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Show World&Nation Page 14 Monday, Sept. 28 Utah State prof wins book award Civil Service panel vindicates prosecutor LOGAN, Utah (AP) – A Utah State professor won a national award for a book about members of Congress giving one another campaign donations. The American Political Science Association bestowed the award on Damon Cann, an assistant political-science professor in Logan, for the best 2008 book in legislative studies. The award takes the name of Richard F. Fenno, an American political scientist known for his pioneering research on Congress. Cann’s book is titled “Sharing the Wealth: Member Contributions and the Exchange Theory of Party Influence in the U.S. House of Representatives.” It examines a practice started three decades ago and which “took off” in the 1990s as key members of Congress raised large sums of money and shared contributions with fellow party members or their party at large. “The story of members’ contributions to one another’s election campaigns is fascinating, and clearly under-researched,” the Fenno Prize selection committee wrote. Cann’s book explores “the consequences of the votes-for-dollars and dollars-for-power exchanges that appear to underlie contemporary majority party politics,” it said. Jamie Carson, a former colleague who is now at the University of Georgia, said Cann is “an exceptional junior scholar who is both innovative and meticulous in his research. “His book, based on his dissertation, is what we should strive for in terms of exemplary legislative politics scholarship,” Carson said. Thousands stranded by Philippine flooding, 5 die A BOY CARRIES HIS BROTHER through waist-deep waters following floodings brought about by tropical storm Ketsana (locally known as Ondoy) Saturday Sept. 26, 2009 in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines. Nearly a month’s worth of rain fell in just six hours Saturday on the Philippine capital, stranding thousands on rooftops in the city and elsewhere as Tropical Storm Ketsana slammed ashore. AP photo MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Nearly a month’s worth of rain fell in six hours Saturday as Tropical Storm Ketsana slammed ashore in the Philippines, killing five people and stranding thousands on rooftops in the capital’s worst flooding in more than 42 years. The government declared a “state of calamity” in metropolitan Manila and about two dozen storm-hit provinces, said Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro, who heads the National Disaster Coordinating Council. That allows officials to withdraw emergency money for relief and rescue. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had to take an elevated commuter train to the disaster council office to preside over a meeting because roads were clogged by vehicles stuck in the floodwaters. Two people were reported killed in suburban Muntinglupa and three others in Quezon city, said deputy presidential spokesman Anthony Golez. He gave no details. The mayor of Cainta in nearby Rizal province, who was stranded atop a dump truck on a road that was neck-deep in water, told ABS-CBN television by phone that many residents climbed onto roofs to escape. “The whole town is almost 100 percent underwater,” Mayor Mon Ilagan said. About 13.4 inches (34.1 centimeters) of rain fell on metropolitan Manila in just six hours, close to the 15.4-inch (39.2-centimeter) average for the entire month of September. The previous record was 13.2 inches (33.4 centimeters) recorded during a 24-hour period in June 1967, chief government weather forecaster Nathaniel Cruz said. “However good your drainage system is, it will be overwhelmed by that amount of rainfall,” he told The Associated Press. He said poor maintenance of drains and waterways clogged with garbage compounded the problem. ABS-CBN television showed a dramatic video of more than a dozen people perched on roofs of damaged houses being swept away by the suburban Marikina River. They smashed against the pillars of a bridge and were separated from each other in the rampaging river. It was unclear whether they were rescued. Cruz said seasonal monsoon rains were intensified by Tropical Storm Ketsana, which packed winds of 53 mph (85 kph) with gusts of up to 63 mph (100 kph) when it hit land early Saturday about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Manila. It was moving westward toward the rice-producing Central Luzon region at 12 mph (19 kph). Stranded residents called radio and television stations for help. Popular actress Cristine Reyes tearfully appealed on ABS-CBN television from the roof of her two-story home, saying she and her mother and two young children had been waiting there for rescue for over six hours. “If the rains do not stop, the water will reach the roof. We do not know what to do. My mother doesn’t know how to swim,” she said. Manila airport operations chief Octavio Lina said the runway had been flooded, delaying international flights for hours. Floodwaters also caused some electrical outages. The national disaster agency said water was waist-deep in some communities. 2297 North Main, Logan 753-6444 Transformers 2: Revenge PG-13 $3 Funny People R Daily 9:45 Daily 6:45, 9:35 G.I Joe: Rise of Cobra G-Force PG Ice Age 3 PG Daily 7:15, 9:50 Daily 4:45 Daily 4:20 Saturday 12:15, 2:45 Saturday 12:00, 2:00 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince PG-13 Up PG Daily 3:45, 6:35 Saturday 12:45 Hangover R Daily 4:30, 7:00 Saturday 12:30, 2:30 Daily 9:30 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Salt Lake County’s district attorney has been given three months to fully reinstate a career prosecutor who was first fired, then rehired, then demoted to a desk job. A civil service panel ordered District Attorney Lohra Miller to make Kent Morgan a felony prosecutor again. Miller fired the veteran prosecutor last year after claiming he leaked confidential information to the owner of an escort service that was under investigation. Morgan denied the accusa- tion, and the civil service panel ruled in April that his termination was unsupported by evidence. He was then rehired. On Friday, the county’s Career Service Council ruled that Miller unfairly retaliated against Morgan by refusing to assign him cases or let him appear in court after he returned to the district attorney’s office. County policy prohibits reprisals against employees who file grievances, and Miller could face corrective or disciplinary action by the county mayor. Miller couldn’t be reached Sunday by The Associated Press. She planned to issue a statement Sunday or Monday, according to KSL-TV in Salt Lake City. Morgan told KSL-TV he was assigned to do “menial research work” and prohibited from working in court by Miller despite being cleared by the civil service panel to return as a prosecutor. The panel said in a 10-page decision that there was “no evidentiary basis for the DA’s lack of trust” in Morgan. Woman charged in Smart case expects life in prison WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) – In letters written to her mother, the woman charged in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart has sought forgiveness for any pain she has caused and says she expects to spend the rest of her life in prison. Wanda Eileen Barzee, 63, however, makes just one reference to Smart in the 12 letters obtained by The Associated Press. And she doesn’t provide details about the nine months the girl allegedly spent with her and her now-estranged husband Brian David Mitchell. The couple is charged with multiple felonies in state court and last year was indicted by a federal grand jury. “In one of these letters, Wanda is remembering the sins that she did,” said Barzee’s mother, 88-year-old Dora Corbett, who provided letters sent between July 2008 and August 2009 to The AP. “She doesn’t talk about it, she just remembers them and says she needs to repent of them.” But Barzee writes of repentance only when discussing her desire to be re-baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In a June 21 letter, she recounts talking to a local church leader about the steps necessary to regain her membership, which includes making a full confession. “He knows that Elizabeth Smart and I were victims of Brian,” wrote Barzee, who was excommunicated by the church in 2002. Smart’s father, Ed Smart, said Barzee may be making progress, but she’s not a victim. “They’re trying to build a case of sympathy on Wanda and I just don’t have any sympathy for it,” he said. “I think she has manipulated ... maybe not just as much (as Mitchell), but I believe that she is very, very culpable.” Barzee has twice been found incompetent for trial and is undergoing forced treatment with anti-psychotic medications. Doctors have said Barzee was delusional and believed she was hearing messages from God through the television. She’s scheduled to appear in state court for a competency review on Oct. 23. Barzee writes of the hearing, and says she imagines her social worker “has found me competent, but won’t know for sure until I have been given another evaluation.” “Needless to say how nervous I am,” she writes in an Aug. 11 letter. Her missives are written in small, disciplined cursive on lined yellow note paper and most are signed “Love forever, Wanda,” followed by a chain of five tiny handdrawn hearts. Depending on the report from doctors, Barzee’s case could proceed toward trial, she could be ordered to more treatment, or prosecutors could seek to have her civilly committed. Scott Williams, Barzee’s attorney, said he could not comment on the letters but said it was Corbett’s right to share communications between her and her daughter. Privacy laws prevent state officials from commenting about any patient at the hospital, Utah Department of Human Services spokeswoman Elizabeth Solis said. Barzee was arrested March 12, 2003, walking the streets of a Salt Lake City suburb with Mitchell and Smart. That was nine months after Mitchell allegedly cut through a window screen at the Smarts’ Salt Lake City home and whisked away the then-14-year-old Smart at knifepoint. A one-time itinerant street preacher, Mitchell is said to have wanted Smart as a polygamous wife and may have taken her to fulfill a religious prophecy he laid out in a 27-page manifesto drafted in April 2002. Mitchell, 55, has also been found incompetent to stand trial. His state case is stalled, but a federal case against him continues. “For the seriousness of my charges, and the number of five first-degree felonies, besides being federally charged, I am expecting to receive a life sentence in prison,” Barzee wrote in an Aug. 11 letter to her mother. “Unless I can obtain the plea of not guilty by reason of insanity which will enable me to stay here” at the Utah State Hospital, Barzee wrote. Doctors at the state hospital, where Barzee has spent most of the last six years, began administering anti-psychotic drugs after an appeal of a 2006 forced medication order was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in May 2008. Barzee had long refused medication for religious reasons. She maintains those objections in a July 29, 2008 letter, saying the medication she is forced to take “has not changed anything of my thought processes” and that it is her “constitutional right to worship the Lord God in how I choose to worship.” Corbett, however, believes the medication has put Barzee on a road to recovery and said the evidence is in the tone of Barzee’s letters. In the earliest years of incarceration, Barzee would reject letters and cards from Corbett, returning them after scrawling “no such person” on the envelopes. When Barzee did respond, many of her letters were signed, “Hephzibah Eladah Isaiah,” the name Mitchell had given Barzee, Corbett said. “Sometimes, she wouldn’t even address me as mother,” Corbett said. But by April 14, 2009, Barzee writes that she was working with a social worker toward becoming competent, and she apologizes for any suffering she has caused her family and denounces the religious authority she once believed Mitchell held over her. Justice: Polanski arrested at last -continued from page 3 nant. He went on to make another American classic, “Chinatown,” released in 1974. In 1977, he was accused of raping the teenager while photographing her during a modeling session. The girl said Polanski plied her with champagne and part of a Quaalude pill at Jack Nicholson’s house while the actor was away. She said that, despite her protests, he performed oral sex, intercourse and sodomy on her. Polanski was allowed to plead guilty to one of six charges, unlawful sexual intercourse, and was sent to prison for 42 days of evaluation. Lawyers agreed that would be his full sentence, but the judge tried to renege on the plea bargain. Aware the judge would sentence him to more prison time and require his voluntary deportation, Polanski fled to France. The victim, Samantha Geimer, who long ago identified herself publicly, has joined in Polanski’s bid for dismissal, saying she wants the case to be over. She sued Polanski and reached an undisclosed settlement. Festival organizers said Polanski’s detention had caused “shock and dismay,” but that they would go ahead with Sunday’s planned retrospective of the director’s work. The Swiss Directors Association sharply criticized authorities for what it deemed “not only a grotesque farce of justice, but also an immense cultural scandal.” www.a-bay-usu.edu ClassifiedAds Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com If you need more information on any of these ad (e-mail, phone), please see www.a-bay-usu.com for complete listings. Rommate needed Roommates Female Roommates Needed! 2 bed 1.5 bath condo in Yorkshire Village. Shared room will be $238/month. Utilities are included! The place is furnished with almost everything, including wonderful roommates! 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