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Classroom. Sponsor: Georgia
Museum of Art. No instruction
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>- Genetics Seminar. 4
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Viability Variation and the
Evolution of Reproductive
Behavior.” Speaker: Patty
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Lecture Series. 4 p.m. Paul
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Auditorium. Sponsor:
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Sciences Institute and College
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Say Pertussis, I Say Petussis:
The Epidemiology of
Whooping Cough in the U.S.
and the U.K.” Speaker:
Pejman Rohani. Contact:
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Sales in Sports
Networking Night. 7 p.m.
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Thursday
>- University Theatre
Presents “The Man Who
Came To Dinner.” Nov. 9-
11, 15-18, 8 p.m.; Nov. 19,
2:30 p.m. Fine Arts Theatre.
Sponsor: Department of
Theatre and Film Studies.
Cost: $ 12/$ 10 students, sen
iors. Contact
www.drama.uga.edu
>- Comedian Nick
Swardson. 8 p.m. Georgia
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Union. Cost: $8 Pre-show,
$10 Day of Show for UGA
students. Contact:
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CORRECTIONS
In the Winter Sports
Preview of Tuesday’s
Red & Black, sopho
more center Rashaad
Singleton’s name was
misspelled in a graph
ic. On page 10, senior
tight end Martrez
Milner’s name was mis
spelled in a headline.
Due to a reporting
error in Tuesday’s
story “Punter to take
on FG kicker role,” one
former Georgia football
player currently on the
Atlanta Falcons roster
was not mentioned.
Defensive end Josh
Mallard also plays for
the Falcons.
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TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
Democrats triumph in House elections
WASHINGTON
Resurgent Democrats swept
toward control of the House
and grabbed Republican
Senate seats in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Rhode Island
Tuesday in midterm elections
shaped by an unpopular war
in Iraq and scandal at home.
Aided by public dissatis
faction with President Bush,
Democrats won gubernatorial
races in New York, Ohio and
Massachusetts for the first
time in more than a decade.
By 11 p.m. EST in the East,
Democrats had picked up 16
House seats in Republican
hands. They needed 15 to end
a long turn in the minority,
and a final result would
depend on dozens of races yet
uncalled.
House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi of California —
in line to become the first
woman speaker in history if
her party wins control — said
early in the evening, as the
returns rolled in, “We are on
the brink of a great
Democratic victory.”
In a comeback unlike any
other, Sen. Joe Lieberman
won a new term in
Connecticut — dispatching
Democrat Ned Lamont.
Lieberman, a supporter of
Bush’s war policy, ran as an
independent, but will side
with the Democrats when he
returns to Washington.
Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton coasted to a second
Democratic term in New
York, winning roughly 70 per
cent of the vote in a warm-up
to a possible run for the White
House in 2008.
Sen. Rick Santorum of
Pennsylvania became the first
Republican senator to fall to
the Democrats, losing his seat
after two conservative terms
to Bob Casey Jr., the state
treasurer.
In Ohio, Sen. Mike DeWine
lost to Rep. Sherrod Brown, a
liberal seven-term lawmaker.
Lincoln Chafee of Rhode
Island, the most liberal
Republican in the Senate and
an opponent of the war, fell
not long afterward to Sheldon
Whitehouse.
In Missouri, Sen. Jim
Talent held a lead over
Democratic challenger Claire
McCaskill with 25 percent of
precincts reporting.
Indiana was particularly
cruel to House Republicans.
Reps. John Hostettler, Chris
Chocola and Mike Sodrel all
lost in a state where
Republican Gov. Mitch
Daniels’ unpopularity com
pounded the dissatisfaction
with Bush.
— Associated Press
MEL EVANS | Associated Press
▲ Democrat Sen. Robert Menendez waves to supporters as he stands with his children Rob and Alicia Tuesday, Nov. 7,
2006, in New Brunswick N.J., during his victory celebration after he defeated Republican challenger Tom Kean Jr.
Complaints at polls lead to FBI probe
WASHINGTON — Election
Day was tainted by com
plaints of dirty tricks that led
to FBI investigations in at
least two states, with some
voters reporting intimidating
phone calls, misleading sam
ple ballots and even an
armed man outside a polling
place.
In Virginia, the FBI was
looking at complaints of an
apparently orchestrated
series of phone calls in the
hard-fought U.S. Senate race
between Republican George
Allen and Democrat Jim
Webb. Some voters reported
they got calls telling them to
stay home on Election Day, or
face criminal charges.
In Indiana, the FBI was
investigating allegations that
a Democratic volunteer at a
polling site in the college
town of Bloomington was
found with absentee ballots
after counting had begun.
In Arizona, three men, one
of them armed, stopped
Hispanic voters and ques
tioned them outside a
Tucson polling place, accord
ing to voting monitors for the
Mexican American Legal
Defense and Educational
Fund, which photographed
the incidents and reported
them to the FBI.
NATIONAL
In Maryland, sample bal
lots suggesting Republican
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich and
Senate candidate Michael
Steele were Democrats were
handed out by people bused
in from out of state.
Democrats outnumber
Republicans in Maryland by
nearly 2-to-l.
Problems with electronic
voting machines and confu
sion over voter identification
were reported at some
Georgia polling places
Tuesday, but state election
officials said those were few
and far between.
A judge ordered a DeKalb
County precinct to remain
open an extra hour, and a
polling place in Lovejoy, in
Clayton County, stayed open
an extra 30 minutes because
of machine delays earlier in
the day. In Warner Robins,
the power was out for two
hours at a school used as a
polling place, but batteries
kept the voting machines
running.
Secretary of State’s Office
spokesman Chris Riggall said
he’d heard “scattered
reports” of poll workers
wrongly asking voters to
present photo IDs, but said
that was not the case in most
of the state’s 3,100 precincts.
Gay marriage bans
gain more approval
WASHINGTON
Amendments to ban gay
marriage won approval
Tuesday in three states —
including Wisconsin,
where gay-rights activists
had nursed hopes of engi
neering the first defeat of
such a ban.
Nationwide, a total of 205
measures were on the ballots
in 37 states — ranging from
routine bond issues to a riv
eting contest in South
Dakota, where voters chose
whether to uphold or reject a
toughest-in-the-nation law
that would ban virtually all
abortions.
Activists on both sides of
the abortion debate were on
edge over the campaign, and
early returns showed a close
contest. If the ban is upheld,
abortion-rights supporters
are likely to launch a legal
challenge that could lead all
the way to the U.S. Supreme
Court.
Eight states had ban-gay-
marriage amendments on
their ballots; South Carolina
and Virginia joined Wisconsin
in approving them, while
results were pending in
Arizona, Colorado, Idaho,
South Dakota and
Tennessee. Similar amend
ments have passed previous
ly in all 20 states to consider
them.
Colorado voters had an
extra option — a measure
that would grant domestic-
partnership rights to same-
sex couples.
Conservatives hoped the
same-sex marriage bans
might increase turnout for
Republicans. Democrats
looked for a boost from low-
income voters turning out on
behalf of measures to raise
the state minimum wage in
six states. The wage hike
passed in Montana and Ohio;
results were pending in
Arizona, Colorado, Missouri,
Montana and Nevada.
In Missouri, a proposed
amendment allowing stem
cell research was a factor in
the crucial Senate race there;
incumbent Republican Jim
Talent opposed the measure,
while Democratic challenger
Claire McCaskill supported
it.
— Associated Press
Nicaragua names president
MANAGUA, Nicaragua —
Sandinista leader Daniel
Ortega, a former Marxist
revolutionary who fought off
a U.S.-backed insurgency in
the 1980s, won Nicaragua’s
presidential election,
election results showed
Tuesday.
Harvard-educated
Eduardo Montealegre imme
diately conceded following
the latest tally from the
Sunday voting.
With 91 percent of the
vote counted, Ortega had 38
percent compared to 29 per
cent for Montealegre. Under
Nicaraguan law, the winner
must get 35 percent and
have a five-percentage point
WORLD
lead to win the election out
right and avoid a runoff.
The former Marxist revo
lutionary spent most of the
1980s fighting a U.S.-backed
Contra insurgency. He lost
the presidency in the 1990
election, ending Sandinista
rule and years of civil war.
He’s spent the past 16 years
trying to get his old job back.
The United States, which
had warned against an
Ortega win, has declined to
comment on the results.
But former U.S. President
Jimmy Carter, who served as
an election observer, said
Tuesday in Managua that
U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice “assured
me that no matter who was
elected, the U.S. will
respond positively and
favorably.” Rice’s office con
firmed that the two talked
by phone, but refused to
give details.
Ortega, who served as
president from 1985-90,
toned down his once-fiery
rhetoric during the cam
paign, promising to support
a regional free trade agree
ment with the U.S. and
maintain good relations
with Washington.
— Associated Press
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LOS ANGELES — Britney
Spears is saying bye-bye to K-
Fed.
The pop princess filed for
divorce Tuesday from her
husband, former backup
dancer and aspiring rapper
Kevin Federiine.
The Los Angeles County
Superior Court filing cites
“irreconcilable differences.”
Spears, 24, married
Federiine, 28, in 2004. They
have a 1-year-old son, Sean
Preston, and an infant son
who was born Sept. 12. The
divorce papers identify the
baby as Jayden James
Federiine.
In the divorce papers,
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prenuptial agreement, Spears
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NAMES & FACES
After two
years of mar
riage, Britney
Spears is
calling it quits
with husband
Kevin
Federiine.
tion rights for Federiine. The
filing does list as separate
property, and thereby off-lim
its to Federiine, “miscella
neous jewelry and other per
sonal affects,” earnings and
other assets to be determined
later.
— Associated Press
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