to New York,though she satiated her love offilm with frequent visits to theAvon Theater — always consult-ing the New Yorker to find outwhat was worth seeing, Marshallsaid.

But Gunzberg’s real passionwas for helping others, whetherin assisting students, sitting onthe boards of community organi-zations or in her tireless promo-tion of the Providence Singers, alocal choral group.

“Somewhere she always foundthe breath to sing,” Marshall said.

Gunzberg’s courage helpedher battle lung cancer for morethan 10 years after an initial diag-

nosis of six months to live.“She was always pausing with

dignity even when oxygen wasthe issue,” Cooper Nelson said.

Marshall said she learned howserious her friend’s illness was ata commencement more than adecade ago, when Gunzberg, herwalking partner in the facultyprocession, said that day’s walkmight be their last commence-ment together.

Instead, it was a new begin-ning.

“It wasn’t her last commence-ment,” Marshall said. “Lynnwould not stop commencing: anew house, new renovations onthat house, a new article, a newToyota that she called ‘her chari-ot.’”

On a recent Brown-sponsoredtrip to Russia, Patricia Herlihy,director of the international rela-tions program and professor atthe Watson Institute, said she wasamazed at how little Gunzbergshowed the pain she must havebeen feeling.

“No one could guess she had amorbid disease except thosewho knew,” Herlihy said. “Shetook sustaining strength fromher family, her faith, her college,her students and I hope herfriends.”

Herald staff writer Brian Baskin’04 can be reached [email protected].


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tables add to the homey feel.The V-Dub is still a work in

progress, and UFS has receivednumerous suggestions from stu-

dents for further improvements.But there are some concerns thatcannot be addressed yet.

“We weren’t able to address theoften-congested dish-drop. Thatwas just a limitation,” saidDunleavy. “Right now I’m lookingat trucks that might help us outduring the busy times.”


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I N B R I E F Daschle:Senate will vote soon on IraqWASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Top Democrats andRepublicans, brushing aside Iraq’s offer to readmitUnited Nations weapons inspectors, said TuesdayCongress will vote in a few weeks on a resolution author-izing use of force against Saddam Hussein if he doesn’tprove to the world he no longer posses weapons of massdestruction.

“I think there will be a vote well before the (Nov. 5)elections,” said Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D. “Thereal question is what will the resolution say.”

Daschle’s comments were the clearest indication yetthat Congress will confront the issue of a possible strikeagainst Iraq before U.S. voters decide several close elec-tions, which will determine who controls the House,Senate and many governorships.

Despite Daschle’s comments, his party remains divid-ed on how much freedom to grant the president to wagewar. Many Democrats want to limit Bush’s options bymandating that any military strike be sanctioned by theU.N., not the U.S. alone or with the assistance of onlyBritain and a few other allies. This could become a stick-ing point in talks between Bush and Democrats.

The president will meet with congressional leadersWednesday morning to make his case for a toughly word-ed resolution giving him maximum flexibility to carry outhis policy of “regime change” if Saddam doesn’t prompt-ly comply, a senior administration official said. Unlikeleaders in Russia and France, Democrats as well asRepublicans in Congress see Saddam’s latest offer as adelay tactic that should be seriously questioned.

Starting Wednesday, Congress will focus intensely onIraq. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld testifies beforea House committee Wednesday morning and a Senatepanel Thursday, and Secretary of State Colin Powell isscheduled to testify in the House on Thursday.

After discussions with Vice President Dick Cheney atthe Senate Republicans’ weekly lunch Tuesday, MinorityLeader Trent Lott, R-Miss., said he expected the White

House to submit “some sort of official request” for a res-olution, with proposed language, late this week or earlynext week. The White House and congressionalRepublicans have traded drafts over the past week buthave yet to agree on wording.

Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said a consensus wasbuilding among Democrats for a resolution authorizingmilitary action, but only if strikes are conducted underU.N. auspices. “Many would have reservations aboutgoing it alone,” Durbin said.

Some Democrats were more hesitant, saying theydon’t want to authorize anything other than continuedU.N. action to press for disarmament in Iraq. “I think it’spremature to go beyond that,” said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., a Foreign Relation Committee member and possi-ble presidential candidate in 2004.

But many Republicans rejected the notion thatCongress should impose constraints of any kind on thepresident’s ability to drive Saddam from power. Any res-olution should simply “authorize the president to takeaction to bring about regime change and destroy (Iraq’s)weapons of mass destruction,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Republicans said Congress might vote on compet-ing resolutions, as it did in authorizing the Persian GulfWar in 1991, if Democrats won’t give Bush what he wants.

Senators from both parties voiced skepticism aboutthe sincerity of the Iraqi offer to allow unrestrictedinspections, saying Saddam had violated too many simi-lar pledges in the past. Several said they wished renewedinspections would lead to a nonmilitary resolution, butfew appeared to hold out much hope that this wouldhappen.

“Let me simply say that I’m still very skeptical aboutSaddam Hussein’s intent and position,” Daschle toldreporters. “We don’t think the Iraqi announcementshould defuse at all the United Nations’ focus and effort.Clearly we’ve got to put pressure on the Iraqis not only toopen their borders but to destroy their weapons.”

North Korea comes clean with JapanTOKYO (L.A. Times) — Years after the mysterious disappear-ances of at least a dozen citizens from its shores, Japan onTuesday received a grim revelation about their fates — andan apology — from reclusive North Korean leader KimJong Il.

The victims were indeed kidnapped by North Korea inthe 1970s and 1980s to assist spies in infiltrating SouthKorea. Eight have since died of undisclosed “disease or dis-aster,” — including Megumi Yokota, who disappearedfrom a coastal path in 1977 at age 13 while walking homefrom a school badminton practice and was never heardfrom again.

Four are alive and living in North Korea. It was an extraordinary revelation for Kim to make to

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi during the firstsummit between the two long-estranged nations. It wasalso a reversal of his nation’s repeated denials that it hadabducted Japanese citizens.

Kim’s seeming candor and his apology paved the wayfor the two countries to agree to begin discussions nextmonth aimed at establishing diplomatic relations.Koizumi had made it clear that negotiations on otherissues would fail if North Korea didn’t come clean aboutthe kidnappings.

In the discussions, Kim admitted to Koizumi that aNorth Korean “organization with a special mission”abducted the Japanese, saying it did so without his knowl-edge. Kim said he has punished those involved, and hevowed it would never happen again.

In addition, Kim agreed to extend North Korea’s mora-torium on nuclear missile testing through “2003 andbeyond.” In addition, spy ships that recently ventured intoJapanese waters — including one sunk by Japan’s CoastGuard in December — were likely “elements of the NorthKorean military” that Kim vowed to investigate and pre-vent from straying again. And he asked the Japanese leaderto tell the Bush administration that the North is ready toresume stalled negotiations with the United States anytime.

For his part, Koizumi apologized to North Korea forJapan’s brutal 35-year occupation of the Korean peninsulathat began in 1910.

Koizumi said that while the summit didn’t solve “all theissues between Japan and North Korea,” he saw positivesigns for the future. “I came with the hope to bring peaceto the region to prevent these things from happeningagain,” he said.

Nick Eberstadt, a longtime North Korea watcher at theconservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington,heralded the summit as a “complete change” in the diplo-matic posture of Kim’s regime, which in the past hasinvolved “lying about everything unapologetically andenergetically.”

“To have North Korea for the first time in its history notlie about one of its misdeeds will give enormous hope tothe proponents of engagement,” he said.

Clearly, one motivation for Kim is getting more aid tooverhaul his barely-functioning economy and feed hisstarving people. Japan is said to be discussing $300 millionto $500 million in aid if talks proceed, and the amount mayclimb.

“It is not just the cash that will be important. There is anexpectation that the Japanese government will build high-ways and power plants and communication systems,” saidJo Dong Ho of the Korea Development Institute, a thinktank in Seoul sponsored by the South Korean government.

South Korea has given the North hundreds of millionsof dollars since President Kim Dae Jung hugged and toast-ed with Kim Jong Il two years ago at a summit inPyongyang, the North’s capital.

The North Korean leader also may be trying to placatethe Bush administration, which has lumped North Koreawith Iraq and Iran as an “axis of evil” because of its allegedproduction and sale of nuclear weapons.

“North Korea understands the situation they’re going tobe in if the United States targets North Korea after Iraq,”said Kaoru Murakami, an independent international rela-tions analyst in Tokyo, who has written extensively aboutNorth Korea.

In Japan, the summit’s diplomatic advances were over-shadowed by the news that so many of the kidnap victimshad died.

Television news stations provided round-the-clock cov-erage of the one-day summit and newspapers issued spe-cial editions with word of the dead. Countless tearful inter-views with the families of the kidnap victims were shown.

Relatives of the missing expected that, at worse, theywould get no word. No one was prepared to hear thatmany were surely dead.

“North Korea kept saying it had no involvement, andnow we can’t believe them that she’s really dead, leavingout all the details of how she was taken, how she married,how she died,” sobbed Shigeru Yokota, the father ofMegumi Yokota, the kidnap victim taken at age 13.

Congressional report cites warningsof Sept. 11 terrorist attacksWASHINGTON (Washington Post) — The U.S. intelligence com-munity received a surprising number of credible reports ofa likely terrorist attack prior to Sept. 11, including somethreats to domestic targets, according to a congressionalreport to be unveiled Wednesday.

The preliminary findings of the staff of the Senate-House intelligence panel investigating the Sept. 11 strikesalso show that some intelligence analysts had focused onthe possibility that terrorists might use “airplanes asweapons” in the attacks, a congressional official saidTuesday.

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said in mid-May that prior to the attacks, analysts didn’t seriously con-sider the use of planes as bombs and therefore were sur-prised by the method of attack on Sept. 11.“All this report-ing about hijacking was about traditional hijacking,“ Ricesaid at a May briefing on what President Bush knew beforethe attacks.

The 30-page unclassified report also will “raise seriousquestions” about whether the U.S. government sharedenough information with the public about what it knew tobe a grave threat from Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaidaterrorist network, the official said.

Ill. attorney general moves to stophearings for death row inmatesCHICAGO (L.A. Times) — Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryanfiled suit Tuesday in an effort to prevent the governor andthe State Prisoner Review board from holding clemencyhearings for 157 inmates on death row.

The move comes as Gov. George Ryan — who is notrelated to the attorney general — is considering commut-ing the sentences of all the state’s death row inmates toterms of life in prison. Thirteen death row inmates havebeen freed in the past three years after the discovery ofexonerating evidence, often through recently availableDNA analysis.

Gov. Ryan, a Republican who is not seeking a secondterm, and Attorney General Ryan, also a Republican, havebeen feuding for two years over how to deal with prob-lems in the state’s system of capital punishment. Theattorney general is vying for the statehouse in Novemberagainst Democratic Rep. Rod Blagojevich.

Accompanied by relatives of some of those mur-dered by death row inmates, the attorney generalannounced the suit at a downtown Chicago gatheringTuesday.

Jim Ryan said a proposed 15-minute time period foreach hearing would be unfair to the families of the victimsand a de facto end-run around the judicial process.Families of the victims would not be able to make a faircase against clemency during the brief hearing, the attor-ney general argued in the case, filed in the capital,Springfield.

N.C. Democrats up in arms overcontroversial campaign trail e-mail(Washington Post) — The furor was brief, but North CarolinaDemocrats hope voters in the state’s 8th CongressionalDistrict will remember, with some distaste, an e-mail fromRep. Robin Hayes’ re-election campaign that seemed tocast an unfavorable light on a portion of the district.

Last week, the GOP lawmaker’s campaign advised itsprospective canvassers not to fret about an ethnicallydiverse, mixed-income neighborhood in east Charlotte. Inthat area, it said, members of the National Rifle Associationwould tag along.

“NRA members will cover neighborhoods that might beuncomfortable for some volunteers,” the e-mail said.“Women and children will walk Univ(ersity) area.”

Democrats pounced, saying the e-mail suggested Hayesis afraid of constituents recently added to his district.

Hayes campaign officials disavowed the e-mail, saying itwas written, poorly, by a volunteer. Traffic in the neighbor-hood was the real concern, they said.

Despite the NRA e-mail flap, some observers feel Hayesgot a break last week when Democrats nominatedCharlotte lawyer Chris Kouri to oppose him Nov. 5. Manyparty insiders felt Fayetteville lawyer Billy Richardsonwould have been a stronger challenger.


(Washington Post) — America’siconic fast-food restaurant haslong lived by the numbers — ofhamburgers served, of restau-rants opened here and abroad.But now McDonald’s Corp.sees its numbers going thewrong way and Tuesdayvowed, yet again, to fix what’sbroken.

But first the world’s largestrestaurant chain had to lowerits profit forecast for the year,which sent its stock tumblingto a seven-year low, down$2.78 to close at $18.91.

To fight weak sales in theUnited States and Europe,McDonald’s promised lowerprices, faster service, a moreenticing menu, remodeledstores and its first national adcampaign in five years.

To jump-start sales nextyear, McDonald’s said, it willcut back on store openings,invest $300 million to $400million in refreshing somerestaurants, and expand itsmenu to include popular flat-breads and more desserts.

Fast-food rivals such asWendy’s and “fast casual”alternatives such as PaneraBread are chowing down onAmericans’ eating-out dollarsat the expense of McDonald’s,analysts point out. Andinvestors, they say, are growingimpatient with the Oak Brook,Ill.-based company, which haspledged a turnaround for morethan year without much in theway of positive results.

Tuesday, McDonald’s pro-jected annual earnings of $1.31a share, after forecasting $1.35to $1.41 a share earlier thisyear. Third-quarter profitshould be 38 cents a share, thecompany said, compared with42 cents a year ago.

Europe has presented prob-lems for McDonald’s. Sales atstores open more than a yearthere declined 0.7 percent asunemployment climbed inGermany and retail salesslumped in the UnitedKingdom. In this “pessimisticconsumer environment,”McDonald’s marketing mes-sage fell flat, company officialssaid.

But the domestic market,with its 13,000 stores, is whereMcDonald’s faces its largestchallenges. In this country,sales forthe first two months ofthe third quarter were flat, andthey grew only an anemic 1percent this year throughAugust throughout the entirechain, company officials said.

When new or closed storesare not included, sales at storesopen more than a yeardeclined 2.7 percent in Julyand August.

Douglas Christopher, ananalyst with Crowell Weedon &Co., said McDonald’s troublestook root in the mid-1990s,when it began opening storesat breakneck speed.

In the five years leading upto 1994, the last year the com-pany posted solid results,McDonald’s was opening about700 stores a year on average —about two a day, Christophersaid. Store openings peaked in1996 at about 2,585 in 1996 —about seven a day.

The company continuedopening stores despite a slipin sales per store,Christopher said. It has sincecut back on openings,though it remains on anaggressive growth plan.

Carl Sibilski, an analyst withMorningstar Inc., said thatyears of aggressive growth hurtthe company’s control over itsstores, particularly amongfranchisees. Everything fromthe cleanliness of the store tothe way hamburgers areplaced on the grill for efficien-cy has been compromised.

“They have not been able toenforce the franchise agree-ments as well as they shouldhave,” Sibilski said. “That’s whyyou have slow service and youwait four minutes for a ham-burger.”

A more fundamental prob-lem may be evolving cus-tomers and their tastes asmore high-quality optionsemerge, said Lynne Collier, asenior restaurant analyst atStephens Inc.

“You’ve got a base that’saging and increasingly lookingfor higher-quality food,”Collier said. “They want theconvenience of fast food, butthey want a premium brand”offered by fast-casual diningplaces such as Panera Bread,Quizno’s and Cosi.

It’s not clear whetherMcDonald’s sees things thesame way. The fix, companyofficials said, is to improve itsoperations as well as its mar-keting efforts.

In October, McDonald’s willlaunch a $20 million advertis-ing campaign on television,radio and in print featuring theBig ‘N Tasty and McChickensandwiches. They will sell for$1 each next month.

“The amount of media andthe promotional activity willallow McDonald’s to elevate itsvalue message beyond theclutter,” Mike Roberts, presi-dent of McDonald’s USA, saidin a phone call with analysts.

In November there will bemore promotions with a dollarmenu featuring soft drinks,fries, side salads and otherpopular items, Roberts said.

Next year, McDonald’s willboost its advertising effort,refurbish some of its olderstores and increase its staffduring the lunch crush from 11a.m. to 1 p.m.

And the company will keepclose watch on underperform-ers in its chain.

“When an owner-operator isnot meeting minimum stan-dards, we must and will actswiftly to remove them fromthe system,” Roberts said.

To fund some of its capitalexpenditures in this country,McDonald’s will moderateshare repurchases to about$500 million in 2003 and cutback on store openingsabroad, said Jack Greenberg,the company’s chairman andchief operating officer.

The company did not speci-fy how many stores it will opennext year, except to say thenumber will be less than the1,300 to 1,400 it expects to haveopen this year.

With sales flat, McDonald’srevises menu, marketing

Some tobacco companies still deny smoking harm(L.A. Times) — Several major tobac-co companies are continuing todeny in court filings that smokingcauses disease, even though inrecent years they have publiclyacknowledged the health hazardsof their products, a congressionalstaff report said Tuesday.

Over the past five years, ciga-rette makers, struggling to repairtheir tattered image, have conced-ed on their Web sites that there aresignificant risks associated withsmoking — in some instancesmaking statements that are hardlydifferent than the views of theirlongtime foes. But the report, pre-pared for Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., contends that the compa-nies are still being evasive aboutthe health hazards of smoking,second-hand smoke and theaddictive nature of nicotine.

“A test of whether the industryhas reformed is the truthfulness ofcompany statements made underpenalty of sanction in a court oflaw,” said Waxman, ranking minori-ty member of the HouseCommittee on Government Reformand a longtime industry critic.

Waxman’s report is based onindustry responses to a massive

lawsuit filed by the JusticeDepartment in September 1999. Afederal judge in Washington threwout significant parts of the case, buthas permitted the government topursue claims that tobacco compa-nies were guilty of fraud and racket-eering in concealing the hazardsand addictive nature of smoking.

The industry has contendedvociferously that the suit is merit-less and that, unlike other majorcases, it will not settle. The case isscheduled for trial next year.

The major tobacco companiessaid in response to Waxman’sreport that they had acted respon-sibly. Spokesmen for PhilipMorris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown &Williamson, British AmericanTobacco (B&W’s parent company)all said they had made appropri-ate statements about risks associ-ated with smoking on their Websites. Lorillard could not bereached.

Waxman’s report states: — Four of the five major ciga-

rette companies — RJR, BAT, B&Wand Lorillard — still questionwhether smoking causes disease,“even though medical and scien-tific authorities universally accept

that smoking causes lung cancer,heart disease, emphysema andother diseases.” Only PhilipMorris, the largest manufacturer,did not contest that smokingcauses disease, while RJRacknowledged only that smoking“may contribute to causing dis-ease in some individuals.”

— Four of the five companiesdecline to admit that nicotine isaddictive, “even though leadingmedical and scientific authoritieshave concluded that it is.” OnlyB&W, the third largest manufactur-er, admitted that nicotine is addic-tive. For example, Lorillard statedthat “after reasonable inquiry, theinformation known or readilyobtainable by Lorillard is insuffi-cient to enable Lorillard to admitor deny” that nicotine is addictive.

— All five major tobacco com-panies deny that environmentaltobacco smoke, commonlyknown as second-hand smoke,causes disease in nonsmokers,“even though medical and scien-tific organizations, including theU.S. Surgeon General and theWorld Health Organization havefound that environmental tobac-co smoke causes disease.”

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San Fran city officials give weight to medical pot causeSAN FRANCISCO (L.A. Times) —Officials in the ultra-liberal sea-side town of Santa Cruz may notbe marijuana smokers them-selves, but on Tuesday theybecame pot purveyors with apolitical cause.

In a display of defiance trig-gered by a recent federal bust of alocal medical marijuana club,Mayor Christopher Krohn andnumerous City Council membersmet outside City Hall to joinworkers from the Women’sAlliance for Medical Marijuana indispensing the drug to sickpatients.

Several hundred residentsfilled the town’s City Hall plaza tocheer speakers and throw an old-fashioned anti-government rally.

Santa Cruz Vice Mayor EmilyReilly said suppliers drew namesfrom a hat to symbolically handout pot prescriptions to a dozenpatients who would have normal-ly picked up their medication inprivate Tuesday. Each time thedrug was dispensed, she said, thecrowd went wild.

“What was best were the

speeches,” Reilly said. “Therewere medical marijuana attor-neys, doctors and even a countysupervisor. And the message wasabout love and healing and tryingto alleviate suffering.”

Six of seven council membersappeared, along with Krohn.

But Richard Meyer, a DrugEnforcement Administrationspokesman in San Francisco, wasnot amused.

“We’re dismayed that the CityCouncil and the mayor of SantaCruz would condone the distri-bution of marijuana,” he said. “Idon’t know what they’re think-ing, but they’re flaunting federallaw. And we here at the DEA takeviolations of the law very seri-ously.”

Marijuana — medical or other-wise — is illegal under federal law.But under California law, the drugis legal if it is recommended by adoctor.

Meyer would not say whetherDEA agents had attended the rallyand would not discuss whetherany arrests had been made.

Police referred all media calls

to City Hall on Tuesday, but localauthorities said they did not planto arrest anyone who showed upwith a marijuana prescription.

Reilly said she saw no federalofficers on the ground, “but therewas a helicopter overhead that weassumed was full of them.”

On Sept. 5, federal agents raid-ed a Santa Cruz medical marijua-na collective, arrested three peo-ple and confiscated 130 plants.

The move was met with out-rage by residents of this surfers’haven and college town 75 milessouth of San Francisco.

Four years before state votersapproved Proposition 215, allow-ing marijuana for medicinal pur-poses, Santa Cruz residents — by amargin of 77 percent — approveda measure ending the prohibitionof medical marijuana.

For years, Santa Cruz authori-ties have cooperated with localcollectives, helping set standardsfor medicinal marijuana use,issuing IDs and looking the otherway as suppliers provided free,organically grown marijuana.

No one answered the phone at

the Women’s Alliance for MedicalMarijuana on Tuesday, but arecording stressed that the eventwas not a “free pot giveaway” andthat the drug would be distrib-uted only to “certain patients withsupport of many city officials.”

The message describedTuesday’s gathering as a “wonder-ful, quiet and orderly vigil inhonor of seriously ill and dyingpatients.”

Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii,Maine, Nevada, Oregon andWashington also have passedlaws allowing marijuana to begrown and distributed to patientswith a doctor’s prescription.

Meyer said all those areas werepossible sites of similar DEAraids.

“Like the officials in Santa Cruz,I’m sure they know that federal lawsupersedes state law, and underfederal law, marijuana is illegal.Drugs are not something to jokeabout, especially the city-sanc-tioned distribution of marijuana.”

Said Reilly: “We don’t think it’sfunny either. We take this issuevery seriously.”

GOP nominees make Iraq a political weaponWASHINGTON (Washington Post) —Steve Pearce, a Republican con-gressional nominee in NewMexico, is at the forefront of anemerging GOP campaign to turn apossible war against Iraq into apolitical weapon back home.

“Pearce takes strong standagainst Iraq, Smith weak on issue,”screams Pearce’s recent campaignrelease. Pearce is sharply attackinghis opponent, Democrat JohnArthur Smith, for doing what manyleading Democrats across thecountry are doing: urgingPresident Bush to build interna-tional support before trying tooverthrow Iraqi President SaddamHussein.

“That’s just a way of saying,`Don’t do anything,”’ said Pearce,who is running even with Smith inthe polls for an open seat in south-ern New Mexico.

Pearce isn’t alone. Across thecountry, GOP House and Senatecandidates are emphasizing thepossibility of war in Iraq, eithertouting their support for Bush orhighlighting their opponents’reservations — past or present —about military strikes against theBaghdad regime, according to sev-eral candidates and party strate-gists.

Although many candidates arewaiting for Congress and theUnited Nations to act before takinga firm stand on military actionagainst Iraq, the issue has gainedascendancy in key Senate races inSouth Dakota, Minnesota andGeorgia. Several GOP House nom-inees, meanwhile, also plan tomake it a major theme in the weeksahead, a party strategist said.

These events mark a shift in themidterm elections toward a topicthat Republicans generally favor —the Bush administration’s toughstand against Saddam — at theexpense of subjects thatDemocrats prefer — domesticmatters such as health care bene-fits and the fiscal health of theSocial Security system.

Bush has called on Congress topass a resolution authorizing warin Iraq if U.N. weapons inspectorsare prevented from verifying thedestruction of Iraq’s weapons pro-gram. Some Democrats havevoiced concerns about using mili-

tary action — especially unilateral-ly or bilaterally, if only Britain joinsthe United States — to overthrowSaddam if he does not cooperateimmediately.

In South Dakota, home to one ofthe nation’s most hotly contestedSenate races, Rep. John Thune, R-S.D., is bashing Sen. Tim Johnson,D-S.D., for his past opposition togoing to war with Iraq.

As a House member in 1991,Johnson opposed the resolutionauthorizing war to drive Saddam’sarmy out of Kuwait. He later joineda lawsuit aimed at preventingPresident George H.W. Bush fromcommitting troops to the PersianGulf. The former president willhost a fundraiser for Thune onThursday, a timely reminder ofThune’s support for and from theBush family.

Thune believes Johnson’s posi-tion on Iraq is supplantingMedicare reform, Social Securityand tax cuts as the hottest cam-paign issue in South Dakota, saidhis spokeswoman ChristineIverson, despite polls showing thatvoters care most about domesticissues.

Thune on Monday came out instrong support of an immediatevote in Congress backing PresidentBush. He said Johnson’s role in thelawsuit, which would have pre-vented Bush Sr. from dispatchingtroops to Iraq, shows he was “com-pletely out of sync with SouthDakota” voters. Veterans groups inthe state Tuesday held a news con-ference to denounce Johnson’spast stance.

“The issue matrix is changing,”Thune said in an interview.“Whether Tim Johnson likes it ornot, this is on the mind of voters.”

Johnson, who wants to buildinternational support before goinginto Iraq, said: “I don’t see this as acause for politics, but my oppo-nent, whose campaign has slippedin recent months, feels this is anopportunity to use the lives of mil-itary personnel as political pawns.”

In Minnesota, RepublicanNorm Coleman, a former St. Paulmayor, is trying to unseat Sen. PaulWellstone, D-Minn., in part byhighlighting Wellstone’s oppositionto Bush on Iraq. Coleman hasstepped up his support for the

president, calling on Congress topass a war resolution before theUnited Nations acts. “It’s front andcenter in people’s minds,” saidLeslie Kupchella, Coleman’sspokeswoman.

Wellstone, who has urged cau-tion and a thorough review of thepros and cons of waging war beforeauthorizing Bush to do it, saidColeman has obviously shifted intoa more pro-war mode.

“On life-and-death issues, thepeople of Minnesota really want tohave some assurance you really areusing your best judgment, beingintellectually honest, and that cer-tainly is what I intend to do,”Wellstone said.

A Senate GOP campaign strate-gist said Wellstone, Johnson andSen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, are mostvulnerable to attacks on the Iraqissue because they voted againstthe resolution sought by Bush’sfather in 1991. Republicans plan torun ads this fall attackingDemocrats who have voiced oppo-sition to toppling Saddam, GOPstrategists said.

Still, some Republicans see thisstrategy as risky, and counsel await-and-see approach. If thingstake a turn for the worse, or inter-national opposition to the Bushplan intensifies, some strategistsfear public support for war withIraq could wane.

This may explain why somecandidates, such as GOP Rep. GregGanske, a Senate nominee in Iowa,are adopting a more cautious tone.Ganske, after weeks of delibera-tion, has started to talk more confi-dently about Bush’s approach, buthe has mostly held back fromgoing after Harkin for opposingBush Sr. in 1991. Instead, he is play-ing up his support for Bush, whocampaigned for him Monday.

Still others are finding it difficultto make headway on the issue. Inthe Senate race in Georgia, a staterich with military bases and per-sonnel, GOP Rep. C. SaxbyChambliss sees the possibility ofwar in Iraq as the dominant issue.He has staked himself firmly insupport of Bush, and hopes to ben-efit from his tenure on the Housecommittee overseeing effortsagainst terrorism and homelandsecurity.

“We’re dismayed

that the City Council

and the mayor of

Santa Cruz would

condone the distri-

bution of marijuana.

I don’t know what

they’re thinking, but

they’re flaunting

federal law. And we

here at the DEA take

violations of the law

very seriously.”

Richard MeyerDEA spokesman


MIAMI (L.A. Times) — On Tuesday, a full week afterFlorida’s chaos-plagued election and onset of a pro-longed ballot count, Janet Reno conceded defeat anddrove off into the political twilight.

From now on, Reno told glum-faced supporters, sheis a “private citizen.”

It almost certainly was a career-ending move for theformer U.S. attorney general, who is 64, suffers fromParkinson’s disease and squandered a lead of monu-mental proportions to the upstart attorney who beather in Florida’s Democratic primary for governor.

“This is going to be a lesson in every campaign man-ual on how not to run a campaign,” said Larry Sabato,director of the Center for Politics at the University ofVirginia. “You do have to try to lose a 30-point lead. Youhave to work at it, every day. And she did.”

As a result, Sabato said, “we now can write Reno’spolitical obituary. Unless she wants to run for stateagriculture commissioner or state attorney general.”

At the wheel of her red Ford Ranger pickup, Reno rana unique brand of campaign, raising little money, for-going widespread use of television advertising andignoring many state Democratic elders.

Ignoring opinion polls and eschewing a televisionad blitz in favor of pressing the flesh in one-on-oneencounters with voters, Reno put 60,000 miles on hertruck’s odometer, but, observed the Tampa Tribune, itwas ultimately a “road trip to nowhere.”

A recount of some ballots in South Florida showedher main opponent, Tampa lawyer Bill McBride, with alead of about 4,800 out of more than 1.3 million votescast.

So Tuesday, the deadline for submitting results toTallahassee, Reno announced she had called McBrideto concede, to congratulate him and to pledge her sup-

port. “I think Bill can lead us,” an upbeat Reno told loyal-

ists at her campaign headquarters in Miami Lakes. Shesaid she thought the former Marine officer and head ofthe state’s largest law firm had the qualities to be one ofFlorida’s “greatest governors.”

Many in her party were coming to view Reno assomeone who could not successfully challenge theRepublican incumbent, Gov. Jeb Bush, the president’sbrother, and were relieved that she lost, observerssaid.

“This really is the leftover from the 2000 elections,”said Sabato. “Democrats are really angry, and theywant to beat Bush. That helped McBride. As time wentby, more and more people who sat down and thoughtabout this realized Reno was weak and McBride woulddo better against Bush.”

Reno made clear Tuesday she will be happy to cam-paign for McBride, and that she plans to file a lawsuitover the Election Day glitches that her staff believescost her precious votes.

“As a private citizen,” Reno said, “I want to do every-thing in my power to see that the people of the state ofFlorida have the right to vote, the right to vote in atimely fashion, to vote for the candidate of their choice,the right to have their vote counted in an accurate andtimely fashion.”

On Monday, her campaign manager, Mo Elleithee,said Reno was ready to take Bush to court over thewidespread troubles with touch-screen votingmachines and other problems that marred the Sept. 10primary.

Republicans blame the problems on the electionsupervisors in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, onea Democrat, the other Democratic-appointed.

Reno concedes defeat in Florida primaryBush calls onCongress toexpedite annualdefense spendingNASHVILLE, Tenn. (L.A. Times) — President Bush on Tuesdaysought to prod Congress to act quickly on annual spend-ing for the Pentagon, arguing that to do otherwise wouldbe to “play politics” with the defense bill in the midst ofthe war on terrorism and the brewing conflict with Iraq.

The measure is one of the 13 annual appropriationsbills that has yet to clear Congress, even as the start of thenew federal fiscal years looms on Oct. 1. Traditionally, atleast a few would have been signed into law by now. Thisyear, however, a variety of political squabbles has stalledthe budgeting process.

The defense bill is among the furthest along — theHouse and Senate each has passed a version of the meas-ure and lawmakers are expected to hammer out their dif-ferences and emerge with a compromise soon. But by sin-gling out defense spending, Bush called attention to asluggish budget process that is clearly becoming a sourceof frustration for the administration.

In a wide-ranging speech at a Republican politicalfundraiser in Tennessee, Bush reviewed his efforts tothwart terrorism and confront Iraqi President SaddemHussein, whose regime he called one of the “true threats”to peace.

After praising Congress for bipartisan support for hisprevious military spending requests, he scolded lawmak-ers for not having passed the pending defense bill.

“They need to act,” he said. “The leadership inWashington needs to move a defense bill to my desk asquickly as possible.”

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UNITED NATIONS (Washington Post) — Russia, France andother nations on Tuesday questioned whether a newSecurity Council resolution was necessary in the wake ofIraq’s offer to permit unconditional weapons inspections,slowing the momentum that had been building for a U.S.-backed plan to confront Iraq over its defiance of previousU.N. demands to give up its weapons of mass destruction.

While Bush administration officials swiftly rejectedIraq’s offer as a ruse, many here hailed the Iraqi stance asa possible step toward averting a war and urged theUnited Nations to explore its implications. “From ourstandpoint, we don’t need any special resolution for that(inspections) to occur,” Russian Foreign Minister IgorIvanov said.

On Capitol Hill, leaders in both parties expressed skep-ticism about the Iraqi letter and support appeared to begathering for a congressional resolution authorizing mili-tary action against Iraq. But the quickly shifting debate atthe United Nations, just days after President Bush force-fully demanded the U.N. take action, suggested theadministration still hasn’t convinced much of the interna-tional community of the urgency of the Iraqi threat.

The administration plans to intensify its lobbying cam-paign Wednesday, when Defense Secretary DonaldRumsfeld will testify on Iraq before the HouseInternational Relations Committee. Secretary of StateColin Powell will follow on Thursday, a week earlier thanplanned.

U.S. officials argue that the current inspection regime,which Iraq suspended in 1998, has such lengthy timeta-bles that it would permit Iraqi President Saddam Husseinto drag out the inspections process for months, if notyears. They said they are crafting a Security Council reso-lution that would set specific benchmarks and a muchshorter timeline for judging whether Iraq is fully cooper-ating in the effort to eliminate any chemical, biological ornuclear weapons — and also promise consequences ifIraq fails to live up to the U.N.’s demands.

Administration officials expressed confidence theywould succeed in winning a new resolution, despite theflurry of interest generated by the Iraqi statement, whichwas signed by the Iraqi foreign minister and releasedMonday. In a major shift of position, Iraq didn’t tie thereturn of weapons inspectors to the lifting of sanctions asit has in the past. Said one U.S. official of the Iraqi offer,“We’re confident it won’t succeed.”

Still, Hans Blix, the chief U.N. weapons inspector, metIraqi officials Tuesday to discuss details involved inrestarting inspections. During a Security Council meetingTuesday, French officials pushed for Blix to report to theCouncil as early as Wednesday, in an apparent attempt toshift the debate to the question of resuming inspectionsand away from the U.S. plan to win a new resolution withmore stringent conditions

U.S. and British officials objected to the French pro-posal, saying Blix should decide when he’s ready to briefthe Council. In the end, it was decided Blix will brief theSecurity Council on Thursday. Blix briefed the Council onthe subject last week.

At the meeting, Iraq agreed to meet with the weaponsinspectors in Vienna in 10 days to finalize the arrange-ments, said Saeed Hasan, a senior Iraqi official who over-sees Iraq’s relations with the U.N., after the meeting.Hasan said Iraq had agreed to provide information onhow the Iraq has used dual-use equipment since thebeginning of 1999, after previous inspections were termi-nated.

Blix said he would meet with Iraqi officials in Viennathe “week of Sept. 30” to discuss “practical” arrangementsfor inspectors to be readmitted and to make sure theinspectors and Iraqi government see “eye to eye” overwhat’s required.

Throughout the day, U.S. officials pressed their casethat Saddam can’t be trusted and that the other countriesshouldn’t fall for any last-minute Iraqi gambits. PresidentBush, whose language about the United Nations appears

to get tougher the further he is from Washington, said inTennessee Tuesday, “The United Nations must act. It’stime to determine if they will be a force for peace or anineffective debating society.”

Powell, speaking after completing discussions on theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict here, said the letter proved thatIraq responded to pressure, and that it was necessary forthe Security Council to draw up a new resolution “to keepthe pressure on” Iraq to eliminate weapons of massdestruction. “We cannot just take a one-and-a-quarterpage letter signed by the foreign minister as the end ofthis matter,” he said. “We have seen this game before.”

Yet it was problematic for the U.S. position that lessthan 24 hours after the Iraqi letter was received, two per-manent members of the Security Council with veto power— France and Russia — were reconsidering whetheranother U.N. resolution was necessary at this point.

French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin toldreporters that “all the elements are there now for action.Saddam Hussein must now be held to his word. Theinspectors must be sent to Iraq.”

Ivanov, who will visit Washington later this week fordiscussions with U.S. officials, stressed that “only acts”will demonstrate whether Iraq is sincere, adding that theUnited Nations could wait for the first report from arevived inspection team in about six months.

“They will be reporting back to the Security Council ontheir work, whether the conditions are present or not,”Ivanov said. “If we see that the conditions are not there,then the Security Council would have to consider all nec-essary measures to make sure that the inspectors can dotheir job.”

Ivanov held open the possibility that a new resolutioncould be considered on the other issues raised by Bush inhis speech to the U.N. General Assembly last week — suchas return of prisoners from Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in1990 and the subsequent Persian Gulf War and respect forhuman rights.

Iraq offer has Russia, France questioning need for new resolution

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The plight of a Brown student with limited e-mail accessentails protracted waits to use the CIT clusters, long pil-grimages to the Rock’s third level and even stops at over-priced and dimly lit cybercafes in an effort to keep con-nected to his peers and professors.

Happily for the first-year in Perkins with six hours ofMain Green classes, Brown’s computing resources maysoon include “e-mail kiosks” set up in “strategic” loca-tions across campus, making communication more time-ly and convenient.

The addition of e-mail kiosks has already been pilotedat Harvard and MIT and would be a vast improvementon the overcrowded clusters already in use. The kiosks,designed with standing-room in mind, are perfect forbrief visits of 5 or 10 minutes.

This frees the computer labs — equipped with chairs— for students with papers or long-term use plans.Students without computers, who currently have to waitfor attenuated periods of time while the paper-writersfinish up, will no longer have to compete with theselong-termers just to check their email in quick fashion.

The public computers for student use currently arearranged around the periphery of campus at the CIT, theRock and the Sci Li.

This is a partial periphery at best. Pembrokers have nocluster available at all. Kiosks in Faunce, Alumnae Hall,near Jo’s and Rochambeau would seriously ameliorateand equalize the computing standards of Brown stu-dents.

We applaud UCS for initiating this as a proposal.Computer kiosks for e-mail use will facilitate communi-cation between Brown students and their professors, aidthose students without personal computers and clearcongestion in Brown’s computing clusters.

We hope that Vice President for Computing andInformation Services Ellen Waite-Franzen will take intoconsideration all the benefits that these kiosks willbring. The administration should not dismiss them asluxury items but should seriously consider the advan-tages.

Herald focuses onGraduate StudentCouncil, ignores anti-union perspectiveTo the Editor:In “BGEO/UAW amends brief, seeking to redefinescience RAs as employees,” (9/17), The Heraldagain drops the ball. Many graduate studentsbelieve the union’s attempt to amend their brief is acynical effort to hide the results of the election.

Last year, union lawyers worked tirelessly to pre-vent science RAs, who historically have tended tobe more anti-union, from voting in the election.After their arguments were rejected by the govern-ment at Columbia University, the union suddenlysaw the light and decided that they now want sci-ence RAs to be included.

If the government accepts the union’s newclaims, the votes from last year’s election will bethrown out, and the union will have to start theircampaign over. Since I believe that the union lostthe election, it has every incentive to prevent thosevotes from seeing the light of day and suffering ahumiliating and public defeat.

This point of view could have been included inyesterday’s story. Instead, The Herald quotes only apaid UAW employee and representatives from ourwonderful, but neutral, Graduate Student Council.Indeed, twice in the course of a single week, TheHerald has published articles on graduate union-ization without including the perspectives of anti-union students. This unbalanced reporting isinconsistent both with The Herald’s overall highstandards of objectivity and with the even handed-ness with which the campaign was reported on lastyear.

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Powell must remain Bush’s right-hand manSecretary of State Colin Powell belongs next to President Bush in the 2004 election — to keep Dubya in check

TIME MAGAZINE REPORTED RECENTLYthat Secretary of State Colin Powell had a“firm plan” for leaving the administrationat the end of President George Bush’s firstterm in office. Increasingly frustrated forbeing the lone voice of moderation on awhole host of issues sinceentering office, notably overpossible war with Iraq, Powellapparently plans to exit in2005. Powell’s spokesmandenies it, of course.Nonetheless, the simple existence of suchrumors is significant cause for concern.

For all our sake, Powell had better staywith Bush for as long as he is president.And he cannot stay quiet any longer. Morethan ever, Powell needs to step out, speakup, and exert his clout. His exasperatingsilence is now dangerous.

It is no huge leap in thinking to observethat the world is not the same now as itwas in 2001 when Powell returned toWashington. We are closer to nuclear warthan we have been since the CubanMissile Crisis, a new world order hinges onevery nation’s response to terrorism, andthe violence in the Middle East threatensto be a powder keg that will blow up ineveryone’s face (just to name a few). Powellwill not save us from such perils, but hecan save us from Bush and war-mongeringcomrades.

Powell’s problem is that he is too good asoldier. It is almost paradoxical: a manwhose career has been defined by conflicthas an aversion to public disagreementwith the administration. Famed loyalty toone’s superiors and tough army discipline,virtues in most other contexts, is gettinghim burned now. Let us just run down acouple examples from a list of many.

At the recent, highly touted but not soeffective Earth Summit in Johannesburg —the one Bush did not attend — Powell wasinterrupted frequently by protestors,many American, screaming among otherthings, “shame on Bush,” and “betrayed bygovernments.” From the less hyperbolic

delegates at the event, Powell was excori-ated for the Bush administration’s unilat-eral policies on everything from foreignaid to the environment. He was jeereddespite being the best hope to discourageBush’s unilateral thinking and to push him

in a more pro-Green direc-tion.

In last month’s interviewwith the BBC, Powell saidBush had been “clear that hebelieves weapons inspectors

should return.” Vice President Cheney,however, stated three days earlier that areturn of inspectors “would provide noassurance whatsoever,” and would “pro-vide false comfort.” It is just shameful,really: a militarily decorated hero withloads of knowledge and experience aboutthe Middle East being put out to dry by ashady, balding ex-CEO with heart troubleand no actual military experience.

Some reports suggest that Powell is par-ticularly quiet now to conserve his limitedpolitical capital for a possible war withIraq. The only reason Powell must nowmince words and use such guerilla diplo-macy tactics is because he has been socompliant since being nominated. It is onething to be respectful to the boss and be ateam player, it is another thing entirely tobe Bush’s doormat.

Powell’s biggest obstacle to persuadingBush (aside from Bush himself) is Cheney.As ironic as it is, he is Bush’s most influen-tial advisor, but also his greatest politicalliability. For well over a year, Cheney hasevaded the media and hides from oneundisclosed location to another — noteven James Bond is this secretive. But,herein lies the lesson Powell must heed. Aslong as Cheney continues to do the talk-ing, in private and in public (the few timeshe is let out of his cage), he commits theadministration to an aggressive stancethat is hard to reverse.

But there is still hope. What Cheneylacks are Powell’s greatest strengths: moralauthority and strong ties with the media.Powell must use his status as an honor-able, experienced military man to influ-

ence Washington lawmakers, and parlayhis relationship with the press, here andabroad, to defuse international tensions asmuch as possible. He can thus subtly cre-ate a politically unfavorable climate tocurb Cheney’s hawkish proclivities. Powellmust end his largely self-imposed impo-tency, get on the front lines, and startleveraging his status.

Some might find it anathema to be sosubversive, but I find it tragic that Powellhas been so conformingly reticent for solong. In response to the protestors at theEarth Summit, he said he had heard them,and that it was their turn to hear him. It isnow time for Powell to speak more loudlyand more boldly so we can all hear him.Every good soldier knows there are timesand circumstances when rebelling is nec-essary for the greater good. With a war onthe horizon with potential nuclear stakes,and perhaps a wave of more terrorist activ-ity and a dangerous new pre-emptive pol-icy, here and now are such times and cir-cumstances.

I would not be so concerned if presi-dent 43 had 41’s sense of diplomacy andnegotiation. The situation is much worsenow than it was in the 90’s, but at leastBush Sr. had the uncanny ability to quick-ly convert long-developed personal con-tacts into an international alliance againstSaddam Hussein. Dubya and Co. have for-

gotten that, as much any other factor,diplomacy and the support of our allieswere critical components in the waragainst Iraq. They will be this time, as well.

I would not be so concerned if itwere “just” Iraq and the White House thatwere the problem. But there are largerimplications here at home. Even in hisineffectual state, Powell still exerts a signif-icant moderating influence on the party. IfPowell were to exit, his absence would cer-tainly give Republican hard-liners inCongress more cause to celebrate. IfRepublicans end up scoring big in theNovember elections, we could have thedomestic policy agenda for the next cou-ple years run by Bush-ites. Here’s hopingDickie G has done his homework.

Irrespective of ideological differences,even conservatives and hawks would haveto agree that it is sensible to have a strongman inside Bush’s circle of advisers — acircle Powell is quickly being closed out of— to fight against a pre-emptive first-strike before other diplomatic options.Disagreement is good; often assumptionsare questioned and beliefs are tested.Powell needs to be the major check on theprevailing belligerent attitudes in theWhite House, but without a major camp ofdoves to support him, Powell needs to belouder — a lot louder.

Powell can stay if he wants, of course. Ifonly for Bush’s political self-interest, itwould be disastrous to drop a man ofPowell’s status for 2004, especially whenBush sang his praises upon nominatinghim as a “an American hero, an Americanexample and a great American story.”Particularly post-Sept. 11, 2001, Powell’sBronze Star, Purple Heart, PresidentialMedal of Freedom, and CongressionalGold Medal (among others, including anhonorary knighthood) shine evenbrighter.

Powell, the last voice of moderation,needs to stay in office for the possible nextterm to fight the good fight, and to notleave a brood of hawks to their owndevices. This old soldier better not fadeaway.Rusha Modi ’04 hails from La Canada, Calif.

AFTER READING MYRA PONG’S ‘06 TWTPcolumn (“TWTP necessary orientation forBrown University,” 9/16), I too wanted toexpress my ideas on that topic. Although Ido not agree with how the Third WorldTransition Program is run at this time, I dobelieve that there are goodarguments as to why it shouldstay how it is. There justhaven’t been any presented.

Pong states, “TWTP hasmany important goals,including promoting racial and ethnicpluralism and breaking down the barriersbetween people of color and white peoplein society” I agree that’s a great goal, buthow can it be accomplished if there areany races not accounted for? Maybe theprogram should be promoted to allincoming first-years, so they may have achoice as whether or not to attend. As Iunderstand it, anyone is allowed to par-ticipate, but only minorities are given apersonal invitation in the months pre-ceeding their firy year. I only learned ofthe program’s existence after school hadalready started my first year; there was noway I could have gone.

Pong argues “(W)e (people of color) arethe ones directly affected by racism andthe ones who face systems of whitesupremacy.” How so? I’m affected everyday by the few people who still hold whitesupremacist ideas any time I go to the

movies, walk down the streetor do anything else with myboyfriend. I am Caucasian; heis not.

Pong also states that theTWTP is an “essential part of

the lives of BOTH students of color andwhite students at Brown.” If that is thecase, then all students at Brown should beaffected positively; in reality, only minor-ity students are directly affected. It seemsas if white students are ignored. I didn’tget a chance to join the program, and noone I know who was in it has ever evenmentioned anything about it, other thanthe fact they had gone and liked it.

When Pong states, “Cohen obviouslyhas no idea what goes on during thosefour days of TWTP,” I agree with her. Heprobably doesn’t. She also stated that shedoubted he had ever attended the pro-gram, which is also probably correct. Butwith those statements she is eliminatingmost of the student population at Brown.

No one that I’ve talked to, besides thosewho attended, has any clue as to whatgoes on, because they never got thechance to go and no one really talks aboutit.

There are so many questions that I haveright now about my future and who I am.I feel pretty lost. Pong states, “I can saythat students of color who go to TWTPlearn more about themselves and eachother in those four days than any regularfirst-year orientation could teach them.” Iwish there could have been somethinglike that for me to attend.

Let’s go to a definition of “diverse.” Itmeans different, varied, diversified. IfBrown University has this “unique pro-gram aimed at providing constant sup-port for its diverse community of stu-dents,” then shouldn’t this program haveall races participating in it, instead ofbeing selectively diverse?

If nothing else, at least change thename of the program. When one says“Third World,” one thinks of starving chil-dren in little villages; even though I knowthat is not what it stands for at Brown, itdoesn’t sound very good. How does thatrepresent the people of color at Brown?Transition doesn’t work very well either.

Are the students who are in the programjust being introduced to Western culture?I don’t think so, but that’s how it sounds.

After being at Brown for over a yearnow, I’ve been a little disappointedabout how things work around here,mostly about how the “diverse” studentbody at Brown is so caught up in sepa-rating themselves from each other. I’msick and tired of people saying that itdoesn’t happen. Take, for example, theKorean and Chinese associations andHarambee house (just a few examples,I’m not singling any one group out).Better yet, just take a look at the Rattynext time you go.

I come from a city where race and cul-tural populations are pretty much even.There aren’t many associations that sin-gle out race or ethnicity, mostly becauseno one feels they are needed. I can’t sayI’ve ever walked in other races’ shoes athome, but no one ever complains aboutit. There are a lot of issues here that arerelated to racism that I just try to ignorebecause they don’t seem to change, and Idon’t have the energy to get mad everytime I hear about them. I expected a lotmore when coming to such a diverse IvyLeague school.Jill Lynch ’05 hails from Racine, Wis.

TWTP should be open to all incoming first-yearsBy exclusively catering to students of color, the TWTP fails to truly promote diversity

RUSHA MODIGUEST COLUMN

JILL LYNCHGUEST COLUMN

For all our sakes, Powell

had better stay with Bush

for as long as he is

President. And he cannot

stay quiet any longer. More

than ever, Powell needs to

step out, speak up and

exert his clout.

SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SEPTEMBER 18, 2002 · PAGE 12

WHEN I PICKED UP MY COPY OF THEHerald’s sports section Monday, I becameinterested in an article about contractionin Major League Baseball. There is nodenying that, of the four major sports,baseball has the most problems regarding

how the league isrun. There seemsto be no clear-cutway to solve thesep r o b l e m s .However, this par-

ticular article, written by Adam Stern ’06,suggests that a major contraction leavingbaseball with 10 or 12 teams will return thenational pastime to prosperity. I could notdisagree more.

This proposed plan is at the same timeboth impossible and ridiculous.

First of all, while Stern’s point that con-traction on a large scale would put a pre-mium on talent in the majors is true, thatdoes not mean that the game would bemore competitive. Any league is going tohave its strong teams and its weak teams.Teams that want to shell out the money toget the best players would still do so. Theonly difference is that instead of an uproarbeing caused by the Yankees’ trades forRaul Mondesi and Paul Weaver, it would becaused by the Yankees’ trades for BarryBonds and Barry Zito. The same problemswould exist, but they would exist on amuch larger scale.

Also, teams would not have time to letprospects develop into stars. You may notremember, but Sammy Sosa was by nomeans an all-star when he first broke intothe big leagues, and few could have seenthat he would hit 60 home runs in threeconsecutive seasons. Teams would not be

able to take chances on as many unknownplayers, especially foreign ones, if this planwere enacted. Ichiro would probably stillbe the best player in Japan, as no teamwould feel compelled to look overseas forplayers.

Stern also argues against the practice ofnon-contending teams tending to “sell offtheir players to more competitive teams.”He does not seem to realize that there is avery good reason for this practice. If a teamhas been knocked out of contention, thenyes, it is common for that team to trade agreat player. What Stern forgets is that theteam usually gets two or three prospects inreturn. The Seattle Mariners are a greatexample of this. They used trades of thisform to build a competitive team, despitelosing all-stars Randy Johnson, Ken GriffeyJr. and Alex Rodriguez.

Furthermore, Stern insists that “teamswith pathetically low payrolls are obvious-ly hurting intra-league competition.” This

is not at all true, as the Oakland Athleticsand Minnesota Twins are playoff-boundwhile having the third- and fourth-small-est payrolls, respectively, in all of baseball.The Twins’ success is especially ironic inthis situation; they were one of the twoteams pegged for contraction this pastsummer. Had this plan gone through, theywould not have been around to win the ALCentral, which they clinched on Monday.

While there certainly may be valid argu-ments to contract two, maybe even fourteams, I am unable to look at this planwithout laughing. Please, do not read thisarticle and label our dear friend Adam as afool, or even as a communist. He simplyhas been misled by the evil Bud Selig andhis compatriots or possibly has played toomuch fantasy baseball, and now wishes tosee a similar scenario played out in reality.

Christopher Hatfield ’06 is a guest sportscolumnist.

LISTEN UP: IT IS TIME TO GIVE THENew England Patriots the respect that theydeserve. Perhaps it is Tom Brady’s looks orthe team’s unusual class and modesty thatis preventing you from giving the Patssome love. But enough is enough, just give

it to ‘em. Ever since last

year’s stunningSuper Bowl victoryover the mighty St.Louis Rams, who

are sputtering at 0-2, the Pats were castoff as a one-season wonder. They wereseen as a child of fate that would growinto a stumbling toddler, searching for itstrue path in a league full of mature andintimidating bullies. Well, it has been twoweeks since the start of the season, and ifthere is another team that is playing bet-ter than the Pats, I sure don’t know aboutit.

The first week, we (that’s right, we)faced the Pittsburgh Steelers. Anddespite the fact that the Pats are defend-ing Super Bowl Champions and that thegame was in New England, the Steelerswere favored by two points. Many pickedthe Steelers to go to the Super Bowlbefore this season began. I’ve got newsfor you Dr. Z, Kordell and his cronies aregoing nowhere.

Tom Brady and the Pats dominated asloppy, mistake-prone Steelers unit,winning the game 30-14 with authorityto spare. The Pats had three picks,forced two fumbles and rocked Kordelllike it was their job (which, in fact, it is).I think I even saw Bill Cowher andJerome Bettis let a few tears loose.

Perhaps this victory will shut theSteelers up once and for all.

This past Sunday, the New York Jets wereour next victims. We heard it all throughoutpreseason: “Oooh, the Jets, they have a newhigh-powered offense” or “Oooh, the Jets,the free agent market really did themgood.” Is that so? To me, it was more like,“Oooh, the Jets, is this really an NFL team?”In a 44-7 defeat, the Jets had 32-yards rush-ing (14 of which were by their punter on agreat fake punt), got sacked five times andgenerally gave off an aura reminiscent oflast year’s Detroit Lions (perhaps I amexaggerating a bit, but they are divisionrivals). Did I mention that the Pats were anunderdog again? Somebody tell me whenthis madness ends.

Now, correct me if I am wrong, but is itor is it not time for the NFL and the restof this disillusioned world to say to them-selves, “Gee, the New England Patriotsare for real. Aren’t they?” The Pats havewon 11 straight games. The last two vic-

tories having come in particularlyimpressive fashion. Tom Brady has thethird-best quarterback rating in theleague, was the youngest quarterback tostart a Super Bowl and is now Mr. DunkinDonuts.

In a time so largely dominated by bigname players and individual numbers,the Pats are the opposite: the epitome ofteam, an idea that has become too for-eign in recent times.

Granted, the Pats personnel are alsoindividually talented. For all we know,the Cincinnati Bengals have beenteam-oriented for the last decade, butfew would argue that the Pats’ teamoutlook has nothing to do with theirsuccess.

So you respect the Pats now? That’sgreat to hear. As for the Red Sox … ?

Eric Perlmutter ’06 goes to Dunkin Donutsfive days a week in honor of his hero, TomBrady.

It’s time to give the Pats some respect

Contraction: what’s it good for? Absolutely nothing

ERIC PERLMUTTERPERL MUTTERS

CHRIS HATFIELDFROM LEFT FIELD

On Saturday, Dartmouth scoredtwo goals in the final two minutesof the game to come back from a4-2 deficit and defeat the Brownfield hockey team 5-4. This was theIvy League and 2002 season-open-er for both teams.

On Sunday afternoon, Vermont(2-4) scored twice in the secondhalf to defeat the Brown fieldhockey team (0-2), 2-0, in non-conference action.

In the first game, the Big Greentook a 1-0 lead just 7:39 into thecontest, but the Bears responded3:50 later to tie the game at 1-1with 23:31 remaining in the firsthalf. Ashley Wallace ‘03 scored thefirst goal of the season for theBears. Molly Carleton ‘04 connect-ed on a pass from Laurel Pierpont‘04 just 3:52 later to give the Bearsa 2-1 lead with 19:39 left in thefirst half.

Dartmouth struck at the 14:37mark to again tie the game, butPierpont tallied her first goal ofthe season off a pass from EvanO’Connell ‘05 with 7:47 remainingin the half, giving Brown a 3-2 leadat the Break.

Lizzie Buza ‘04 increasedBrown’s lead to 4-2 less than twominutes into the second half, con-necting on a pass from CoryPelletier ’03. The score remained4-2 in favor of the Bears for mostof the second half, but Dartmouthbegan its comeback with 21:37remaining. The Big Green then tal-lied twice in the closing two min-utes for the 5-4 final. Kathryn Noe‘05 made 9 saves in the game forthe Bears.

Against Vermont, after an entirehalf of scoreless action theCatamounts took a 1-0 lead earlyin the second half.

Noe stopped an original shot offa penalty corner, but theCatamounts were there to knockthe rebound into the net.

Vermont added an insurancegoal midway through the secondhalf to put the game away.

Offensively, Carleton led theBears with three shots, while Buzahad two.

Margaret Pulvermann ’04 andPelletier each had one defensivesave to lead the defense, while Noemade five saves in net.

Brown hosts the University ofRhode Island in the 2002 homeopener on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m.on Warner Roof.

— Herald staff, with reportsfrom Brown Sports Information

Today’s GamesWomen’s Soccer vs. Rhode Island. 7 pm Stevenson FieldField Hockey vs. Rhode Island. 4pm Warner Roof

Field hockeyfalls toDartmouth,Vermont onlate goals

S C O R E B O A R D

This past Sunday, the New York Jets were our next vic-

tims. We heard it all throughout preseason: “Oooh,

the Jets, they have a new high-powered offense” or

“Oooh, the Jets, is this really an NFL team?” In a 44-7

defeat, the Jets had 32 yards rushing, got sacked five

times, and generally gave off an aura reminiscent of

last year’s Detroit Lions.

After a victory over the Jets at their home opener, the Patriots deserve champ treatment

Any league is going to have its strong teams and its

weak teams. Teams that want to shell out the money

to the best players would still do so. The only differ-

ence is that instead of an uproar being caused by the

Yankees’ trades for Raul Mondesi and Paul Weaver, it

would be caused by the Yankees’ trades for Barry

Bonds and Barry Zito. The same problems would exist

on a much larger scale.

Contracting MLB won’t get rid of the problems, it will only make them worse

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