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Show 2 Monday, Sep. 11,2006 797-1769 statesman@cc.usu.edu Today's Issue dedications ^me^M Today is Monday, Sept. 11, 2006. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Cory Larsen, a freshman majoring in electrical engineering from South Jordan, Utah. Clarifications 'And Corrections ~'~ 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 "' "_ .."7IEZ1 Web site airs al-Qaida, Sept. 11 videos CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A videotape posted on the Internet late Sunday, purportedly by al-Qaida, showed previously unseen footage of a smiling Osama bin Laden in a mountain camp apparently planning the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. The 55-minute documentary-like retrospective of the five years since the attacks was unusually long and sophisticated in its production quality The footage surfaced on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the attacks on a Web site thatfrequentlyairs messages from bin Laden's terror network. Rice: U.S. not entirely safe from terror attack WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is safer now than it was before the Sept. 11 attacks, but must not relent infightingterrorism in Iraq and elsewhere, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday. "I think it's clear that we are safer but not really yet safe," said Rice, who was President Bush's national security adviser when al-Qaida masterminded the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Hurricane Florence chugs toward Bermuda HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) Florence intensified into the second hurricane of the Atlantic season Sunday as it neared Bermuda, where residents stocked up on provisions and formed long lines at gas stations in the lashing rain. Florence was expected to pass "very near" the tiny British territory Monday, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. George, Laura Bush lay wreaths at Ground Zero NEW YORK (AP) - President Bush and his wife Laura stood in silence on Sunday after laying wreaths at the ground zero site where the World Trade Center once stood. They honored theSept. 11 victims on a tour that will take them to all three sites of devastation on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Bushes" set wreaths adrift in reflecting pools that mark the former locations of the towers. They walked hand-in-hand on a slow procession down the long, flaglined ramp from street level. Britain's Tony Blair wins commitment from Israelis, Palestinians to meet RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP)Prodded by Britain's visiting leader, the Israeli prime minister and Palestinian president said Sunday they are ready to resume contacts without conditions a small step that many people hope could lead to resuming peace talks. British Prime Minister Tony Blair also tried to draw Hamas into peace efforts, but the militant Islamic group that controls the Palestinian government rejected his condition that it first renounce violence and recognize Israel. Despite Hamas' tough stance, the readiness of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to meet was the first sign of movement in peacemaking in months. "For the past months, the situation has gone backwards and not forwards," Blair said at a news conference. But now, he added, "there is window of opportunity, even if it does seem very bleak." Standing alongside the British leader, Abbas said he was prepared to sit down with Olmert. "We are ready immediately for serious negotiations to end the conflict," Abbas said. "I am ready to meet Prime Minister Ehud Olmert without conditions." Israel's government said Olmert would work to bring about the meeting soon. The breakthrough was an upbeat note after weeks of intensified conflict between Israel and the Palestinians as well as the Jewish state's 34-day war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. It also provided a welcome boost for Blair, whose woes at home _ including harsh criticism of his Mideast policies and alliance with Washington _ forced him to announce plans last week to step down as prime minister AP Photo/John Giles, Pool BRITISH WOMAN KIRSTY (surname not known) who lives in Ramallah, wears a T shirt protesting about Prime Minister Tony Blair, seen at rear, during the joint Press Conference between Blair Minister and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Presidential Compound in Ramallah, West Bank, Sunday Sept.! 0 2006. within a year. Olmert, who was elected last spring, and Abbas were on the verge of holding their first working meeting in June when Palestinian militants tunneled into Israel from the Gaza Strip and captured an Israeli soldier. That the meeting and ±llcl Uderailed ~ T Cr Uo aLd"V , " *f f e n s i•v e ssparked a r k e d aabbroad I Israeli s r a e h o offensive P in Gaza, where violence continues. 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"It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with," Stacey "Fergie" Ferguson told Time magazine in an inter- FER6US0N view for the issue that hits newsstands Monday. "It's the drug that's addicting," said Fergie, who has released her first solo album, "The Dutchess." "But it's why you start doing it in the first place that's interesting. A lot of it was being a child actor; I learned to suppress feelings." PHILADELPHIA (AP)- Actresses Lauren Bacall and Blythe Danner have received the inaugural awards of a suburban Philadelphia college's new center honoring the independent spirit of the late Katharine Hepburn. Bryn Mawr College launched its Katherine Houghton Hepburn Center with a black-tie gala hosted by ABC News journalist Cynthia McFadden. The center seeks to honor the life and works of Hepburn and her suffragist mother, Katharine Houghton Hepburn- both alumnae of Bryn Mawr -and inspire a new generation of women to follow in their footsteps. Hepburn was a four-time Oscar winner whose films include "The Philadelphia Story," "The African Queen," "The Lion in Winter," and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." The college bestowed its first two Katharine Hepburn medals on Saturday to Bacall and Danner, the Emmy Award-winning mother of Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow, for embodying Hepburn's trailblazing ways. "I was privileged to see her close, up and to know her," said Bacall, wearing a crisp black suit accented by swept-back blond hair. > NEGOTIATIONS Iraq Deputy Prime Minister says foreign oil companies key to raising production ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A top Iraqi official called for partnerships with international companies to boost his country's oil industry on Sunday, saying Iraq's emergence as a "secure petro-democracy" could quell rampant sectarian violence. Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh, a Kurd, conceded disputes between local officials and the central government over who controls oil proceeds were one of many obstacles to making improvements. But he said he was hopeful that oil would be a "unifying force for Iraqis rather than a resource to fight over." He spoke of Iraq emerging as a "secure petro-democracy" with the strength to put an end to the violence that threatens to tear the country apart. "I don't underestimate the gravity of the situation in Iraq," Saleh said during a U.N.- and People 9- "Food poisoning from a bad knish" 8. "Uhh, hello? I'm famous" 7- "Shouldn't have been drinking with Hasselhoff' 6. "Any press is good press" 4?. "Tired of Britney Spears getting all the 'crazy celebrity' attention" 3. "Oh like you've never gotten drunk and accidentally said, 'Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world'?" 2. 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