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>■ Blood Drive.
12:30 - 5:30 p.m. Reed Hall.
Sponsor: American Red
Cross. Contact: 678-227-4650
>• Italian Film Series.
7:30 p.m. 248 Student
Learning Center. Film: “SALO.”
Sponsor: UGA Libraries Media
Department. Contact: , knowl-
ton@uga.edu, 706-542-7090,
http://www.titletk.com/italianfilm
>■ Swing Lessons.
7 - 8 p.m. Memorial Hall
Ballroom. Sponsor: UGA
Swing Club. Cost: $1
Donation. Contact:
www.uga.edu/ugaswingclub
>- Inaugural Lecture.
12:30 p.m. Larry Walker
Room, 4th Floor, Dean Rusk
Hall. Title: “The Rise of China:
Political & Economic
Implications.” Sponsor:
Willson Center for Humanities
and Arts and the Dean Rusk
Center for International Law.
Speaker: Daniel R. Fung,
former Solicitor-General of
Hong Kong.
Contact: jdingus@uga.edu,
706-542-3966
>■ Delta Phi Epsilon
Sorority Recruitment.
6 - 7 p.m. Delta Phi Epsilon
House on Lumpkin Street.
Contact: aglancz@uga.edu,
404-617-9400
Tuesday
>- UGA Glee Clubs. 8 p.m.
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall.
Sponsor: Hugh Hodgson
School of Music. Free admis
sion. Contact: 706-542-3737,
www.music.uga.edu
>- The Adolphe Sax
Birthday Concert. 6 p.m.
Ramsey Concert Hall.
Presented by the UGA
Saxophone Orchestra.
Sponsor: Hugh Hodgson
School of Music.
Contact 706-542-3737,
www.music.uga.edu
>■ Southern Stories
Exhibition and Opening
Reception. 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Through Friday, Dec. 8, 2006.
Broad Street Gallery, 257 W.
Broad Street, Athens.
Sponsor: Lamar Dodd School
of Art Galleries. Contact:
nwendl@uga.edu,
706-542-0069
Wednesday
>- Open Studio Life
Drawing. 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Ed
and Phoebe Forio Studio
Classroom. Sponsor: Georgia
Museum of Art. No instruction
is offered; participants must
provide their own supplies.
Cost: $3.
Contact: 706-542-4662,
www.uga.edu/gamuseum
>■ UGA Ecology of
Infectious Disease Lecture
Series. 4 p.m. Paul D.
Coverdell Center Auditorium.
Sponsor: Biomedical and
Health Sciences Institute and
College of Public Health. Title:
“You Say Pertussis, I Say
Petussis: The Epidemiology of
Whooping Cough in the U.S.
and the U.K.” Speaker:
Pejman Rohani.
Contact: leem@vet.uga.edu,
706-583-0797
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TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
Iraqi court sentences Hussein to hang
BAGHDAD, Iraq — An Iraqi
court on Sunday sentenced
Saddam Hussein to the gal
lows for crimes against
humanity, convicting the for
mer dictator and six subordi
nates for one nearly quarter-
century-old case of violent
suppression in this land of
long memories, deep grudges
and sectarian slaughter.
Shiites and Kurds, who
had been tormented and
killed in the tens of thousands
under Saddam’s iron rule,
erupted in celebration — but
looked ahead fearfully for a
potential backlash from the
Sunni insurgency that some
believe could be a final shove
into all-out civil war.
Saddam trembled and
shouted “God is great” when
chief judge, Raouf Abdul-
Rahman, declared the former
leader guilty and sentenced
him to hang.
“Long live the people and
death to their enemies. Long
live the glorious nation, and
death to its enemies!”
Saddam cried out after
the verdict, before bailiffs
took his arms and walked
the once all-powerful leader
from the courtroom.
There was a hint of a smile
on Saddam’s face.
The White House praised
the Iraqi judicial system and
denied the U.S. had been
“scheming” to have the his
toric verdict announced two
days before American
midterm elections, widely
seen as a referendum on the
Bush administration’s policy
in Iraq.
But symbolic of the split
between the United States
and many of its traditional
allies over the Iraq war, many
nations voiced opposition to
the death sentences in the
case, including France, Italy,
the Netherlands, Spain and
Sweden. A leading Italian
opposition figure called on
the continent to press for
Saddam’s sentence to be
commuted to life imprison
ment.
In the streets of Dujail, a
Tigris River city of 84,000,
people celebrated and burned
pictures of their former tor
mentor as the verdict was
read. In Baghdad, the Shiite
bastion of Sadr City exploded
in jubilation.
But in Saddam’s home
town of Tikrit, not far from
Dujail, 1,000 people defied the
curfew and carried pictures of
the city’s favorite son through
the streets. Some declared
the court a product of the U.S.
“occupation forces” and con
demned the verdict.
Policemen wept in the streets.
“By our souls, by our blood
we sacrifice for you,
Saddam,” the Tikrit crowds
chanted.
Saddam’s Sunni support
ers, the bulk of the insur
gency that has killed the vast
majority of American troops
in Iraq, could still explode in
violence once an open-ended
curfew is lifted in coming
days.
But the former leader’s
chief lawyer, Khalil al-
Dulaimi, told The Associated
Press his client had called on
Iraqis to reject violence and
refrain from taking revenge
on U.S. invaders.
“His message to the Iraqi
people was ‘Pardon and do
not take revenge on the
invading nations and their
people,”’ al-Dulaimi said.
— Associated Press
BASSEM DAHAM | Associated Press
A Iraqis from Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit hold
up images of the former dictator as they protest his death
sentence Sunday.
HARAZ N. GHANBARI | Associated Press
A Katharine Jefferts Schori, the newly installed presiding
bishop of the Episcopal Church, blesses a woman in a
ceremony following her installation as presiding bishop.
First woman to head
Episcopals ordained
WASHINGTON — Presiding
Bishop Katharine Jefferts
Schori stood beaming
Saturday in the Washington
National Cathedral, a staff
symbolizing her spiritual
duties in hand.
Surrounded by more than
3,000 well-wishers, she had
just become the first woman
to lead The Episcopal Church
— and the first female priest
to head an Anglican national
church worldwide.
Once she’s back at work,
Jefferts Schori will face a diffi
cult reality: a denomination
with eroding membership
that could also lose its place
among Anglicans in a fight
over the Bible and sexuality.
Jefferts Schori, who sup
ports ordaining gays,
acknowledged the rift in her
sermon, urging parishioners
to “make peace” with those
who oppose the direction of
the U.S. church.
Rev. Haggard admits
‘sexual immorality’
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
— Less than 24 hours after he
was fired from the pulpit of the
NATIONAL
evangelical megachurch he
founded, the Rev. Ted Haggard
confessed to his followers
Sunday that he was guilty of
sexual immorality.
In a letter that was read to
the congregation of the New
Life Church by another clergy
man, Haggard apologized and
requested forgiveness.
“The fact is I am guilty of
sexual immorality. And I take
responsibility for the entire
problem. I am a deceiver and
a liar. There’s a part of my life
that is so repulsive and dark
that I have been warring
against it for all of my adult
life,” he said.
Haggard resigned last
week as president of the
National Association of
Evangelicals, where he held
sway in Washington and con
demned homosexuality, after
a man claimed to have had
drug-fueled homosexual
trysts with him. Haggard also
was fired Saturday by the
Overseer Board of the New
Life Church.
— Associated Press
Israel to continue Gaza sweep
JERUSALEM — Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert
pledged Sunday to press
ahead with Israel’s offensive
in northern Gaza, brushing
off international calls to halt
the fighting and Palestinian
complaints of dwindling sup
plies of water, food and other
staples.
The death toll in Israel’s
five-day sweep through the
northern Gaza town of Beit
Hanoun rose to 47 on
Sunday, when three
Palestinians, including two
Hamas militants, were killed,
according to Palestinian
health officials.
Israel launched the drive
last week to try to stop to
daily rocket barrages aimed
at Israeli towns.
The Vatican and
European Union have
expressed grave concerns
about the offensive, but
Olmert told his Cabinet on
Sunday it was necessary to
“considerably reduce the
(rocket) fire and prevent ter
ror.” He said Israel has no
intention of reoccupying
Gaza after last year’s pullout.
“When we reach the con
clusion that the effectiveness
of the operation is bringing
us closer to reaching the
goals, we will definitely pull
our forces out of Gaza,” he
said.
Palestinian Prime Minister
Ismail Haniyeh called the
Israeli offensive a “massacre,”
and Beit Hanoun residents
warned of a burgeoning
humanitarian crisis.
“We have electricity, but
no drinking water,” said one
28-year-old woman, who
declined to be identified
because of the military pres
ence in town.
She said there were short
ages of staples like milk and
diapers and residents were
WORLD
being forced to share food.
She also said tanks were vis
ible from her home, and her
husband was taken away by
Israeli troops for question
ing. “I don’t know what’s
happened to him,” she said.
Despite the offensive,
Palestinians fired six rockets
at Israel on Sunday, the mili
tary said. Nobody was hurt.
Israel said its attacks are
focused on militants who
launch the rockets. While
most of the dead have been
militants, several civilians —
including a 4-year-old girl, a
72-year-old man and two
paramedics — have been
killed. Two women who
attempted to help a group of
militants besieged in a
mosque also died.
— Associated Press
Man with awl in rectum arrested
EL CERRITO, Calif. — A
man was arrested on suspi
cion of carrying a concealed
weapon after police found
him outdoors — naked —
and he told them he had a
tool in his rectum, authori
ties said.
The man was lying on a
tree stump, masturbating
beside a nature path, near a
Bay Area Rapid Transit
station Thursday, police
said.
John Sheehan, 33, of
Pittsburg, was initially
arrested on suspicion of
indecent exposure.
But when asked whether
he was carrying anything
police should know about,
Sheehan mentioned the
tool, said El Cerrito
Detective Cpl. Don Horgan.
“You can’t get much more
concealed than that,”
Horgan said.
Officers drew their
weapons and firefighters
were called to the scene.
Sheehan removed a 6-
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
inch metal awl — a sharp
pointed tool used for
marking wood or piercing
leather — wrapped in black
electrical tape without inci
dent.
Dolphin may have
vestigial hind legs
TOKYO — Japanese
researchers said Sunday
that a bottlenose dolphin
captured last month has
an extra set of fins that
could be the remains of
hind legs, a discovery that
may provide further evi
dence that ocean-dwelling
mammals once lived on
land.
Fishermen captured the
four-finned dolphin alive off
the coast of Wakayama pre
fecture (state) in western
Japan on Oct. 28, and alert
ed the nearby Taiji Whaling
Museum, according to
museum director Katsuki
Hayashi.
Fossil remains show
dolphins and whales were
four-footed land animals
about 50 million years
ago and share the same
common ancestor as hippos
and deer.
Scientists believe they
later transitioned to an
aquatic lifestyle and their
hind limbs disappeared.
Whale and dolphin
fetuses also show signs of
hind protrusions but these
generally disappear before
birth.
Though odd-shaped pro
trusions have been found
near the tails of dolphins
and whales captured in the
past, researchers say this
was the first time one had
been found with well-devel
oped, symmetrical fins,
Hayashi said.
— Associated Press
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