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Show 2010 Wednesday, March Page 2 10, World&NatiOn Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com OarifyCorrect 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 statesmaneditor@aggiemaiLusu.edu Suu Kyi banned from Myanmar election Celebs &People LONDON (AP) — Will the magic of the Phantom strike twice for Andrew Lloyd Webber? The professional critics' reviews haven't yet come in, but audiences at Tuesday's world premiere in London of "Love Never Dies" — the sequel to Lloyd WEBBER Webber's global hit "Phantom of the Opera" — gave the show a standing ovation. "Phantom" is still playing in London and New York, where it is the longest running show in Broadway history. "Love Never Dies" picks up the story 10 years on, with disfigured genius the Phantom relocated to the bright lights of New York's Coney Island and still besotted with beautiful soprano Christine Daae. NewsBriefs WASHINGTON (AP) — The beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it writes its reports. An international group, the InterAcademy Council, will be given complete control to review the rules, procedures and reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said a scientist close to the situation. Recently, several unsettling errors have been found in the climate panel reports issued in 2007. Though the mistakes don't undercut the broad consensus on global warning, they have shaken the credibility of climate scientists and given skeptics of global warming ammunition. LateNiteHumor Monday, March 8, 2010 Top 10 Things Overheard At The Academy Awards 10. "Only six more hours to go." 9. "Well, if you have to lose to somebody, at least it's your exwife." 8. "What this ceremony needs is a tedious interpretive dance number." 7. "What is Sean Penn always so angry about?" 6. "Did that Inglourious Basterds' guy just thank Hitler?" 5. "The list of dead actors at the Golden Globes is a good predictor of who will still be dead tonight." 4. "Did 'Crocodile Dundee" win?" 3. "No number 3 -- writer still watching Academy Awards -will this show ever end?" 2. "When does curling begin?" 1. "Psssst....Wake up!" MEMBERS OF THE DETAINED pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party read state-run newspapers carrying military government's announcement on election laws at the party's headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, March. 9. AP photo Woman accused of recruiting jihadists online PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A suburban woman "desperate to do something" to help suffering Muslims has been accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist, prosecutors said Tuesday. Authorities said the case shows how terror groups are looking to recruit Americans to carry out their goals. A federal indictment charges that Colleen R. LaRose, who called herself JihadJane and Fatima LaRose online, agreed to kill the Swede on orders from the unnamed terrorists and traveled to Europe to carry out the killing. It doesn't say whether the Swede was killed, but LaRose was not charged with murder. A U.S. Department of Justice spokesman wouldn't confirm the case is related to a group of people arrested in Ireland earlier Tuesday on suspicion of plotting against Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. But a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity said LaRose had targeted the Swedish cartoonist and had online discussions about her plans with at least one of the suspects apprehended in Ireland. The official wasn't authorized to discuss details of the investigation. LaRose, who has blond hair and blue eyes, indicated in her online conversations that she thought her appearance would help her move freely in Sweden to carry out the attack, the indictment said. In a February 2009 online message to a co-conspirator in south Asia, she said her physical appearance would allow her to "blend in with many people," which may be a way to achieve what is in my heart," the indictment said. LaRose is a convert to Islam who actively recruited others, including at least one unidentified American, and her online messages expressed her willingness to become a martyr and her impatience to take action, according to the indictment and the U.S. official. "I will make this (killing the artist) my goal till I achieve it or die trying," she wrote another south Asian suspect in March 2009, according to the indictment. U.S. Attorney Michael Levy said the indictment doesn't link LaRose to any organized terror groups. He would not comment on whether other arrests were expected. LaRose, 46, lived in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pa., before moving to Sweden in August 2009, authorities said. She called herself JihadJane in a YouTube video in which she said she was "desperate to do something somehow to help" ease the suffering of Muslims, the indictment said. According to the 11-page document, she agreed to obtain residency in a European country and marry one of the terrorists to enable him to live there. She traveled abroad with a U.S. passport stolen from a male friend and intended to give it to one of her "brothers," the indictment said. She hoped to "live and train with jihadists and to find and kill" the targeted artist, it said. "Today's indictment, which alleges that a woman from suburban America agreed to carry out murder overseas and to provide material support to terrorists, underscores the evolving nature of the threat we face," said David Kris, assistant attorney general for national security. LaRose also agreed to provide financial help to her co-conspirators in Asia and Europe, the indictment charged. LaRose has been in federal custody since her Oct. 15 arrest in Philadelphia, authorities said. She had an initial court appearance the next day but didn't enter a plea. Pope's brother said he was aware of abuse BERLIN (AP) — The pope's brother said in a newspaper interview published Tuesday that he slapped pupils as punishment after he took over a renowned German boys' choir in the 1960s. He also said he was aware of allegations of physical abuse at an elementary school linked to the choir but did nothing about it. The Rev. Georg Ratzinger, 86, said he was completely unaware of allegations of sexual abuse at the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir, part of a string of charges of sex abuse by church employees across Europe in recent days. Responding to accusations that its policies encouraged silence about the problem, the Vatican said that the sexual abuse scandals in Germany and other countries were cause for anguish but its response has been prompt and transpar- ent. The scandal sweeping church institutions in many European countries kept widening Tuesday. In Austria, the head of a Benedictine monastery in Salzburg admitted to sexually abusing a child decades ago and resigned. Dutch Catholic bishops announced an independent inquiry into more than 200 allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests at church schools and apologized to victims. The German abuse allegations are particularly sensitive because Germany is the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI and because the scandals involve the prestigious choir that was led by Georg Ratzinger from 1964 till 1994. I See ABUSE, page 14 IN THIS SEPT. 13, 2006 file picture Pope Benedict XVI, right, walks with his brother priest Georg Ratzinger in Regensburg, southern Germany. AP photo My CLARKSBURG BRESLAW • STONELEIGH Logan's Premier Student Apartments CLARKSBURG YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A new election law issued by Myanmar's ruling military has barred pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from joining a political party and thus running in upcoming elections, state-run newspapers said Wednesday. The Political Parties Registration Law, published in official newspapers, excludes anyone convicted by a court of law from participating in the elections. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who has spent 14 of the past 20 years in detention, was convicted last August of violating the terms of her house arrest by briefly sheltering an American who swam uninvited to her lakeside residence. She was sentenced to a new term of house arrest that is to end this November. The sentence was seen as a way to keep Suu Kyi locked up during the election campaign. Last month, the Supreme Court dismissed her latest appeal for freedom. The election law says that political parties have 60 days from Monday, when the law was promulgated, to register with an Election Committee whose members are to be appointed by the junta. The date of the elections has not been announced, and Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party has not said whether it will contest the balloting. The law also bars members of religious orders and civil servants from joining political parties. The regime enacted five election-related laws on Monday, two of which have now been made public. Three more are to be unveiled in coming days. The government announced in 2008 that elections will take place sometime in 2010. The last elections in 1990 were won overwhelmingly by Suu Kyi's party, but the military refused to hand over power. Her party says the new constitution of 2008 is unfair and gives the military controlling say in government. 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