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Show 2 Wednesday, March 10, 2010 BULLETIN www.dailyutahchronicle.corn All stories and photos from The Associated Press Biden condemns Israeli settlements JERUSALEM—Vice President Joe Biden condemned an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east Jerusalem on Tuesday — a disagreement that tarnished a high-profile visit that had been aimed at repairing ties with the Jewish state and kickstarting Mideast peace talks. Israel's Interior Ministry said late Tuesday that it had approved construction of 1,60o new apartments, an embarrassing setback for Biden after a day of warm meetings with top Israeli officials. Although ministry officials said the announcement was procedural and unconnected to the visit, a top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was blindsided and tried to contain the damage at a late-night dinner with Biden. Nonetheless, Biden issued a harshly worded statement after the dinner, Partly cloudy 43°/29° • How to (Really) Stimulate the Economy: Noon to 1 p.m. @ Hinckley Caucus Room • Modern Dance Senior Concert 1: 7:30 p.m. @ Hayes Christensen Theatre • James and the Giant Peach - Youth Theatre at the U: 7 p.m. @ Kingsbury Hall • Nano Institute of Utah & UCAIR Seminar: 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. @ Imaging and Neurosciences Center Weather from the department of atmospheric sciences: http://forecastutah.edu DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Iraqi parties both claim to be ahead in election U.S Vice President Joe Biden shakes hand with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Biden said there is a "moment of opportunity"for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. saying its timing was especially troubling by coming on the eve of a new round of U.S.-mediated peace talks. "The substance and timing of the announcement, particularly with the launching of proximity talks, is precisely the kind of step that undermines the trust we need right now," Biden said. "We must build an atmosphere to support negotiations, not complicate them," he added, warning that "unilateral action taken by either party cannot prejudge the outcome of negotiations." Relations between Israel and the Obama administration have been chilly precisely because of the settlement issue, and one of Biden's main goals had been to try to patch up ties. Biden is the highest-level member of the Obama administration to visit Israel. children. In 2000, Haddock walked 3,200 miles to draw attention to campaign finance reform. In 2004, at age 94, she ran for U.S. Senate against Republican Judd Gregg. The subtitle of her autobiography, written with Dennis Burke, was "You're Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell." "Her age wasn't a factor in what she did," Salinger said. "She never gave up. Until the end, she advocated for public funding. She would wanted people to know that democracy and government belongs to us." Haddock was born Jan. 24, 1910, in Laconia and attended Emerson College before marrying James Haddock. She later worked at a shoe company for 20 years. After retiring in 1972, Haddock became more active in community affairs. She became interested in campaign finance reform after the defeat of the first attempt of Sens. John McCain and Russ Feingold to remove unregulated "soft" money from campaigns in 1995. Inspiration for her cross-country trek came from the Tuesday Morning Academy, a group of women in Dublin who met every Tuesday at 8 a.m. to do ballet exercises and discuss world affairs. "Sometimes I think it was a fool's errand, but I think there are more people in this country who know what campaign finance reform means since I started," she told The Associated Press in February 2000. DEBATE continued from Page 1 COLUMBUS, Ohio—An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift Tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt. Nathaniel Brown, 51, arrived for work at the nation's largest university dressed in dark clothing, a hooded sweat shirt and carrying a backpack. He then opened fire in an office suite using two handguns, campus Police Chief Paul Denton said. Brown spent five years in prison in the 19705 and '8os for receiving stolen property but lied about it on his job application, records show. It wasn't immediately clear whether Ohio State had done a background check on him. MILLER continued from Page 1 Miller, a public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has formerly served as an adviser to six secretaries of state, in which he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli peace process. He used the opportunity Tuesday to share his grievances about the current state of the U.S. involvement in the Middle East. Although Miller mentioned numerous failed strategies of the conflict in the Middle East and many flaws within the United States, he didn't address Ohio State released documents from Brown's personnel file showing that supervisors complained he was tardy, slept on the job and had problems following instructions. The university sent him a letter March 2 informing him that his employment was to end Saturday. About a half-dozen other employees were in the building when the shooting began, Denton said. He described the shooting as work-related but didn't describe a motive. The shooting was reported at 3:3o a.m. Tuesday. Police tactical units surrounded the building and found Brown with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a garage bay, Denton said. He was pronounced dead at a campus hospital several hours later. solutions to the issues that preoccupied him during the lecture. "I deeply believe in American policy...no matter how many imperfections there are," Miller said. About possible solutions to the issues, Miller said, "I'm not here to suggest solutions. I'm here to analyze the problems." Some of these problems included ideas such as "human beings, for better or for worse, care only about what they own," referring to the United States' concern about the conflict in the Middle East. Miller also said he was upset that the question "What is it going to cost?" was not asked when the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. PITTSBURGH—Bank of America apologized to a woman after one of its contractors allegedly trashed her house and took her parrot while wrongly repossessing her home. Is Angela Iannelli sued the bank Monday. She said her mortgage was up-to-date when one of the banking giant's contractors damaged furniture, took her pet parrot, Luke, and padlocked her door in October. In a statement, the bank said it "sincerely apologizes" and has tried for months to resolve the issue. Is The bank said it has "zero tolerance for this kind of error" and said it will quickly review the lawsuit's allegations and consider any hardship that resulted. The woman said she eventually got her bird back after repeated calls to the bank. Advertising 801-581-7041 News 801-581-NEWS Fax 801-581-FAXX EDITOR IN CHIEF: Rachel Hanson r.hanson@chronicle.utah.edu MANAGING EDITOR: Sara Copeland s.copeland@chronicle.utah.edu PRODUCTION MANAGER: Alyssa Whitney a.whitney@chronicle.utah.edu ASST. 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"Only one country could stop them, and that is Iran," Miller said. Miller said the United States has a "front end and back end problem." He explained that in the front, the United States is trying to hit al-Qaida in the Middle East, and in the back it is trying to protect the continental United States. Miller said it is important to find "balance between what is real and what's ideal," and that the United States should be focusing on one or the other. k.angell@chronicle.utah.edu EWS ODDITIES BANK SUED FOR SEIZING PA. WOMAN'S HOME AND PARROT BAGHDAD—The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections that the top U.S. commander said would let all but 50,000 American troops come home by the end of summer. Initial results for some provinces, as well as for Baghdad—an area essential to determining any winner— were to be announced Tuesday. `OK, you didn't answer that question, want to try again?" Neela Pack, NOW Assembly candidate for University College, said she thinks that ICE will spend too much money implementing its programs. Involve U, a brochure ICE has proposed to show and Clarifications students how to get involved on campus, is contradictory The policy of The Daily Utah Chronicle is to correct any error made as soon to their sustainability plans, as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, as it's just going to be more please contact the editor at 801-581-8317. paper wasted, she said. 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She was surrounded by her son, daughter-in-law, grandchildren, and great-grand- 10 Wednesday WOMAN DELIVERS SURPRISE BABY, PICKS UP OTHER SON HARRODSBURG, Ky.—A 32-year-old Kentucky woman who said she didn't know that she was pregnant delivered her newborn son on the floor of her laundry room by herself and even cut the umbilical cord. Kelly Bottom told The Advocate Messenger that she also picked up her other son from school and stopped in at the baby's grandmother's house to show her the infant before going to the hospital Thursday. The newspaper reported the mother and baby were discharged from the hospital Monday after checking in Thursday night. Bottom said the baby, named Brian Keith Sims, weighed 6 lbs., is oz. at birth. - When you've finished looking up the crossword answers, visit u www.dall utahchronkle.com 11 • • inio f• .11th sports that can't fit in eight pages. 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