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Show 2 U T A T A T E S M A N FRIDAY, JAN. 21,2005 Contact: 797-1742 statesman@cc.usu.edu Today sjssue_ Bush vows to confront world tyranny People Today is Friday, Jan. 21, 2005. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Tim Anderson, a management and human resources sophomore from Spanish Fork, Utah. After taking oath of office, Bush gives inaugural speech AP White House Correspondent (tojficatioM __.__^ The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, please contact the editor at 797-1762 or TSC 105. National Briefs ,«. -a - V'rf. -a ^ * • •. Harvard president apologizes for remarks BOSTON (AP) — Lawrence Summers' bluntness has earned him both enemies and admirers in several top Treasury Department jobs and now as president of Harvard. He's rarely been one to apologize for his directness — until this week. Summers has spent much of the last few days saying sorry following a tumult over comments he made at a conference on women in science that he thought were off the record. Summers insists his remarks about possible biological differences in scientific ability between men and women have been misrepresented — that he wasn't endorsing a position, just stating there is research that suggests such a difference may exist But his words have sparked wide discussion on Harvard's campus and a string of angry calls and e-mails. In a letter to the Harvard community posted late Wednesday on the university Web site, Summers wrote: "I deeply regret the impact of my comments and apologize for not having weighed them more carefully" San Francisco proposes ban on handguns SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Frustrated by an increase in homicides, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has proposed a sweeping ban on handguns, injecting this liberal city into the national debate over gun control. The proposal would bar residents from keeping handguns in their homes or businesses and prohibit the sale, manufacture and distribution of any firearms or ammunition in San Francisco. Only two other major U.S. cities — Washington and Chicago — have implemented handgun bans, and both were quickly challenged in the courts. The national gun lobby already has vowed to challenge San Francisco's ban if voters approve it. San Francisco has tried before to ban handguns. In 1982, a city ordinance was overturned because it applied to anyone who entered the city. dogs toiled down below. Bush spoke before a shivering throng at the West Front of the WASHINGTON Capitol, the monuGeorge W. Bush ments of American embarked on his secgovernment — ond term as president Washington, Jefferson, Thursday, telling a Lincoln — stretched world anxious about before him on a snowy war and terrorism that landscape. Sen. John the United States Kerry, who had battled would not shrink from Bush for the presidennew confrontations in cy, watched along with pursuit of "the great other lawmakers. objective of ending tyranny." The nations 55th inauguration celebraFour minutes before tion stretched from a noon, Bush placed his 40-minute morning left hand on a family prayer service at St. Bible and recited 39 John's Church to latetradition-hallowed night revelry at nine words that every presiAP Photo/Ron Edmonds fancy balls. The festivident since George PRESIDENT BUSH stands in the doorway before his swearing ties werefinancedby Washington has in ceremony for at the US Capitol in Washington, Thursday. $4-0 million in private uttered. With him, from the left, is Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., Speaker of donations and tens of With 150,000 the House Dennis Hastert, President Bush, Sen. Christopher J. millions in related American troops Dodd, D-Conn., and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist costs. deployed in Iraq at a appearance in three months — a cost of $1 billion a week and Bush rode in an armored limmore than 1,360 killed, Bush also gesture Bush called "incredibly ousine, behind police on motormoving." Rehnquist's ill health beseeched Americans for cycles in a V formation, to lead may give Bush a second-term patience. the inaugural parade 1.7 miles down Pennsylvania Avenue to the "Our country has accepted obli- opportunity to nominate the Supreme Court's first new justice White House. The license plate gations that are difficult to fulfill in nearly 11 years. read: USA 1. and would be dishonorable to It was the first inauguration abandon " the president declared Hundreds of anti-war protestsince the terrorist attacks of Sept in the first wartime inauguration ers, some carrying coffin-like 11, 2001, and the capital was in more than three decades. cardboard boxes to signify the enveloped in a security blanket of deaths of U.S. troops in Iraq, Chief Justice William H. thousands of police and miles of Rehnquist, 80 years old and frail INAUGURATION with thyroid cancer, administered metal barricades. Snipers lined rooftops, while bomb-sniffing See page 7 4 the oath in his first public BY TERENCE HUNT CDC recommends preventative AIDS drug BY DANIEL YEE Associated Press ATLANTA — In a major policy shift, the government recommended for the first time Thursday that people exposed to the AIDS virus from rapes, accidents or occasional drug use or unsafe sex receive drug cocktails that can keep them from becoming infected. Previously, federal health officials recommended emergency drug treatment only for health-care workers accidentally stuck with a needle, splashed in the eye with blood, or exposed in some other way on the job. That recommendation was first made in 1996. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanded its guidelines to rape victims and many others Thursday. It said treatment should start no more than 72 hours after a person has been exposed to the virus, and the drugs should be used by patients for 28 days. It is a major shift away from a policy that some doctors had called unconscionable and that put the United States years behind much of Europe and other nations. "The severity of the HIV epidemic dictates we use all available tools to reduce infection," said Dr. Ronald Valdiserri of the CDC. He stressed that emergency drug treatment is a "safety net," not a substitute for abstinence, monogamy, and the use of condoms and sterile needles. "It is clearly not a "morning-after pill,"1 he said. People accidentally exposed to the AIDS virus are usually given a three-drug combination that includes AZT and 3TC. In tests on primates, drug cocktails prevented infection with the monkey version of HIV 100 percent of the time if given within 24 hours of exposure to the virus, and 52 percent of the time if administered within 72 hours, said Dr. Charles Gonzalez, assistant professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine and a member of the New York State AIDS Institute medical guidelines board. However, there is no data from clinical trials on how effective the drugs are in stemming HIV infection in people. The new guidelines do not bind the U.S. government to pay for the treatment regimen through Medicare or Medicaid, and no federal money has been allocated to help doctors and health departments carry out the recommendations. European countries, Australia and Brazil have long had guidelines calling for the use of HIV • drugs to prevent infection in rape victims. 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