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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, APRIL 17,2007
Lost in spring
Despite recent freezing temperatures, the tulips outside Watson Library were in full bloom Monday afternoon. Weather reports project warmer temperatures for the rest of this week. According to Channel 6 in Lawrence the high temperatures for the week will be in the 60s and 70s.
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>> SUV ACCIDENT
Governor's surgery continues
BY GEOFF MULVIHILL ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAMDEN, N.J. — Gov. Jon S.
Corzine on Monday underwent another operation on the leg he broke in a highway crash that left him in critical condition.
The hour-long surgery at Cooper University Hospital, performed to clean out the 6-inch wound created when his left femur broke, was "uneventful," said Andrew Poag, a spokesman for the governor.
Corzine remained in critical but stable condition. He also broke 12 ribs, his collarbone and chest bone and suffered some other, more minor injuries in Thursday's accident.
"He continues to do, thankfully, far better than one would expect anyone with these injuries to do," said Dr. Steven Ross, the head of the trauma unit at Cooper.
Physicians also operated to clean the leg wound on Saturday and a titanium rod was inserted into his leg after the crash Thursday. On Sunday he underwent a brief procedure to remove fluid that had collected outside his left lung.
Previously, doctors said they would evaluate after the surgery whether Corzine would be strong enough to breathe without a ventilator that was put in shortly after the accident.
Corzine, 60, was injured when the sport utility vehicle he was riding in crashed on the Garden State Parkway just north of Atlantic City.
The SUV, which was being driven by a state trooper, was hit by another vehicle that swerved to avoid a pickup truck, sending the governor's vehicle skidding into a guard rail.
Corzine had been on his way to a meeting at his mansion in Princeton between radio show host Don Imus and the Rutgers women's basketball team.
The governor apparently was not wearing his seat belt as he rode in the front passenger's seat.
Doctors said Monday they would reduce the amount of sedation and give Corzine some control over the amount of pain medication he receives.
Corzine's relatives said he recognized them and responded to visitors when they saw him Sunday.
"When you talk to him, he can recognize your voice, that's my feeling," said Joshua Corzine, 30, the eldest of Corzine's two sons. "He definitely responds when you let him know who you are."
The governor's children and his girlfriend, Sharon Elghanayan, said they were feeling positive about his condition.
"We're giving him the thumbsup right now, so we're really feeling good about what's happening," said the governor's daughter, Jennifer Pasani.
SECURITY
SECURITY Businessman sentenced for terrorist conspiracy
NEW YORK — A bookstore owner was sentenced to 13 years in prison Monday for his role in a conspiracy to fund terrorist groups abroad.
Abdulrahman Farhane, 52, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska in Manhattan after he pleaded guilty in November to money laundering and lying to federal agents.
Prosecutors said Farhane and the musician, Tarik Shah, spoke
with an FBI informant in December 2001 about a plot to help terrorists in Afghanistan buy weapons and communications equipment to fight American soldiers.
Shah and Mahmud Faruq Brent Al Mutazzim, have pleaded guilty to agreeing to provide material support to terrorist organizations and are awaiting sentencing.
Farhane's lawyer, Michael Hueston, argued that his client should be treated leniently because another man convicted of aiding al-Qaida, David Hicks, recently reached a deal to serve a nine-month sentence in his home-town of Adelaide, Australia, after a military proceeding at the U.S. naval base at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay.
Associated Press
MEDIA AWARDS
Wall Street Journal takes home Pulitzer Prizes for coverage in U.S., China
BY DEEPTI HAJELA ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The Wall Street Journal won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for exposing excesses of capitalism — in America and in communist China. The Associated Press captured one for what the judges called a "powerful photograph" of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces.
The journalism prizes recognized a range of American print journalism on subjects from the world's oceans to corruption in Alabama colleges to restaurant reviews.
The Journal, the only multiple winner, was honored for public service for its coverage of the stockoptions scandal that rattled corporate America in 2006. It also won the international reporting award for what the judges praised as "sharply edged reports on the adverse impact of China's booming capitalism on conditions ranging from inequality to pollution."
"They were just tremendous pieces of work and I'm very proud of them," Managing Editor Paul Steiger
said. "One of the most important missions of The Wall Street Journal is to expose ills in business so that they can be corrected. And this coverage resulted in more than 100 companies coming under investigation and many companies having to restate their earnings"
The AP captured the Pulitzer for breaking news photography for Oded Balilty's picture of the Jewish woman resisting Israeli security forces face-to-face as they removed settlers in the West Bank. The AP was a finalist in the same category for photos from the war between Israel and Hezbollah, including one by Bality.
"I feel like today I kissed the moon. It's amazing. I'm so happy, also for myself and also for the bureau," Balilty said.
The staff of The (Portland) Oregonian won for breaking news for its reporting on a California family that disappeared in the mountains during a blizzard. James Kim and his family took a wrong turn while returning home to San Francisco following a Thanksgiving trip. Kim was found dead after his wife and two
young daughters were rescued. The judges praised the newspaper for its "skillful and tenacious coverage ... telling the tragic story both in print and online."
"Our thoughts today are with the Kim family, for, as our reporting showed, this is a tragic accident that might have been avoided." Executive
Editor Peter
Bhatia said.
Reporters Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling and photographer Rick Loomis of the Los Angeles Times won for explanatory reporting for stories on the world's distressed oceans.
The judges also praised the Times for its online work on the project, including video and photos by Loomis — reflecting the added consideration given to multimedia this year. The last time a photographer won in the explanatory reporting category was 1995.
"I feel like today I kissed the moon. It's amazing.I'm so happy, also for myself and also for the bureau."
This year's Pulitzers marked a significant expansion of online journalism in the entries. Newspapers were able to submit online material like video, blogs, databases and interactive graphics for all print categories.
"This is such great work, and it's such a great day," said Editor James O'Shea, surrounded by staffers in the newspaper's third-floor newsroom, where morale had been affected by job cuts and management departures.
ODED BALILTY Associated Press photographer
Sig Gissler, who administers
the Pulitzers, said online content was involved in about 15 percent to 20 percent of the entries in various forms.
Brett Blackledge of The Birmingham (Ala.) News won for investigative reporting for his exposure of cronyism and corruption in
the state's two-year college system. The stories resulted in the dismissal of the chancellor and other corrective action. The stories were also finalists in the public service category, but were moved to investigative reporting by the board.
The Pulitzer were created under the terms of the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who died in 1911. The first awards were handed out in 1917.
Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe won for national reporting for his revelations that President Bush often used "signing statements" to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws.
"This is a great honor, and I view it as a great moment not just for myself but for the Globe as an institution," Savage said. "The Globe for a while was throwing it out on the front page when a lot of people were ignoring it, and that took a lot of courage."
The New York Times won one Pulitzer — Andrea Elliott for feature writing for a "richly textured portrait" of an immigrant imam striving to serve his faithful in America.
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