THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
NEWS
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Waving 'high'
Justin Yurkanin/THE DAYTOA BEACH NEWS JOURNAL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
John Kenney, 18, takes advantage of heavier-than-usual surf generated from Hurricane Florence, Sept. 11, in Flager Beach, Fla.
DEATH
Anna Nicole's son dies unexpectedly
Drugs, alcohol ruled out as factors
BY JESSICA ROBERTSON ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - The 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith died while visiting his mother in the hospital where the reality TV star and former Playboy playmate had given birth last week, a Bahamas police official said Monday.
Daniel Wayne Smith was visiting his mother in her room at Doctors Hospital in Nassau when he died Sunday, Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner of the Royal Bahamian Police Force, told The Associated Press. He said an autopsy was under way.
Smith arrived Saturday night in the Bahamas, and apparently went directly to the hospital where he spent the night in his mother's room, Ferguson said.
"It would appear from our report that the mother had gotten up, saw him in the chair and he appeared to
be sound asleep," he said. "She tried to wake him up, he was unresponsive, and she sounded the alarm."
Medical personnel arrived and pronounced him dead at the scene, Ferguson said.
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Anna Nicole Smith, 38, gave birth to a healthy 6-pound, 9-ounce girl at the hospital Thursday, her Web site said.
"Anna Nicole is absolutely devastated by the loss of her son. He was her pride and joy and an amazing, human being," a statement on the site said. It said that drugs or alcohol were not believed to be a factor.
Daniel Smith was the product of Smith's 1985 marriage to Billy Smith. The couple, who met while working together at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Mexia, Texas, divorced in 1987.
Her son had traveled to the Caribbean country "to share in the joy of his baby sister," the statement said.
Controversial ABC miniseries airs despite creative liberties
BY DAVID BAUDER ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Editing changes made by ABC to the first part of its miniseries "The Path to 9/11" were cosmetic and didn't change the meaning of scenes that had angered several former Clinton administration officials, a spokesman for the former president said Monday.
Former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, now an ABC News consultant, denounced the movie Monday as an "egregious distortion."
The docudrama also divided the two chairmen of the commission that looked into the attacks, who usually present a united front on terrorism issues.
As for Clinton, he didn't bother watching the movie that angered so many people who once worked for him.
"He made the choice that most Americans made," Jay Carson, spokesman for the Clinton Foundation said. "Of a fictional-
ized drama version of Sept. 11 or the Manning brothers playing football against one another, he chose the latter."
The movie was beaten soundly in the ratings by the regular-season debut of NBC's "Sunday Night Football," matching Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts against younger brother Eli of the New York Giants.
The National Football League game had an estimated 20.7 million viewers, while "The Path to 9/11" had 13 million, according to Nielsen Media Research.
The ABC movie did, however, beat CBS' third airing of a 9/11 documentary, which was seen by an estimated 10.6 million people, Nielsen said.
during two nights.
ABC resisted calls to cancel the $40 million miniseries, airing commercial-free
Part two was scheduled for Monday, with an interruption for President Bush's address to the nation.
Several scenes were cut or changed from the first part of a movie ABC has stressed is a dramatization, not a documentary.
"You can take out some of the more dramatic details," Carson said, "but it is still utterly and completely false."
Clarke said the movie "is an egregious distortion that does a deep disservice both to history and to those in both the Clinton and Bush administrations who are depicted."
ABC hired a production company and screenwriter who were unqualified for the job, he said.
"There is throughout the screenplay a consistent bias and distortion seeking to portray senior Clinton administration officials as holding back the hard-charging CIA, FBI and military officers who would otherwise have prevented 9/11," he said. "The exact opposite is true."
Former New Jersey Gov, Thomas Kean, the Republican co-leader of the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks, was criticized
for consulting ABC on the project.
Kean said Monday at the National Press Club that he thought it was a responsible project and that "I think they did a pretty good job."
But the Democratic co-head of the 9/11 commission, former Rep. Lee Hamilton of Indiana, said he agreed with the Clinton administration critics, although he acknowledged not watching it Sunday.
"It is either a documentary or it is a drama. And to fudge it causes me a great deal of concern and suggests to me that news and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined," he said. "And I do not think that is good for the country."
One scene, in a copy of the movie given to TV critics a few weeks ago, indicated President Clinton's preoccupation with his potential impeachment may have hurt the effort to go after Osama bin Laden.
In the original scene, an actor portraying Clarke shares a limousine ride with FBI agent John O'Neill and tells him: "The
Republicans are going all-out for impeachment. I just don't see in that climate the president's going to take chances" and give the order to kill bin Laden.
But in the film aired Sunday, Clarke says to O'Neill: "The president has assured me this ... won't affect his decision-making."
Another scene in the critics' cut showed Clarke saying he didn't know what Clinton was going to do about bin Laden.
"The Lewinsky thing is a noose around his neck," the actor portraying Clarke says.
This was cut entirely from the film that aired Sunday.
Another scene in the movie that depicted a team of CIA operatives poised outside of bin Laden's fortress in Afghanistan, ready to attack, was substantially shortened from the original.
Pictures of the waiting Afghanistan operatives are interspersed with those of officials in Washington, who had to approve the mission.
The original version depicted national security adviser Samuel R. Berger hanging up on CIA chief George Tenet as Tenet sought permission to attack bin Laden.
The movie aired Sunday did not include BERger hanging up.
Left unchanged was a scene depicting the aftermath of an order by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to alert the Pakistanis ahead of time about an airstrike against bin Laden, which Tenet said let the al-Qaida leader slip away.
Clinton officials claim this, as well as the Berger-Tenet scene, didn't happen.
The network de-emphasized the role of the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks in its film, omitting a note in the opening credits that the film is "based on the 9/11 commission report."
Critics, such as historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., said it was "disinguenuous and dangerous" not to include accurate historical accounts in the movie.
INTERNET
Online ad sparks controversy Post meant to showcase lack of Internet privacy
BY ANICK JESDANUN ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — At first glance, the posting looked like any number of Internet classified ads explicitly seeking sex. But instead of the 27-year-old woman with long brown hair advertised in the posting, a Seattle-area graphic designer collected the replies and posted them online - with photos, names and contact information.
Privacy experts say the case treads the line legally but crosses it morally.
It all began with Jason Fortuny's posting on the online community Craigslist. According to his Web journal, Fortuny took a real ad and reposted it so that responses went straight to him. Among
the 178 responses were 145 photos of men "in various states of undress." The replies included e-mail addresses, names and in some cases, instant-messaging accounts and phone numbers.
Internet vigilantes have engaged spammers and scam artists and posted results of their conversations online. Others expose sexual predators they purposely seek out in chat rooms.
It's by no means the first time information thought private gets posted online.
Fortuny then posted all the replies on a Web site devoted to parodies and satires online.
In this case, however, the men who replied to Fortuny's posting did not appear to be doing anything illegal, so the outing has no social value other than to prove that someone could ruin
Whether Fortuny violated any laws is less clear, he said.
lives online, Jonathan Zittrain,
a law professor at Oxford and
Harvard universities, said.
"it's one of those questions that could find its way onto a law school exam because it is comparatively new territory," Zittrain said.
Fortuny did not immediately respond to e-mails from The Associated Press, and calls Monday to his telephone number generated a message saying the subscriber "is not in service."
Craiglist Chief Executive Jim Buckmaster told the AP in an e-mail that Fortuny's actions violated the site's policies. He noted that the ad in question was removed several times, only to be reposted.