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THE UNIVERSITY'S DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2008
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1,2008
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"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
-Jon Hammond
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- www.bizwaremagic.com
The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo in San Francisco.
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3. Manhattan Meltdown
4. Repeat. Cats want it more
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opportunity
KU's winning streak in Manhattan is now carved in the record books as the second longest winning streak ever on a conference opponents home court. We are second only to the iconic UCLA teams of the John Wooden era, who won at Cal for just a few years longer.
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Diana Smith, Kansas City, Kan., senior, checks out rings at main entrance of the Kansas Union Wednesday morning. "I've bought jewelry from Jain Jewelry before," said Smith. "It's handsmade, very unique and very elegant." Every semester the Hispanic Leadership Organization (HALO) organizes the jewelry fundraiser. The money raised will help HALO members attend the 25th annual United States Hispanic Leadership Institute in Chicago.
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ELECTION Clinton, Obama face off in Democratic debates
LOS ANGELES — Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton sparred, for the most part cordially, over immigration, health care and the war in Iraq in their first one-on-one debate on Thursday as they faced high-stakes Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses that could go a long way toward determining the party's presidential nominee.
Clinton emphasized that the nation needed a president ready to go to work on "Day One." Obama responded: "Senator Clinton, I think fairly, has claimed that she's got the experience on Day One. And part of the argument that I'm making in this campaign is that it is important to be right on Day One."
Just five days before Super Tuesday, the two alternated between addressing each other with civility and pointed swipes, underscoring the importance of the upcoming contests. The debate came on the day Obama's campaign reported raising a staggering $32 million in January, cash aplenty to advertise all through the nearly two dozen upcoming races from coast to coast — and contends beyond.
Clinton's campaign reported raising $26.8 million from October through December, the most recent period that she reported.
Romney likens McCain to President Nixon
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday accused his rival John McCain of adopting underhanded tactics from Richard Nixon, the GOP president who resigned in disgrace.
"I don't think I want to see our party go back to that kind of campaigning." Romney said in his most pointed rebuttal but to front-runner McCain's claim that the former Massachusetts governor favors a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq. Romney denies this charge and most media analyses have concluded that Romney wasn't using "timetable" in the same way Democratic candidates have.
Let fashion ring
McCain's decision to level the timetable charge this week without leaving Romney time to rebut it before Florida Republicans voted in their primary "was reminiscent of the Nixon era," Romney said. McCain ended up winning the Florida contest Tuesday.
Despite the incendial reference to Nixon, Romney said of McCain: "I think he's a man of character." But he added: "I think he took a sharp detour off the 'Straight Talk Express," — the name of the Arizona senator's campaign bus.
McCain adviser Steve Schmidt responded that Romney "is lashing out because he's unable to defend his comments about a timeline, albeit a secret one ... John McCain has simply pointed out a fundamental difference between them at the time when John McCain was advocating a strategy for victory."
ECONOMY Unemployment numbers highest since Katrina
WASHINGTON — Buffeted by soaring fuel prices and tighter credit, consumers increased their spending at the weakest pace in six months. In other signs of trouble, applications for unemployment benefits last week soared by the largest number since Hurricane Katrina.
The Commerce Department reported Thursday that consumer spending edged up just 0.2 percent in December — the year's peak shopping season. That was down sharply from a 1 percent gain in November. It was the weakest performance in this area since a similar 0.2 percent rise in June of last year.
Meanwhile, the Labor Department reported that the number of laid-off workers filing applications for unemployment benefits increased by 69,000 to 375,000 last week. That was the highest level for jobless claims since the week of Oct. 8, 2005, when the economy was dealing with the disruptions
caused by Hurricane Katrina and other Gulf Coast hurricanes.
The increase in jobless claims was more than triple what economists had been expecting, although part of the increase was blamed on technical difficulties in adjusting the figures around the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Analysts said the greater concern was the slowdown in consumer spending, which they predicted would continue in the current quarter, the period many believe will be the maximum danger point for a recession.
TERRORISM U.S. missile kills top al-Qaida commander
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A missile from a U.S. Predator drone struck a suspected terrorist safe-house in Pakistan and killed a top al-Qaida commander believed responsible for a brazen bomb attack during a visit last year by Vice President Dick Cheney to Afghanistan. a U.S. official said Thursday.
night or early Tuesday against a facility in Pakistan's north Waziristan region, the lawless tribal area bordering Afghanistan, the official said on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to discuss the strike publicly.
The strike that killed Abu Laith al-Libi was conducted Monday
Associated Press
CLARIFICATION
On Friday January 25, Kansan Correspondent Ashley Barforesh was not clearly identified as attending the March for Life as a member of St. Lawrence Catholic Church.
CORRECTION
The article "Greening it" in Thursday's Jayplay said that Sen. Obama (D-III) had received an endorsement from the League of Conservation Voters. Obama claimed that the League endorsed him, according to his interview with www.grist.org. The League has not endorsed any presidential candidate.
on campus
The 12th Annual Tribal Law & Government Conference will begin at 8:30 p.m. in the Court-side Room 305 of the Burge Union.
KU Libraries Instructional Services will present the workshop "Office 2007: Making the Switch" at 9 a.m. in the Anschutz Library Instruction Center.
"PowerPoint: Power Hour" will be presented by KU Libraries Instructional Services and will begin at 11 a.m. in the Budig Hall PC Lab.
"Endnote II in 60 Minutes" will begin at noon in Computer Lab A of the Regents Center Library.
The workshop "Lunch & Conversation: Best Responses to Difficult Classroom Situations" will begin at noon in 135 Budig Hall.
"EndNote: Power Hour" will be presented by KU Libraries Instructional Services at 1 p.m. in the Anschutz Library Instruc tion Center.
Peter Schifferle will present the seminar "Peace, War & Global Change" at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall Center Seminar Room
Shannon Ryan, Laura Murphy, Jack Russell and Nick Kessler will present the lecture "Explorations in Archaeology: The Odyssey Archaeological Research Program: Updates from the 2007 Summer Field Session" at 4 p.m. in Parlor ABC in the Kansas Union.
The camp "SWE Weekend of Engineering" will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Eaton Hall.
Visiting Artist Roberta Gray, Organist, will preform at 7:30 p.m. in the Bales Organ Recital Hall.
Cosmic Bowling will be presented by Student Union Activities at 10 p.m. at Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
on the record
Lawrence police are looking for a man who held up the clerk outside the Shell Oil station on Massachusetts Street. The man pointed a gun and demanded money then proceeded to assault the clerk with the gun. The victim tried to re-enter the station and the suspect fired one round from his gun. The suspect is a 5-foot-7 black male. Anyone with information is asked to call the Tips Hotline at 785-843-TIPS.
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