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2 I Tuesday, September 5, 2006 | The Red & Black
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UGA TODAY
>■ Comedian Godfrey.
8:00 p.m. Georgia Hall.
Sponsor: University Union.
Cost: $5 Pre-show, $7 Day of
Show for UGA Students; $12
Pre-show, $14 Day of show
for non-students. Contact
706-542-6396,
mlamotte@uga.edu
>- Dorm Days. 4 - 6 p.m.
Reed Quad. Sponsor: Phi
Sigma Pi Co-Ed Honor
Fraternity.
Contact www.uga.edu/phisigpi
> Hispanic Student
Association Meeting.
8 p.m. 214 Student Learning
Center. Contact
mbaetti@uga.edu
>- Art Lecture and Exhibit.
6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. Visual Arts
Building, main gallery. “Sheets
in the Wind: An installation by
Nell Ruby.” Sponsor: Lamar
Dodd School of Art and the
Franklin College of Arts and
Sciences. Contact 706-542-
1511, artinfo@uga.edu
>- Power to the People!
Film Series. “National
Recovery Administration
Promotion.” 7 p.m. Athens-
Clarke County Public Library
Auditorium. Sponsor: Richard
B. Russell Library, Walter J.
Brown Media Archives.
Contact 706-542-5788,
rtuten@uga.edu .
Wednesday
> UGA Volunteer Fair.
10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Tate
Plaza. Sponsor: Volunteer
UGA and the Center for
Leadership and Service.
Contact 706-583-0830,
acbeale@uga.edu
>- UGA Repbublicans
Meeting with speaker Phil
Kent. 7 p.m. 248 Student
Learning Center. Contact
www.ugarepublicans.com
>- Middle East Lecture.
“Heritage Conservation in the
Middle East: Jordan, Israel,
Palestine.” 4 p.m. 148
Student Learning Center.
Sponsor: Willson Center for
Humanities and Arts.
Speaker: James Reap,
College of Environment and
Design. Contact 706-542-
3966, jdingus@uga.edu
>- Life Drawing Studio.
5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Ed and
Phoebe Forio Studio
Classroom. Sponsor: Georgia
Museum of Art. Cost: $3.
Contact (706) 542-4662,
www.uga.edu/gamuseum
Thursday
> Alfred Heber Holbrook
Lecture. “The World's
Greatest Ass: Michelangelo
as Writer.” 6 p.m. Sponsor:
Georgia Museum of Art.
Contact 706-542-4662,
www.uga.edu.gamuseum
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TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
‘Crocodile Hunter 1 killed by stingray
CAIRNS, Australia — Steve
Irwin died doing what he
loved best, getting too close
to one of the dangerous ani
mals he dedicated his life to
protecting with an irrepress
ible, effervescent personality
that propelled him to global
fame as television’s
“Crocodile Hunter.”
The 44-year-old Irwin’s
heart was pierced by the ser
rated, poisonous spine of a
stingray as he swam with the
creature Monday while shoot
ing a new TV show on the
Great Barrier Reef, his man
ager and producer John
Stainton said.
Conservationists said all
the world would feel the loss
of Irwin, who turned a child
hood love of snakes and
lizards and knowledge
learned at his parents’ side
into a message of wildlife
preservation that reached a
television audience that
reportedly exceeded 200 mil
lion.
Irwin was in the water at
Batt Reef, off the Australian
resort town of Port Douglas
about 60 miles north of
Cairns, shooting a series
called “Ocean’s Deadliest”
when he swam too close the
stingray, Stainton told
reporters.
“He came on top of the
stingray and the stingray’s
barb went up and into his
chest and put a hole into his
heart,” said Stainton, who
was on board Irwin’s boat,
Croc One, at the time.
Crew members adminis
tered CPR and rushed to ren
dezvous with a rescue heli
copter that flew to nearby
Low Isle, but Irwin was pro
nounced dead when the para
medics arrived, Stainton said.
Marine experts called the
death a freak accident. They
said rays reflexively deploy a
sharp spine in their tails when
frightened, but the venom
coating the barb usually just
causes a very painful sting for
humans.
“It was extraordinarily bad
luck,” said Shaun Collin, a
University of Queensland
marine neuroscientist.
— Associated Press
SPECIAL | Animal Planet
A This undated photo shows Australian international media
personality and environmentalist Steve Irwin, who died on
the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia on Monday.
U.N. to mediate between Israel, Hezbollah
LES PERREAUX | Canadian Press via Associated Press
A Pvt. Dave Partridge, left, Sgt. Chad Garton, center, and Pvt. Chris Brooks, wait for
orders in Panjwaii, Afghanistan on Monday after hearing one of their comrades died.
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia —
U.N. chief Kofi Annan said
Monday he would appoint a
mediator for indirect talks
between Israel and Hezbollah
on the release of two abduct
ed Israeli soldiers, the first
word of negotiations since
fighting in Lebanon ended.
The announcement raised
the possibility of a prisoner
swap to win the soldiers’
release, an exchange which
Israel has repeatedly reject
ed. Until now, Israel had
insisted that it would not
hold any contacts with
Hezbollah, but its govern
ment has been under increas
ing domestic pressure to
bring the two home.
Israel mounted its offen
sive in Lebanon after the
Shiite guerrillas seized the
two soldiers July 12.
E.U., Iran to meet
for nuclear talks
VIENNA, Austria — The
European Union’s foreign
policy chief and Iran’s senior
nuclear negotiator tentative
ly agreed late Monday to
meet in two days in Vienna to
try and bridge differences
over Tehran’s nuclear pro
gram, United Nation and
European officials said.
While word leaked last
week that the Iranians had
agreed to meet with the EU’s
Javier Solana to explore
potential chances of solving
the impasse, the time and
venue are being kept secret
in an attempt not to jeopard
ize any chance of success.
At issue is Tehran’s refusal
to consider freezing uranium
enrichment despite a
demand by the U.N. Security
Council.
U.S. warplanes fire
on Canadian troops
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan
— U.S. warplanes mistakenly
fired on Canadian troops
fighting Taliban forces
Monday in southern
Afghanistan, killing one sol
dier and wounding five in an
operation that NATO said
also has left 200 insurgents
dead.
A British soldier attached
to NATO and four Afghans
also were killed in a suicide
vehicle bombing Monday in
WORLD
Kabul, while 16 suspected
Taliban militants and five
Afghan police were killed
elsewhere in the country.
The intense fighting comes
amid Afghanistan’s deadliest
spate of violence since U.S.-
led forces toppled the hard
line Taliban regime for host
ing al-Qaida leader Osama
bin Laden after the Sept. 11
attacks.
Sudan demands AU
support U.N. block
KHARTOUM, Sudan —
Sudan said Monday that
African Union peacekeepers
will have to leave Darfur
unless they accept a deal
within a week that would
effectively block a proposed
U.N. force.
Sudan’s Foreign Minister
Ali Ahmed Kerti said the AU
troops can only stay on in the
remote, war-torn western
region if they accept Arab
League and Sudanese fund
ing.
Khartoum last week
rejected a U.N. Security
Council resolution for the
deployment of some 20,000
U.N. troops and police in
Darfur to replace the ill-
equipped and underfunded
7,000-strong AU force.
— Associated Press
Couric to
debut on
‘Evening
News’
NEW YORK — With new
theme music from an
Academy Award-winning
composer, Katie Couric is set
to make the most talked-
about debut of the fall televi
sion season Tuesday on the
“CBS Evening News.”
CBS hopes that many of
the viewers who watched
Couric in the morning during
her 15 years at NBC’s
“Today” show will stay with
her in the evening, lifting a
JP FILO | Associated Press
A Bob Schieffer laughs with
Katie Couric on Thursday.
NAMES & FACES
broadcast that has spent
several years in the ratings
basement.
Couric will compete
against Brian Williams at the
top-rated NBC “Nightly
News.”
— Associated Press
Pro-immigrant protests fail to
produce new Hispanic voters
LOS ANGELES —
Immigration protests that
drew hundreds of thousands
of demonstrators to the
nation’s streets last spring
promised a potent political
legacy — a surge of new
Hispanic voters.
But an Associated Press
review of voter registration
figures from Chicago,
Denver, Houston, Atlanta
and other major urban areas
that had large rallies found
no sign of a new voter boom
that could sway elections.
There was a rise in Los
Angeles, where 500,000
protested in March, but it
was more of a trickle than a
torrent.
NATIONAL
Protest organizers —
principally unions, Hispanic
advocacy groups and the
Catholic Church —acknowl
edge that it has been hard to
translate street activism into
voting clout, though they
insist they can reach their
goal of 1 million new voters
by 2008.
Convicted terrorists
not getting jail time
WASHINGTON — Despite
a sharp increase in the pros
ecution of terrorism cases
just after Sept. 11, 2001, only
14 of the defendants have
been sentenced to 20 years
or more in prison, according
to a study based on Justice
Department data.
Of the 1,329 convicted
defendants, only 625
received a prison sentence,
said the study, released
Sunday by the Transactional
Records Access
Clearinghouse, a data
research group at Syracuse
University. More than half of
those convicted got no
prison time or no more than
they had already served
awaiting their verdict.
— Associated Press
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