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UGA won't eliminate
oarly admission
ATHENS (MNS) - The
University of Georgia like
ly won’t do away with a
popular and growing early
admissions program, even
after one of the nation’s top
universities announced that
decision last week.
Harvard University
announced last, Tuesday
that, beginning in 2008, its
admissions office will elimi
nate an early admission pol
icy that allows prospective
students to be admitted in
late fall for admission the
following fall. The decision
came amid concerns that
the process, called “early
action,” hurts its chances
of attracting minorities and
economically disadvantaged
students who might go else
where for better financial
packages, officials with the
Ivy League school have said,
adding that they hope other
elite colleges and universi
ties will do the same.
Whether other top-flight
universities follow suit or
tweak their policies, UGA
will not drop its early admis
sions program, which offi
cials said eases application
processing and allows more
time to attract its brightest
minority students with cam
pus visits and open houses.
“(Harvard’s decision)
shouldn’t have an effect on
what we do,” said Nancy
McDuff, UGA associate vice
president for admissions and
enrollment management.
Students who apply for
early admission at UGA may
also apply early at other col
leges, and are not required
to accept UGA until the reg
ular March deadline.
Now in its fourth year,
UGA’s early admissions pro
gram has seen the number
of applicants almost double
from 5,000 in 2002 to more
than 9,000 this year, McDuff
said.
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Georgia M.D., wife
charged with fraud
JESUP (MNS) - A Wayne
County physician, along
with a Florida physical ther
apist and their spouses, have
been charged with health
care fraud in a 106-count
federal indictment resulting
from an investigation into a
phony billing scheme involv
ing patients at a fitness gym
owned by the doctor.
A family medicine doctor,
Randy Scott Lentz, 40, his
wife, Rebecca J. Lentz, 31,
both of Jesup, physical ther
apist Scott Thomas Bowlin,
43, and his wife, Kim A.
Bowlin, 40, of Port St. Lucie,
Fla., are accused of falsely
billing Medicare and Georgia
Medicaid for physical thera
py services at the gym, the
indictment states.
The fraud scheme billed
more than $700,000 to those
government health care pro
grams from August 2004
through April 2005, accord
ing to an ongoing investi
gation by the FBI and U.S.
Department of Health and
Human Services.
The indictment made pub
lic Monday contains 105
counts of health care fraud
and one count of conspiracy.
Randy Lentz and Scott
Bowlin were charged in
all the counts. Their wives
each were charged with con
spiracy as well as many but
not all of the health-care
fraud counts, the indictment
revealed.
Nunn, Turner group
pledges SSO million
WASHINGTON (AP) - An
organization founded by for
mer Georgia senator Sam
Nunn and CNN creator Ted
Turner pledged SSO million
to the U.N.’s nuclear watch
dog agency Tuesday to cre
ate a uranium stockpile that
might discourage other coun
tries *from developing their
own nuclear programs.
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The idea for a stockpile
has been around for decades,
but Nunn and others at the
Washington-based Nuclear
Threat Initiative said they
hope the financial pledge to
the International Atomic
Energy Agency will prod
governments into action.
Billionaire investor Warren
Buffett is providing the
money, which is contingent
on a SIOO million match
from IAEA member states.
The reserve would ensure
supplies of low-grade fuel
for nuclear power plants,
with the goal of discourag
ing nations from launching
their own processing pro
grams that could ultimately
be used for developing weap
ons. Western leaders are cur
rently locked in a standoff
with Iran over its program,
which Iran says is aimed
at producing nuclear power
but that the United States
and others fear is intended
to make weapons.
“Under international
law and under the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty,
countries have the right to
enrich nuclear fuel,” Nunn
said in a telephone inter
view from Vienna, where
he announced the finan
cial pledge at a 140-country
IAEA annual conference. “If
we have a lot more coun
tries that do that - and
we’re on the threshold of
that now - then it’s going to
be an extremely dangerous
world.”
“It’s going to be very dif
ficult to keep that weapons
grade material out of the
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hands of someone who might
use it as a weapon, like a ter
rorist group,” he said.
Nunn said an interna
tional fuel reserve might
not have deterred Iran from
pursuing its program. But it
would give the international
community more leverage in
addressing the situation, he
said.
“A country that’s been
determined to have nuclear
weapons from the outset
may not have listened to
this kind of proposal,” Nunn
said. “But it would certainly
be a powerful tool in the
hands of the international
community, saying, ‘You
don’t need your own nuclear
fuel supply. You have this
available.’”
In a press release, IAEA
Director General Mohamed
Elßaradei said the money
would “jump start” a stock
pile program that would
provide “nondiscriminatory,
nonpolitical assurances” of
fuel supplies for power plants.
Nunn, a Democratic senator
from 1972 to 1996 and for
mer chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee,
said the $l5O million fund
ing goal is enough to provide
only a “last resort” reserve
intended to back up existing
international nuclear fuel
markets. He acknowledged
that rallying the interna
tional community around
the program would be a dif
ficult sell.
“It’s an uphill fight,” he
said. “They’ve been talk
ing about this for over 50
years.”
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Obituaries
CLYDE E. HACKNEY
PERRY - Clyde E. Hackney, 77, died on Sep. 11, 2006. Mr.
Hackney, bom in Cedartown and the son of the late William
E and Laura Hackney, had lived in Perry for three years.
He was retired from Western Auto, co-owner of Hackney
Interiors of Savannah and was rewarded the Bronze Star in
Korea while in the Army and also served with the Maritime
Service.
Survivors include his wife, Rosalyn Hackney; children, -
David R. Curlee, Jr. of Perry, Kimberly Lyn Prieto of
Savannah, Darby Curlee of Las Vegas; brother, Coye
Hackney of Cedartown; five grandchildren and four great
grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Please sign the
online register at watsonhunt.com. Services were private
with Watson - Hunt Funeral Home in Perry in charge.
NELLIE S. WILLIAMS
WARNER ROBINS - Nellie S. Williams, 82, passed away
Saturday. Funeral services will be held at noon today at
Second Baptist Church. Entombment will be private.
Williams was bom in Peoria, 111. Survivors include three
children, 13 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.
Perdue-Taylor
race is personal
By SHANNON
McCaffrey
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - The way
Sonny Perdue remembers it,
it was close to Christmas in
1997 when fellow state Sen.
Mark Taylor paid a visit to
eat some barbecue and talk
about the race for lieutenant
governor.
“He came to my house
in Bonaire and begged me
not to run,” Perdue, now
governor, volunteered in a
recent interview with The
Associated Press. “He told
me that he planned for this
all of his life and he sure
hoped I wouldn’t do it.”
“That’s not the way it was
at all,” Taylor replied with a
hearty laugh when told what
Perdue had said.
Taylor said Perdue, then a
Democrat, had been sending
mixed signals about whether
he planned to get into the
race.
“He was the classic Hamlet
figure in deciding whether
to run or not to run,” Taylor
aaid.
The competing anecdotes
make one fact abundantly
clear about this year’s race
for governor in Georgia: the
faceoff between Perdue and
Taylor has been brewing for
some time.
“It’s personal,” Emory
University political science
professor Merle Black said.
“There’s a history there that
could make this race par
ticularly nasty.”
Perdue and Taylor are set
to appear together at a can
didate forum on Tuesday
in Duluth. The forum will
not allow the candidates
to debate directly. Still it’s
expected to be the first time
Perdue and Taylor _ who
have been trading barbs
from afar will be in the
same room For an event since
Taylor won his party’s nom
ination in July. With just
seven weeks left until the
Nov. 7 general election, the
two are poised to begin face
to-face combat. Both men
both deny personal animos
ity and say while they were
never friends their relation
ship over the years has been
cordial. Still, the pointed
jabs are thinly disguised.
As rising stars together
in the Democratic Party the
two were certainly competi
tive. Perdue, then president
pro tempore of the Senate,
switched parties in 1998 and
became a Republican. Taylor
was elected lieutenant gov
ernor later that same year.
In the GOP minor
ity, Perdue saw his legisla
tion bottled up. When he
complained, Taylor issued
a withering rebuke in the
Senate chamber: “Cry me a
river.”
Asked about that exchange
recently, Perdue offered a
twist on the famous quote
“power tends to corrupt.”
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“I believe that power
reveals,” Perdue said. “Power
reveals what’s in one’s heart
because you have the ability
and position from which to
impose that view and that
opinion.”
“I think that’s what hap
pened,” he said. “I was not
frankly that surprised.”
Taylor apologized in 1999
for inciting partisan ten
sions. But Republicans soon
had their revenge. When the
GOP took control in 2003,
they quickly stripped the
lieutenant governor post of
much of its power. Perdue
maintains that he never had
any ambitions for statewide
office, although others were
encouraging him to run.
Nonsense, said Taylor.
“The reason he chose not
to run is that he concocted
a way to become lieutenant
governor without running.
He switched parties,” Taylor
said. Taylor suggested that
Perdue hoped to change the
post into one appointed by a
majority of senators instead
of elected by voters.
“If he had run I would’ve
defeated him,” Taylor said.
But Mary Perdue backs
up her husband’s version of
events.
“Sonny was happy being a
citizen legislator,” the first
lady said. “He was getting
a lot of pressure from con
sultants who wanted him to
run.
Mary Perdue remembers
that 1997 meeting in Bonaire
as “nice and cordial.”
“But it was obvious that
Mark was hoping that Sonny
wouldn’t get into the race,”
she said. “He said ‘Sonny
you have a family to worry
about. I don’t have a family
all I have politics,”’ Mary
Perdue recalled.
Taylor married Sacha
Taylor, his third wife, in
2003. He has a son Fletcher,
23, from his first wife, Robin
Coble.
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