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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2012
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PURELY PURPLE
Spectators crowd around a sculpture titled Sophie-Ntombikayis by Mary Sibande last Thursday night at the Spencer Museum of Art. The Museum held an event to celebrate the exhibitions on display this fall.
MUSIC
Band featured on Conan and Leno to perform tonight at Bottleneck
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Newly-emerging band Delta Rae has performed in front of late-night TV audiences on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Conan," featured on NPR's Mountain Stage, as well as being selected as part of Rolling Stone's "Women Who Rock" campaign with Karmin and Rita Orga. And tonight, the band will play at the Bottleneck.
The six-person group hails from Durham, N.C. and includes siblings Ian, Eric and Brittany Hollies, along with Elizabeth Hopkins, drummer Mike McKee and bassist Grant Emerson. The group is now
The inspiration for the album's title came from how each person must define their own lives while living on Earth.
"it's saying that we're just moving forward, and we don't have control over what the next generation does or what they do with what we give them," lan
The album was released in June, and this is the group's first time playing in Lawrence with new material. Its sound is rooted in four-part harmonies, with an added flare of Southern influence on the traditional Americana. Each song on the album tells
on tour promoting the release of its debut album, "Carry the Fire."
shared stories of the band's past The group has already earned a reputation for having incredible live performances, Ian said on the band's website. An added pleasure in its performances is the use of chains rattling on a trashcan lid, a unique idea when compared with typical percussion.
said, "We only get so long on Earth, so all we can do is carry the fire."
stage and sing something in the middle of the audience, or be screaming out as opposed to singing in order to convey the emotion, to find something primal that will affect people," Ian said.
"A lot of times, we'd come down off
Doors will open at 8 p.m., and Delta Rae goes on at 9 p.m. The show is free to attend.
-Lyndsey Haven
NATIONAL
Military deaths of U.S. troops in Afghanistan surpass 2,000
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"I'm mad as hell about them, to be honest with you," Allen told CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday. "It reverberates everywhere across the United States. You know, we're willing to sacrifice a lot for this campaign, but we're not willing to be murdered for it."
KABUL, Afghanistan—The killing of an American serviceman in an exchange of fire with allied Afghan soldiers pushed U.S. military deaths in the war to 2,000, a cold reminder of the perils that remain after an 11-year conflict that now garners little public interest at home.
The toll has climbed steadily in recent months with a spate of attacks by Afghan army and police — supposed allies — against American and NATO troops. That has raised troubling questions about whether countries in the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan will achieve their aim of helping the government in Kabul and its forces stand on their own after most foreign troops depart in little more than two years.
"The tally is modest by the standards of war historically, but every fatality is a tragedy and 11 years is too long," said Michael O'Hanlon, a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "All that is internalized, however, in an American public that has been watching this campaign for a long time. More newsworthy right now are the insider attacks and the sense of hopelessness they convey to many." "Attacks by Afghan soldiers or police — or insurgents disguised in their uniforms — have killed 52 American and other NATO troops so far this year.
"We have to get on top of this. It is a very serious threat to the campaign," the U.S. military's top officer, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, said about the insider threat.
The top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, was blunt.
The insider attacks are considered one of the most serious threats to the U.S. exit strategy from the country. In its latest incarnation, that strategy has focused on training Afghan forces to take over security nationwide — allowing
most foreign troops to go home by the end of 2014.
The program to train and equip 350,000 Afghan policemen and soldiers has cost the American taxpayer more than $22 billion in the past three years.
As part of that drawdown, the first 33,000 U.S. troops withdrew by the end of September, leaving 68,000 still in Afghanistan. A decision on how many U.S. troops will remain next year will be taken after the American presidential elections. NATO currently has 108,000 troops in Afghanistan — including U.S. forces — down from nearly 150,000 at its peak last year.
The most recent attack came just days after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said most U.S. and coalition combat units in Afghanistan returned to their practice of partnering with Afghan forces, nearly two weeks after the top U.S. commander put restrictions on such cooperation.
Like so many other deaths in Afghanistan, the latest were shrouded in confusion and conflicting accounts.
On Sunday, U.S. officials confirmed the deaths of two Americans, a service member and a civilian contractor killed late Saturday.
The fighting started when insurgents attacked a checkpoint set up by U.S. forces in eastern Wardak province, said Shahidullah Shahid, a provincial government spokesman. He said the insurgents apparently used mortars in the attack. The Americans thought they were under attack from their allies at a nearby Afghan army checkpoint and fired on it. The Afghan soldiers returned fire, Shahid said.
The Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman said the shooting broke out as a result of a "misunderstanding" while ISAF forces were on patrol near an Afghan army checkpoint.
In addition to the 2,000 Americans killed since the Afghan war began on Oct.7, 2001, at least 1,190 more coalition troops from other countries have also died, according to iCasualties.org, an independent organization that tracks the deaths.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this Sept 11, 2008 file photograph, US soldiers attend a ceremony marking the 7th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, at the U.S.Camp Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan. U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan have surpassed 2,000, a grim reminder that a war which began nearly 11 years ago shows no signs of slowing down.
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