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Show 2 Wednesday, Aug. 30,2006 797-1769 statesman@cc.usu.edu Florida drenched by storm Today's Issue Dedications ___'___.. Today is Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for James Bigelow, a junior majoring in psychology from Riverton, Utah. MIAMI (AP)-Tropical Storm Ernesto's leading edge drenched Miami and the rest of southern Florida on Tuesday as it steamed toward the Sunshine State with a potential for more than a foot of rain. But forecasters said there was only an outside chance it would strengthen into a hurricane. Residents took no chances, though, mindful of the seven hurricanes that have hit the state since 2004 and Katrina, which struck New Orleans exactly one year ago. "I don't think it's going to be too big, but you never know,'" said Frankel Herad as he removed brightly colored African dresses from the walls of his store in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood. By late afternoon, Ernesto had top winds of 45 mph. And there was only a "remote possibility" it could become a hurricane with winds of 74 mph or greater before crossing over Florida overnight, the National Hurricane Center said. "The storm has not been strengthening," said Max Mayfield, the center's director. "That window for it strengthening into a hurricane is definitely diminishing." Forecasters expected 5 to 15 inches of rain, which could flood streets and homes. Residents in flood-prone areas filled thousands of sandbags in anticipation of high water. Ernesto, briefly a hurricane Sunday, lost much of its punch crossing mountainous eastern Clarifications And Corrections Z 7" Zl 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 Quick Look '' .'.IT1 ™."ZJ 1 Dead, 13 Injured in Hit-And-Run Spree SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The driver of a sport utility vehicle plowed across sidewalks and crosswalks throughout the city Tuesday, killing one man and injuring at least 14 people in a series of attacks on pedestrians and motorists, police said. The man struck people in 13 locations until police surrounded him with squad cars, authorities said. Tower Didn't Notice Deadly Mistake LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - The lone air traffic controller on duty the morning Comair Flight 5191 crashed cleared the jet for takeoff, then turned his back to do some "administrative duties" as the aircraft veered down the wrong runway, a federal investigator said Tuesday. Separately, the Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged violating its own policies when it assigned only one controller to the Lexington tower. S.D. governor halts execution of killer * . * ; " - • • . • IKTheNews' who had just come from the Katrina anniversary events in Louisiana and Mississippi. NASA scrubbed Tuesday's launch of Atlantis. The space agency began moving the shuttle back to its hangar to protect it from the storm, then reversed course later in the day when forecasters predicted winds would not be as severe as initially feared. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP)Reigning American Idol Taylor Hicks has settled a lawsuit he brought against a I Nashville produc-| er over the rights to three songs he wrote and recorded before becoming a TV phenom. Hicks gained possession of the master recordings of the songs under the deal, revealed Tbesday in documents filed in federal court in Hicks' hometown of Birmingham. In exchange, Hicks agreed not to pursue further court action against producer William Smith, who recorded Hicks several years ago and recently placed some of the songs on the iTunes Web site for sale. No money will change hands under the agreement, which an attorney for Hicks, Joe Leak, described as "amicable." "We were primarily just making sure that Taylor had the rights to the music," said Leak. Smith operates William Smith Productions and Baldwin Entertainment in Nashville, Tenn., and served as his own attorney. Hicks filed suit earlier this month APPhotoAynneSlodky claiming Smith and his companies PEOPli WALK ALONG SOUTH Pointe Park as heavy bands of rain and wind from Tropical Storm Ernesto hit wrongly tried to profit from selling Miami Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Aug. 29.. three songs that Hicks wrote and recorded with Smith _ "The Fall," respond to any problems with At 5 p.m. EDT, Ernesto was "Son of a Carpenter," and "In Your 500 National Guardsmen and centered over warm open water Time." Hicks' suit says the songs another 500 state law enforcein the Florida Straits, about 105 were recorded in 1997, but Smith said Hicks recorded them in June ment officers. miles south of Miami. It was 2001. "This does not look like a catastrophic event, but we always Two of the songs were briefly up • FLORIDA for sale on. iTunes, but Smith and want to be ready," said Chertoff, see page 15 Leak agreed that few if any copies were sold before the songs were removed at Hicks' request. Two of the songs were briefly up for sale on iTunes, but Smith and Leak agreed much of the sprawling archimother of three watching the, '*f V that, few if any copies were sold .__ pelago, which today has more puppet show set up in the town's'. before the songs were removed at Hicks' request. Muslims than any other country main intersection. "But Asep in the world. Sunarya has credibility as an entertainer and a teacher, and Like other puppeteers, even if some people don't like the Sunarya intermingles epic Hindu tales like the "Ramayana" message, they listen." with contemporary political Muslim hard-liners not only commentary and bawdy humor. criticize Sunaryas message but Top Ten Reasons I Love Being Dave's the very tradition of wayang But he believes his main role theater because of its Hindu ori- Mom is to teach, and that means (As presented by Dave's Mom) gins. tackling issues that are touching nerves - from terrorism to "Real Muslims should not 10. When I see him on his show,-1 the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and watch puppets because they know he's not in jail. Afghanistan. contain false teachings and stories of deities that are not "If I ignored these things, I 9. He gets me celebrity autographs wouldn't be a mature puppeteer," in the Quran. It puts people on the wrong path," says Fauzan Al which I sell on eBay. says Sunarya, 51, who realizes Anshori, an official in Majelis that he is walking a fine line. Mujahidin Indonesia, a militant 8.1 don't have to wait for a table at Most of Indonesia's 190 milRed Lobster. Islamic group led by radical lion Muslims practice a modercleric Abu Bakar Bashir. ate form of the faith, but hard7. He lives 700 miles away. liners have gained a strong footStill, Sunarya has gained hold in recent years. celebrity status through live 6. He keeps his mouth shut about national television performancMilitants with links to almy illegal cable box. es. Qaida have staged a series of terror attacks in Indonesia, killKathy Foley, a professor of 5. He's too modest to mention his ing more than 240 people since theater arts at the University Olympic ice dancing medals. 2002, many of them foreign of California-Santa Cruz and tourists. an expert on wayang golek, 4. He sends me all the unclaimed notes Sunarya is making social Some of the young men items from the audience lost and commentary much like his who carried out suicide bombfound. late father, puppeteer Abeng ings for the Jemaah Islamiyah Sunarya. group came from villages like 3. It's nice that he looks older than Banjarsari on the main island Abeng Sunarya, who perI do. of Java, and police say militants formed from the 1960s to the look for recruits in Islamic study '80s, used puppets to criticize 2. The crisp $10 bill I get on my groups. birthday. "This is a conservative village," says Rostika, a 38-year-old >• PUPPETS 1. Well, I honestly don't know if see page 15 there are ten reasons. Indonesia's traditional puppets tackle terrorism BANJARSARI, Indonesia (AP)-Thousands cram the narrow streets of this Indonesian village to watch an all-night performance by one of the country's most famous puppeteers. But interspersed with ancient tales of gods and demons, they also get a lesson on terrorism. Asep Sunandar Sunarya's elaborately painted wooden doll Cepot appears on stage and tells his two long-haired sons that strapping a bomb to your back PIERRE, S.D. (AP)-Gov. Mike Rounds and detonating it is not holy war, halted South Dakota's first execution in 59 it's murder. years just hours before it was scheduled "Beware if anyone tells you Tuesday, saying the state law detailing otherwise,'' says the puppet, how to administer lethal drugs is obsolete. turning his shiny black-andElijah Page, 24, had asked to be put white face to the hushed crowd. to death by lethal injection for the 2000 "Remember, people use religion torture murder of a Spearflsh man. It had for their own purposes." been scheduled for 10 p.m. Indonesia's traditional pupRounds and Attorney General Larry pet theater - "wayang kulit," in Long said that a 1984? law requires the which the shadows of intricately state to use two drugs to kill a condemned carved flat leather dolls are person _ but that the standard now used cast on a screen, and "wayang is a three-drug combination. golek," where three-dimensional Using the three drugs, as the state had wooden puppets are maneuvered planned to do, could have put the people on rods - is rooted in the Hindu who carried out the execution at legal risk, religion that held sway over the Rounds said. islands before the arrival of The delay is in place until July 1, 2OO7, Islam more than seven centuries he said. That would give lawmakers time ago. during the next legislative session to Despite mounting criticism review the law and bring it into line with from hardline religious groups most other states that use lethal injection. and competition from radio, Rounds said he learned of the legal television and DVDs, puppetry problem last week after reading an Aug. remains the premier form of 14 transcript of a competency hearing for dramatic expression across Page. " Cuba. The storm was expected to move up the middle of the state and over the northeastern coast by early Thursday before churning into the Atlantic Ocean, where it could regain hurricane status before hitting Georgia or the Carolinas. Florida Gov. Jeba Bush, joined by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, said the state was ready to People • • • . " • • - Late Night • Do questions about health insurance have you I I feeling like a fish out of water? Bj^-nrt.ia^iSi^. -.t-. L . ^ - . jytauwt^^kb FREE Consultations! 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