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Portugal is now the third eurozone country to take up rescue crutch-es, with the opposition signalling Wednesday it will go along with a 78-billion-euro EU-IMF deal to avoid debt default.

Nearly 60 percent of Americans would never support a Republican presidential bid by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin or real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump, according to a new poll Wednesday.

Portugal third eurozone economy on lifeline

Most U.S. voters say “no” to Palin or Trump in 2012

Charlotte Bobcats forward Dante Cunningham faces a drug-possession charge after police found a small amount of marijuana in his pickup during a traffic stop in suburban Philadelphia.

Bobcats F Cunningham faces drug-possession charge

Titans’ Simms acquitted in NY drugged-driving case

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President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he had decided not to release photographs of Osama bin Laden's body because they could have incited violence and been used as an al Qaeda propaganda tool.

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3-course menu

free glass of house wine$ 29.75Daily: 5 - 7pm

Enjoy the delicious French-Caribbean cuisine, the elegant terrace and

the beautiful décor. It’s the perfect ambiance for a wonderful dinner!

Open daily: 5:00pm - 10:30pmThe Village (accross from Radisson), Palm BeachT: 586 5400 E: reservations@papillonaruba.com

Special

Every year on May 5th, Japan cel-ebrates the happiness of the na-tion's children with a day of fun

and games. This May, you can join in the celebration at Beniha-na. Kids will love the incredible

live show put on by our chef's and every child is invited to par-ticipate in the Children Helping Children drawing contest. Pass by at Benihana for your entry form, then draw, paint or color a picture of "Children Help-ing Children" and return your form to Benihana by May 5th. One lucky child per restaurant will also win dinner for 8 family member or friends at Benihana. We look forward to celebrating with you on May 5th!

Benihana celebrates children day

May 8 is an im-portant day for all mothers. Then they are put in the spot-light and they get thanked for all the work they have done and all the sacrifices they have made for their hus-band and chil-dren. Of course there will be flowers and gifts. And mothers are off on May 8, so there is no din-ner to prepare: on the contrary, the lady gets the royal treatment at a restaurant.

The Bistro in the popular Paseo Herencia shop-ping mall has come up with a terrific Mother’s Day menu, filled with mouthwa-tering options.

The menu starts off with a bacon, leek and potato soup for $ 6.

The chicken forest salad with bacon, walnuts and wild honey on a mixed garden salad with grilled chicken for $ 11.50 sounds delicious as well. Entrée options

are a chicken curry with white rice, fresh vegetables and a side salad for $ 19 or an Italian style grouper filet, pan-fried in lemon butter, topped with tomato and melted mozzarella, served with mashed potatoes and a side salad for $ 21. The Bistro tops off its

Mother’s Day menu with a Bis-tro Delight: vanilla ice cream with coffee liqueur and whipped cream for $ 7.50. So take your mom to The Bistro and she will love you forever!

Mothers & family are in fora treat at The Bistro on May 8

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Over lunch at J.H.Yee’s Asian Bistro

Palm Beach – Several resort properties opted to invite their support staffers for festive lunch at the Asian Bistro. Our photog-raphers captured the happy faces of the Radisson Aruba Resort Ca-sino & Spa Administration and Management, La Cabana Beach & Racquet Club, Administration and Management and The Wes-tin Resort & Casino Aruba Ad-ministration and Management,

enjoying lunch in community at the famous Palm Beach Centre restaurant.At the Radisson all Administra-tive Professionals received a gift certificate for Larimar Spa, and a raffle ticket entitling them to win weekend stays at the resort and meals at its restaurants. At La Ca-bana, Administrative Profession-als received gift certificates and assorted other surprises while the

Westin Resort & Casino Aruba also pampered its support staff with flowers delivered the day before to offices. In Aruba Administrative Profes-sionals Day is traditionally ob-served as it celebrates the work of secretaries, administrative assistants, and other office pro-fessionals, recognizing them for their growing and diverse contri-butions to the workplace.

Administrative Professionals Day, celebrated in Aruba

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Zissles invites all moms and fam-ilies on 5/7 and 5/9 to make up for not making it on the 8th of May! Celebrate Mothers Day as big as possible: Watch the fantas-tic D’Licious dinner show, while enjoying Aruba’s biggest Tapas platter for only AWG 100 (p.p)!From cold snacks like Caprese on a stick to warm snacks like coco-nut shrimp, everybody gets the best. Special drinks prices make your evening complete. Balashi, Balashi Chill and house wines are just AWG 5! Call 586 3800 or go to www.zissles.com for reser-vations. Located in Paseo Heren-cia Mall, upstairs next to Paseo's Cinemas

Take your mom somewhere special this year!

For fifteen years now, Ar-uban donkeys have been sheltered at the local Don-key Sanctuary, which is run by volunteers. A group of about fifty volunteers of different nationalities is taking care of the donkeys and of the Sanctuary as well. Besides that, many of the volunteers participate in activities to raise funds. The volunteers form a nice group that enjoys working together for the well-being of the Aruban donkeys. And now we need more volunteers and ask you whether joining us might be

a fun way to fill your spare time. You will meet lots of new people and visitors of the Sanctuary. The foundation that runs the Sanctu-

ary is looking for volunteers for different purposes: people who want to take care of the donkeys, people who are good with their hands for the technical mainte-nance, people who want to give information, to show people around or do PR work. Actually, the Donkey Sanctuary could use everyone. Get acquainted with the other side of Aruba and spend your spare time in a fun and use-

ful way. Be aware, though, that once you get to work, it is quite addictive. Most volunteers stay

A wonderful way to spend your spare time!

involved with the foundation for a long time and enjoy every mo-ment that they are active.

So please consider spending your spare time in a super fun way and

make yourself useful for the Ar-uban community. Call Desiree Eldering for information or an appointment with her at 593 2933. Just do it!

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WA S H I N G T ON /A BB O T-TABAD – President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he had decided not to release pho-tographs of Osama bin Laden's body because they could have incited violence and been used as an al Qaeda propaganda tool. Attorney General Eric Holder, seeking to head off suggestions that killing the al Qaeda leader was illegal, said the U.S. com-mandos who raided bin Laden's Pakistani hideout on Monday had acted in national self-defense. In deciding not to make pub-lic the pictures of the corpse, Obama resisted arguments that to do so could counter skep-tics who have argued there is no proof bin Laden is dead. "I think that given the graph-ic nature of these photos, it would create some national se-curity risk," Obama told the CBS program "60 Minutes." "It is important for us to make sure that very g r a p h i c photos of s o m e -b o d y w h o w a s shot i n

the head are not floating around as an incitement to ad-ditional violence. As a propa-ganda tool," the president added. "There's no doubt that Bin Lad-en is dead," Obama said. "And so we don't think that a photo-graph in and of itself is going to make any difference. There are going be some folks who deny it. The fact of the matter is, you will not see bin Laden walking on this earth again." The decision not to release pho-tos of bin Laden followed in-tense debate in the Obama ad-ministration. CIA Director Leon Panetta had said on Tuesday the pictures would be released. Washington had to weigh sensi-tivities in the Muslim world over what White House spokesman Jay Carney called "a gruesome photograph" of bin Laden be-fore Obama made his decision.

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U.S. Senator said she had seen a picture showing bin Laden's face. "I have seen one of them," Republican Senator Kelly Ay-otte said, adding she believed it confirmed his identity. Defending the killing of what the White House has acknowledged was an unarmed bin Laden, Holder said he was a legitimate military target and had made no attempt to surrender to the American forces who stormed his fortified compound near Islam-abad and shot him in the head. "It was justified as an act of na-tional self-defense," Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee, citing bin Laden's admission of being involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. It was lawful to target bin Laden because he was the enemy com-mander in the field and the op-eration was conducted in a way that was consistent with U.S. laws and values, he said, adding that it was a "kill or capture mission."

"If he had surrendered, at-

tempted to surrender, I think we should obvi-ously have accepted that, but there was no indication that he wanted to do that and therefore his killing was appro-priate," he said. U.S. acknowl-

edgment on Tues-day that bin Laden was unarmed

when shot dead had raised ac-c u s a t i o n s Washington had violated

international law. Exact cir-cumstances of his death r e m a i n e d

unclear and could yet fuel controversy,

especially in the Muslim world. Pakistan faced

national embar-rassment, a leading

Islamabad newspa-per said, in explaining how the world's most-wanted man was able to live for years in the mili-

tary garrison town of Abbot-tabad, just north of the capital. Pakistan blamed worldwide in-telligence lapses for a failure to detect bin Laden, while Wash-ington worked to establish whether its ally had sheltered the al Qaeda leader, which Is-lamabad vehemently denies. "There is an intelligence failure of the whole world, not just Pakistan alone," Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani told reporters in Paris. The revelation that bin Lad-en was unarmed contradicted an earlier U.S. account that he had participated in a fire-fight with the helicopter-borne U.S. commandos. Al Arabiya television suggested the archi-tect of the 9/11 attacks was first taken prisoner and then shot. A Pakistani security source "quoted the daughter of Osama bin Laden that the leader of al Qaeda was not killed inside his house, but had been ar-rested and was killed later," the Arabic television station said. White House spokesman Jay Carney on Tuesday cited the "fog of war" as a reason for the initial misinformation. Bin Laden's killing and the swift burial of his body at sea have produced some criti-cism in the Muslim world and charges that Washington act-ed outside international law. "The Americans behaved in the same way as bin Laden: with treachery and baseness," Husayn al-Sawaf, 25, a playwright, said in Cairo. "They should've tried him in a court. As for his burial, that's not Islamic. He should've been buried in soil." But there has been no sign of mass protests or violent reac-tion on the streets in south Asia or the Middle East, where Isla-mist militancy appears to have been eclipsed by pro-democracy movements sweeping the region. There has been little questioning of the operation in the United States, where bin Laden's kill-ing was greeted with street cel-ebrations. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday showed the killing boosted Obama's image,

improving Americans' views of his leadership and his efforts to fight terrorism. Pakistan has wel-comed bin Laden's death, but its Foreign Ministry expressed deep concerns about the raid, which it called an "unauthorized unilat-eral action." The CIA said it kept Pakistan out of the loop because it feared bin Laden would be tipped off, highlighting the depth of mistrust between the two sup-posed allies. The Pakistani news-paper Dawn compared the latest humiliation with the admission in 2004 that one of the country's top scientists had sold its nuclear secrets. "Not since Abdul Qadeer Khan confessed to transfer-ring nuclear technology to Iran and Libya has Pakistan suffered such an embarrassment," it said. The streets around bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad re-mained sealed off on Wednesday, with police and soldiers allowing only residents to pass through. MARTYRDOM RISK Carney insisted on Tues-day bin Laden resisted when U.S. forces stormed his com-pound in the 40-minute op-eration. He would not say how. The strike team opened fire in response to "threatening moves" as they reached the third-floor room where they found bin Laden, CIA Director Leon Panetta told PBS television. But former West German Chan-cellor Helmut Schmidt called the killing "quite clearly a violation of international law." Geoffrey Robertson, a prominent London-based human rights lawyer, said the killing "may well have been a cold-blooded assassination" that risked making bin Laden a martyr. Pakistan has come under intense international scrutiny since bin Laden's death, with questions on whether its security agen-cies were too incompetent to catch him or knew all along where he was hiding, and even whether they were complicit. In Afghanistan, the Taliban, who harbored bin Laden until they were overthrown in late 2001, challenged the truth of his death, saying Washington had not pro-vided "acceptable evidence to back up their claim" that he had been killed.

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala – The list of missing people in storm-ravaged Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has been reduced to 75 and the number of dead from the storms remains steady at 40, Mayor Walt Maddox said on Wednesday. One week after the April 27 storms that killed more than 230 people across Ala-bama, Mad-dox said he is crafting a plan for rebuilding. "I'm hopeful and prayerful as time goes by the story about Tuscaloosa is not going to

be the tornado," the

mayor told re-porters. "The story of Tus-caloosa will be how we re-built the city." Maddox said about 900 Al-abama Power customers still

do not have power within the city, home to the Univer-sity of Ala-bama, which

canceled final exams and postponed graduation cer-emonies until August. But public schools have reopened and traffic has been restored on ma-jor streets and avenues. In Tuscaloosa County, more than 126 miles of roads have

been cleared of debris a n d

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county roads are open, Probate Judge W. Har-dy McCollum said.

The city and county con-tinue to receive help from law enforcement and fire departments from across the state and Louisiana. Eleven search and recovery teams from Louisiana can-vassed the city on Wednesday, using cadaver dogs to look for any remaining storm victims. "They're going back through all the debris," said Heather McCollum, a city spokes-woman. "We haven't quit searching since it happened." Law enforcement officials

also continue to clear names from the "per-sons of concern" list. Initially, more than

800 people were

reported missing in the city, Heather McCollum said. But the list included duplications and names of people who left town after the storms. Officials have been visiting shelters and making phone calls to account for those on the list. Most people are found alive, but "we do realize that

we will likely find more fatali-

ties," Heather McCollum said.

Fewer missing, without power a week after Tuscaloosa storms

NEW YORK – Nearly 60 per-cent of Americans would nev-er support a Republican presi-dential bid by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin or real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump, accord-ing to a new poll Wednesday. But the Quinnipiac Uni-versity poll of 1,408 voters found that about half would consider or be enthusiastic about backing former Mas-sachusetts Governor Mitt Romney or former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee in the November 2012 election. "It is difficult to get a handle

on the 2012 Republican race. Many contenders are not well known and many who are known are not liked," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "Mitt Romney and Mike Huck-abee are in the best shape. Sar-ah Palin and Donald Trump suffer from the reality that, as our mothers told us, 'You nev-er get a second chance to make a first impression,'" he said. Trump, who has been testing the waters for a possible 2012 run for the Republican presi-

dential nomination, said he would announce something before June -- after his reality TV show, "Celebrity Appren-tice," ends its season on May 22. Palin was the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and is keeping her supporters guess-ing on whether she will run. Among the 613 Republican and independent Republican-leaning voters, the poll showed Romney as favorite to win the Republican presidential nomi-nation with 18 percent, fol-lowed by Huckabee and Palin with 15 percent and Trump with 12 percent.

NEW YORK – A retired New York City sergeant who won a court battle to secure his "GETOSAMA" vanity li-cense plate said on Wednes-day he's trading it for "GO-TOSAMA" to mark the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden. "It's my way of saying thank you to the troops and every-thing they sacrificed in order to bring this about," said Arno

Herwerth, 46, of Hauppauge. Herwerth in 2007 first got a li-cense plate reading "GETOSA-MA" out of irritation that the Al Qaeda leader was still at large after the September 11 attacks. "I was trying to bring aware-ness," he said. "I was getting frustrated over the years with that murderer getting away with it and not being cap-tured."

New York man trades GETOSAMA license plate for GOTOSAMA

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New York man trades GETOSAMA license plate for GOTOSAMA

NEW YORK – Gasoline de-mand continues to fall in the U.S. as pump prices keep climbing. Reports from government and industry groups show motor-ists have been cutting back on the amount of gas they put into their tanks for more than a month. That could sig-nal trouble for the economy since Americans typically cut spending on other activities before they do less driving. Since January, the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded has risen 91 cents, or 30 percent, to $3.98. The main reason is a 20 percent gain in the price of oil this year. Gas rose more than 30 cents in April alone, as refinery problems led to an unusually big drop in

s u p -p l i e s . Gas is now above $4 per gallon in 13 states and Washington D.C. Reports this week p r o v i d e d more evi-

dence that with prices so high motorists are spend-

ing less on gas. MasterCard SpendingPulse, which tracks

retail gas spending, and the Energy Informa-tion Administration, which measures gas supplied to whole-sale markets, both say that average gasoline

demand has dropped for six straight weeks.

Some analysts are call-

ing for $5 per gallon gas by summer. Oth-

ers see signs the price is near its peak.

Tom Kloza, publisher and chief oil analyst at

Oil Price Information Ser-vice, says consumers will be forced to cut back if gas prices go much higher. The run of

consecutive price increases — now at 43 days — should end soon, he says, noting that gasoline and oil futures have fallen each day this week. "You can never tell wheth-er you're in the middle of a price correction, and to-day we're wondering if we are already there," he said. Marathon Oil Corp., which owns the Speedway conve-nience store chain, has noticed even steeper drops in consump-tion. Gary Heminger, Mara-thon's executive vice president, told analysts on Tuesday that gasoline demand has fallen roughly 5 percent and demand for diesel fuel has dropped between 3 and 4 percent since the last week of March. Economists say gas prices,

which are visible on many street corners, can have a big influence on consumer con-fidence. Now they're only a little more than a dime from the all-time high of $4.11 per gallon, set in July 2008. "The American consumer is reaching a tipping point," re-tail expert Howard Davidow-itz said in an interview with the AP last month. "They're buying cheaper cuts of meat. Instead of a big bottle of ketchup, they're buying a smaller one because it costs less money."If motorists are conserving on gas purchases, they're probably also cutting back on items like clothing or movie tickets. They could be planning shorter trips this summer, if they take vacations at all, Davidowitz said.

Demand for gasoline in US continues to decline

NEW YORK – News Corp (NWSA.O) posted lower-than-expected profits on a weaker movie box office than a year ago and strug-gling newspapers, which were partly offset by strong performance at its cable and broadcast television business. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which owns broadcaster Fox and publishes newspa-pers including the Wall Street Journal and the UK's News of the World, said operat-ing net profit fell to 26 cents before adjusting for one-time charges from 29 cents. Analysts had on average fore-cast profit of 27 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. It said the quarter compares with a year ago when it ben-efited from the record-break-ing performance of Holly-wood blockbuster 'Avatar'. News Corp's filmed entertain-ment operating income fell by 50 percent to $248 million, compared with the quarter a year ago due to 3D movie Avatar.

Publishing operating prof-its also dropped significantly to $36 million due to a $125 million charge at its mar-keting service business and primarily due to advertis-ing revenue declines at Aus-tralian and UK newspapers. The story was better at its overall television business, which enjoyed a resurgence in advertising revenues and rising cable affiliate fees like other ri-vals at CBS Corp (CBS.N) and Time Warner Inc (TWX.N). Operating income at its U.S. cable networks -- including FX, National Geographic and Fox Sports -- rose by 22 per-cent, while operating profit at its international networks -- including Star TV and Fox Deportes was up by 34 percent. The Fox television business received a huge bump from its coverage of this year's foot-ball Super Bowl and broadcast retransmission fees, boost-ing its revenue by 23 percent. News Corp's expected strong earnings have been overshad-owed in recent months by

speculation about the compa-nies dealmaking and the con-troversy surrounding its phone hacking scandal at its UK week-ly tabloid News of the World. The New York-based company is in the process of trying to buy the 61 percent of BSkyB (BSY.L) it doesn't already own. News Corp made a 700p a share offer last June and the board said it's looking for around 800p or around $14 billion. Wall Street expects News Corp may have to raise its bid even higher than 800p, especially as the UK satel-lite company has posted much improved earnings re-sults since News Corp first made its bid [nLDE7270PA]. News Corp is also in the pro-cess of assessing buyout offers for its struggling entertain-ment site Myspace, a one-time pioneer of social networking which has long fallen far be-hind Facebook. News Corp said Myspace continued to rack up increasing losses dur-ing the third quarter.

News Corp profit misses on movies and papers CHICAGO – Avon Products

Inc (AVP.N) faces more woes as its internal bribery investi-gation uncovered the compa-ny may have made improper payments in countries besides China, the Wall Street Jour-nal reported on Wednesday. There is evidence of millions of dollars of questionable payments to officials in Bra-zil, Mexico, Argentina, India and Japan in amounts that are "not insignificant," the news-paper reported, citing a per-son familiar with the matter. The issues occurred as recently as 2010 and as long ago as 2004, the Wall Street Journal report-ed. According to the report, one employee in those mar-kets was suspended and there are more suspensions to come. New York-based Avon, the world's largest direct-seller of cosmetics, could not be imme-diately reached for comment. The company has already come under fire for the costly inves-tigation into potential bribery that began in China in 2008. It spent about $96 million in 2010 on its investigation into

bribery allegations, just above a target of $85 million to $95 million, and has said in the past it planned to spend a sim-ilar amount on that probe this year. It spent about $35 million on the investigation in 2009. In its quarterly report, filed on Tuesday, Avon said the company fired four employ-ees that were put on ad-ministrative leave in 2010. The former general manager for China, former head of cor-porate affairs for China, for-mer head of finance for China and former head of global internal audit and security, who was previously head of finance for the Asia Pacific re-gion, were terminated, it said.Avon also said that, pending the outcome of its investiga-tion and compliance reviews, more personnel actions might be taken going forward.Avon is shaking up its structure to improve business in markets such as Latin America, its largest unit with more than 42 percent of sales last year. In February, it made plans to cut six business units down to two, one focused on developed markets and one focused on developing areas.

Avon might have made more improper payments: report

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WASHINGTON – The Securi-ties and Exchange Commission pulled out all the stops when it tapped University of Texas law professor Henry Hu to head the first new division cre-ated at the agency in 37 years. An unusually generous tem-porary contract brought Hu to Washington in September of 2009 to oversee the new Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation, part of the agency's effort to address an embarrassing failure to catch swindler Bernard Ma-doff and adapt to new Wall Street products that could become the next financial weapons of mass destruction. Hu, with three degrees from Yale and the author of papers on derivatives and financial regulation, looked perfect to lead the "think tank" di-vision that SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro tasked with anticipating market problems. But Hu departed in January, leaving the division search-ing for a chief economist and new permanent direc-tor, and with questions swirl-ing about how much was accomplished during his roughly 16 months on the job. His hiring has been praised by some outside the agency as a creative effort to bring in top talent, but the arrange-ment rubbed some staffers the wrong way, including an SEC decision to cover the bulk of his daily living expenses. SEC documents obtained by Reuters through a Freedom of Information Act request show Hu sought reimbursement for thousands of dollars per month. The agency's internal watchdog is now reviewing whether the arrangement was

appropriate. As the SEC works to implement dozens of new rules under the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law and to revamp equity market structure, critics say the accomplish-ments and di-rection of the new d i v i -s i o n are

still n o t c learly d e f i n e d . The division re-sulted from meld-ing the SEC's offices of economic analysis and risk assessment. Later, in March 2010, the office of interac-tive disclosure - which works to make financial disclosures more accessible - was added. The aim was a multidis-ciplinary division, but it is not clear whether it has truly succeeded in chip-ping away at the entrenched culture at the SEC which is known for placing a higher value on the role of lawyers.

That could leave the SEC vul-nerable as Wall Street continues its breakneck pace of product

d e -velopment, and as the SEC needs airtight economic and market analysis to justify its rulemaking and to prevent successful legal challenges. For some, the mission of the new division, known for short as "Risk Fin," was always too muddled. Roy Smith, a finance professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, said his

first impression was the divi-sion's job seemed "vague" with a lot of "cosmetic features to it."

"I'm sure they meant

well at the time," said Smith,

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FOR NERDS Critics and agency employ-ees told Reuters in inter-views that Schapiro relied too much on a single per-son without clearly spelling out how it would operate. SEC employees, who requested anonymity since they were not authorized to speak publicly, say the chairman's office had to send an adviser to keep an eye on the division during Hu's fi-

nal months. In another action around that time, the division's now acting director, Jonathan Sokobin, an economist, was unofficially put in charge of running things while Hu re-mained as the official director. In a series of emails, Hu said Schapiro offered him "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to serve as an agent of change at a place with "long-established culture, norms, and practices." Now back at the University of Texas and writing several books, Hu touted the di-vision's accomplishments under his tenure. One such accomplishment, he told Reuters, was to elevate the stature of economists and other non-lawyer types that have not traditionally had a voice at the SEC.

"SEC staff who were not traditional lawyers

-- nerds such as myself -- were given a real, highly

visible seat at the table," he said in an emailed statement. But Schapiro seems to have heeded complaints that econ-omists were devalued by the new division structure. She told the Senate Banking Committee in February that the new division head would also get the title of Chief Economist, restoring that po-sition's stature at the agency. Former SEC Chief Economist James Overdahl, who left the SEC in March 2010, said Scha-piro's initial decision to make the position junior to the divi-sion director had hurt its effort to replace him. "People noticed that the commission no longer had an economist reporting to the chairman's office," he said.

at the SEC's think tank

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LONDON/HONG KONG – Glencore Chief Executive Ivan Glasenberg could be worth $10 billion after the commodities trader makes its debut later this month in a record public offering valuing the commodi-ties group at some $60 billion. Glasenberg, a publicity-shy former coal trader, was known to hold the largest slice of Glencore, but his pre-cise holding and correspond-ing paper wealth was unclear until Wednesday's bumper 1,637-page prospectus de-tailed his stake of 18.1 percent. The 54-year-old's stake will drop to 15.8 percent after the IPO, but he will remain the largest holder with a paper for-tune that will propel him into the ranks of the world's richest. Other top shareholders include Daniel Mate, 47, and Telis Mis-takidis, 49, the co-directors responsible for zinc, copper and lead. They each own 6.9 percent before the IPO, falling to 6 percent after the offering. Glencore, the world's largest diversified commodities trad-er, is seeking a strong debut for the share offering, capping planned proceeds at $11 bil-lion and placing a third of that with key investors led by Abu Dhabi, it said on Wednesday. Glencore set a 480 to 580 pence per share price range for the London initial public offering (IPO). That values it at 36.5 billion pounds ($60 bil-lion) at the mid-point, which is below the price some ana-lysts say the company is worth, and was seen as an attempt to

leave something on the table. "It's smart for investment bank-ers to be conservative in their pricing, so as not to disappoint

too many people," John Mc-Gloin at Collins Stewart said. But institutional investors may take some convincing. "The key thing Glencore needs to bear in mind is yes, they have an interesting model, but not everyone has bought into the idea of how the business is run," a portfolio manager at a UK investment company said. "To be pricing Glencore over $55 billion is way out of line, I would not buy that." Another UK equities invest-ment manager added the IPO was "priced to go": "This is a very strong commercial opera-tion, there's no question about that, the only question is the timing in the cycle, which is uncertain. Nobody knows." PREPARING FOR DEALS Glencore, which is planning a dual London and Hong Kong listing, said on Wednesday it was looking to raise gross proceeds -- before fees and other costs -- of around $10 billion. That is before a 10 percent "greenshoe" or over-

allotment option which can be sold if there is demand. The listing will boost Glen-core's firepower for deals amid

a boom in commodity prices, but will also push it into the public eye after 37 years as a discreet private company. Glencore, which has pursued an opportunistic but lucra-tive acquisition strategy, said in the prospectus it would continue to seek deals to strengthen its core physical marketing activities and also detailed talks to buy a stake in an alumina refinery and manganese mining operations. But it made no mention in the document of plans for Swiss miner Xstrata in which it has a 34 percent stake and with which it is widely expected to merge. That would put a deal at least months away. Glencore's estimate of its fu-ture market capitalization puts the company just above the mid-point of a wide $45 to $73 billion value implied in its intention-to-float last month. The mid-point of ana-lyst research was around $60 billion, though that excludes proceeds from the offering. "We could have gone out with a much higher price range.

(Glencore) knows a sensi-ble price range is needed," a source close to the deal said. Glencore said it had struck

agreements with cornerstone investors, who will take up around 31 percent of the total offer, one of the largest corner-stone books to date. A separate term sheet reveals Abu Dhabi's IPIC Aabar will be the largest cornerstone investor, commit-ting $850 million to the IPO. Singapore has agreed to in-vest $400 million and Black-Rock Inc $360 million, while other investors include Credit Suisse Private Bank and Och Ziff, have each agreed to buy $175 million worth of shares. The source close to the deal said the cornerstones were oversubscribed, with not every early investor getting the full allocation they had requested. Holders of Glencore's 2009 convertible bond, including the Government of Singa-pore, BlackRock and China's Zijin Mining, will hold 5.5 percent of the post-IPO firm. They will have made a to-tal profit of more than $1 billion in under two years. BANK PAYDAY Glencore confirmed it is look-

ing to raise around $7.9 bil-lion by selling new shares, while its partners plan to raise about $2.1 billion to pay off a tax bill linked to the IPO. That would value Glencore at about 8 to 10 times estimated 2011 earnings, based on the average forecast of the three banks underwriting the IPO. Founded in 1974 by trading sensation Marc Rich, Glen-core has until now held on to a fiercely prized tradition of

discretion. As a result, investors will scour the prospectus for details ranging from its existing investors to risks and trading. Remuneration has also been a closely guarded se-cret. Wednesday's prospec-tus shows Glasenberg will be paid 925,000 pounds a year, and will be entitled to a bonus of up to twice that amount. Simon Murray will be one of the best-paid FTSE non-executive chairmen with an-nual fees of 675,000 pounds. The prospectus also showed the commodities giant's banks will share a poten-tial fee pool of $275 million, the biggest in at least a de-cade for a European listing. Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley are the joint global coordinators for the offer. In its release on Wednes-day, Glencore said it had ap-pointed an extra 14 banks to lower ranking roles, boost-ing the syndicate disclosed last month and taking the total to 23 institutions. Conditional trading is set to begin on May 19.

Glencore $11 billion IPO to make billionaires of bosses

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LISBON – Portugal is now the third eurozone country to take up rescue crutches, with the opposition signalling Wednesday it will go along with a 78-billion-euro EU-IMF deal to avoid debt default. "The government has reached a good agreement that defends Portu-gal," outgoing Prime Minis-ter Jose So-crates an-nounced o n

television late on Tuesday, but the country got a rough ride on Wednesday when it had to pay sharply increased rates to borrow money.

A deadline looms on June 15, six weeks away, when Portu-gal must redeem old loans of nearly 5.0 billion euros ($7.3 billion) and avert default. The country now joins Greece

and Ireland as e u r o z o n e m e m b e r s

on financial life support

from the EU, ECB and IMF.

Socrates signalled

that in one sense the conditions of

the deal give Portugal some extra breathing space.

He said that the deal worth $116 billion "is a three-year pro-gramme which sets more gradual defi-

cit reduction targets: 5.9 percent this year, 4.5 percent in 2012 and

three percent in 2013."

Portugal had previous targets of 4.6 percent this

year, 3.0 percent in 2012 and 2.0 percent in 2013. The

EU ceiling is 3.0 percent. Experts from the Interna-tional Monetary Fund, the European Union and the

European Cen-tral Bank met con s e rvat ive opposition par-ties on Wednes-day to obtain their support for the bailout conditions if

they win an ear-ly election on June 5.

The opposition precipitated the election in March by reject-ing additional cutbacks to fight Portugal's 160.4-billion-euro debt mountain -- worth nearly a year of the nation's output -- although that was primarily because the government sprang the austerity measures on law-makers without consultation. The main opposition centre-right Social Democratic Party leader Pedro Passos Coelho sig-nalled it favoured the bailout. "The PSD has said since the start it would not let the country go bankrupt and I hope that this aid will arrive soon," Coelho told journalists. However, he said the party would announce a definitive position later after studying the details of the pact negotiated by the outgoing government. The international negotiators were expected to speak to the media on Thursday morning. According to the text of the deal published in Portuguese media, additional budget sav-ings of 8.8 billion euros are to be made in 2012 and 2013. Income tax would rise, sales tax would increase on certain products, the highest pensions would be cut, and the length and amount of unemployment benefit would be trimmed. The next government would also have to reform the la-bour and energy markets, and raise 5.5 billion euros from privatisation of state assets.

Portugal would have to pay in-terest on the rescue money at two percentage points above the rate paid by the European Financial Stability Facility, which would mean 4.68 per-cent, and 12.0 billion euros of the borrowed money would be used to strengthen the banks. In this fevered climate, Por-tugal went ahead with an operation to raise funds for three months, borrowing 1.117 billion euros, but had to pay interest of 4.652 per-cent, sharply up from 4.046 percent when the last such issue was made on April 20. On the market for exist-ing debt, the yield or rate on 10-year bonds eased to 9.333 percent from 9.411 per-cent at the close on Tuesday. In London, Capital Economics analyst Jonathan Loynes, not-ing the fall, said that markets had given a "positive" response to the deal but that the bailout was "very unlikely to mark an end to the country's problems." At Barclays Capital, Chief Eu-ropean Economist Julian Cal-low agreed the initial market response had been positive. "The concerns that are out there ... about Europe's abil-ity to deal with the issues that exist in particular parts of Eu-rope are taken care of by pro-grammes such as this one that's just been agreed...," he told AFP. "It removes some negative risks from people's risk assessment."

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Osama bin Laden's death is likely to revive a debate within the Afghan Taliban about their ties to al-Qaida — a union the U.S. insists must end if the in-surgents want to talk peace.

The foundation of their re-lationship is believed to be rooted in bin Laden's long friendship with the Taliban's reclusive one-eyed leader, Mul-lah Mohammed Omar, who may now find it more palat-able to break with al-Qaida and negotiate a settlement to the war. Much may depend on the newly chastened power-broker next door: Pakistan.

"I think now is an opportunity for the Taliban to end their relations with al-Qaida," said Waheed Muzhda, a Kabul-based analyst and former for-eign ministry official under the Taliban regime that was toppled in late 2001.

Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokes-man for the Afghan Taliban, said it was too early to com-ment.But the death of the world's

top terrorist gives momentum toward finding a political so-lution to the nearly decade-long war, according to analysts familiar with U.S. officials' stepped-up effort this year to push a peace agenda.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Obama admin-istration have said they will negotiate with any member of the Taliban who embraces the Afghan constitution, renounc-es violence and severs ties with al-Qaida. Informal contacts have been made in recent months with high-ranking Taliban figures, but no formal peace talks are under way.

The possible opportunity comes just as the spring fight-ing season is kicking into gear. The U.S.-led coalition hopes to hold ground in southern Afghanistan gained as a result of the addition last year of an extra 30,000 American troops. The Taliban's goal remains un-dermining the Afghan govern-ment, discrediting its security forces and driving the nearly 100,000 U.S. troops and other foreign forces out of the coun-

try. Even before bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALs at a compound in Pakistan on Monday, the links between the al-Qaida and the Afghan Taliban had weakened during the 10 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, Muzhda said. Mullah Omar's refusal to hand over bin Laden after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted the U.S.-led assault on Afghani-stan that ousted the Taliban from power. By siding with bin Laden, Mullah Omar's hardline regime lost control of the nation.

The goals of the two move-ments are not closely aligned. While al-Qaida is focused on worldwide jihad against the West and establishment of a religious superstate in the Mus-lim world, the Afghan Taliban have focused on their own country and have shown little to no interest in attacking tar-gets outside Afghanistan. The car bombing in May 2010 in New York's Times Square was linked to the Pakistani Taliban — an autonomous group on the other side of the border.

Al-Qaida has been the Taliban's bridge to funding and politi-cal connections in the Middle East, according to a Western intelligence officer. Mullah Omar's association with bin Laden also gave him clout, said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence. But some members of the Taliban's top leadership council have grown uncomfortable with al-Qaida, and a vocal minority want to distance themselves from the mostly Arab terrorist net-work, he said. There are also cultural differences. Al-Qaida has viewed the Taliban as more backward, "kinda like West Virginia mountain folk — un-refined, uneducated," he said.Breaking with al-Qaida would mean forgoing some reliable funding channels in Saudi Ara-bia, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Syria. Al-Qaida also shares its tech-nical expertise in explosives and helps the Taliban traffic narcotics made with opium poppies grown in Afghanistan, he said. For their part, the Tal-iban allow al-Qaida to come into Afghanistan on the backs

of Taliban fightersTwo other issues, he said, could affect the Taliban's internal debate about al-Qaida. While Bin Laden had personal connections to Taliban leaders, the man ex-pected to replace him, Egyp-tian-born Ayman al-Zawahri, is a less charismatic, unifying figure. And top Taliban leaders now know that the U.S. might hunt them down in Pakistan even without the cooperation or knowledge of the Pakistani military — as was done with bin Laden.

In June 2010, CIA Director Leon Panetta estimated that there were probably only 50 to 100 al-Qaida fighters in Af-ghanistan — that most of the terrorist network was, without question, operating from the western tribal region of Paki-stan. Last month, Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said that while some al-Qaida fighters have been searching for hide-outs in rugged areas of eastern Af-ghanistan, he did not think they were making a comeback inside the country.

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Libyan govt shelling kills 4 as aid ship docksMISRATA, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi's forces showered the port area of this besieged rebel city with rockets just minutes after an international aid ship docked there Wednesday, killing four people as part of the regime's increasingly bloody attempt to choke off Misrata's remain-ing lifeline. The attack caused panic among hundreds of stranded migrant workers and fleeing Libyans who were try-ing to board the Red Star One, a ferry chartered by the In-ternational Organization for Migration. In the chaos, some families were separated and the boat had to redock twice to sort it all out.

The timing of the shelling sug-gested Libyan forces were de-liberately trying to disrupt the evacuation. Othman Belbeisi, an IOM official, said rockets started flying just minutes af-ter he and others first stepped off the ferry. "The whole place was shaking and people start-ed running in different direc-tions," he said.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the regime should cease hostilities in Mis-rata port and allow the IOM to provide relief to civilians caught in the fighting.

He said the U.S. was making available an additional $6.5 million in assistance to IOM to help evacuate people from Misrata and for other opera-tions in Libya.

On Tuesday, a senior Libyan official said the Libyan army would do what is necessary to block sea access to Misrata, al-ready besieged by land for the past two months. Last week, Gadhafi's troops were caught laying sea mines, disrupting shipping as NATO struggled to clear a safe access route to Misrata's port. The Red Star One had waited at sea for three days before risking the approach on Wednesday, aided by a tug boat.

Misrata is the main rebel stronghold in western Libya,

which remains largely under Gadhafi's control, while the rebels have been holding on to most of the east. Since the up-rising against Gadhafi broke out in mid-February, the two sides have largely been locked in a stalemate. The interna-tional community's bombing campaign, launched in mid-March, has kept Gadhafi's forces from advancing to the east, but has failed to give the rebels a clear battlefield ad-vantage.

In Benghazi, the opposition stronghold in eastern Libya, rebel military spokesman Col. Ahmed Bani depicted the bombing of Misrata's port as a crime against humanity. He also reported heavy fighting in the southeastern town of Ku-fra.

Bani was asked if the rebels were hoping that some for-eign governments would offer ground troops to support their cause.

"We have the men on the ground, we have the will, the courage, what we need is proper armaments to carry it out," he replied. "It's our coun-try and better for us to fight for our freedom ... rather than others sacrificing themselves for us."

In Europe, support for giv-ing funds to the Libyan rebels — presumably to buy arms, equipment and munitions with which to overthrow Gad-hafi — seemed to be growing as distaste for a long air war increased. Officials from coun-tries involved in the military campaign will likely announce ways to help the rebels finan-cially as they meet Thursday in Rome.

At the United Nations, meanwhile, the prosecu-tor of the International Criminal Court said he has evidence that Gadhafi's security forces have systemati-c a l -

ly attacked civilians in trying to crush the armed uprising.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the U.N. Security Council he would seek arrest warrants in coming weeks against three Libyans who he said appear to bear "the greatest criminal responsibility" for crimes against humanity. He did not name them.

Misrata has been especially hard-hit during the fighting, with Gadhafi trying to break resistance in western Libya, his only chance of clinging to power in a possible partition of the country.

Thousands of migrant work-ers were stranded in Misrata when the anti-Gadhafi upris-ing broke out. In recent weeks, migrants were gradually evac-uated on aid ships, with those left behind living in a squalid tent camp near the port.

Aid officials said a man, a woman and two children in the camp were killed by Wednesday's rocket attack. Saka Yossie, 27, a worker from Ghana, said he was in the camp when Grad rockets hit. "We were just sitting there when the bombs came down," he said. "They died right in front of us."

Yossie said he'd spent six weeks in the camp, sleeping in a tent with very little food and water. "Now I thank God for taking me from this place," he said just before stepping

aboard the ferry. The ferry started taking on passengers shortly after the shelling.

Some migrant families arrived in the back of a pickup truck with their belongings. Then dump trucks arrived, their backs packed with hundreds of male migrants, mostly from Niger and other impoverished African countries. The mi-grants poured out of the trucks and raced to board the ship, many carrying no luggage.

The migrants were being given priority because they have no place to stay in Misrata, aid of-ficials said.

However some 300 Libyans, mostly families with children, also tried to get on board. Some rushed the boat, ignoring calls to stop. At that point, the boat surprisingly took off, apparently to prevent overload-ing, but leaving

about 400

people on the dock. The boat's surprise departure caught many on the wrong side, and the ship had to redock twice more. Among those boarding were 36 patients to be evacu-ated to Benghazi, the rebel stronghold in the east. Four were in improvised intensive care units. A woman with Down syndrome kicked and screamed as a group of men carried her aboard. An old man was pushed on in a wheelchair, and an old woman struggled aboard with her walker.

Just before the final departure, someone from the medical team said that one of the ICU patients was in unstable condi-t i o n and needed to get

off the ship.

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The May 4-5 Committee, named for the dates the Neth-erlands mourns the war dead and celebrates its liberation from German occupation in 1945, worked with Jewish orga-nizations, city archives, and an art think-tank to create an In-ternet database that is search-able by name or address.

I typed my street name in, and it came up instantly.

Hemonystraat 46, third floor: Elsje Wagenhuijzen, died at Auschwitz Oct. 1, 1942, and Ar-nold Kater, died at Auschwitz On Dec. 7, 1942.

It sent a chill through me. I'm not Jewish, but that wouldn't have made any difference to Hitler: Under Germany's 1935 Nuremburg laws, I am one-half Jewish, which would have been enough to condemn me. My Jewish grandparents had emigrated to the United States before Hitler's rise.

I own half of the building to-gether with another American and our Dutch wives. I won-dered whether it was cosmic justice that two Americans, both partially of Jewish de-scent, now own the building and have several Dutch ten-ants. We bought the place from an elderly Turkish immigrant a decade ago.

I resolved to participate in the project and find out what I could about the former inhab-itants.

The city archives provided

sketchy details. Birth dates made Wagenhuijzen and Kater 53 and 54 years old respectively when they died. Wagenhuijzen, a seamstress, was the eldest daughter of a large family. She lived alone with her father at the apartment until his death in 1934, and then apparently stayed on.

Less is known about Kater, who is listed in the archives as a traveling salesman and who had no known surviving

family. It wasn't clear when he moved into the apartment.

During the war the house was owned by a Dutchman, who rented out the apartment to a Dutch family soon after the Jews were gone. Owners and renters have changed many times since then.

A helpful archivist cross-checked the files of the two wartime tenants with the city's marriage database to confirm

they were not married. Were they lovers? There's no way to know. Like many people in hard times then and now, they may have just roomed together to save on rent.

"Jewish Houses" spokeswom-an Olivia Somsen said it had proved relatively easy to cre-ate the database: Amsterdam was notoriously efficient at registering and deporting its Jews during the occupation. Bureaucrats even created a

map for the Germans, mark-ing each house with a Jew with a black dot — and showing which neighborhoods should be targeted.

Jews made up 10 percent of the city's prewar population in 1939. An estimated 61,700 died in the Holocaust, more than 70 percent. Afterward, Jews comprised less than 3 percent of Amsterdam's population, as many survivors emigrated.

"It's a black chapter in our his-tory, but we don't want to for-get it," Somsen said. "On the contrary: the idea is to make the victims visible, to make people know that this hap-pened even in their own neigh-borhoods."

The posters mark each house as "1 of the 21,662 houses where Jews lived who were murdered in World War II."

She said the project has drawn strong reactions. Some find it creepy, others, depressing. Many, like me, were surprised to learn their neighborhoods were once strongly Jewish.

One man, Kenneth Kuhn, un-covered living relatives in Can-ada of the Jews who had lived in his house, and obtained photographs of them which he had printed and hung in his window. "I'm very happy to be able to give them a name and a face," he said. "It helps you to comprehend the importance of what happened here, so we don't forget and make the same mistakes."

project hits home

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Is-raeli mayor of Jerusalem said Wednesday that Arabs and Jews are now so intertwined that the city cannot possibly be divided, even though both Israel and the Palestinians claim it as their capital.

"You cannot divide the city," said Nir Barkat in a meeting in his office with The Associ-ated Press and several other foreign media organizations. "I know it will never work."

Israel seized the eastern part of Jerusalem — along with the West Bank — from Jordan in the 1967 war. It then expanded the municipal borders into the adjacent West Bank, annexed the area inside the new city limits, and has ringed it with neighborhoods intended for Jews.

As a result, some 200,000 Jews now live in the occupied area of the city, alongside about 300,000 Palestinians and 300,000 Jews in the western part of Jerusalem.

The Palestinians

want east Jerusalem for the capital of the state they hope to set up in the West Bank and coastal Gaza Strip.

Palestinians view the Jewish neighborhoods as illegal set-tlements no different than the scores of communities Israel has built in the West Bank. From that perspective, there are now about half a million Jewish Israelis living in areas Israel occupied in 1967.

Palestinians are planning to ask the United Nations — where a majority of members appear to support their aspirations, and none have recognized the annexation of east Jerusalem — to recognize such a state.

Barkat argued that a divided city would be "totally dysfunc-tional" and against the inter-ests of the Arab residents as well: "Where will they work? How will they cross it?"

"Show me one example of a city that (was divided) and

it continues to work," Barkat said. "There's not (one) com-parable idea in history that worked," Barkat said. "I've been an investor. There's a concept called 'Dead on Arrival.' It's a deal that you know will never work."

In claiming a practical impos-sibility, Barkat's comments dif-fered from the typical hawkish opposition to sharing Jerusa-lem that tends to be based on religious or security grounds.

He said he would not change his mind even if this meant that there could be no peace deal with the Palestinians.

"Sometimes you've got to know how to walk away from a deal in order to get a deal," he said. "If people come to us and say 'Divide the city of Jerusalem' — no deal."

"With other parameters I would be flexible," he added. Jerusa-lem's mayor has t r ad i t iona l ly played little or

no role in peace negotiations.

Polished, wealthy and secular, Barkat is a perhaps unortho-dox representative of a city of 800,000 that is Israel's poorest and is dominated by ultra-Or-thodox Jews and Arabs.

The former entrepreneur and venture capitalist peppers his presentation with such terms as "game theory" and "business plans" — expressing faith, for example, in the strength of the "Jerusalem brand," which he said he could leverage to qua-druple tourism to Jerusalem within a decade, to 10 million a year.

Since his election two years ago, he has championed efforts to revitalize its relatively shab-by downtown, a centerpiece of which is a modern light rail-way scheduled to open to the public in coming weeks. He also said he was determined to "close gaps" between the Jew-

ish and Arab areas, which have long suf-

f e r e d

from poor services and infra-structure.

Barkat said he is unhappy with a "slowdown" in the construc-tion of Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, which he said was imposed by the gov-ernment facing international pressure over building in the occupied sector.

He said it was inaccurate to speak of "Jewish neighbor-hoods" because Israel had no control over who moves into homes there and there was a growing trend — which he could not quantify — of Arabs moving into areas, such as the neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev, which are perceived as being Jewish.

To truly freeze construction in east Jerusalem, he suggested, would require halting con-struction in Arab areas as well — clearly not the intention of Israel's crit-ics.

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The International Crimi-nal Court prosecutor said Wednesday that he will seek arrest warrants in the coming weeks against three Libyans who appear to bear "the great-est criminal responsibility" for crimes against humanity by Moammar Gadhafi's security forces in the current uprising.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the U.N. Security Council that he is also investigating allega-tions of war crimes, and at a press conference later he didn't rule out future cases stemming from rebel or NATO attacks.

He said the evidence his office has collected on alleged crimes against humanity establishes "reasonable grounds" to believe that widespread and systemat-ic attacks are being committed against civilians by Moammar Gadhafi's security forces.

The Security Council voted unanimously on Feb. 26 to refer the Libyan crisis to the International Criminal Court and asked the prosecutor to report in two months.

Moreno-Ocampo said the evi-dence shows that government security forces have been sys-tematically shooting at peace-ful protesters, using the same tactics in multiple locations. He said systematic arrests, tor-ture, killings and enforced dis-appearances of civilians have been reported in government-controlled areas including Tripoli, Al Zariyah, Zintan and the Nafousa Mountains.

"In all the incidents to be pre-sented to the judges, the vic-tims who were shot at by the security forces were unarmed civilians and there is no evi-dence of any attack against the security forces," Moreno Oca-mpo said, adding "there are at least two eyewitnesses for each incident, documents, and, in many cases, corroboration of details by pictures or video."

The prosecutor did not iden-tify the "three individuals who appear to bear the greatest criminal responsibility for crimes against humanity." He said in an interview Monday with The Associated Press that he would identify the Libyans he was seeking arrest warrants for when he presents the case to the court's pre-trial cham-ber.

The court must then decide whether to issue arrest war-rants, reject his application, or ask prosecutors for more evi-dence, he said.

Moreno-Ocampo said arrest-ing those who ordered crimes to be committed will deter others from harming civilians.

U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said the specter of an "immi-nent" prosecution by the court "should again warn those around Gadhafi about the per-ils of continuing to tie their fate to his."

Libya's deputy foreign min-ister Khaled Kaim disputed Moreno-Ocampo's evidence.He told a press conference in

Tripoli late Tuesday that the government has "evidence" that most information gath-ered by Moreno-Ocampo in visits to Egypt and the rebel-held East is "either unverified information or video footages reproduced or photoshopped by some amateur photogra-phers."

If the Security Council is "sin-cere about finding the truth" it should listen to all parties, he said.

Kaim said Ocampo won't be invited to Libya because it is not a party to the Rome stat-ute that created the Interna-tional Criminal Court. He said another Security Council fact-finding mission could come instead.

Moreno-Ocampo responded at a news conference later, say-ing his evidence will be judged in court, and "I wait for them in court."

Libya should cooperate with the court, he said, because it must follow Security Council decisions as a member of the United Nations.

Gadhafi, who has been in pow-er for more than four decades, has fought fiercely to put down an uprising against his regime that began with protests in-spired by a wave of Mideast unrest and escalated into an armed rebellion.

"The victims are civilians who participated in demonstra-tions, are considered disloyal

to the regime or talked to international media, activists and journalists," Moreno-Oc-ampo said. "In addition, citi-zens of Egypt and Tunisia were arrested and expelled en masse because of their perceived as-sociation with the popular up-rising. The mosques they used to pray were destroyed."

Since the end of February, he said there has been an armed conflict in Libya and his office has also received "relevant in-formation on the alleged com-mission of war crimes."

The prosecutor said specific al-legations of war crimes include the use of imprecise weapons such as cluster bombs, multi-ple rocket launchers and mor-tars in crowded urban areas, particularly in besieged rebel-held Misrata. There are also reports of forces blocking hu-manitarian supplies, the use of civilians as human shields, and the torture of prisoners of war or civilians, he said.

Moreno-Ocampo said his of-fice is also investigating alleged rapes, including incidents of victims who have been arrest-ed and harassed. He noted the high-profile case of a woman who reported to international media that she had been raped by security forces because of her suspected association with the rebels.

Several sources have also re-ported the unlawful arrest, mistreatment and killings of "sub-Saharan African civil-ians wrongly perceived to be

mercenaries," he said, not-ing that angry mobs in rebel-controlled Benghazi and other cities assaulted these black Africans and killed dozens of them. Moreno-Ocampo said efforts to cover up the crimes have made it difficult to as-certain the precise number of victims, but there is "cred-ible information" estimating that 500 to 700 people died in February alone when security forces fired live ammunition at peaceful demonstrators.

"The total number of persons that have died since the begin-ning of the conflict is in the thousands," he said.

Moreno-Ocampo said he may seek further arrest warrants "taking into account the full scope of criminality, including war crimes, allegedly commit-ted by different individuals."Stressing the impartiality of the court, Moreno-Ocampo didn't rule out arrest warrants as a result of the allegations against the rebels or NATO attacks. Russia has accused NATO of a "disproportionate use of force." He said a report by investigators from the U.N. Human Rights Council on al-leged rights violations in Libya is due at the end of May, and the data they collect "will be very useful to the prosecution for further action," including possible new arrest warrants. Moreno-Ocampo also urged the international community to assist with the serious plan-ning and preparation that will be necessary to arrest those sought by the court.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — He's about to introduce himself to the world as a cinematic su-perhero, but right now, Chris Hemsworth's biggest worry is a giant bowl of almonds.

Since taking on the title role in "Thor," the Australian ac-tor has packed on more than 20 pounds of muscle to be-come the rippled Norse god of thunder — and the new body requires constant protein to maintain it.

"I needed to make an effort to get into the gym and force feed myself buckets of chicken and steak and vegetables and brown rice. It was rather sick-ening," says the affable actor, who looks like a young Brad Pitt with a sculpted physique that wows men and women alike. "But as far as jobs go, I don't want to complain. It's still one of the best."

Hemsworth had only a hand-ful of American movie roles before landing that of the oth-erworldly Marvel superhero, which he introduces in "Thor" and will reprise next year in "The Avengers."

"Thor," which is directed by Kenneth Branagh and also stars Anthony Hopkins and Natalie Portman, opens Fri-day.

Hemsworth admits it was "sort of intimidating" to face his Os-car-winning costars, "but they couldn't have been more sup-portive."

"They all have the same sort of appreciation for the work and love for what they do," says the 27-year-old actor. "And there's no ego."

In casting the lead for "Thor," Branagh sought to discover

"what was necessary: a real new movie star."

In fact, the film's producer, Kevin Feige, insisted that an exciting new Thor would be critical to the film's success, Branagh recalls.

"It's not something I ever men-tioned to Chris Hemsworth," Branagh says, "but he was right."

The director wanted a fresh face, someone audiences could believe as a god, but with the acting chops of a veteran who could hold his own in scenes with Hopkins and Portman.

"He had all of that and he also had this kind of natural ease in front of the camera that was vital also," Branagh says of Hemsworth. "In repose, Thor must be a compelling story. And he is. And he's obviously

a very handsome lad, and he worked like a Trojan to get that body. When he takes his shirt off, there's always an au-dible response."

(It's a safe bet that'll happen in a theater near you.)

Hemsworth says the muscles made him feel more like the character, but he's eager to shed the bulk. Still, it will be a while before he can: "The Avengers" starts shooting next week, in which the new Thor will join an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Cap-tain America and Mark Ruf-falo as the Incredible Hulk.

"It's a lot of superheroes," says Hemsworth. "It should be fun."

The middle sibling in a trio of acting brothers, Hemsworth

and his younger brother (and former Miley Cyrus beau), Liam, both auditioned for the role of Thor. And though the brothers are competitive in sports — including their fam-ily favorite, surfing — they're a team when it comes to their Hollywood success.

"We're always supportive of each other, and if Chris gets a part over me, I'm as happy as him to get it as myself," says Liam, who is about to begin production on the much-an-ticipated big-screen adaptation of "The Hunger Games."

"A win for him is a win for me," echoes Hemsworth. "Hav-ing come all the way over here and it being a big risk, you need an ally."The two rehearse together, share contacts and generally give each other professional pep talks.

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PHILADELPHIA — Things are going

to get buggy for Spider-Man as the Mar-vel Comics hero realizes what life can

be like when everybody —

from the food cart vendor on the corner

to the guy sitting across the subway train — can crawl

on walls, tingle with spider-sense and even spin webs.Marvel writer

Dan Slott is set to upend Peter Park-

er's existence — one where his arachnid-inspired powers were

usually his own — with a sto-

ry this sum-mer set in

Manhat-tan and, f i t -tingly,

dubbed "Spider-

Island."The seeds of the eight-issue

story starting in "The Amazing Spider-Man" No. 666, drawn by Stefano Caselli, and con-cluding with the epilogue in No. 673, also drawn by Caselli, will be sown in one of the two comics that Marvel is giving away on Saturday as part of the international Free Comic Book Day celebration, now in its 10th year."It's an honest to gosh all new issue of Spider-Man, 20 pages," Slott said, adding that events in the issue, titled "The Way of the Spider" will set up the up-coming "Spider-Island" story.The free issue, illustrated by Humberto Ramos, who is also drawing the full story in issues No. 667-672, with inks by Car-los Cuevas and Victor Olazaba, features not just Spider-Man but also Shang-Chi, the Master of Kung Fu, and Jessica Drew, the original Spider-Woman."This issue will also set up a new challenge for Spider-Man which will play into the events of 'Spider-Island,'" Slott said. "There is something that hap-pens in this free issue — that any out there can get — that sows an important seed for 'Spider-Island.'"Slott is tightlipped about what that seed is and about the wid-er story line planned for this

summer, but called the saga a new struggle for Peter Parker, Spidey's alter-ego."One of the things we all know about Spider-Man is his great catch line — even President Obama has said it — 'With great power comes great re-sponsibility,'" Slott said. "And 'Spider-Island' is asking, 'What if his power was not great?'"What if New Yorkers sudden-ly wake up with abilities like Spider-Man? How would that change things? What would it mean for Spider-Man?"Peter Parker will not be the only spider-powered person in New York. His power will not be so great," Slott said. "Ev-eryday folks — the guy putting the schmear on your bagel, the guy driving you in the bus, your neighbor down the block — it's spider powers for every-one! All shapes and sizes!"Of course, infecting that many people at the same time is hard, but Slott has found a unique way to affect the transfer, one that real New Yorkers already fear: bedbugs. An evil person has genetically altered the crit-ters. Who is that malevolent force?

You'll just have to read the comic book to find out.

Spider-Man's world to get too crowded for comfort

NEW YORK – Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon have revealed the names they've picked out for their newborn boy and girl: Moroccan and Monroe. The couple chose to name their son Moroccan Scott Cannon after the Moroccan-inspired decor of the top tier of Carey's

New York

City apartment. The so-called Moroccan Room is also where Cannon proposed. They picked the middle name Scott since it's both Cannon's mid-dle name as well as his grand-mother's maiden name.The couple named their daugh-ter Monroe Cannon after Mar-ilyn Monroe, who has inspired Carey. Unlike her brother, Monroe doesn't have a middle

name because Carey doesn't have one either.

Carey and Cannon's twins were delivered

Saturday in Los Angeles.

NEW YORK – Will Ferrell has returned to his President George W. Bush impression, this time to respond to the death of Osama bin Laden.In a Web video posted Wednes-day on Funny Or Die, Ferrell's Bush sends his remarks from a Sizzler steak house in Texas. His message? He has person-

ally overseen a "strategic and covert operation," killing a go-pher that had been terrorizing his backyard.

The parody ends with the Bush character getting the news that bin Laden has been killed. That makes "two good things," he says.

Ferrell's impression of Bush was popular on "Saturday Night Live." He resurrected it in a 2009 Broadway show, as well as in sporadic videos.

Watched by more than 110,000 by Wednesday afternoon, the video was rapidly gaining viewers.

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NEW YORK – Like most art-ists, Janelle Monae prepares for a live show with a list she follows, including exercising and vocal warm-ups.Unlike most artists, Monae says her list also includes the routine of putting her hair in dirt, washing and condition-ing it — and repeating the cy-cle. She also says that she eats "Asian cuisine with the bus driver."It's hard to tell if she is joking, but if you know of Monae — or her music — it wouldn't be that surprising. The singer is not your typical artist: She's

always seen in a tuxedo and rocks a pompadour. Her music is a blend of alternative, R&B and funk sounds and some of her songs are inspired by things like Muhammad Ali's fists, Walt Disney and Star Wars.The singer's first full-length CD, the melodramatic 18-track epic "The ArchAndroid," follows a female android who discovers she is the chosen one and is trying to adapt to her new superpowers. The disc earned her two Grammy nominations and was a critical success. The Associated Press

named it the No. 1 album of 2010.Since its release, Monae has toured with Prince and Amy Winehouse. She'll open for Katy Perry in September and her co-headlining tour with rising star Bruno Mars kicks off Wednesday in New York.The 25-year-old Monae says because of her musical style, she's able to go on the road with, pretty much, any musi-cian."I can go anywhere that I want," Monae told the AP in a phone interview last week. "I could hang with (Vogue magazine

editor-at-large) Andre Leon Talley, Karl Lagerfeld ... Big Boi (of OutKast), do shows with Prince, Stevie Wonder. I mean, that's pretty much my life. I'm not boxed in to any one thing."

The performer said she spent 80 percent of the last year on tour, but insists she's found some downtime to record new music."I'm very inspired right now," she said. "This (new) album will definitely change lives."Monae and Mars are label-mates. They performed a

medley together at this year's Grammy Awards, along with rapper B.o.B.

Monae says she's excited to share her music with Mars' fans, and says they can expect surprises and more onstage.

"Our shows are very high en-ergy and you don't see that a lot," she said. "I would love to see it more — you know when you have the artist crowd surf-ing and giving their all. And there are a lot of great shows out, but what we're doing is not being done."

After Prince and Winehouse, Monae tours with Mars

NEW YORK – "Vampire Dia-ries" fans note: Nina Dobrev warns of a "gut-wrenching" season finale in which "people will die."Dobrev is not giving hints about who will go but pre-dicts that "there will be a lot of tears" among the cast, crew and viewers of the CW hit.The actress, who says the cast knows little more than the audience about writers' plans, says she was as surprised as any-one the key plotline involving a "sun and moon curse" turned out to be a ruse for character Klaus, who is scheming to be-come a vampire/werewolf hy-

brid. "Trust me, when I read that script and looked at those pages and saw that everything that they've all been doing for the last two seasons really has been all made up and a big joke; broke my heart," she said.\ Dobrev thinks it was a clever move to make Klaus ap-pear more diabolical."It makes Klaus that much smarter and that much more clever and ahead of the game," she said. "It's like a puppet show and he's orchestrating the whole thing."The actress also reveals that the cast has come up with their own, unofficial name for

the hybrid: a "wampire."Dobrev co-stars with Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley, who play vampire brothers ob-sessed with her two characters on the show: the sweet human Elena and the evil vampire ancestor Katherine. Because Elena and Katherine are both identified as doppelgangers, Dobrev says "it's assumed" she will eventually have to take on another role as their original. She acknowledges, however, that she has "no idea" if that will happen.\The "Vampire Diaries" finale airs on the CW network on May 12 at 8 p.m. EDT.

Dobrev warns of gut-wrenching 'Vampire' finale

Sarah Shourd, one of three US hikers arrested by Iran in 2009 on espionage charges, told AFP Wednesday she would not return to Tehran to stand trial next week with her fiance and a friend. Shourd, who was freed on bail in September after 14 months imprisonment mostly in solitary confinement, said she had been diagnosed with severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.Returning to Iran could exac-erbate her problems, she said.Shourd had been due to return for the trial set for May 11 with her fiance Shane Bauer and their friend Josh Fattal, both

of whom remain imprisoned in the Islamic Republic."I can't go back for the trial," she told AFP in an interview in Washington."There is a part of me that would like to go back and stand by Shane and Josh at this most difficult time. But re-ally I'm afraid it would be too traumatic for me to go back after what I've been through in Iran." The three hikers, who have all pleaded not guilty to spying charges, say they inno-cently strayed into Iran from across the unmarked border with northern Iraq when they were arrested.

US hiker Sarah Shourd won't attend Iran trial

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Titans’ Simms acquitted in NY drugged-driving caseTennessee Titans backup quar-terback Chris Simms was acquit-ted Wednesday of driving while high on marijuana, winning a case he said stemmed from a police officer's mistake. "I'm re-ally just happy it's all over with," a relieved but politely indignant Simms said as he left a Manhat-tan courthouse with his wife, Danielle. "I love the NYPD, and I'm mad that this happened." Ju-rors, who deliberated for about an hour in the misdemeanor case, declined to comment as they left court. Simms, the 30-year-old son of former New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms, was arrested around 1 a.m. July 1 at a police sobri-ety checkpoint in downtown M a n h a t -tan. He was h e a d i n g home to New Jer-sey after going o u t t o

dinner with his wife and two friends. A police officer told jurors that Simms made a tire-squealing turn just before the checkpoint, his Mercedes-Benz SUV reeked of marijuana and Simms himself was "like a zombie." Slurring his words, Simms said there wasn't any marijuana in the car because "he smoked it all," Officer Francisco A c o s t a t e s t i -fied.

Simms denied the allegations, and he said the officer misun-derstood his remark.

"The comment I made to the of-ficer is that there was someone in the car who smoked marijuana," Simms, who didn't testify at his trial, said after it ended. With his then-pregnant wife in the

car, "I said, 'You're way off-base. I'm 30 years old, and I

already have a 4-year-old at home.'" A longtime friend, former Bryant University quarter-back Charles Grana-tell, told jurors he was solely responsible for a marijuana scent the of-ficer said was so strong it numbed his tongue.

Granatell testified that he smoked pot by the

SUV while Simms popped into another friend's 40th

birthday party. The party's guest of honor, movie produc-er and nightclub owner Noel

Ashman, told jurors Simms was

"very, very lucid" during his stop there. In her closing argument, Manhattan assistant district at-torney Alexandra Glazer dis-missed their accounts as "one not worthy of belief, and the other irrelevant." If Granatell was indeed the only one smok-ing marijuana that night, she asked, "wouldn't he have said something, instead of watching his friend get arrested in front of his eight-months-pregnant wife?" The DA's office declined to comment after the verdict. Simms took an alcohol breath test that came back negative, and he declined a urine test that could have shown drug use, if any. His lawyer, Harvey A. Stein-berg, said Simms declined the urine test because he was frus-trated that he was being arrested first and tested later. "It's a case of rush to judgment," Steinberg said in his summation. Simms had turned down a no-jail deal that would have involved plead-ing guilty to a noncriminal driving-while-impaired viola-tion. If convicted at the trial, Simms could have faced up to a year in jail. Besides the legal consequences, a conviction or any guilty plea that entailed admitting smoking marijuana could have subjected Simms to a suspension under NFL policies. A third-round draft pick by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2003, Simms ruptured his spleen in a 2006 game against the Carolina Panthers and had to undergo emergency surgery. After Tampa Bay released him, he went to Tennessee in 2008, played for the Denver Broncos in 2009 as an unrestricted free agent and then returned to the Titans. The Titans released him in Septem-ber but then re-signed him in November. He has a 7-9 record in his 16 NFL career starts; he didn't play in any games during the 2010 season.

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Larry Scott has spent his nearly two years as Pac-10 commis-sioner bolstering the confer-ence's brand by expanding its reach. The former professional tennis player unfurled his lat-est and greatest ground stroke on Wednesday, announcing the launch of the conference's own television network and a joint 12-year deal with ESPN and Fox that's the richest in college sports at a hefty $3 billion. "I think it's fair to say 18 months ago, never in our wildest dreams would we have envisioned being in the po-sition that we're in today," Ari-zona State athletic director Lisa Love said. Member schools had already agreed to an equal rev-enue-sharing plan and will rake it in with the new network and TV deal, each earning about $21 million annually in guaranteed money. The roughly $250 mil-lion per year for the conference puts the new Pac-12 — Colora-do and Utah are set to join the next two years — ahead of the Big Ten ($220 million) and SEC ($205 million) for top dog in TV deals. For a conference that made less than $60 million in media rights this past season, that's a big deal. "Today's announcement of this landmark agreement rep-resents an important milestone in the transformation from the Pac-10 to the Pac-12," Scott said. "The increased revenue that will come to the Pac-12 comes at a critically important time for our universities given the un-precedented financial challenges that higher education and ath-letics within higher education is facing." The TV contract, which will begin with the 2012-13 sea-son, combined with the Pac-12 Network will allow the confer-ence to televise every football

and men's basketball game, numerous women's basketball games, along with Olympic and other non-revenue sports within the conference. Normally ri-vals in sports coverage, ESPN — and partner ABC — and Fox will combine to broadcast 44 regular-season football games, including 10 to a national audi-ence, and 68 men's basketball games. The Pac-12 championship game in football will be tele-vised next season by Fox, which will also utilize its FX channel in its coverage, and alternate every year between the two networks. The men's conference basketball tournament will have a similar rotation, starting with ESPN next season. "We do compete at a lot of levels, often like they do on Saturdays in college football, but there are a lot of times when it makes sense to get together," said Randy Freer, president of Fox Sports Networks. "We were able to come together and real-ize this could be a relationship where everyone truly won. The sum of the parts were bigger than the whole in this case." The Pac-12 Network will be fully owned by the conference, unlike the Big Ten Network, 49 percent of which is owned by Fox. Along with the Pac-12 Digital Network, the Pac-12 Network will televise some football games and the bulk of men's basketball games, roughly 120 per season. It also will show numerous women's basketball games and another 200 live Olympic sports, which the conference has dominated in over the years.

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Michigan guard Darius Morris is staying in the NBA draft.

The sophomore point guard had declared for the draft but could have returned to the Wolverines if he'd withdrawn by May 8. Instead, he'll forgo his remain-ing eligibility, meaning Michi-gan will have to replace one of its most important players as it tries to build on last season's im-pressive finish.

"There have been long discus-sions with my family, friends and my Michigan coaches," Morris said. "In the end I decid-

ed to go with my heart. Playing professional basketball has al-ways been a dream for me. I feel this is the right time for me to pursue that goal. It will be hard to leave the University of Michi-gan. However, I truly believe the basketball program is moving in a very positive direction."

Morris averaged 15 points and 6.7 assists a game last season. His ability to penetrate and find open teammates was a key part of coach John Beilein's offense.

Michigan recovered from a 1-6 start in Big Ten play to make the

NCAA tournament. Once there, the Wolverines routed Tennessee in their first game before falling 73-71 to Duke when Morris just missed a shot that would have tied the game.

"We, as a staff, have watched Darius grow as a person and as a player these past two years," Beilein said. "His improvement on the court has been the re-sult of his God-given talent and his intense desire to become the best player he can be. His work habits, especially in our individual skill development time, have been outstanding,

and we all witnessed the results of his efforts this season." This is the second straight offseason Michigan has lost a key player early to the draft. Last year it was Manny Harris, who ended up with the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Wolverines pulled together without him and were a much better team this past season, but it remains to be seen whether they can do the same without Morris.

His departure likely means a more important role for Tim Hardaway Jr., the talented guard who came on strong at the end

of his freshman season. Stu Douglass, who will be a senior next season, is the heir appar-ent at point guard. With no se-niors on the roster last season, Michigan appeared to have a promising future. That might still be true, but Morris will be difficult to replace after break-ing the school's single-season re-cord with 235 assists. "Darius has been a catalyst in the continued growth of our program and we wish him nothing but the best in his professional basketball career and beyond," Beilein said. "He will always be a Michigan Wolverine."

Charlotte Bobcats forward Dante Cunningham faces a drug-possession charge after police found a small amount of marijuana in his pickup during a traffic stop in suburban Phila-delphia.

Radnor Township Police Super-intendent William Colarulo says officers responding to a reckless driving complaint on Friday stopped the former Villanova star.

Colarulo says officers smelled marijuana and recovered a sus-picious substance after Cun-ningham consented to a search. That search also turned up a pellet gun in violation of a local ordinance.

Cunningham was arraigned and released on bail. The Bobcats re-leased a brief statement Wednes-day afternoon. “We are aware of the unfortunate incident involv-

ing Dante Cunningham in Penn-sylvania,” the team said. “We are in the process of gathering more information and will have no further comment until the legal process has run its course.”

Portland traded Cunningham to Charlotte in February in the deal that sent Gerald Wallace to the Trail Blazers.

The Bobcats moved Cunning-ham from power forward to small forward and were im-pressed with his mid-range jumper. He became a part of the rotation, averaging 9 points and 4 rebounds in 22 games with Charlotte.

Cunningham is scheduled to be a restricted free agent this sum-mer. Before the arrest, Bobcats owner Michael Jordan said they wanted to re-sign him.

Bobcats F Cunningham faces drug-possession charge

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Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall wrote a "clarifica-tion" of his comments made Monday on Twitter regarding the death of Osama bin Laden. In a tweet posted around 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, he linked to an in-depth blog post. In that entry, he wrote that he does not support bin Laden, and that he aimed clear things up, for not only himself, but also the Steel-ers. On Monday, Pittsburgh's leading rusher caused enough of a stir with his tweets, that the Steelers felt compelled to release a statement.

Among Mendenhall's posts, the day after the bin Laden news broke, was: "What kind of person cel-ebrates death? It's amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even h e a r d s p e a k . We've only heard one s i d e . . . " He also t w e e t e d on the Sept. 11 at-tacks: "We'll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style." Wednesday's offering, though, was a different story. "I appreciate those of you who have decided to read this letter and attain a greater understanding of my recent Twitter posts. I see how they have gotten misconstrued, and wanted to use this outlet as a way to clear up all things that do not truthfully represent my-

self, what I stand for personally, and any organization that I am a part of. "First, I want people to understand that I am not in support of Bin Laden, or against the USA. I understand how dev-astating 9/11 was to this country and to the people whose families were affected. Not just in the U.S., but families all over the world who had relatives in the World Trade Centers. My heart goes out to the troops who fight for our freedoms everyday, not being certain if they will have the opportunity to return home, and the families

who watch their loved ones bravely go off to war. Last year, I was grateful enough to have the opportunity to travel over-seas and participate in a football camp put on for the children of U.S. troops stationed in Germa-ny. It was a special experience. These events have had a signifi-cant impact in my life."

Mendenhall also specifically pointed out the "celebrates death" tweet. "This controversial statement was something I said in response to the amount of joy

I saw in the event of a

murder. I don't believe that this is an issue of politics or Ameri-can pride; but one of religion, morality, and human ethics." He also tried to bring closure to the situation. "Nothing I said was meant to stir up controversy. It was my way to generate conver-sation. In looking at my time-line in its entirety, everything that I've said is with the intent of expressing a wide array of ideas and generating open and honest discussions, something I believe we as American citizens should be able to do. Most opinions will not be fully agreed upon and are not meant to be. However, I believe every opinion should

be respected or at least given some thought. I

apologize for the timing as such

a sensitive mat t e r,

but it was

not meant to do harm. I apolo-gize to anyone I unintentionally harmed with anything that I said, or any hurtful interpreta-tion that was made and put in my name." On Tuesday, as Men-denhall's offerings became a na-tional story, team president Art Rooney II made sure the Steelers were heard from. "I have not spo-ken with Rashard, so it is hard to explain or even comprehend what he meant with his recent Twitter comments," he wrote in a statement. "The entire Steelers organization is very proud of the job our military personnel have done and we can only hope this leads to our troops coming home soon." Mendenhall, who profiles himself as a "conversa-tionalist and professional ath-lete" on his Twitter page, turned some heads in March, as well, when he supported a comment by Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson compar-ing the NFL to "modern-day slavery." "Anyone with knowl-edge of the slave trade and the NFL could say that these two parallel eachother," Mendenhall posted at the time. Mendenhall is coming off a tremendous sea-son, as he led the AFC cham-pions in carries (324), rushing yards (1,273) and rushing touch-downs (13). He has 2,439 yards in three seasons since being drafted

in the 2008 first round out of Illinois.

Steelers RB Mendenhall writes clarification

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Kentucky coach John Cali-pari jotted down a simple message on the whiteboard in locker room before the 18th-ranked Wildcats faced rival Tennessee on Tuesday night.

“I put on the board: Refuse to lose,” Calipari said. “It’s that time of the year. Refuse to lose. Figure out a way.”

And figure it out quickly. Kentucky responded with a decisive 73-61 victory that made up for in grit what it lacked in polish. The Wild-cats (17-6, 5-4 SEC) turned it over 16 times but played with a tenacity lacking during a recent two-game slide.

Junior guard DeAndre Lig-gins harassed Tennessee’s top scorer Scotty Hopson into 11 points on 3-of-8 shooting and exploded at the other end of the floor, tying a career high with 19 points. It was the kind of performance Calipari was looking for from Liggins, who is almost too selfless at times. Though Liggins doesn’t possess the kind of offensive skills of his younger teammates, Calipari said he deserved to put it up more considering how hard he plays on defense. “I said, DeAndre, if we throw it ahead and can make plays, go make them,’” Calipari said. “How hard he’s working, he deserves it. We got guys shooting balls, going through the motions. You don’t deserve to shoot it. Let him shoot it.”

Liggins made 5-of-6 field goals and consistently got to the free-throw line, where he knocked down 7 of 8 shots.

“I just try to help out my team-mates, but sometimes (Calipari) wants me to be selfish,” Lig-

gins said. More importantly, he wants the Wildcats to be tough. Liggins was able to get loose thanks in part to five steals, al-lowing him to get easy baskets in transition. Liggins didn’t wait for the Volunteers to come to him, he attacked, rising to the challenge laid down by Cali-pari who questioned his team’s toughness during road losses to Mississippi and Florida.

Calipari put a heavy bag in the team’s practice facility and or-dered his players to put on box-ing gloves, part of the changes he promised as the Wildcats faced the first “crisis” — as Calipari put it — of his tenure. “We went to the heavy bag and we showed them how to box, how to jab,” Calipari said. “I’m just saying, ‘Look, you’ve got to be rough. You’ve got to be willing to fight.

You’ve got to be willing to take their stuff. You can’t let people take our stuff.’” Senior center Josh Harrellson worked out some of his anger over his inef-fective play the last month by trying to punch his way through the bag. He couldn’t quite pull it off, though Calipari will take Harrellson’s spirited 16-point, six-rebound effort anytime. “For two weeks, he was (mess-ing around),” Calipari said. “He was. Look, there’s one per-son you cannot fool: yourself. You’re not fooling yourself. You can fool everybody else. You’re not fooling yourself.”

Harrellson seemed on the verge of a breakout after putting up a career-defining 23-points against Louisville in December. Instead, he’d regressed, aver-aging just 3.7 points in Ken-

tucky’s disappointing 4-4 start in the Southeastern Conference. His lackadaisical commitment wasn’t lost on his teammates. “He wasn’t he wasn’t practicing hard, everybody called him out on it,” Liggins said.

Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl, back on the bench after serving an eight-game suspension for ly-ing to NCAA investigators about the team’s recruiting practices,

called the inspired play of Lig-gins and Harrellson the tipping point. “Those two guys (Liggins and Harrellson) gave Kentucky some real energy plays, physical plays I thought were a big differ-ence in the game,” Pearl said.

Kentucky’s job now is to keep it going. The Wildcats are just 1-4 on the road in conference play and travel to Vanderbilt on Sat-urday.

Wildcats back to basics in win over Tennessee

One court on Wednesday re-fused to halt the printing of a Democratic state Senate pri-mary ballot for Carl Lewis, just hours before his lawyer tried to make his case to one of the only remaining courts that could help the former Olympic track and field star. It’s a case of high political intrigue, even by New Jersey standards, as one of the world’s most celebrated athletes tries to get to the starting blocks for a different kind of race.

Republicans, Democrats and election officials — who are supposed to be neutral — have been slugging it out in news conferences and in courtrooms over big constitutional and po-litical questions. The issues at the heart of the case: Is Lewis a New Jersey resident? Are the state’s residency rules fair? And, if Lewis isn’t a resident, should he be allowed to run anyway? Meanwhile, three county clerks are reminding the judges of a very practical issue: They need to get their ballots printed soon for the June 7 primary.

“It’s kind of amazing,” Lewis lamented outside a courtroom Wednesday, “You can go from New Jersey’s favorite son to a carpetbagger in three weeks.”

Lewis, now 49, grew up in Will-ingboro, a middle-class town between Philadelphia and Tren-ton. He went to Texas for col-lege and in 1984 moved from track star to celebrity when he won four gold medals at the Los

Angeles Olympics. Over the next 12 years, he would collect five more golds in the Olym-pics. He has been based largely in California, where he owns a business and where he has voted — at least until he registered to vote in New Jersey last month.

But he has owned a home in New Jersey since 2005 and has volunteered as a track coach at Willingboro High School since 2007. He also has a foundation in New Jersey. His has homes in Medford and Mount Laurel, N.J., and Pacific Palisades, Calif.

He announced last month that he would seek a state Senate seat, saying he wanted to do more to help the people he knows in the area near where he grew up.

He is, he says, a New Jerseyan who has lived in the state for 22 of his years and identifies with voters there. “They know who I am,” he said. “I’ve been around for years.”

Friends, he said, have often told him to run for office. While he hasn’t given many details of his platform, he’s in some ways a ready-made candidate. He’s still tall and lean, a gray-haired ver-sion of the magazine-cover star, and speaks with the polish of someone comfortable in front of the media.

No other Democrat is run-ning for the seat. The district is dominated by Republicans and is currently represented in the

state Senate by Dawn Marie Ad-diego. It’s a slice of New Jersey that has become an unlikely hotbed for athlete-politicians. Last year, former Philadelphia Eagles lineman Jon Runyan, a Republican, was elected to rep-resent a congressional district that includes much of the same area. One of the main people who helped recruit him to run was Addiego. Last week, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, who also serves as secretary of state and was elected as Republican Gov. Chris Christie’s running mate, declared that Lewis didn’t meet the state requirement that a state senator has to be a resi-dent for at least four years be-fore running. So far, courts have agreed with her ruling, despite protests from Democratic of-ficials that it was nakedly par-tisan.

A state appeals court ruled that Lewis didn’t meet the residen-cy requirement. In response to Lewis’ appeal of that rul-ing, the state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to halt the printing of the ballots. The court also said deadlines for later this week for legal briefs arguing whether it should take up the larger case. A federal judge ruled that there’s noth-ing unconstitutional about the residency requirement itself. Lewis’s lawyer argued before the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday that the requirement has an unconstitu-tional effect by keeping Lewis out of the race.

NJ court won’t halt ballot printing for Carl Lewis

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HoroscopeAriesDoubts about a friend may plague you today, Aries. Did this person borrow money? Promise to do you a favor? Can you depend on this person? The best way to judge is by their track record. If they’ve been undependable in the past, chances

are they might be again.

TaurusConfusion might get in the way of anything you hope to accomplish to-day, Taurus. You may feel like you’re walking around in a daze, uncertain of your actions. Try to stay focused and be your usual practical, objective self. It might not come as easily for

you as it usually does, but you can do it.

GeminiSpiritual and metaphysical concepts may seem murky to you today, Gemini. Ideas that friends accept as matters of course might feel strange. Don’t get into an argument. Ask about books, websites, or magazines

that you can consult for more input and, hopefully, clarity.

CancerA strange, bothersome feeling could plague you today, Cancer, as if you can’t remember something you need to do. Don’t drive your-self crazy over this. Chances are you haven’t forgotten anything

but had a rather irritating dream.

LeoIs a romantic partner having trouble communicating with fam-ily, Leo? If so, be prepared to hear about it today. Be a good listener. Your understanding and objectiv-ity will be greatly appreciated.

Your beloved probably isn’t seeing the real facts and needs an outside party to point this out.

VirgoListen carefully when you receive instructions today, Virgo. Your mind may not be as sharp as usual. If you aren’t careful, you could get on the wrong track and end up

having to start all over again. Don’t be too shy or ashamed to ask questions. It’s always better to ask a question than make an unnecessary error.

LibraA heightened sense of idealized romance could hit you today, Libra. If you aren’t currently in-volved, beware! That wonderful new person you’ve just met may have a well-hidden side. If you’re

currently involved.

ScorpionSomething you feel you desper-ately need right now is missing, Scorpio, and it’s very well hid-den. You may search the house for it and drive yourself crazy in the process. Do you really need it that

badly? If so, sit for a moment and try to collect your thoughts. If you can’t, leave it for now.

SagitariusDon’t listen to gossip today, Sag-ittarius. Any rumors that are spreading are likely to be based on false assumptions and totally outside the realm of reality. Yet

someone who loves to talk is very convincing! Take anything you hear that you can’t immediately verify with a grain of salt, if not the whole shaker. There’s definitely something weird going on. Avoid it!

CapricornA luxury you’ve been craving could seem very tempting today, Capricorn. Make sure you’re re-ally ready, willing, and able to spend the money to get it. Think about it carefully before whipping

out your credit card.

AquariusEmotional turmoil may over-whelm your usual objectivity and good sense today, Aquarius. Fam-ily problems could weigh on your mind, as communication between you and family members may be

lacking. You might not feel in touch with what’s go-ing on.

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Today is Thursday, May 5, the 125th day of 2011. There are 240 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1494 - During his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christo-pher Columbus first sights Jamaica

1570 - Turkey declares war on Ven-ice for refusing to surrender Cyprus. Spain comes to Venice’s aid, but the Turks conquer Cyprus fully three years later.

1646 - British forces under King Charles I surrender to Scots at New-ark, England.

1762 - Russia and Prussia sign Treaty of St. Petersburg, under which Rus-sia restores all conquests and forms defensive and offensive alliance.

1808 - Napoleon Bonaparte forces Spain’s King Charles IV to abdicate in favor of him in Madrid. He ap-points his brother Joseph Bonaparte to rule.

1821 - France’s Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of St. Hel-ena.

1824 - British troops take over Ran-goon, Burma - now Myanmar.

1862 - Mexican army defeats invad-ing French forces in the Battle of Puebla. May 5 is now Mexico’s Na-tional Day, Cinco de Mayo.

1892 - U.S. Congress passes the Geary Chinese Exclusion Act, which re-quires Chinese in the United States to be registered or face deportation.

1893 - Panic hits the New York Stock Exchange; by year’s end, the country is in the throes of a severe depres-sion.

1936 - Italian forces occupy Addis Ababa, ending Abyssinian - now Ethiopia - War.

1954 - Gen. Alfredo Stroessner heads coup against civilian President Fed-erico Chavez, beginning 34-year dic-tatorship in Paraguay.

1955 - Allies restore the sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Ger-many - West Germany - and it joins NATO.

1963 - Algeria’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Khemisti dies three weeks after being wounded by an as-sassin’s bullet.

1964 - Israel announces that first wa-ter is flowing from its new pipeline from Sea of Galilee to Negev Desert, despite Arab objections to the proj-ect.

1965 - First large U.S. military units arrive in Vietnam.

1978 - Marxist terrorists of Red Bri-gades in Italy announce they are carrying out death sentence against former Premier Aldo Moro, whose body is found two days later.

1981 - Irish Republican Army hun-ger-striker Bobby Sands dies at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland on his 66th day without food.

1989 - Estonia’s Communist Party removes 22 party leaders in sweep

that gives greater strength to reform-ers.

1995 - John Major’s governing Con-servative Party in Britain is nearly obliterated in local elections.

1996 - Thousands of civilians flee Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, as civil war rages.

1997 - Mousa Mohammed Abu Mar-zook, the political leader of mili-tant Islamic organization Hamas, is deported from the United States to Jordan after the U.S. fails to find enough evidence to prosecute him for involvement in terrorist attacks.

1999 - Indonesia and Portugal sign an agreement allowing the people of East Timor to vote on whether to remain part of Indonesia or seek independence.

2000 - Sierra Leone rebels seize peacekeepers from Zambia, rais-ing to more than 300 the number of U.N. personnel they are believed to be holding captive and dealing another blow to U.N. peacekeeping efforts in Africa; reformers sweep

Iran’s run-off elections, winning control of the legislature from con-servatives for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

2002 - Fidel Castro releases from prison one of Cuba’s most promi-nent dissidents, Vladimiro Roca, who was convicted of sedition for publishing a pamphlet that called for democratic and economic reforms.

2003 - Rwanda frees more than 22,000 detainees, most of whom were held in connection with the 1994 massa-cre of some 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu by Hutu militias. Around 80,000 genocide suspects remain in prison, with many yet to stand trial.

2004 - Greece’s attempts to calm security fears about the Summer Olympics are rocked by three bombs that explode before dawn - 100 days before the games begin. No one is injured in the blasts that officials attribute to self-styled anarchists or other domestic extremists.

2005 - Russian security forces say they have foiled a major terrorist at-tack, discovering a truck bomb and a cache of poisons near the Chechen capital, days before dozens of digni-taries arrive in Moscow for celebra-tions marking the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.

2006 - The Sudanese government and the main Darfur rebel group sign a peace plan after a diplomatic push by the U.S.

2007 - A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 carrying 114 and bound for the Kenyan capital Nairobi, crashes just 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the Cameroonian city of Douala, where it had taken off during a storm, kill-ing all aboard.

2008 - Troops open fire and kill at least two people as tens of thousands of people riot over high food prices in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.

2009 - Russia’s foreign minister pulls out of a meeting with NATO this month to protest the alliance’s upcoming military exercises in Georgia and the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from its head-quarters.

2010 - Rioting over harsh austerity measures leaves three people dead in a torched Athens bank and clouds of tear gas drift past parliament, in an outburst of anger that underlined the long and difficult struggle Greece faces to stick with painful cutbacks that come with an international bail-out.

Today’s Birthdays:

Soeren Kierkegaard, Danish philos-opher-theologian (1813-1855); Karl Marx, German socialist (1818-1883); France’s Empress Eugenie (1826-1920); Nellie Bly, U.S. journalist/adventurer (1867-1922); Tammy Wynette, U.S. singer (1942-1998); Michael Palin, British actor/comedi-an (1943--); Adele, British soul singer (1988--).

Thought For Today:

The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and in-telligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian communica-tions theorist (1911-1980)

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Today is Wednesday, May 4, the 124th day of 2011. There are 241 days left in the year.

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1925 - John T. Scopes is arrested in Tennes-see for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution.

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