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NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2008
ENTERTAINMENT
Singing, dancing dominate ratings
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NEW YORK - Singing and dancing scored again with viewers last week.
Fox's "American Idol" placed first and second in the ratings, according to Nielsen Media Research, with ABC's two editions of "Dancing With the Stars' right behind.
CBS's crime drama, "CSI Miami," followed in fifth place. But the week's most-watched shows were chiefly in the reality area. ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "Orach's Big Give" and "Primetime: What Would You Do?", CBS "60 Minutes" and an NCAA championship basketball game (Louisville vs. UNC), NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" and "Deal or No Deal" and Fox's "Moment of Truth" all landed in the top 20.
Fox's legal drama, "Canterbury's Law," premiered in a pony 78th place, with just 4.74 million viewers welcoming lalanna Margulies back to series TV.
Overall, Fox won the week averaging 9.93 million viewers (with a 5.9 rating and 10 share) - the network's 11th straight weekly victory.
CBS was a close runner-up with 9.47 million viewers (6.1 rating, 10 share), while ABC had 8.83 million viewers (5.7 rating, 9 share) and NBC had 7.69 million viewers (5.1 rating, 8 share). The CW had 2.30 million viewers (1.5 rating, 2 share), My Network TV had 1.30 million viewers (0.8, 1) and ION Television had 520,000 viewers
(0.3 rating, 1 share).
Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with a 3.85 million viewer average (1.9 rating, 3 share), Telemundo had 1.02 million viewers (0.6 rating, 1 share), TeleFutura had 480,000 viewers (0.3, 0 share) and Azteca had 190,000 viewers (0.1 rating, 0 share).
There was a tie in the nightly news race, with both ABC's "World News" and NBC's "Nightly News" averaging 8.41 million viewers. ("World News" had a 5.8 rating and 12 share, while "Nightly News" had a 5.7 rating and 12 share.) In its customary third place, "CBS Evening News" had 6.6 million viewers (4.4 rating, 9 share).
A ratings point represents 1,128,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 112.8 million TV homes.The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
Television had 520,000 Viewers
>> IRAQ WAR
For the week of March 24-30, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships:
"American Idol" (Wednesday),
Fox, 25.74 million; "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 24.76 million; "Dancing With the Stars"
(Monday), ABC, 20.52 million; "Dancing With the Stars"
(Tuesday), ABC, 17.49 million;
"CSI: Miami", CBS, 16.07 million; NCAA Post-game Show,
CBS, 14.36 million; "Two and a Half Men", CBS, 14.24 million;
"60 Minutes", CBS, 13.36 million; "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition", ABC, 12.96 million;
"Celebrity Apprentice", NBC, 12.13 million.
Expired memo proves harsh tactics
**Protestors demonstrate the use of waterboarding on a volunteer in front of the Justice Department in Washington on Nov. 5, 2007. President Bush said on March 8 that he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks.**
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The Justice Department memo dated March 14, 2003, outlines legal justification for military interrogators to use harsh tactics against al-Qaida and Taliban detainees overseas — so long as they did not specifically intend to torture their captors.
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Tuesday released a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President Bush's authority during wartime trumps any international ban on torture.
Even so, the memo noted, the president's wartime power as commander in chief would not be limited by the U.N. treaties against torture.
"Our previous opinions make clear that customary international law is not federal law and that the president is free to override it at his discretion," said the memo written by John Yoo, who was then deputy assistant attorney general and headed the Office of Legal Counsel.
The memo also offered a defense in case any interrogator was charged with violating U.S. or international laws.
"Finally, even if the criminal prohibitions outlined above applied, and an interrogation method might violate those prohibitions, necessity or self-defense could provide justifications for any criminal liability," the memo concluded.
The memo was rescinded in December 2003, a mere nine months after Yoo sent it to the Pentagon's top lawyer, William J. Haynes. Though its existence has been known for years, its release Tuesday marked the first time its
contents in full have been made public.
Haynes, the Defense Department's longest-serving general counsel, resigned in late February to return to the private sector. He has been hotly criticized for his role in crafting Bush administration policies for detaining and trying suspected terrorists that some argue led to prisoner abuses at the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Yoo's memo became part of a debate among the Pentagon's civilian and military leaders about what interrogation tactics to allow at overseas facilities and whether
U. S. troops might face legal problems domestically or in international courts.
Also of concern was whether techniques used by U.S. interrogators might someday be used as justification for harsh treatment of Americans captured by opposing forces.
CONGRESS
Rep. ordered to pay legal fees
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ordered Rep. Jim McDermott to pay House Minority Leader John Boehner more than $1 million in legal fees in a decade-long dispute over an illegally taped telephone call.
Chief Judge Thomas Hogan or the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered McDermott to pay Boehner $1.05 million in attorney's fees and costs, plus about $40,000 in interest. McDermott, a Washington Democrat, also had to pay more
than $60,000 in fines and damages, as well as nearly $600,000 in fees to his own lawyers.
McDermott said Tuesday he would not appeal the judge's ruling.
"It's dead," he said of the 10-year dispute with Boehner, R-Ohio. "We just cleaning up after the parade. We
it costs a piece of change, but that's life in the big leagues."
"We saved the First Amendment, and it costs a piece of change, but that's life in the big leagues."
JOHN BORHNER
House Minority Leader
saved the First Amendment, and
The Supreme Court ruled last year that McDermott acted improperly in giving reporters access to an audio tape given to him by a Florida couple who
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Boehner, one of the GOP leaders heard on the call, sued McDermott, and a federal court found that McDermott had no right to release the recording. The Supreme Court decided in December not to revisit the case.
McDermott called the court fight with Boehner "a long and costly battle," but said the million-dollar judgment was "a small price to pay in defense of so fundamental a principle, and freedom, as the First Amendment."
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Used a 1996 telephone call involving then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and other GOP leaders. McDermott, at the time a senior member of the House ethics committee, leaked the tape to two newspapers, which published articles on the case in January 1997.
"Congressman McDermon broke the law, and as a result, he shattered the bonds of trust between our institution and the men and women we represent in the halls of Congress. I remained committed to this case in order to begin restoring those bonds, and to uphold the belief that no one — not even a member of Congress — is above the law." Boehner said
Boehner said in a statement that members of Congress have a responsibility not only to obey the law and congressional rules, but also to defend the integrity of those laws and rules when they are violated.
McDermott has created a legal defense trust fund to cover expenses related to the lawsuit.
SCIENCE
Kinky octopuses kill for sex
Violent and sneaky males, large females reproduce successfully
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SAN FRANCISCO - Marine biologists studying wild octopuses have found a kinky and violent society of jealous murders, gender subterfuge and once-in-a lifetime sex.
The new study by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, who journeyed off the coast of Indonesia found that wild octopuses are far from the shy, unromantic loners their captive brethren appear to be.
The scientists watched the Abdopus aculeatus octopus, which are the size of an orange, for several weeks and published their findings recently in the journal Marine Biology.
They witnessed picky, macho males carefully select a mate, then guard their newly domesticated digs so jealously that they
would occasionally use their 8-to-10-inch tentacles to strangle
a romantic rival to death.
can find because she's going to produce more eggs," said UC
The researchers also observed smaller "sneaker" male octopuses put on feminine airs, such as swimming girlishly near the bottom
"If you're going to spend time guarding a female, you want to go for the biggest female you can find because she's going to produce more eggs."
ROY CALDWELL UC Berkeley biologist
and keeping their male brown stripes hidden in order to win unsuspecting conquests.
And size does matter — but not how you'd think.
"If you're going to spend time guarding a female, you want to go for the biggest female you
said.
Berkley biologist Roy Caldwell, who co-wrote the study. "It's basically an investment strategy."
Shortly after the female gives birth, about a month after conception, both the mother and father die, researchers
"It's not the sex that leads to death," said Christine Huffard, the study's lead author. "It's just that octopuses produce offspring once during a very short lifespan of a year."
INTERNATIONAL
Request for students'release rejected
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ROME — A court has ordered an American suspect and two other suspects in the slaying of a British student to remain jailed, a defense lawyer said Tuesday.
The Court of Cassation rejected a defense request for the release of University of Washington student Amanda Knox of Seattle; her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollicito and Ivory Coast national Rudy Hermann Guebel.
"All three requests have been rejected," said Marco Brusco, a lawyer for Sollecito.
The three are being held in connection with the death of Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old student from Leeds University in England.
Kercher was enrolled for a year of study in Perugia, about 110 miles north of Rome.
Kercher was found half-naked
in a pool of blood last November in the apartment she shared with Knox. She died from a stab wound to the neck.
Prosecutors have said she was
"All three requests have been rejected."
Prosecute killed resisting sexual assault, and they are investigating the three suspects on suspicion of murder and sexual violence.
All three deny wrongdoing.
Knox, 20,
and Sollecito,
24, have been
jailed since
MARCO BRUSCO Lawyer for Raffaele Sollicito
The Court of Cassation in Rome did not examine evidence
The court's prosecutor called
He is believed to have fled shortly after the slaying.
but focused only on whether proper procedures were followed during the investigation, defense lawyers said.
Nov. 6. Guede, 21, was arrested in Germany and later extradited to Italy.
on the judges to reject the defense's appeal, lawyers said during a break in the proceedings.
release the three
Judges in Perugia have already rejected defense requests to
The Perugia judges have ruled that the three could be held for up to a year while the case is investigated.
The suspects have not been formally charged.
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