THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2009
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The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, passes the Statue of Liberty as it arrives Monday in New York.
USS New York joins ranks of the Navy
BY VERENA DOBNIK
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The USS New York, built with steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center, was put into Navy service Saturday both as a symbol of healing and strength.
"I hereby place the USS New York in commission." Mabus announced.
He spoke on a Manhattan pier where hundreds of Navy officers and sailors joined first responders and families of Sept. 11 victims.
And with a long drum roll, the ship's crew was set on the first watch, obeying the order, as traditionally worded: "Man our ship and bring her to life!"
"No matter how many times you attack us, we always come back," Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said at the amphibious assault ship's commissioning. "America always comes back. That's what this ship represents."
in red, white and blue bunting. black smoke rose into the chilly fall morning to signal that the USS New York was powered up. A loud cheer accompanied a flyover by Navy planes.
The $7 \frac{1}{2}$ tons of steel debris from ground zero had been melted down to form the bow of the USS New York as "a symbol of our unshakable resolve; this is a city built of steel," said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, representing the Obama administration.
From atop the vessel, decked
She noted that many of New York's iconic structures were made from steel, including the Statue of Liberty and the Chrysler building.
Encore
"But the strongest steel of New York has always been in the spines of its people," Clinton said, calling New Yorkers "strivers and seekers, immigrants from every country, speakers of every language."
Clinton was a U.S. senator from New York before she became the nation's top diplomat.
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Johnny Flower, center, plays the cello for singer/songwriter Joshua Radin, left, at the Granada Theater Friday night in Lawrence. Radin and members came back for an encore, for which they covered Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, it's Alright."
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Obama to attend service honoring Ft. Hood victims
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service Tuesday honoring victims of the Ford Hood shootings, an attack he described as "all the more heartbreaking and all the more despicable" because it occurred on the nation's largest Army post.
He praised those who ended the shootings, which killed 13 and wounded 30 others, and lauded the armed services' diversity — a move designed to calm tensions about the suspected
shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
"The they are Americans of every race, faith and station. They are Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers," Obama said in his radio and Internet address Saturday, airing the weekend before Veterans Dav.
"The they are descendants of immigrants and immigrants themselves. They reflect the diversity that makes this America. But what they share is a patriotism like no other."
After the address aired, Obama talked about the Fort Hood shootings with Democratic House members.
INTERNATIONAL Afghan president makes clear stance on corruption
KABUL — The embattled Afghan president pledged Sunday that there would be no place for corrupt officials in his new administration — a demand made by Washington and its international partners as they ponder sending more troops to confront the
Taliban and shore up his government.
Also Sunday, NATO reported three more coalition soldiers — one American and two Britons — died in combat with the Taliban in western and southern areas. The latest losses pushed Britain's combat death toll in the eight-year Afghan war to 201.
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"It's been framed as a witch hunt or a fishing expedition, and it's not," said Sally Daly, spokeswoman for Alvarez. "We're engaging in a discovery process as we would in any criminal investigation."
The prosecutor's office — led by Anita Alvarez, who last year was elected Cook County state's attorney on a reputation for toughness — said it's just being thorough, and wants to determine if students may have skewed their findings to get a good grade.
Journalists analyze crime
Northwestern's lawyers have filed a motion to quash the subpoenas, and the judge may act on that Tuesday, when a hearing is set to hear arguments about whether there should be a new trial in the case.
Northwestern University students may have revelation for '78 case
BY KAREN HAWKINS
Associated Press
"Why are we talking about our grades when we should be talking about whether there's an innocent man in prison?" said Evan Benn, a former Protest student mentioned in the state's subpoena. None of the students has been individually subpoenaed.
CHICAGO - A Northwestern University professor and journalism students who spent three years investigating the case of a man convicted in the 1978 killing of a security guard believe they have evidence that shows prosecutors put the wrong man behind bars. But in the quest to prove his innocence, they may have to defend themselves, too.
Cook County prosecutors have outraged the university and the journalism community by issuing subpoenas to professor David Prostess seeking his students' grades, his sylabus and their private e-mails. Prosecutors claim since the team was made up of students, they may have been under pressure to prove the case to get a good grade.
It's a first for Protess and his investigative reporting students, who have helped free 11 innocent men from prison, including death row, since 1996. Their work also is credited with prompting then-Gov. George Ryan to empty the state's death row in 2003, re-igniting a national debate on the death penalty.
Northwestern University professor David Protest, founder of the Medill Innocence Project, talks with students at a reporting strategy session in Evansston, Ill on Oct 26. Cook County prosecutors have outraged the university and the journalism community by issuing subpoenas for Protest's syllabus along with the grades and private e-mails of his students who spent three years investigating a convicted man they believe is innocent.
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