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Show 2 BULLETIN Monday, June 11,2007 All stories and photos from The Associated Press At the Suicide car bomb flattens major Baghdad overpass • U annual Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition: 4 p.rh.to 9 p.m. @ Contemporary Art and Design Gallery • - • • • • • ' • • - ' . . . • ' - , ' . • * ' • ' • Partners in the Park: 6 p.m.to 7 p.m. @ Jordan Park (1060 S. 900 West). • . .; ': •ae$Mls6r-ibles w :7:30 p.m.@ Pioneer Memorial Theatre .- , . V i 1 . •,'" MAHMOUDIYA, Iraq—With a thunderous rumble and cloud of dust and smoke, an apparent suicide vehicle bomb brought down a section of highway bridge south of Baghdad on Sunday, wounding several U.S. soldiers guarding the crossing and blocking traffic on Iraq's main north-south artery. There was no immediate U.S. Army confirmation on the number and severity of the casualties. An Iraqi civilian-also was injured, said Donald Campbell, of the private security Armor Group International, who helped in the rescue. Campbell, a 40-year-old from Inverness, Scotland, was among those in a passing Armor Group convoy who worked with a U.S. Army quick reaction force for some 45 minutes to pull trapped men from the rubble, scrambling over the fallen concrete. U.S. armored vehicles provided cover fire from their cannons after the bombing, which occurred in the area dubbed the "triangle of •"•' "_• death" for its frequent Sunni insurgent attacks. The blast dropped one of two sections of the "Checkpoint 20" bridge crossing over the north-south expressway, six miles east of Mahmoudiya. It appeared that a northbound suicide driver stopped and detonated his vehicle beside a support pillar, said Lt. Col. Garry Bush, an Army munitions officer who was Wednesday iLLIi • Honk! Jr (Youth Theatre at the U): 7 p.m. @ BabcockTheatre, adults $10, students $5 • "Les Miserables": 7:30 p.m. @ Pioneer Memorial Theatre Thursday ^ • HonkI Jr (Youth Theatre at the U): 7 p.ni.@ BabcockTheatre, adults $10;' s t u d e n t s $5. ;:.,..• }•;.:•.•.••.;. V : v t •"Les Mis6rables":7:30 p.m.@ Pioneer Memorial Theatre. ; I-DAY WEATHER OUTLOOK * Tuesday [ 81/60 Sunny Wednesday : ' MUM-' KABUL, Afghanistan88/65 Taliban militants fired Sunny J a barrage of rockets at President Hamid Karzai on Sunday as he spoke with a group of elders, but the Afghan leader did not flinch as the rockets Clarifications and Claru landed about 200 yards fc away Worn him. ' The policy of fhe $ A purported Taliban tq-cbrrect any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like spokesman said militants clarified or find unfair, please contact the planned the strike after learning in advance about editor at 801-581-8317. 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The San Antonio Spurs are halfway to a fourth title and a chance to state their case as an NBA dynasty. And LeBron James, you're a witness. Tony Parker scored 30 points, Manu Ginobili had 25 and Tim Duncan added 23 as the Spurs schooled Cleveland in ctiampi- \ onship basketball for 3 1/2.-qua_> ' ters, overpowering the Cavaliers ' 103-92 in Game 2 on Sunday night j to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA fi- ; nals. -i San Antonio was vastly supe- ; rior in every way imaginable—j until relaxing in the fourth quar- :j ter—when the Cavaliers stormed ' back within eight before the U.S. troops and private security guards, in black, work to remove concrete rubble from atop wounded Spurs finally put them away for soldiers, at a bridge destroyed by an apparent suicide vehicle bomber on Sunday, June 10,2007, good. outside Mahmoudiya, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. "That's why sometimes it's in the convoy, which also carried an everyone was in shoplc," ,$aid. one,' hard to play with a 20-point lead," Parker said "We're humans." Associated Press reporter and pho- of the first atop the rubble, Jackie The Spurs, clicking on offense tographer and arrived two minutes Smith, 53, of Olathe, Kan., a former and digging their sneakers in on after the blast. A U.S. Army check- lieutenant colonel now working as defense, built a 28-point lead in point and a tent structure, appar- a civilian Army munitions expert. the first half and were embarrassently a rest area, fell into the shatHe said he saw what he believed ing the Cavaliers, who are in their tered concrete. The crossing was was the engine block of a truck-^first finals but didn't show up unbelieved to have been closed to all apparently what remained of the til it was too late. The Spurs' Big but military traffic at the time. Ar- suicide vehicle. Soon the outpost 3 of Duncan, Parker and Ginobili mor Group security guards, all ex- sergeant in charge was organizcombined for 43 points—10 more military, and others in the convoy ing a search for his missing men, than the Cavs—in the first half rushed to the ruins. They found a Smith said. The Armor Group and as both teams walked off the scene of confusion. team climbed up with first-aid kits, floor of AT&T Center, the are*'When that size blast went off, stretchers and other aid. na's p.a. announcer, Stan Kelly, summed up the first 24 minutes with a comment that would have been funny if it wasn't so painfully true for Cleveland. %^ X "Spurs by a bunch," he said. ni, a central Afghan prov- in a school yard, gestur- over a country plagued And at the same time, a fan ince with a strong Tal- ing for them to be seated by relentless Taliban-led held up a sign saying, "Bring Out iban presence. Provincial after the rockets landed violence that has killed police chief AU Shah Ah- with a thud. "Don't be about 2,200 people this LeBroom." James, limited to 14 madzai said no one was scared. Nothing is hap- year—many of them milpoints in his finals debut, scored itants, according to an hurt in the attack. But it pening." 25 to lead the Cavaliers. The was a sign of the group's Cavs' superstar got into early Several bearded men Associated Press tally of rising capabilities after a seated in front of Karzai numbers reported by the foul trouble and played less than w i n t e r J ' immediately broke out in . TJ.S.; NATO, T_OJ. afia^Af-, j three minutes, in the first quarTef>' applause. Karzai finished' "sitting when the^SpursTrSLn &way to their huge lead. '••'•' •' '' \ Karzai's life since he be- his speech and his securi- elsewhere in Afghanistan ty detail whisked him off on Sunday left 66 people came president. Down by 25 points at halftime and 27 after three, the Cavaliers • "Please sit down, sit by helicopter to Kabul, dead. went on a 22-4 run and eventudown," Karzai told the witnesses and officials In February, a suicide ally pulled within 95-87 on a" gathering under a tent said. Sunday's attack un- bomber blew himself up derscored the dangers at the main gate of Bathree-point play by James with faced by the U.S.-backed gram Air Base within 4:53 left, a stunning turnaround for a team that looked done mogovernment of Karzai^^earshot of Vice President ments earlier. who holds shaky sway Dick Cheney. 58 Blankets for the ACROSS 1 Wilh 66-Across, where one Spurs roll over Cavs Rockets miss Afghan president 85/62 Mostly Sunny Thursday 19 www.daiiyutahchronicle.com •'•'" 59 Squealor 60 Some colas 44 Still a secret DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE CONTACT INFORMATION Editorial Editor in Chief- m.piper@chronide.utah.edu Press contact • press@chronicle.utah.edu . Editorial letters •letters@chronlcle.utah.edu ' Business General Manager • j.sorensen@chronide.utah.edu Director of Advertising • tMurtado@chmnidtutah.edu NEW YORK—Tony SoBut Chase was true to prano carries on. himself, and that's what The much-awaited con- made "The Sopranos" brilclusion of HBO's "The So- liant on Sunday night, and pranos" arrived Sunday the 85 episodes that went night in a frenzy of audience before. The product of an speculation. Would New artist with a bleak but illuJersey mob boss Soprano minating vision, "The Solive or be killed? Would pranos" has always existed his family die before his on its own terms. And it was eyes? Would he go to jail? seldom tidy. Be forced to enter witness The only neat developprotection? Would Brook- ment in the finale was that lyn boss Phil Leotardo, who Leotardo was crushed. Othhad ordered a hit on Tony, erwise it was perversely prevail? non-earth shaking—just one In the end, the only end- last visit with the characters ing that mattered was the we have followed so devoutone masterminded by "So- ly since 1999. pranos" creator David Here was the funeral for Chase. And playing against Bobby Bacala, Tony's solviewer expectations, as dier and brother-in-law, always, Chase refused to who was shot dead on Lestage a mass extermination, otardo's orders last week. put the characters through Here was Tony (series star any changes, or provide his James Gandolfini) paying a viewers with comfortable hospital visit to his gravely closure. Or catharsis. After injured consigliere, Silvio all, he declined to pass mor- • Dante, also targeted by Leoal judgment on Tony—he tardo. reminded viewers all season Tony's ne'er-do-well *$on what a thug Tony is, then Aj. (Robert Her) continued gave him a pass. to wail about the misery in Advertising 801 581.7041 EDITOR IN CHIEF Matthew Piper MANAGING EDITOR ' Becca Krahenbuhl DIRECTOR OF PRESENTATION ErlcGeerllngs PRODUaiON MANAGER ArtanaTorrey ONLINE EDITOR Andy T h o m p s o n NEWS EDITOR Dustin Gardiner ASST. NEWS EDITOR Ana Breton the world, and voiced a fleeting urge to join the Army and go fight in Afghanistan (Tony persuaded him to get involved in filmmaking, in-stead). Daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) harped on her plans to be a lawyer. Tony visits his senile • Uncle Junior (Dominic Chi- • anese) at the nursing home. "You and my dad, you two ran North Jersey," Tony prompts him. ' "We did?" said Uncle Junior with no sign of recognition. "That's nice." : Despite suspicions to the contrary, neither Paulie: Walnuts nor Patsy ParisL sold out Tony. And neither. was whacked. Dr. Melfi, who kicked Tony out of therapy.' last week, made no last-mih-; ute appearance. Sure, head-; aches lie ahead for Tony.. The Feds are still after him.; And Meadow's fiance, Pat-; sy Jr., is a lawyer who may; well be pursuing cases that; intrude' o'i_*Tbpy's hilgfilfessj interests. ' ; ; So what else is new? News 801 5 8 1 . N E W S ASST. NEWS EDITOR Rochelle McConkie A&E EDITOR Danny Letz ASST. A&E EDITOR Dan Fletcher OPINION EDITOR LlndseySine SPORTS EDITOR " Tony Pizza ASST, SPORTS EDITOR CodyBrunner PHOTO EDITOR ; Lennie Mahler PAGE DESIGNER ArianaTorrey COPY EDITOR Rachel Hanson COPY EDITOR Chris Bellamy PROOFREADER RuthAnne Frost • j , GRAPHIC DESIGNER "' Jenny Elkins ' . ILLUSTRATOR '.]'• Kurt Francom . .GENERAL MANAGER ' Jacob K.Sorensen Fax 801 581.FAXX) ADVERTISING MANAGER Cynthia Robldoux ADVERTISING DESIGNER Erin Sine ACCOUNTANT DeannaJohnson BUSINESS MANAGER Brandon Blackburn DIREaOR OF ADVERTISING TomHurtado CIRCULATION MANAGER Travis Price • ACCOUNT EXECUTE J. 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