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Show 2 Friday, March 9,2007 797-1769 j statesman@cc.usu.edu * Democrats introduce plan to withdraw People JiilHeNews U.S. troops from Iraq by fall of next year Today's Issue Dedications Today is Friday, March 9, 2007Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Matt Farr, an undeclared freshman from Kaysville, Utah. Clarifications "" T "\ V 1 And Corrections In an article titled "Legislature increases education budget" in Wednesdy's issue it said there would be a raise for Utah teachers. This raise does not apply to higher education professors. National Briefs AQuickLook 7\^~T"7"' Bush names bipartisan panel for troop hospitals WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Wednesday the bipartisan panel he named to investigate problems at the nations military and veterans hospitals would work to restore confidence in the system of caring for wounded troops. "Any report of medical neglect will be taken seriously by this administration," Bush said in an Oval Office meeting with the co-chairmen of the panel, former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., and Donna Shalala, who was secretary of health and human services during the Clinton administration. "I'm confident that this commission will bring forth the truth," Bush said. The president announced last Friday he had ordered a comprehensive review of conditions at military and veterans hospitals, which have been overwhelmed by injured troops from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The review came in the wake of disclosures of shoddy outpatient health care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, one of the nation's premier facilities for the wars' wounded. Walgreen sued for bias against black workers ST. LOUIS (AP) - The federal government Wednesday sued Walgreen Co., alleging widespread racial bias against thousands of black workers throughout the nation's largest drugstore chain. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a class-action lawsuit that Walgreen, based in Deerfield, 111., makes decisions about employee assignment and promotion based on race. Most of the complaints that led to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, 111., came from employees and former employees in St. Louis, Kansas City, Detroit and Tampa, Fla. But EEOC officials in St. Louis said they have found evidence of the same trend around the country. Walgreen released a statement saying it is committed to "fairness, diversity and opportunity" and that it was "saddened and disappointed" by the EEOC action. "Our commitment is to providing opportunity to all employees - not only because it is the right thing to do but because our business was built on this principle," the statement said. AP Photo/Dennis Cook SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID of Nev., right, accompanied by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 8,2007, to discuss their resolution to revise U.S. Policy on Iraq. WASHINGTON (AP) - In a direct challenge to President Bush, House Democrats unveiled legislation Thursday requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of next year. The White House said Bush would veto it. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the deadline would be added to legislation providing nearly $100 billion the Bush administration has requested for fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. She told reporters the measure would mark the first time the new Democratic-controlled Congress has established a "date certain" for the end of U.S. combat in the four-year-old war that has claimed the lives of more than 3,100 U.S. troops. Senior White House adviser Dan Bartlett, accompany- ing Bush on a flight to Latin America, told reporters, "It's safe to say it's a nonstarter fot the president." Within an hour of Pelosi s news conference, House Republican Leader John Boehner attacked the measure. He said Democrats were proposing legislation that amounted to "establishing and telegraphing to our enemy a timetable" that would result in failure of the U.S. military mission in Iraq. "Gen. (David) Petraeus should be the one making the decisions on what happens on the ground in Iraq; not Nancy Pelosi or John Murtha," the Ohio Republican added. Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat, has been heavily involved in crafting legislation designed to end U.S., participation in the war. Late Night Culture Comments 7J I J David Letterman, March 9, 2OO7 Top Ten Ways George W. Bush Is Celebrating President *« Day President Bush visiting Latin America amidst protests and clams of neglect 10. Took part in a great White House tradition by groping an intern WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush was ready to challenge a widespread perception in Latin America that U.S. neglect has empowered leftist leader Hugo Chavez as he left Thursday on a five-nation tour of the region. Bush argues that strong democratic governments hold the promise of prosperity. He hopes his trip will resonate with the one in four impoverished Latin Americans, who live on less than $2 a day and wonder whether democracy will ever deliver them a better life. "The trip is to remind people that we care," Bush said in an interview Wednesday with CNN En Espanol. "I do worry about the fact that some say, v Well, the United States hasn't paid enough attention to us/ or 'The United States really isn't anything more than worried about terrorism/ And when, in fact, the record has been a strong record." But Bush, with just two years left in his presidency, has a weak hand. Anti-Americanism and Bush's poor image, tainted by the war in Iraq, have only fueled Chavez's influence in the region and beyond. The fiery leader of oil-rich Venezuela, who has labeled Bush "the devil" and dismisses him as the "little gentleman from the North," plans to play 8. Spent morning hiding eggs on White House lawn Cache Valley's Premier Pizzeria PIZZERIA Logan Smithfield 880 South Main 33 East 600 South 11 am-1 Opm MorMhur H o m - l l p m Frl & Sot 11 am-9pm Mon-Thur •,, llam-lOpm Fr! & Sat 787-4222 According to an explanation of the measure distributed by Democratic aides, the timetable for withdrawal would be accelerated if the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki did not meet goals for providing for Iraq's security. Democrats won control of Congress last fall in midterm elections shadowed by public opposition to the war, and have vowed since taking power to challenge Bush's policies. Pelosi made her announcement as Senate Democrats reviewed a different approach - a measure that would set a goal of a troop withdrawal by March of 2008. Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada called a closed-door meeting of the rankand-file to consider the measure. NEW YORK (AP) - Rosie O'Donnell says she began being treated for depression after the Columbine school shootings and hangs upside down for up to a half-hour a day to O'DONNELL improve her mental state. When gunmen killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, O'Donnell said she felt as if it had happened to her children. "I couldn't stop crying," she said on an episode taped for ABC's "The View" and due to air Friday. "I stayed in my room. The lights were off. I couldn't get out of bed and that's when I started taking medication." Anyone concerned about the stigma of taking medication for depression should know that "it saved my life," she said. When she began taking antidepressants, O'Donnell, 44, said she began yoga and "inversion therapy," where she hangs upside down by a swing for 15 to 30 minutes a day. She demonstrates it on "The View." O'Donnell said she also has seasonal affective disorder, often called SAD, the wintertime blues that can strike when the days grow short. SAD is characterized by recurrent major depressive episodes during the fall and winter. She's "instantly happy" on sunny days but feels as if she's being tortured when it's cloudy. She feels the most important thing to do when you're feeling depressed is to get up and move. "Like in 'The Wizard of Oz' the color goes out," she said. "That is what happens in depression. Everything gets gray." Friday's episode of "The View" is devoted to women and depression. 563-3322 www-firahousBpizzeria.com........ 9. Same as every year ~ watching Maury then going to hunt squirrels 7- Videotape himself playing "Stairway to Heaven" on guitar, put it on YouTube 6. Nothing — Air Force One is stuck on the runway behind a JetBlue plane 5. Planning his 2008 re-election campaign AP Photo/Andre Penner farmers with the Landless Movement march with sugar cane against U.S. President George W. Bush in Sao Paulo, Thursday, March 8,2007. President Bush will visit Brazil March 8-9. to this discontent. He has called for protests during Bush's stay and is leading a rally in Argentina when the president visits neighboring Uruguay. The presidents message: "Regardless of what >BUSH 4. Thinking of creative new ways to alienate America from the rest of the world 3. Dig up Saddam Hussein, hang him again 2. Getting loaded and shaving his head like Britney 1. Did somebady say, "Norbit"? see page 14 SALAD S A N D W H I C HI com EXPERIENCE mm mm *'..'. a 4 Wheeler! ALL ENTRY RULES ARE AVAILABLE AT FIREHOUSE |