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Friday, April 20 , aoo7 | The Red * Black
UGA TODAY
► Vote or Dio: Voter
Registration Drive. 11 a.m.
- 2 p m. Tate Plaza This
event is sponsored by Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority and is
part of Delta Week 2007:
“Tune Into Delta Television."
► Speech and Hearing
Screenings. In recognition of
Better Hearing and Speech
Month (May) and International
Noise Awareness Day
Sponsored by UGA Speech
and Hearing Clinic. 9 a.m. -1
p.m 593Aderhold Hall.
Please call 706-542-4598 for
an appointment
► “Beyond Iraq” March.
Sponsored by UGA Campus
Greens and UGA Pagans.
Members from 10 local organ
izations will rally under the
banner of “Beyond Iraq,"
which originates from Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s
speech. "Beyond Vietnam,"
about turning away from
“materialism, racism and mili
tarism" toward a “person-ori
ented society' Rally from 10
a.m - noon, march from noon
- 1 p.m
► Restoration: A Night of
Worship. 7 p.m. Seney-
Stovall Chapel. Cost: free.
► Students for
Environmental Awareness
Earth Day Festival. 11:30
a.m - 4 p.m Myers' Quad
Lobbying from environmental
ly friendly organizations, a
biodiesel magic show, numer
ous games and activities, live
music from Carl Lmdberg and
free pizza Contact:
jhoehn@uga.edu
Saturday
► Midnight Madness
Scavenger Hunt. Proceeds
benefit Best Buddies, a non
profit that provides friendships
and jobs to people with intel
lectual disabilities Noon - 1
a m. The Ritz The 12-hour
scavenger hunt culminates at
midnight with a party down
town Cost sls to play, $5 to
party Contact: www themid
nightmadness.com
► True Life: Party Like a
Rock Star. 11 p.m. - 2 a.m
Transmetropolitan. $3 before
Midnight with UGA ID; $5
after Midnight Everyone free
until 11:30 p.m. This event is
sponsored by Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority and is part of
Delta Week 2007: “Tune Into
Delta Television."
► Speaker: Johnny
Isakson. U S Senator
Johnny Isakson addresses
Dawgs for Israel and the UGA
College Republicans. 2 p.m.
101 SLC.
Monday
► Advanced Screening of
“Knocked Up.” 8 p.m. Tate
Theater Free passes will be
available the day of the event
at the Tate cashier's window.
Pass does not guarantee
entry so get there early.
Check out the trailer
knockedupmovie.com
► Earth Day Celebration.
Sponsored by the Physical
Plant, the Energy
Conservation Executive
Committee and UGA
Unplugged. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Tate Plaza Find out more at
http://www.uga.edu/energy
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Gonzales confronts call for resignation
WASHINGTON - Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales
confronted a fresh call for his
resignation from a fellow
Republican Thursday as he
struggled to survive a biparti
san Senate challenge to his
credibility in the case of eight
fired prosecutors.
“The best way to put this
behind us is your resigna
tion." Sert. Tom Coburn
bluntly told Gonzales, one
GOP conservative to another.
Disagreeing, Gonzales told
the Oklahoma Republican he
News networks
pull Cho pictures
NEW YORK With a
backlash developing against
the media for airing sickening
pictures from Virginia Tech
shooter Cho Seung-Hui. Fox
News Channel said Thursday
it would stop, and other net
works said they would limit
their use severely
NBC News was the recipi
ent Wednesday of Cho’s pack
age of rambling, hate-filled
video and written messages,
with several pictures of him
posing with a gun Contents
began airing on “Nightly
News," and its rivals quickly
used them, too.
Family members of victims
canceled plans to appear on
NBC’s "Today" show because
they “were very upset" with
the network for showing the
pictures, "Today” host
Meredith Vieira said
Virginia State Police Col.
Steve Flaherty who praised
NBC Wednesday for coming
to authorities first with the
package said Thursday he
was disappointed with what
the network showed.
“I just hate that a lot of
‘American
Idol’ run
ends for
Sanjaya
NEW YORK Sanjaya
Malakar, the singer who
horrified and captivated
millions in his improbable
“American Idol” run, finally
was voted off the show
Wednesday night.
When the result was
announced, Malakar wiped
away tears and got a big
hug from LaKisha Jones,
the next lowest vote-getter.
“I’m fine,” he told Ryan
Seacrest. “It was an amaz
ing experience.”
“I can promise you We
won’t soon forget you,”
Seacrest replied.
Malakar then performed
one last song, "Something
To Talk About.” Putting his
own twist on the song, the
17-year-old known for his
pretty looks and ever
changing hairstyles ad
libbed: "Let's give them
something to talk about...
other than hair.”
On Tuesday night’s
show, Simon Cowell
slammed his performance
as “utterly horrendous."
And for once, the notori
ously mean judge was vindi
cated.
Opera tells of Ga.
racism backfiring
STATESBORO, Ga. At
the end of Act One, the
tenor wearing a white suit
and trademark red sus
penders clutches his fat
cigar in a smoldering rage.
“I’m not gonna put up
with any social equality in
this state as long as I’m
governor,” he sings in a
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didn’t think resigning would
put the controversy to rest.
The exchange punctuated
a long day in the witness
chair at a Senate hearing for
the attorney general, who
doggedly advanced a careful,
lawyerly defense of the
dismissal of the prosecutors.
He readily admitted mistakes
yet told lawmakers he had
“never sought to deceive
them.”
Gonzales sat alone at the
witness table in a crowded
hearing room for the widely
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people not used to seeing
that type of image had to see
it.” he said
NBC said the material was
aired because it helped to
answer the question of why
Cho killed 32 people and him
self on the Virginia Tech cam
pus Monday.
“The decision to run this
video was reached by virtual
ly every news organization in
the world, as evidenced by
coverage on television, on
Web sites and in newspa
pers,” NBC said in a state
ment. “We have covered this
story —and our unique role
in it —with extreme sensitivi
ty, underscored by our devot
ed efforts to remember and
honor the victims and heroes
of this tragic incident."
N.H. governor says
he’ll OK civil unions
CONCORD, N.H. Gov
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▲ Sanjaya Malakar
performs Tuesday on the
set of “American Idol" in
Los Angeles.
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dark, resonant voice. “We
don’t need no Negroes and
white people taught togeth
er."
The segregationist Gov.
Eugene Talmadge, still one
of Georgia’s most theatrical
political figures 60 years
after his death, is taking
center stage again this
time as the villain in an
opera.
“A Scholar Under Siege.”
composed by Georgia
Southern University music
professor Michael Braz,
tells the true story of how
Talmadge in 1941 fired the
college’s president amid
suspicions he supported
integrating the school.
The opera was written
for the university’s 100th
anniversary celebration this
year.
“I’m not an opera fanat
ic, but to me opera is not a
bad way to tell a story,"
Braz said.
“Some of the characters
in question were so operat
ic themselves, so flamboy
ant. Talmadge could range
from being suave and
debonair to absolutely
manic and prone to rage."
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anticipated hearing. There
was no doubt about the
stakes involved for a member
of President Bush’s inner cir
cle, under pressure to resign
since the dismissals of the
prosecutors.
“The moment I believe I
can no longer be effective I
will resign as attorney gener
al,” Gonzales said after first
making it clear he did not
believe it had come to that.
The White House offered
support. Spokeswoman Dana
Perino told reporters, “I think
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▲ NBC ‘'Today” show co-hosts Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer report Thursday on a video
manifesto and photos sent to their network by Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui.
John Lynch said Thursday he
will sign legislation establish
ing civil unions for gay cou
ples in New Hampshire.
“I believe it is a matter of
conscience, fairness and pre
venting discrimination,”
Lynch told The Associated
Press.
New Hampshire would
become the fourth state to
Gates wants more progress in Iraq
FALLUJAH, Iraq Defense
Secretary Robert Gates
slipped into Iraq Thursday to
warn Iraqi leaders that the
US. commitment to a mili
tary buildup there is not
open-ended
Gates said the political
tumult in Washington over
financing the military pres
ence in Iraq shows both the
American public and the
Bush administration are run
ning out of patience with the
war
“I’m sympathetic with
some of the challenges that
they face," Gates said of the
Iraqis during his surprise
visit. But, he said, “the clock
is ticking.”
Gates added, "Frankly I
would like to see faster
progress.”
He said the Iraqis need to
push through legislation on
political reconciliation and
sharing oil revenues. “It’s not
that these laws are going to
change the situation immedi
ately. but I think ... the ability
to get them done communi
cates a willingness to work
together."
He said that, in turn,
would create an environment
in which violence could be
reduced.
Underscoring the urgency
in controlling the violence,
police said a suicide car
bomber rammed into a fuel
truck in central Baghdad only
hours before Gates' arrival,
killing at least a dozen peo
ple.
Al-Qaida establishes
shadow government
CAIRO, Egypt A Sunni
insurgent coalition posted
Web videos on Thursday
naming the head of al-Qaida
in Iraq as “minister of war”
and showing the execution of
20 men it said were members
of the Iraqi military and secu
rity forces.
The announcement unveil
ing an “Islamic Cabinet” for
Iraq appeared to have
the president has full confi
dence" in his attorney gener
al.
Struggling to save his
credibility and perhaps his
Job, Gonzales testified at
least 45 times before lunch
that he could not recall
events he was asked about.
Returning for an afternoon
session, Gonzales faced fresh
challenges to his credibility,
including from Republicans.
“Why is your story changing?”
asked Sen. Charles Grassley
of lowa, noting the attorney
adopt civil unions, following
Connecticut, Vermont and
New Jersey. Massachusetts
established gay marriage.
Lynch previously had
declined to take a public
position on civil unions,
though has supported
expanding health benefits to
same-sex partners of state
workers. He came under fire
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▲ U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrives at Camp
Falluja, Iraq, after visiting Baghdad Thursday and is greet
ed by soldiers and top military commanders.
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multiple aims One was to
present the Islamic State of
Iraq coalition as a “legiti
mate” alternative to the
U S-backed. Shiite-led
administration of Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki
and to demonstrate it was
growing in power despite the
U.S. military push against
insurgents
It likely also sought to
establish the coalition’s domi
nance among insurgents after
an embarrassing public dis
pute with other Iraqi Sunni
militants.
The Islamic State of Iraq is
a coalition of eight insurgent
groups, the most powerful of
them al-Qaida in Iraq. It was
first announced in October,
claiming to hold territory in
the Sunni-dominated areas of
western and central Iraq.
In the Cabinet announce
ment video, a man identified
as a spokesman for the group
appeared, with his face
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general now was accepting
responsibility for the firings
after initially saying he had
played only a minor role.
In response, Gonzales
replied his earlier answers
had been "overbroad” and
the result of inadequate
preparation.
The process that led to the
firings “should have been
more rigorous," he added,
although he repeatedly
defended the decisions them
selves.
Associated Press
from both sides for not
weighing in especially after
a delay last week of the
Senate vote on the House
passed bill
The Senate votes next
week, and Lynch said he is
confident the legislation will
pass It would authorize civil
unions beginning next year.
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obscured, speaking from
behind a desk with a flat
screen computer.
"It is the duty at our pres
ent stage to form this
Cabinet, the first Islamic
Cabinet, which has faith in
God,” said the spokesman,
wearing robes and a red
headdress.
He denounced Iraq's rulers
for the past decades
including Saddam Hussein's
Baath Party and the present
government saying they
“spread corruption and
ruined the country and its
people, until God helped the
mujahideen (holy warriors)
bring torture upon them.”
“Now the Islamic State
emerges as a state for Islam
and the mujahideen,” he said.
He then listed a 10-mem
ber "Cabinet,” including Abu
Hamza al-Muhajer as “war
minister.” Al-Muhajer is the
name announced as the
successor of Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, the leader of
al-Qaida in Iraq who was
killed in the summer of 2006.
Associated Press