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Show -run DAILY UTAH UTAH CHRONICLE _ _ NEWS IN BRIEF At the 26 E G A S Today Mostly Cloudy Snow .35/21 jr Saturday 'M1/28 Morning Flurries 37/26 if'" Sunday : v- 1/29 Monday i/so Mi/so Mostly Cloudy 36/25 • Mostly Sunny 40/25 Thursday, January 26, 2006 Saturday Today •/Teaching Seminar: Teaching Large Classe; USO.a.m. to 1:30 p.m. @ Center* w/forTeaching & Learning j Excellence g -Texas College of Chiropractic: 1 p.m. to 3p.m. @ASB 504 •Biology Seminar Scries: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ 210 Skaggs •HMBG Guest Speaker: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ EIHG Auditorium •"Humble Boy": 7:30 p.m. to 10 p m @ Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre •"On the Razzle": 7:30 p.m. @ Babcock Theatre •Chess club meeting: 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. @ Union Den •Communicating Whiteness Symposium: 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. www.dailyutahchronicle.com •Metallurgical Engineering Seminar: m "Multicompoent Reactive Transport Modeling in Variably Saturated Media": 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. @ INSCC Auditorium •Women's gymnastics vs. Utah State and Southern Utah: 7 p.m. @ Huntsman Center •"Humble Boy": 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. @ Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre •"On the Razzle": 7:30 p.m.® Babcock Theatre •Crimson Nights: 9 p.m. to 2 • a.m. @ Union •Movie showing: "Kilowatt Hours" plus speakers: 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. @ Fine Arts Auditorium Monday Sunday jitS— 27 •Men's basketball vs. TCU:1 p.m. @ Huntsman Center •"Humble Boy": 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. @ Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre •"On the Razzle'1:730 p.m. @ Babcock Theatre •A Labor of Persistence: Twenty-Five Years to Write and Publish an Oilfield History: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. @ Saltair Room in Union Building •"On the Razzle": 730 p.m. @ Babcock Theatre •Biochemistry Seminar Series: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ EIHG First Floor Auditorium All events located on campus.!] Hamas makes strong showing in Palestinian elections • 3! SUNRISE 7i44 a.m. SUNSET 5:37 p . n v RAMALLAH, West Bank—Hamas fared better than expected in Palestinian elections Wednesday, exit polls showed, raising the prospect that the ruling Fatah Party might be forced to form a coalition with the Islamic militant group that calls for Israel's destruction. The outcome could put Mideast peacekeeping at risk. Fatah had said before the first parliamentary contest in a decade that it would rather team with small parties than join forces with Hamas, *• QUOTE OF THE DAY ~ /_"l can't remember the last time Seattle won a playoff game prior to 2006 because I had other things on my mind back then—namely learning to walk and eating solid foods." -Joe Beatty on his beloved Seahawks SEE FULL COLUMN PAGE 9. Iran blames United States, Britain for bombings that killed 9 in south Fatah expected to get the most votes TEHRAN, IRAN—Iran's president on Wednesday blamed "the occupiers of Iraq"—inferring the United States and Britain—for two bombings that killed at least nine people in the southwestern city of Ahvaz. The foreign minister said the bombers were supported by the British military, which is based in southern Iraq. Ahvaz ! has a history of violence involving members of Iran's Arab minority. • A spokesman for British Prime Min,'ister Tony Blair's office called the allegations "ludicrous." A group seeking • independence for the Ahvaz region later ' claimed responsibility. State television said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a decree i ordering his foreign minister and intel1 ligence minister to investigate the possibility that "foreign hands" were re.sponsible for Tuesday's blasts inside a ', bank and outside a state environmental ' agency building. Forty-six people were wounded, the official Islamic Republic News Agency has reported. "Traces of the occupiers of Iraq is evident in the Ahvaz events. They should ' take responsibility in this regard," state ; television quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. Of the 1.3 million eligible to vote in th'6 Palestinian elections 77 percent turned out to vote. Exit polls show most of those people voted for tho ruling Fatah party. Exit poll results ^ H Palestinian Contor for Policy and Public Opinion poll I^5D Blr Zoil University poll Fatah Hamas masse. which has carried out dozens of terror attacks against the Jewish state and whose presence in the government would likely cause friction with Israel, the U.S. and Europe. But with the militants making a strong showing in their first legislative run, Fatah would need the backing of an array of smaller parties to cobble together a government. Because some of the smaller parties have ties with Hamas, Fatah might not be able to court enough of them to form a coalition firm enough to survive the Palestinians' domestic challenges—and face Israel again at the negotiating table. An exit poll by Bir Zeit University in Ramallah showed Fatah winning 63 seats in the 132-member parliament with 46.4 percent of the vote and Hamas taking 58 seats with 39.5 percent. Smaller parties received 11 seats, according to the poll of 8,000 voters in 232 polling stations. The poll had a one-seat margin of error. A second survey showed Fatah beating Hamas 42 percent to 35 percent, or 58 seats to 53. Official results are due Thursday. Bush says Americans should take bin Laden's threat seriously FORT MEADE, Md.—President Bush, defending the government's secret surveillance program, said Wednesday that Americans should take Osama bin Laden seriously when he says he's going to attack again. "When he says he's going to hurt the American people again, or try to, he means it," Bush told reporters after visiting the top-secret National Security Agency where the surveillance program is based. "I take it seriously, and the people of NSA take it seriously." It was Bush's first comment about bin Laden since the al-Qaida leader warned in a tape aired last week that his fighters are preparing new attacks in the United States. Bin Laden offered a truce, without specifying the conditions, and the White House responded that the United States would never negotiBELMONT, Mass.—The Mormons left ate with the mastermind of the Sept. n attacks. • Boston more than 160 years ago, breakBush's NSA visit was part of an aggressive admining up the young religion's largest congregation in the eastern U.S. in 1845 to istration effort to defend the surveillance program. Experts and lawmakers from both parties have quesseek refuge in a solitary West. tioned whether it's legal for the government to listen Their founder, Joseph Smith, had been killed the previous year by a mob in an to conversations in the United States without a warrant, which the administration could get through the Illinois prison and church adherents were despised as heretics. So the 400 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. members of the Boston church found Four leading Democratic senators wrote Bush strength in numbers, joining Mormons Wednesday saying they support efforts to do everynationwide to migrate to the valley of thing possible within the law to combat terrorism, the Great Salt Lake. but that the NSA program is an. "apparent violation of federal law." . • It took more than a century for Mormons to return in notable numbers to Massachusetts in the 1960s, and longer to 0 1/1 see real growth here. Today, The Church 8 5 1 4 of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is ? C 4 8 3 1 6 small but expanding in Massachusetts at a time when other denominations with 4 7 long local histories are struggling. Between 1994 and 2004, Mormon 8 3 7 4 2 church membership increased 56 percent, from 14,840 to 23,161. That's tiny, compared with the state's 3 millionmember Catholic church, but it ap2 9 5 6 1 proaches the 33,400 state members of the Unitarian Universalist Association, 5 which has roots in the state going back 1 8 4 2 9 to the 18th century. Mormons now have 39 congregations, 2 3 7 6 or "wards," in the state, compared with Answers can be found on the website at www.sudoku.com. 15 in 1980. Mormonism grows in Massachusetts do ku es by Pappocom I Jj Supporters of the ruling Fatah movement chant slogans and wave party flags after polling stations closed for the Palestinian elections in Gaza City Wednesday. "Neither Fatah or Hamas can form the Cabinet on its own, so they need to get into a coalition with other factions or with each other," said pollster Khalil Shikaki, who carried out the second survey. 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