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MIT's Oldest and Largest Newspaper Volume 122, Number 23 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 The Weather Today: Clear, windy, 65°F (IS°C) Tonight: Chilly, 40°F (4°C) .=...-~ •• Tomorrow: Sunny, warm, 65°F (IS°C) . -- • Details, Page 2 Friday, May 3, 2002 MIT to End Support Of Outside Accounts MICHELLE POVINELLI-THE TECH Harvard students Pascallne Dupas and 'Jean B. Rolland were among a group of MIT and Harvard students from France who gathere~ outside the French Consulate Wednesday. The students were protesting the success of extreme right-wing candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen In the first round of the French presidential election. Rally organizer Thomas Chaney G said, "It Is our responsibility to be concerned about what could be the Image of France abroad. I do feel ashamed after these elec- tlons." See story page 9. - By Jennifer Krishnan NEWS EDITOR Student groups will no longer be able to hold outside bank accoun'ts beginning July 1, according to a decision by MIT Treasurer Allan S. Bufferd. "There have been some difficul- ties" with student groups' outside bank accounts, Bufferd said, "and the Institute is how prepared to pro- vide the services provided by out- side banks." Groups recognized by the Asso- ciation of Student Activities, as well as MIT residence halts, have been allowed to maintain accounts at out- side banks using MIT's name and tax identification number since 1996. These groups are also entitled to accounts managed by the Student Activities Office. The internal accounts include a. wide range of services not provided by most banks. However, they require an officer of the Student Activities Office to sign all checks, a process which generally takes two to three business days. Student group officers cannot write checks on their own. Laurie Ward of the Student Activities Finance Office said that currently 58 ASA groups, 12 resi- dence halls, several hall floors, and several theme houses have outside bank accounts. Ward said all groups with outside bank accounts wi 11be required to close those accounts and transfer the balances to their MIT accounts by July I. Decision made without students "The decision was made in the last couple of weeks," Bufferd said. "The question of opening bank accounts is vested in the [MIT] Treasurer .,. but I consulted with Accounts, Page II Organizers Plan Lottery to Select Attendees at Wolfe~hn Meeting By Keith J. Winstein ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR MIT students who wish to attend a private meeting with World Bank President James D. Wolfen- sohn will be selected by random lottery, the event's organizers have decided. . Jesse M. Barnes '02, Arjun Mendiratta G, Payal P. Parekh G, and Stephanie W. Wang '04 met Sunday to decide on a selection procedure for the closed-door meet- ing to be held on June T with Wolfensohn, this year's commence- ment speaker .. Students interested in attending 'tb~' event should send e-~ail to the organizers' contact address, [email protected], Parekh said. Other details, such as the deadline to apply for the lottery, will be decid- ed by the group and widely commu- ' nicated in the next week. Meeting limited to 20 students The meeting's attendance is lim- ited to about 20 registered students "to' enable dialog to, take place," said Kwabena Amankway-Ayeh, Wolfensohn's speech;writer and assistant'. "The interaction is going to be better when the group is as small as we are trying to work out right now," Amankway-Ayeh said. "Our experience has bee~ that once you bring in cameras and videotapes and things like that, [students] become antagonistic," he said. "We want an engagement, a dialog completely out of the hearts and minds of everybody." Kirk .D. Kolenbrander, special assistant to the president and chan- cellor, said the event represented a compromise. With the attendance limit and The Tech as the only per- mitted press, "This isn't the meet- ing the stud~nts. want," he said. Wolfensohn, Page 12 Felix M. H. Villars Professor Emeritus Felix M. H. Villars died of cancer Saturday at the age of 81. Villars was a member of the MIT faculty for 41 years, playing a key role in developing the Harvard-MIT Division of Health, Sciences and Technology (HST) after starting his career in theoretical physics. He retired in 1991. He worked 'with Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Pauli 'in the early years of quantum electrodynamics, developing the method known as "Pauli- Villars regularization," which was widely influential and is familiar to all students of field theory. Villars also worked extensive- ly in nuclear physics, and he was the fITst to recognize that meson exchanges generating the nuclear force also contribute to electromag- netic properties of nuclei. Villars also developed the theory governing the collective rotations of deformed nuclei such as uranium. Villars helped bring analytical methods to medicine Villars' contributions an; not limited to theoretical physics. He used his knowledge of physics and engineering to push the bound~ aries of medical science. Later in his career, Villars studied biology Villars, Page 14 New Study Ib,omin Hayden To Be Open 24 Hours Daily By Jennifer DeBoer STAFF REPORTER A 24-hour study room will open adjacent to Hayden- Circula- tion after overwhelming student approval and a year of waiting for Institute funding. Construction for the new room will begin May 29, just after the end of final exams, on the area that is currently Hayden's circulation desk. The project is expected to be completed by the following Labor Day. "We are very optimistic that the study area will be up and ready to go in time for fall term," said Nina Davis-Millis, int~rim associate director for public services. "It's been in the works for a while." Circulation desk to relocate One of the central components in the study room's structure is the addition of small common areas, intended for group work. "It will be nice thing for people to be able to study together in a common room, as well to be able to utilize the wireless capability the room will have," said Theresa Tobin, head of the Humanities Library. The Hayden circulation desk will be moved to where the map room is now, ,and the materials currently housed in, the reserve book room will also be relocated to be inside the Humanities library, extending the possible hours of use for these books. What was formerly the Reserve Book Room will be te~porarily used as a librarian training facility. Hayden, Page 14 SC01T JOHNSTON-TIlE TECH A new reading room near the Hayden Ubrary in Building 14 will be open 24 hours once it is completed. Israeli Consul Dr. Hillel Newman speaks at MIT. Page 13 Comics Page 6 OPINION Dan Tortorice discusses the neg- ative impact of stricter labor standards. Page 5 World & Nation 2 Opinion 4 Events Calendar 8 On the Screen 8 Sports .16 ...

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  • MIT'sOldest and Largest

    Newspaper

    Volume 122, Number 23 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

    The WeatherToday: Clear, windy, 65°F (IS°C)

    Tonight: Chilly, 40°F (4°C).=...-~ •• Tomorrow: Sunny, warm, 65°F (IS°C)

    . -- • Details, Page 2

    Friday, May 3, 2002

    MIT to End SupportOf Outside Accounts

    MICHELLE POVINELLI-THE TECH

    Harvard students Pascallne Dupas and 'Jean B. Rolland were among a group of MIT and Harvardstudents from France who gathere~ outside the French Consulate Wednesday. The students wereprotesting the success of extreme right-wing candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen In the first round of theFrench presidential election. Rally organizer Thomas Chaney G said, "It Is our responsibility to beconcerned about what could be the Image of France abroad. I do feel ashamed after these elec-tlons." See story page 9. -

    By Jennifer KrishnanNEWS EDITOR

    Student groups will no longer beable to hold outside bank accoun'tsbeginning July 1, according to adecision by MIT Treasurer Allan S.Bufferd.

    "There have been some difficul-ties" with student groups' outsidebank accounts, Bufferd said, "andthe Institute is how prepared to pro-vide the services provided by out-side banks."

    Groups recognized by the Asso-ciation of Student Activities, as wellas MIT residence halts, have beenallowed to maintain accounts at out-side banks using MIT's name andtax identification number since1996. These groups are also entitledto accounts managed by the StudentActivities Office.

    The internal accounts include a .wide range of services not providedby most banks. However, they

    require an officer of the StudentActivities Office to sign all checks,a process which generally takes twoto three business days. Studentgroup officers cannot write checkson their own.

    Laurie Ward of the StudentActivities Finance Office said thatcurrently 58 ASA groups, 12 resi-dence halls, several hall floors, andseveral theme houses have outsidebank accounts. Ward said all groupswith outside bank accounts wi 11berequired to close those accounts andtransfer the balances to their MITaccounts by July I.

    Decision made without students"The decision was made in the

    last couple of weeks," Bufferd said."The question of opening bankaccounts is vested in the [MIT]Treasurer .,. but I consulted with

    Accounts, Page II

    Organizers Plan Lottery to SelectAttendees at Wolfe~hn MeetingBy Keith J. WinsteinASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

    MIT students who wish toattend a private meeting with WorldBank President James D. Wolfen-sohn will be selected by randomlottery, the event's organizers havedecided.. Jesse M. Barnes '02, Arjun

    Mendiratta G, Payal P. Parekh G,and Stephanie W. Wang '04 metSunday to decide on a selectionprocedure for the closed-door meet-ing to be held on June T withWolfensohn, this year's commence-ment speaker ..

    Students interested in attending

    'tb~'event should send e-~ail to theorganizers' contact address,[email protected], Parekh said. Otherdetails, such as the deadline toapply for the lottery, will be decid-ed by the group and widely commu- 'nicated in the next week.

    Meeting limited to 20 studentsThe meeting's attendance is lim-

    ited to about 20 registered students"to' enable dialog to, take place,"said Kwabena Amankway-Ayeh,Wolfensohn's speech;writer andassistant'. "The interaction is goingto be better when the group is assmall as we are trying to work out

    right now," Amankway-Ayeh said."Our experience has bee~ that

    once you bring in cameras andvideotapes and things like that,[students] become antagonistic," hesaid. "We want an engagement, adialog completely out of the heartsand minds of everybody."

    Kirk .D. Kolenbrander, specialassistant to the president and chan-cellor, said the event represented acompromise. With the attendancelimit and The Tech as the only per-mitted press, "This isn't the meet-ing the stud~nts. want," he said.

    Wolfensohn, Page 12

    Felix M. H. VillarsProfessor Emeritus Felix M. H. Villars died of cancer Saturday at

    the age of 81.Villars was a member of the MIT faculty for 41 years, playing a

    key role in developing the Harvard-MIT Division of Health, Sciencesand Technology (HST) after starting his career in theoretical physics.He retired in 1991.

    He worked 'with Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Pauli 'in the early yearsof quantum electrodynamics, developing the method known as"Pauli- Villars regularization," which was widely influential and isfamiliar to all students of field theory. Villars also worked extensive-ly in nuclear physics, and he was the fITst to recognize that mesonexchanges generating the nuclear force also contribute to electromag-netic properties of nuclei. Villars also developed the theory governingthe collective rotations of deformed nuclei such as uranium.

    Villars helped bring analytical methods to medicineVillars' contributions an; not limited to theoretical physics. He

    used his knowledge of physics and engineering to push the bound~aries of medical science. Later in his career, Villars studied biology

    Villars, Page 14

    New Study Ib,omin HaydenTo Be Open 24 Hours DailyBy Jennifer DeBoerSTAFF REPORTER

    A 24-hour study room willopen adjacent to Hayden- Circula-tion after overwhelming studentapproval and a year of waiting forInstitute funding.

    Construction for the new roomwill begin May 29, just after theend of final exams, on the area thatis currently Hayden's circulationdesk. The project is expected to becompleted by the following LaborDay.

    "We are very optimistic that thestudy area will be up and ready togo in time for fall term," said NinaDavis-Millis, int~rim associatedirector for public services. "It'sbeen in the works for a while."

    Circulation desk to relocateOne of the central components in

    the study room's structure is theaddition of small common areas,intended for group work.

    "It will be nice thing for peopleto be able to study together in acommon room, as well to be able toutilize the wireless capability theroom will have," said TheresaTobin, head of the HumanitiesLibrary.

    The Hayden circulation desk willbe moved to where the map room isnow, ,and the materials currentlyhoused in, the reserve book roomwill also be relocated to be insidethe Humanities library, extendingthe possible hours of use for thesebooks.

    What was formerly the ReserveBook Room will be te~porarilyused as a librarian training facility.

    Hayden, Page 14SC01T JOHNSTON-TIlE TECH

    A new reading room near the Hayden Ubrary in Building 14 will be open 24 hours once it is completed.

    Israeli Consul Dr.Hillel Newmanspeaks at MIT.

    Page 13

    Comics

    Page 6

    OPINIONDan Tortorice discusses the neg-ative impact of stricter laborstandards.

    Page 5

    World & Nation 2Opinion 4Events Calendar 8On the Screen 8Sports .16

    ...

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  • Page 2 THE TECH

    WORLD & NATIONMay 3, 2002

    Pilots, Flight Attendants. SplitOn Plans for Cockpit Weapons

    u.s. Planning InternationalConference on Middle East

    House, Senate ApproveResolutions Supporting Israel

    LOSA,\GU./:S nIlESWASHINGTON

    The House and Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approvedresolutions to s~lpport Israel and condemn Palestinian suicidebombers, but only after a debate that exposed some sharp divisionsover the congressional intervention in Middle East diplomacy.

    The votes allowed lawmakers to express collectively the outragemany have voiced individually as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict hasescalated.

    Approval of the two resolutions, legally nonbinding but politicallysignificant, puts President Bush in a somewhat awkward position ashe reaches out to Arab allies of the Palestinians in an attempt todefuse the Middle East violence.

    The House voted 352-21 for a lengthy, tough-worded resolutionsponsored by Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, that condemns"the ongoing support of terror" by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat,suggests that his actions "are not those of a viable partner for peace"and supports additional U.S. aid "to help Israel defend itself."

    Threats Prompt Change of VenueIn Pearl Murder Trial

    TW: IJ:./SIII.\'GTON POSTISLAMABAD. PAKISTAN

    The trial of four men charged with the kidnapping and murder ofWall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl moves to a new cityFriday, after prosecutors complained of death threats from inside andoutside the courtroom.

    Testimony will resume before a new judge - the third in thetrial's short life - in the city of Hyderabad, I IO miles northeast ofKarachi, where Pearl was kidnapped Jan. 23. Prosecutor Raja Qureshirequested the change after four law enforcement agencies reporteduncovering plans to blow up the Karachi City Jail, where the trialconvened last month.

    Qureshi also complained that two of the defendants had madethreatening gestures from behind the bars that separate court officersfrom prisoners in the makeshift courtroom.

    "In our Eastern world, when we just put a hand on the chin andslide it down and make a box of your fist, that is understood to be athreatening gesture," Qureshi said in a telephone interview.

    Rumsfeld Scolding CastsDoubt Over White's Future

    By Alan SipressTilE WASI//NGTON POST

    WASHINGTON

    The Bush administration hasbegun planning for an internationalpeace conference on the Middle Eastearly this summer to accelerate nego-tiations over a final political settle-ment between the Israelis and Pales-tini'ans, Secretary of State ColinPowell announced Thursday.

    He said the gathering would takeup not only political issues butinclude discussions over stemmingviolence by Arab militants andenhancing the economic prospects ofthe Palestinians.

    At the same time, the conferencewould address the broader regionalconflict with the aim of makingprogress on long-stalled peace talksbetween Israel and its northernneighbors, Syria and Lebanon,according to officials involved in dis-cussions about the gathering.

    Powell's announcement cameafter he met at the State Departmentwith senior diplomats from the Euro-pean Union, Russia and the UnitedNations, all of which will beinvolved in preparations for the con-ference and are expected to be itssponsors. The invitation list willinclude Israel, the Palestinians,

    Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria,Lebanon and perhaps other MiddleEastern countries, officials said.

    The new U.S. effort to advancenegotiations came on the same daythat the House and Senate endorsedIsrael's West Bank offensive againstthe Palestinians, adopting the sym-bolic expression of support overadministration warnings that thiswould hamstring its policy.

    By proposing a new forum forsimultaneous talks about political,security and economic measures,administration officials hope tobypass the current stalemate betweenIsraelis and Palestinians about th~timing of political and security steps.The Palestinians are offered talksaimed at giving them their own stateand the Israelis have a new opportu-nity to pursue improved ties withother Arab governments.

    While details about the confer-ence remain sketchy, the decision tocall one represents an effort to buildmomentum after Israel's recent with-drawal from most West Bank citiesand the release of Palestinian leaderYasser Arafat from a montl1-longsiege inside his compound in Ramal-lah.

    "This is a time for' prompt actionto take advantage of this new win-

    dow of opportunity that has beenpresented to us. And we intend to dojust that," Powell said.

    He was speaking at a joint newsconference with U.N. Secretary Gen-eral Kofi Annan, Russian ForeignMinister Igor Ivanov, EuropeanUnion foreign policy chief JavierSolana and Foreign Minister JosepPique of Spain, which holds theEU's rotating presidency. The diplo-mats represent a new group, dubbedthe quartet, which was formed lastmonth during Powell's trip to theMiddle East and Europe.

    "The United States with our part-ners in the quartet will spend theweeks ahead to begin to not only talkamongst ourselves, but with the par-ties and with other interested mem-bers of the international communityto come up with a set of principlesthat can be the basis for a meeting inthe early summer," Powell said.Powell's thinking is to convene theconference on the . level of foreignministers rather than presidents,prime ministers and kings,\accordingto a senior State Department official.This would avoid objections from .Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharonabout me~ting Palestinian leaderYasser Arafat and from some Arabheads of state about meeting Israelis.

    I,OS ANGEl.ES TI.\IESWASHINGTON

    U.S. Army Secretary Thomas E. White's tenuous grip on his jobappeared to slip further Thursday after Defense Secretary DonaldRumsfeld scolded Army leadership for going behind his back toCongress to save an endangered weapons program.

    Rumsfeld said the Pentagon is "looking into" reports that Armyleaders lobbied lawmakers in recent days to salvage a weapons sys-tem that the defense secretary and his top deputy are poised toscrap.

    In characteristic language, the defense secretary said he wouldhave "a minimum of high regard" for such behavior, a swipe aimedat least in part at White, who is fighting to save the Crusaderartillery system from budget cuts.

    And even as top lawmakers vowed to "work with leaders" in thePentagon to save the $1 I-billion program, Rumsfeld made it clearhe expects Army leaders to fall in line.

    A defense secretary ought to "be able to expect that the leader-ship and overwhelming majority (of the Army) will in fact be sup-portive," Rumsfeld said.

    By Sara Kehaulani Goo'THE WASII/NGTON POST

    WASHINGTON

    More than 20,000 airline pilotssigned a petition and sent it to law-makers on Capitol Hill Thursdaydemanding that they be allowed tocarry guns in the cockpit to protectthemselves from potential hijackers.

    - Responding angrily, the unionfor flight attendants declared thatthey would fight the pilots proposal,unless the pilots agreed to use theirguns not only to defend themselves,but to ensure the safety of passen-gers and crew throughout the air-plane.

    The exchange marked the latestand most pointed skirmish in anunresolved legislative and securitypolicy debate about whether

    weapons should be permitted in air-plane cockpits, and if ~o, how theyshould be used to defend againsthijackers.

    The issue has been simmeringsince last fall when a handful ofpilots first raised the idea after theSept. 11 terrorist hijackings. Sincethen, the proposal has gatheredmomentum among pilots, producinglegislative proposals, including billsby Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., chair-man of the House Transportationaviation subcommittee, and Sen.Robert Smith, R-N.H.

    As pilots moved closer towardtheir goal, they galvanized questionsfrom flight attendants who feel theyare being ignored in a' securityapproach that seems to focus firsfand foremost on pilots. The Associ-

    ation of Flight Attendants have pro-posed that they be given some kindof non-lethal weapon, such as a stungun, to contain unruly passengers.Pilots are opposed to stun guns onairplanes unless they can have lethalweapons.

    At a minimum, flight attendantswant' any weapons proposal to takeaccount of their needs, and theyworry about a scenario in whichthey are alone in a plane withhijackers, while the pilots arebehind locked doors with their guns.

    "w'e're against the pilots, havingguns until we know that they'regoing to come out of the cockpit,into the cabin, to defend us and thepassengers," said Jeff Zack,spokesman for the Association ofFlight Attendants. -'

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  • May 3,2002 WORLD & NATION THE TECH Page 3

    .Army's New Mobile ArtUIery SystemLeads Rumsfeld, Congress to Battle.

    Roman' Catholic Priest ArrestedIn San Diego for Raping a Child

    Arafat Emerges After .34 Days,Tours Sites in Palestinian Cities

    BeSTeN

    A Reman Cathelic priest who hasbeen the focus of some of the mostshocking disclesures in a nationwidesex scandal was arrested Thursday inSan Diego. on three counts ef raping achild.

    The Rev; Paul Shanley, 71, wascharged with regularly abusing a boyover a seven-year period - some-times in the church cenfessional. Hewas arrested without incident at his'apartme~t in San Diego.. -

    The victim, now,24, ,was netnamed in the cemplaint. He allegedlywas melested frem 1983 to 1990,beginning when he was 6 years oldand a student in a weekly Christiandqctrine class taught by Shanley.

    Middlesex County District Atter-ney Martha Coakley said Thursday .that the young man appreachedautherities earlier thi,s week afterextensive media ceverage ef a civillawsuit against the Besten archdio-cese by another alleged Shanley vic-tim, 24-year-eld Gregory Ferd.

    "Almest on a weekly basis, PaulShanley weuld ceme ~otake not only(the latest alleged victim) but othersfrem that class fer 'talks,''' Ceakleysaid.

    LOS ANGELES TIMES

    Black and Latino HIV patients are enro.lling in experimental treat-ments at much Io.wer rates than whites, according to a national studypublished Thursday in the New England Jo.urnal of Medicine.

    Researchers say that disparity is caused by minorities' mistrust ofexperimental treatments and lack ef access to. university health facili-ties.

    Those experimental HIV treatments may be the last hope ferpatients who fail to. respend to. retroviral drugs, said Dr. Allen Gif-fo.rd, lead autho.r of the study. As a result, "being able to entertain theo.ptien of experimental care is important," said Gifferd, a physicianand researcher at the Department of Veterans Affairs San Diego.Healthcare System ..

    The study did not tr~ck whether patients enrolled in the experi-ments had exhausted ether more mainstream options.

    Gifferd's team analyzed data fro.m a Rand Co.rp.-sponsored studyo.f 2,864 HIV patients receiving care across the ceuntry fro.m 1996 to.1998 ..

    At the study's o.utset, 49 percent o.f the 231,000 Americans receiv-ing any type o.f HIV treatment were white, 33 percent were black and15 percent were Latino.

    Of these e~rolled in trjals, however, 62 percent were white, 23percent were black and 11 percent were Latino, even if whites andmino.rities had similar t:ducatien, type o.f health insurance and degreeo.fillness.

    Drug Seizures on the Rise,Number of Border Detainees Falls

    TIlE WASHINGTON POST

    Researchers fro.m China and Flo.rida have fo.und fo.ssil remains ofwhat appear to. be the o.ldest and most primitive flowering plant everdisco.vered, an aquatic pro.genito.r o.f to.day's water lilies that lived innqrtheastem China at least 126 million years ago..

    The delicate imprints, in excellent co.nditio.n o.n a slab of sto.nemo.re than two. feet Io.ng, o.ffer the best clues yet to. ho.w plants madeone o.f the mo.re extraordinary leaps in evelutionary history: the tran- .sitio.n fro.m primitive spo.res and seeds, such as tho.se still used byferns and pines, to. the mere so.phisticated use o.f flowers and fruitingbodies.

    That transitio.n marked the beginning o.f a co.-evo.lutionary pas-de-deux involving flo.wers and insect po.llinato.rs that led to. an eruptionef new plant species and ultimately helped carpet the planet withtoday's bouquet effloral diversity.

    The newly fo.und fo.ssil o.ffers the first picto.rial representatio.n o.fnow nature engineered that seminal advance, which Charles Darwincalled an "abo.minable mystery." It is fo.rcing scientists to. change sev-eral co.nceptions abo.ut the o.rigins o.f flo.wering plants, o.r angio.sperms

    .- a taxo.nemic gro.up that includes not only plants co.mmo.nly reco.g-nizable as flo.wers, but also. many o.f the crops upon which humansand o.ther animals depend.

    "I really think this is the mo.st significant fo.ssil angio.sperm everdisco.vered," said William Crepet, chairman o.f plant biology at Co.r-nell University.

    Foss~ of Oldest Flowering PlantsFound by Researchers in China

    NBC Confirms Meeting WithClinton About Talk Show Plans

    LOS ANGELES TIMES

    NBC o.fficials co.nfirmed Thursday that they met with Bill Clinto.nthis week in Lo.s Angeles to. discuss various TV ideas, altheugh aspokeswo.man fo.r the fo.rmer president do.wnplayed a Los AngelesTimes report that he was pitching himself as a talk show host.

    NBC executives met with Clinto.n Wednesday at the offices o.fproducers Linda Bloo.dwo.rth- Themaso.n and Harry Thomaso.n .who,sources say, erchestrated the meeting to. pitch the fo.rmer president ashost o.f a talk sho.w similar to "The Oprah Winfrey Show." The pricetag fo.r Clinten was set at $50 millio.n a year, so.urces said.

    "(The) infermal meeting was ene o.f many meetings PresidentClinto.n has had with many people over the past year," said JuliaPayne, a Clinto.n spokeswo.man. "President Clinto.n did no.t demand atalk show. He went to. listen. The president is gratified by the range o.fopportunities that have been presented to him."

    . Payne co.nfirmed the meeting at the Thomason's o.ffices; but said,'~We do.n't have a seco.nd meeting (planned)," she said.

    Privately, an NBC source said it was unlikely. that Clinto.n wo.uldgo.beyo.nd the talking stage and actually do a TV show.

    Study: Fewer Minorities Enroll inExperimental HIVTreatments

    LOS ANGELES TIMES

    U.S. immigration efficials credit to.ugher security measures sinceSept. 11 fo.r a sharp drop in the number of people detained trying tocross the U.S.-Mexico border in the past seven months.

    Yet, the number of drugs seized along the Southwest border rosesignificantly in the same perio.d, as drug traffickers tried to mo.ve con-traband that had accumulated in the weeks after the terrerist attacks.

    Between Oct. I and April 28, the Border Patrol caught 518,812peo.ple trying to cross the 2,000-mile border that stretches betweenCalifernia and Texas, acco.rding to. figures released by the U.S. Immi-gratio.n and Naturalization Service. '

    That is a 34 percent drop from the same peried last year, when786,099 were caught, the largest decline in eight years.

    While the figures may include multiple attempts by the same per-so.n, apprehensions are viewed as the best measure of how many peo-ple try to enter the country illegally.

    That number has been decreasing since the end ef 2000, the yearthat arrests for illegal immigration on the Southwest border hit areco.rd of 1;6 millio.n.

    INS o.fficials said the decline that fo.llowed resulted from a co.mbi-natio.n o.f facto.rs, including more border enforcement, an eco.no.micdownturn in the United States and o.ptimism in Mexico. after the elec-tio.n of President Vicente Fo.x.

    White's role in the Crusaderfight further C1o.udshis tenure at thePentago.n, where he has been faultedby Co.ngress -- as the highest rank-ing f~rmer Enro.n executive in theBush administratio.n - fo.r failing to'disclose sto.ck o.pfions he co.ntinuedto hold in Enro.n and do.zens o.f tele-pho.ne calls to fo.rmer Enron execu-tives.

    White, a fo.rmer Army generalwho. became vice chairman o.fEnro.n Energy Services, is also.under investigatio.n by the DefenseDepartment Inspecto.r General fo.rhis handling o.f perso.nal business .matters on trips using Army jets.

    One senio.r defense o.fficial, sym-pathetic to. the Army's plight, saidthat i~ faxing "talking points" to.members of Co.ngress, the Army'sOffice o.f Legislative Affairs wasmerely trying to. pro.vide info.rma-tio.n abo.ut a program that wasincluded in President Bush's 2003budget - as the Ho.use Armed Ser-vices Co.mmittee prepared to. reviewthe bill.

    Palestinian cities last menth, Arafat' sPalestinian Autherity is under severestrain, its securitY ferces in disarrayand its civic institutiens - many efwhich were damaged in the Israeliassault - struggling to. provide basicservices such as garbage cellectienand medical care.

    "He has a let ef challenges to.face, ebvieusly," said MehammedShtayeg, the Palestinian Autherity'sdirecter ef ec'enemic develepment,during Arafat's step Thursday mern-ing at the educatien ministry, whichwas ransacked by Israeli treeps."The whele ceuntry is in a shambles,and he knews he has to. put thingstegether."

    Arafat also. knews that Israeliferces peised just eutside Ramallahand ether West Bank tewns ceuldeasily repeat their perfermance eflast menth. Israeli efficials have saidthey weuld net hesitate to. return to.Palestinian cities in respense to.anether reund ef suicide bembingssuch as the series ef attacks that trig-gered the last incursien mere than amenthage.

    Association.The flambeyant fo.rmer "street

    priest" allegedly tried to blackmail.the late Cardinal Humberto Medeiro.s,the reco.rds indicate. When Shanleywas transferred to. Califo.rnia in 1990,a bishop here sent a letter to.St. Ann'sparish in San Bernardino., Calif.,praising Shanley as a priest "in goo.dstanding. "

    While in Southern Califo.rnia,Shanley co-owned a hetel in PalmSprings that catered to gay clients.

    Shanley next went 'to New Yerkto. wo.rk at Leo. Ho.use, a residentialrehabilitation facility fo.r young peo-ple. He moved to San Diego. in thelate 1990s and recently was dis-missed from his vo.lunteer jo.b withthe San Diego. po.lice department. Onhis applicatio.n fo.r that positio.n, ,Shanley did not mentio.n that he wasa priest, but listed his eccupatien as"hotel directer."

    Shanley's atto.rney in Bo.sto.n,Frank Mo.ndane, did not return a callseeking comment.

    San Diego. po.lice spo.kesmanDavid Co.hen said Thursday thatdetectives called Shanley fro.m,out-side his gated apartment co.mplex andto.ld him they had an arrest warrant.He invited them inside and did no.tpro.t-est when they placed him inhandcuffs, Co.hen said.

    The priest allegedly toek theyeung students, all male, either to therectery, the bathreem-er the confes-sienal.

    . "That is where the abuse tookplace," Coakley said.

    The 'descriptien echoes acceuntseffered by Ford, who. also was a reli-gious educatjen student while Shan-ley was pastor at St. Jean's parish inNewton, Mass., o.utside Besten.

    Ceakley said the priest told thevictim that if he reported the abuse,no one weuld believe him. "He was 6years old and fend of Shanley," thedistrict attorney explained.

    Ceverage ef the sex abuse trialand cenviction in January of fermerpriest John J.' Geeghan - also.assigned to. the Besten archdiecese- brought a flood ef painful memo-ries ,to. Ferd and ethers who claimthey were abused by Shanley. Ferd'scivil lawsuit forced the archdioceselast month to.release mere than 1,600pages ef documents about Shanley.

    The recerds centained sexualabuse cemplaints against Shanleydating from 1967, when he allegedlyteek children to. a cabin at Blue Hill,a ski meuntain near Besten. In 1977,accerding to. the documents, Shanleywas present at the erganizationalmeeting of what later became theNo.rth American ,Man-Bo.y Lo.ve

    Speaking to. repo.rters at the Pen-tago.n, Rumsfeld said his senieraides had decided to. cancel theartillery system but wo.uld not makea final decisio.n fo.r 30 days so thatArmy o.ffiCials can study the feasi-bility o.f more advanced precisio.n-guided artillery technolo.gy.

    But Rumsfeld made it clear thathe no.t happy that Army officials

    , immediately began lo.bbying o.nCapito.l Hill to. save the Crusaderand said their rear-guard activities,which including faxing "talkingpo.ints" to. congressio.nal supporterso.f the weapo.n system, wo.uld beinvestigated by the Army's Inspec-to.r General. ..

    "I have a minimum o.f highregard for that kind ef behavio.r,"Rumsfeld said.

    At Rumsfeld's beliest, theInspecto.r General's pro.be was set inmo.tion by Army Secretary ThomasWhite, a Crusader advo.cate who hasbeen quoted by o.ne senato.r as say-ing that he was "in a fight to. saveCrusader within the building."

    en his trail. Altheugh Israeli armeredvehicles have withdrawn enly to. theedge ef tewn, Arafat's meed andmessage was triumphal as he greetedcrewds ef residents, scheelchildrenand beaming Palestinian' Autherityefficials.

    The crowds respended in kind."We are marching to.Jerusalem, mar-tyrs in the milliens," chanted stu-dents at Ramallah's Anglican ele-mentary scheel, as Arafat wavedfrem the balceny ef a cultural centernext deer.

    Enveleped by burly armed gUardsin bulletproef vests, Arafat prayedever the graves ef slain Palestinianfighters, steed at the bedsides ef

    . weunded bedyguards and cemmiser-- ated with the cultural center's direc-

    ter, Adila Laidi, ever the damageinflicted by Israeli seldiers who. usedexplesives to. epen the deers ef thehisteric stene building.

    "The mere destructien I see, the, strenger I get," Arafat teld 'reperters.

    But the' celebratiens may be shert-lived. Fellewing Israel's eccupatienef Ramallah and five ether majer

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    By Vernon LoebTHE WASHINGTON POST

    By John LancasterTHE WASHINGTON POST

    RAMALLAH, WEST BANK

    After 34 days under Israeli siege,Palestinian leader Yasser Arafatemerged Thursday merning into.bright sunlight eutside his batteredheadquarters here, flashing victerysigns and embarking en a rauceus,crewd-pleasing teur ef hespitals,scheels and ether icens ef his crip-pled Palestinian Autherity.

    Leeking pale but etherwiseunscathed, a smiling Arafat appeareden the steps ef his presidential head-quarters shertly after 10 a.m., justheurs after the last Israeli tankspulled eut ef the dusty cempeundthey have eccupied since smashingdewn its walls en March 29. TheIsraeli withdrawal came after Arafatacquiesced to. the terms ef. a U.S.-brekered cempremise in the jailingef six Palestinians wanted by Israel.

    Arafat waved to. cheering sup-perters, then roared eut ef his cem-peund in a metercade ef spert utilityvehicles and a dusty late-me del Mer-cedes, a herde ef internatienal media

    ,Suppo.rters and o.pponents of theArmy's new Crusader mo.bileartillery system drew battle linesThursday, with Defense SecretaryDenald Rumsfeld signaling hisintent to. cancd the program within30 days and Co.ngress acting swiftlyto blo.ck the mo.ve.

    The decisio.n to ~ancel the $11billio.n Crusader pro.gram, disclosedTuesday night by Deputy DefenseSecretary Paul Wo.lfo.witz in a meet-ing that stunned Army officials, hasquickly beco.me the mo.st importanttest to. date of Rumsfeld's ability to.clear the defense budget o.f antiquat-ed Co.ld War weapons and "trans-form" the nation~s fighting capabili-ties.

    Rum'sfeld's talk o.fthe program'slikely cancelation sent the sto.ck o.f

    -United Defense Industries Inc., theCrusader's manufacturer, tumbling15 percent in value in heavy tradingo.n the New Yo.rk Sto.ck Exchange.

  • May 3, 2002

    Letters TOThe Editor

    OPINIONMIT Needs Outside Bank Accounts

    John D, Reed '02

    ErratumThe article "MIT, Harvard Faculty

    Petition Universities' Israel Investments"[April 30] misspelled the name of a Har-vard University psychology professor, Heis Ken Nakayama, not Natayama.

    Protest all you want when Wolfensohnarrives in Boston, Follow his motorcade down .Memorial Drive yelling slogans, Stick flyerson the windshield of his car while he's stuckin traffic on the Central Artery, Find outwhere the next World Bank meeting is andstart a riot outside the doors if you feel it wil"make the world a better place, Just don't ruinCommencement.

    accounts will decrease MIT's liabilities concerning studentgroup assets. Simply eliminating student group and residenceoutside accounts will not give MIT the security it wants,because MIT has been no more reliable, In 1996, ~hat was thenthe office of Residence and Campus Activities somehow "lost"$140,000 of student group money by what the office called mis-management and accounting errors, Furthermore, MIT requiredthat Sufferd be listed as a financial signatory on all outside stu-dent group accounts. Managing student group accounts is alarger task than overseeing outside accounts, a task for whichthe Treasurer's Office does not have the resources.

    Clearly July 1 is not a feasible date for this transition.MIT will need to hire enough workers and provide sufficientoffice space to handle the immense increase in accounting per-sonnel and paperwork. A new system needs to be developedand MIT must train student groups and employees in the newsystem.

    The optimal solution does not require the elimination ofstudent group accounts, The Treasurer's Office, upon identify-ing this problem, should have engaged student group leaders inorder to devise a workable solution. RLSLP, the Treasurer'sOffice, and student group leaders could establish criteria thatstudent groups must meet in order to maintain an outsideaccount. Requiring quarterly reports or conducting an annualaudit of student group finances could improve the administra-tions overSIght ability while maintaining student groups' opera-tional efficacy that comes with the ability to manage a bankaccount.

    The Tech must acknowledge that, along with otheraccounts, The Tech's own problems with outside bank accountslikely contributed to Bufferd's desire to shut them all down. Theprospect of eliminating outside bank accounts affects the long-term goals of this organization, and The Tech plans to join otherstUdent groups who would be dramatically affected by this newpolicy in altering this decision,

    Student leaders are trying to grapple with how to respond toBufferd's decision, which was flawed from the beginning in thatit did not reflect any real student input and in that it makes stu-dent groups suffer while MIT's student finance syste.ms remaininadequate, However, it is not too late for Bufferd to undo thepotential damage to student groups from closing outside bankaccounts. If a new system is immediately implemented to give'the same level of flexibility, convenience, and independenceoffered by outside banks, student group accounts could bebrought into MIT with little impact on the day~to-day operationof student life.

    However, The Tech does not believe that MIT has thor-oughly planned for such drastic changes as are needed to do so,nor does The Tech believe that such changes could be success-fully implemented by July 1. Student groups must make theirvoices heard to Bufferd and the rest of the administration, sinceMIT has neglected these voices once again, If outside bankaccounts will indeed be brought within MIT, a viable Bank ofMIT must indeed be made a reality,

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    from the proverbial fire hose, I am saddenedand angered (but not surprised) by the fact thatthese potential protesters feel that their cause ismore important than celebrating the academicachievements of over a thousand undergradu-ates and numerous graduate students.

    To these potential protesters, I say this:Think long and hard about whether protestingat Commencement is really worth it. Some ofyou are likely graduate students; would youhave enjoyed your undergraduate commence-ment if there had been numerous peopledemonstrating, carrying signs, and yellingthings? Do you really think it's fair that thestudents who have worked so hard should bepunished because Vest picked a speaker thatmany people don't like? Is it fair to the par-ents who have traveled thousands of miles,and paid numerous bursar's bills, that all

    . videos and photos of commencement shouldcontain a bunch of loud students yelling slo-gans in the direction of the podium?

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    MIT Treasurer Allan S, Bufferd told student governmentpresidents Monday that beginning July I, 2002, MIT studentgroups will be required to close their outside bank accounts,

    , This move would bring all studentEditorial accounting under the control of---------- Residential Life and Student LifePrograms. The decision came after a committee from the Trea-surer's office, devoid of student members, investigated the sta-tus of student group bank accounts.

    In what has become a standard procedure at MIT,. theadministration attempted to gain the rubber stamp of studentapproval by requesting that student leaders gather student inputas they explain the administration's decision. The Tech believes.that eliminating outside bank accounts is a measure MIT is sim-ply unprepared to take, one that will greatly handicap. studentactivities while not doing much to decrease MIT's liabilities.

    The reason student groups and residences acquired outsidebank accounts in the first place was that both students and MITstaff realized years ago that the Institute could not provide stu-dent groups with the services of a real bank. It still cannottoday. In the 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week world oflife atMIT, student groups need to be able to write checks at amoment's notice - on or off campus. RLSLP currently man-ages over 700 student group accounts. Taking on the responsi-bility for 105 outside accounts created specifically because theyare active with frequent transactions will delay check process-ing intolerably. Currently, cutting a check the same day throughRLSLP is not always possible, Such a system requires studentsto temporarily foot the bill for many purchases, This puts anundue burden on the leaders of student groups.

    Prepayment is even trickier as not only RLSLP is involvedwith arranging purchase orders, The Purchasing Office is set upto deal with MIT departments directly, not student groupswhich much request Purchase Orders through RLSLP. ThusPOs can take more than a week to process, It is unrealistic toexpect student groups to function financially a full week inadvance simply to overcome MIT's shortcomings in accountingservices.

    Internal accounts are lacking in many other areas, Forexample, MIT accounts do not generate interest. Corporatechecks like the ones used for student groups are accepted almosteverywhere, whereas MIT purchase order agreements are not.Sank statements arrive with regularity, whereas the Athenainterface with MIT's financial records is not user-friendly. Thefact is, short of running a fully functioning Bank of MIT, stu-dent groups are going to find themselves in a position wheretheir everyday operations are made more difficult.

    The Tech also worries that eliminating outside bankaccounts gives MIT undue control over how student groupsspend their money. If MIT does not approve of an event orexpenditure - even one which falls completely within Institute.policies - what is to stop RLSLP from holding a check ordelaying approval?

    The administration expects that the closure of outside

    Don't RuinCommencement

    As we draw closer to Commencement, thecontroversy surrounding the speaker - JamesD. Wolfensohn, president of the World BankGroup - has increased, In numerous placesthroughout the community, I see references toplannedprotests and boycotts.I have heardpeo-ple use phrases such as "it will be a real slap inthe face ... " and "we'll make sure Wolfensohnwishes he never came .... " Furthermore,mostof these people are fueled by the fact that theybelieve the entire campus - perhaps even theentire world- is united in supportof them,

    These would-be protesters, however, areforgetting one thing: This is Commencement!Commencement is a joyous occasion. This issomething that we, the Class of 2002, havebeen working towards for four years, This isone of the few things that has kept us frombeing asphyxiated by the flow of knowledge

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    It's Geek To MeOPINION THE TECH Page 5

    Vivek Rao

    SacrificingEducation

    No more than a couple of months ago,President George W. Bush accused NorthKorean leaders of sacrificing basic needssuch as food and education in order tofinance the military. If this was in fact thecentral criticism that led Bush to claim NorthKorea as part of an "Axis of Evil," then thatline must now be extended through the WhiteHouse.

    The last week has seen the culmination ofa debate in Washington over whether to cutgovernment funding for college loans. Bushand his administration had suggested thatfederal student loans should no longer fea-ture fixed interest rates, calling instead forvariable rates that would result in greatercosts to the low- and middle-income studentseligible for such loans, but would free upupwards of $1.3 billion dollars in the federalbudget.

    On the surface, Bush's argument may, have seemed reasonable enough. After all, heclaimed that the money made available bythe proposed policy would mostly be givento the Pell Grants program, which directlycontributes money toward the higher educa-tion of low-income students. That seemssimple enough: take money from one groupof needy students and give it to another. Atleast the government would still be fundingeducation, right? Wrong.

    Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of thePresident's proposal was that some WhiteHouse spokesmen claimed that taxpayersshould realize. that if both the fixed interestrates on loans and the Pell program were tobe maintained, it would result in an unneces-sary additional cost of over a .billion tax dol-lars. That is utter and complete nonsense,and Congress knew it. Most Democrats, andeven a few Republicans, applied pressure onBush to the point that he backed off from hisplan. Even though t~e measure failed, theattitude and mindset behind it are rather dis-turbing.

    The Unit~d States of America has alwaysbeen a nation that has placed a high value oneducation. To develop intelligent, well-informed human beings capable of partici-pating in and enhancing a democracy, educa-tion is essential. We pride ourselves on theeasy availability of public education and thequality of our higher educational institutions,yet now the Oval Office is telling us that weneed to choose between two very important

    - and useful financial aid programs.Two points of contention must be consid-

    ered here, and the first is. one that applies tovirtually every one of Bush's policies. Byinsisting on tax breaks and cuts that will donothing more than help the nation's elite getricher and more powerful, the President con-tinues to sacrifice important programs.Maybe it's not his fault. After all, he grew upin a well-to-do family, received the best edu-cation that money can buy, and had the pathto a career in politics paved for him. What heno doubt sees in taxes is a' menace .intendedto steal money from the wealthy, and ofcourse, it is this same upper-class money thathelps finance Bush's campaigns and main-tains his political machine. So the naturalresult is a strict budget that forces policy-makers choose between key programs. In anygovernment, sacrifices must be made inorder to satisfy financial restrictions, butthese days such sacrifices seem more fre-quent than at any point in recent memory.

    The second problem is, logically, what isbeing sacrificed. Even a relatively tightspending limit; given efficient and sensiblebudget allocations,' can succeed in financingmost fundamental 'domestic' policies and pro-grams. Yet like his North Korean counter-parts, Bush insists, like any good Republi-can, on pouring money into the military andforeign policy while neglecting -some of thekey issues plaguing our nation today, such asthe lack of widespread medical coverage andthe absurdly high cost of education ..

    If George W. Bush does indeed believe,as most Americans do, that education is abasic requisite for the strengthening of ournation, and that access to education is a fun-damental right, then he should reevaluate hispriorities. Both the Pell Grants and the con-cept of fixed interest on federal student loansare key ingredients to making college afford-able for thousands of students every year.Compare that to a few extra missiles or fight-er planes. Only when the President realizesthat such a comparison is not even close andthat the value of education outweighs the useof many other government expenditures canhe start pointing fingers across the seas.

    by U.S. S9ciety (stupid, stupid U.S. society).Even worse, the comic "industry" has fallenfrom its early-90s height in prosperity, as fos-tered by celluloid hits like Batman and the glo-rification of the vigilantism he personified.

    Unfortunately, as comic readers grew upthey - for the most part - realized that"mature" comics weren't really mature, andinstead decided to do grownup things like per-petuating the 'patriarchy. During the contem-poraneous superhero cartoon renaissance, Spi-der-Man enjoyed success on FOX while thecomic bogged down during the infamous"Clone Saga" (there's that word again). Onlyafter the cartoon's cancellation did the comicsreturn to the top of the sales charts. Long storyshort, people became Spider-Man fans at somany different times, that while all are geekythey are not geeky in one identifiable way.

    No, the geekiest fan base is a sleeper that isonly currently on the rise. Transformers hascombined all the geekiest elements of the for-mer three along with the general appeal of bigrobots to create a geek force awesome tobehold. During the 1980s, Hasbro (whichwould buy Kenner in 1991) commissionedMarvel to animate a half-hour advertisementfor several lines of Japanese. toys it hadlicensed from Takara, and the Transformerscartoon was born. While the toy line hasenjoyed a revival thanks to the syndicated, CGBeast Wars, the traditional characters cameback this month in comic book form, vaultingthe artists of faux-Japanese studio Dreamwaveto the top of the sales chart. Comics, toys, car-toons, and overage fanboys: it doesn't getmuch geekier than that, folks.

    All this discussion of geekdom has largelyignored the women who attend the BotConsof the world. That the above products did thesame is no excuse. Rather it compounds theproblem: not the problem of marginalizing

    women, but of marginalizing geeks. For,too long, it has been assumed that

    just because a guy is wearing ashirt with a Federation insignia onit, or reading a Timothy Zahn

    novel, or saving up his UROPstipend to buy that die-cast Convoyfrom Tokyo Girl, he's a loser. Sure,it's true, but next time you seesomebody like that, tell him he's

    not alone. He'll probably be too; intimidated by the presence

    of a female to reply, but restassured, you made his day.

    would conclude that 'you wouldn't move yourmoney because you are making a profit. But,in fact, you are not really making a profitbecause there are other options for yourmoney, for example a mutual fund, that willmake a higher profit. Similarly, a businessneeds to make enough profit to justifY not seil-ing its assets and investing in another industry.

    - When you raise labor costs for a company, youreduce profits. Those firms that were makingjust enough to want to stay in the industry,now will want to leave. They won't beemploying people in that industry ;my more,and industry emplo'yment will be reduced.

    The third theoretical reason is perhaps themost important, ,because it reveals a powerfulharm of enforcing workers' rights: it is the least

    fortunate workers wholose their jobs. Imag-ine a company

    ,increases the wages itpays and makes the

    _work environment,more pleasant. Peoplepreviously not willingto work at the compa-ny will now be willingto work there.Chances are, thesepeople are more pro-ductive workers thanthe ones currentlyworking at the facto-ry; they were not will-

    ing to work at the old company because theywere able, becaus,e of personal ability, to getbetter jobs~elsewhere. Now given the choicebetween the more productive workers and thejrold workers the company will give the newworkers jobs and their old workers the boot.

    Unemployment of workers is theinevitable economic consequence of enforcinglabor standards. It's unbelievably arrogant andirresponsible to enact a policy and ignore theconsequences and their unavoidable harms.However, I do not write to dat:nn fair laborstandards. They are a just right that we should .fight for. But we must not rest on our laurels .and ignore those' workers who are harmed bythe policy; instead we should fight tirelessly tosee that they too are helped.

    Many cities have passed laws,requiring en1ployers to pay a

    living tvage. In Santa Monica,ftrty percent of restaurantssaid they were very likely tolay qff uJorkers, as did nearly

    half of the hotels.

    appropriate cost of action is to, in the shortte~, admit that you are sacrificing the well-being o( a few for the good of the many, and,in the long term, fight for some type of socialstructure to ensure that unemployed-workersare able t9 receive the basic necessities of life.

    Perhaps the empirical evidence is notenough to convince you that a living wage andincreased labor standards will cause someworkers to lose their jobs. So let me give youthree reasons why we would expect this result.

    First, we can think about the factories ashiring workers in order- to make the largestprofit possible. Let's think of a factory thatproduces clothing' apparel. It needs a certainnumber of workers to be able to produce any-thing. After that the more you add the moreyou produce. But givenlimited, space andmachines, the produc-tion the first additionalworker adds will bemore than the produc-tion the twentieth work-er adds and so on. Asthe firm hires moreworke'rs, the value thenext worker addsbecomes smaller. If thefirm is to make the mostamount of money possi-ble, it will hire workersuntil the value of theproduction the nextworker adds. is less than the wage the companymust pay that worker. If you raise the wagethat the company must pay, the company willstop hiring workers earlier. The point wherethe value of adding an additional worker is lessthan the new, higher wage occurs at a lowerlevel of employment.

    A second reason why employment will bereduced stems from a correction of a commonmisconception about b~inesses. Often it isthought that as long as a business is 'makingprofit, we can take some of that profit, and aslong as we don't take it all, it will stay in busi-ness. This is clearly wrong. Let's say you haveall your money in a savings account that, afterinflation, makes one percent interest annually.If we applied the above "."isconception we

    That the memory was so indelible is a testa-ment as much to the fans as to the moviesthemselves. Non-canonical works during thisperiod, no longer constrained by the worry thatthe next movie could wipe away their plots,were absorbed to the point that people are actu-ally convinced Boba Fett should have a back-story. Following the initial trilogy's "final"VHS release in 1995, we had seven specialyears of merchandising mania, and now thepeople who haven't seen one of the' films arethe odd ones out. Many have the audacity tothink of the movies they go see as just that,ignoring the wealth of computer games, novels,and even the side-stories of the originals. Geek-dom and popularity don't match.

    Spider-Man fans never truly had the prob-lem of being popular, becausecomics have been relegated to analready geeky

    status

    their lack of fanaticism, for Spider-Man pre-dates them and has a more consistent presencethan Star Wars.'

    Between the end of the Ewok cartoon in1987 and the reintroduction of the "Power ofthe Force" toy line In 1995, there was no rep-resentation o( Star Wars among the generalpopulace besides the memory. Yes, there werestill books being published, but who everheard of-a fan following generated solely bybooks (well, before last year)?

    UnfOrtunately, as romic readers grew upthey -for the most part - realized

    that (mature' comics weren't really mature,and instead decided to do grownup things

    like perpetuating the patriarchy.

    Dan Tortorice

    Philip Burrowes

    May 3, 2002

    Currently, MIT's adininistration is consider-ing joining the Fair Labor Association and theWorkers' Rights Consortium. These organiza-tions inspect factories that produce apparel fortheir members, trying to make these factoriesadhere to certain labor standards. In addition,the administration is considering its own code _of conduct for its contractors. Some elementssuggested for the code are a living wage, volun-tary overtime, increased health and safe-ty regu-lations, and a non-discrimination policy._ Thisissue has been the subject of intense discussionbut the discussion has not included or, in thecase of Stephanie Wang's article "The InhumanFabric" [Feb. 22] has willfully ignored, the eco--nomic consequences of such requirements.

    This -is iqesponsible. If people are going tocreate policy affecting the poor of developingcountries, they should study the consequencesof that policy. Generally when economistsexplains the economic consequences of a spe-cific action, they use abstract economic rea-soning. I will do a bit of that later. Fortunately,there is very recent empirical evidence on theeconomic consequences of imposing a livingwage requirement, so let's look at that first.

    You may not know, but many cities in theUnited States have, passed laws requiringemployers to pay a living wage. In response toits living wage policy the city of Santa Moni-ca conducted a survey of employers. Fortypercent of restaurants said they were verylikely to layoff workers, as did nearly half ofthe hotels. Seventy percent of t~e hotels saidthey would hire fewer workers in the futUre..David Neumark, a professor of economi.cs atMichigan State UQiversity, used data on citieswhich enacted living wages and concludedthat the living wage decreased employment.

    This empirical evidence indicates thatrequiring MIT's suppliers to enact a livingwage will result in some workers losing theirjobs. This is not necessarily a reason to rejectthe living wage requirement. It is of coursepossible that the 'lives of workers who keeptheir jobs impr~ve enough that we are willingto live with a few workers losing their jobs. Ifone is to take this position, I believe the only

    We are in the midst of a geekiness nexusthe likes of which the world has not seensince man invented the video game spriteWebcomic. The Star Trek franchise is cele-brating its all-important coral/jade anniver-sary. At the same time, Star Wars is celebrat-ing the twenty-fifth anniversary of A Ne~Hope and the upcoming release of Episode II(if we ignore the title, maybe it willgo away). Fans of Marvel Comics'Spider-Man can mark the end to ahundred hype~bole-filled years ofwaiting on the webslinger's moviethis weekend.

    Nobody could have foreseenthat these stories would go as far asthey did. NBC tried to cancel StarTrek: TOS at least three times, mostmotion picture studios passed onStar Wars, and Spider-Man debutedas a throwaway character in the lastissue of "Amazing Fantasy." Yet, thanks totheir rabid fan support, each series persevered,leading to resurgences in their respective gen-res. This begs the question: which of the threegroups has the proudest, most knowledgeable,longest-suffering - i.e. geekiest - fans?

    Trekkies would seem'to have the competi-tion -locked up. After all, the other two groupsdon't even have names ("Waisies" don'tcount). Had they stopped to think about it,they would've coined the contraction "cos-play" (costume play) too, given their tendency .to dress the part. Moreover, they have had tolive through the hardest times of the three fanbases, hiving. to deal with several cancella-tions, learning to settJe with syndication/UPN,and' even going to see the odd-numberedmovie installments. It seemssuch acquaintance with medi-ocrity has taught Trekkiesthe merits of satisfac-tion in the _Buddhist.vein, for if youdO,n~t want, youwill always besatisfied. For thisreason, there waslittle noticeable fan-fare over Enterprise,and the tenth ~ovie iscreeping upon usunnoticed. Nor -does age explain

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    7:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Making It to the Big leagues: A Playbook for Growing Technology Companies. Do youhave what it takes to make it to the World Series? Keynote address by Dean Kamen of Segway LLC, and all-starpanelists from Venture and Entrepreneurial Service Firms in the Boston area will help you get the information onthe strategies and plays you need to make it to be the world champions. Students $45 with Valid SchoollD.Forum' Members who register before April 11th $110 Non Members who register before April 11th $159. AfterApril 11th Members $140 Non-Members $189. Room: The Burlington Marriott, Burlington MA. Sponsor: MITEnterprise Forum of Cambridge, Inc. Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels and Testa, Hurwitz.9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Forum-Iberia. Meeting between scholars and professionals working in the US and Span-ish institutions and companies. Free. Room: W20-201. Sponsor: Iberia. Consulate of Spain, Fundacion JuanMarch, Generalitat, Univ Complutentse, Univ Carlos III, ICREA.9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - "Rafael Moneo: 1965-1985." Architecture Symposium led by Valeria Koukoutsi-Mazarakis with respondents Rafael Moneo and others. Free. Room: Rm 6-120. Sponsor: Department of Archi-tecture.2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - TMRC Open House. This is the first Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) Open Housewhen we will be operating with the new System3 control hardware and software. Come run trains with us up to12 trains using the new electronic network controls! The Open House runs from 2-5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m. *Every.body. is welcome, from 1 to 115 years old! Free. Room: N52-118 (MIT Museum Building, 1st Floor). Sponsor:Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC).6:00 p.m. - Movements in Time 10th Anniversary Concert. Movements In Time Dance Company, an amateur

    9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Forum-Iberia. Meeting between scholars and professionals working in the US and Span-ish institutions and companies. Free. Room: W20-201. Sponsor: Iberia. Consulate of Spain, Fundacion JuanMarch. Generalitat, Univ Complutentse, Univ Carlos III, ICREA.9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p,m. - Booksale. MIT Libraries' Booksale. Books in Engineering, Math, Computer Science,Miscellaneous Sciences, Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, and Miscellaneous. Proceeds benefit the MITLibraries' Preservation Fund. Free. Room: Bush Room, 10-105. Sponsor: MIT Libraries Gifts Office.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - ACDl Seminar. "Probabilistic Design of Compressor Airfoils Under Geometric Uncer-tainty" by Victor Garzon. Free. Room: 33-206. Sponsor: AeroAstro.2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - MIT Sawyer Series, Modern Times, Rural Places. "T Were All Fields Around Here WhenI Was a Boy, Making New Arcadian Memories." Free. Room: MIT, Building E51, Room 095 (Basement). Spon-sor: STS.2:15 p.m. - Biology Colloquium. Marc Tessier.Lavigne (Stanford Brain Research Center) will be delivering a lec-ture entitled, "The Logic and Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Guidance, Branching and Regeneration."*Hostedby Serena Silver. Free. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: Biology.3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Mechanical Engineering Seminar. "Design of Mechanical Systems for Dynamic Perfor-mance." Free. Room: 3-133. Sponsor: ME Seminar Series.3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. - The Reformation and Rejuvenation of R. Chemical Engineering Department SpringSeminar Series. Free. Room: 66-110. Sponsor: Chemical Engineering.5:00 p.m. - Advanced Music Performance Student Recital. Amanda Wang '03, violin. Bach's "Partitas Nos. 2and 3. BWV 1004/6" and "Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052." Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Musicand Theater Arts Section.7:00 p.m. - MIT Anime Club Weekly Screening. "Black Heaven" (10-13) and "Jubei-Chan" (11-13) and TBD.Most screenings are subtitled in English. The MIT Anime Club is a non-profit MIT student organization dedicatedto increasing the awareness of Japanese animation (anime) on campus. Free. Room: Rm 35-225. Sponsor: MITAnime Club.7:00 p.m. - Gosford Park. It is November 1932. Gosford Park is the magnificent country estate to which SirWilliam McCordle and his wife, Lady Sylvia, gather relations and friends for a weekend shooting party. Theyhave invited an eclectic group including a countess, a World War I hero, the British matinee idollvor Novelloand an American film producer who makes Charlie Chan movies. As the guests assemble in the gilded drawingrooms above. their personal maids and v~lets swell the ranks of the house servants in the teeming kitchensand corridors below.stairs. But all is not as it seems: neither amongst the bejeweled guests lunching and diningat their enormous leisure, nor in the attic bedrooms and stark work stations where the servants labor for thecomfort of their employers. Part comedy of manners and part mystery, the tale portrays events that bridge gen-erations, class, sex, tragic personal history - and culminate in a murder (or is it two murders.?). $3. Room:26-100. Sponsor: LSC.8:00 p.m. - One Flea Spare. Dramashop production of play by Naomi Wallace. Directed by Guest InstructorDaniel Alexander Jones. $8, $6 students wilD. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: Dramashop.8:00 p.m. - "American Song and Dance." (MIT American Music Series-March 2-May 10). MIT Wind Ensem-ble, Frederick Harris, Music Director. Special guest violinist Young-Nam Kim, composers Peter Child and Gun-ther Schuller. Featuring the world premiere of a work for violin and chamber winds by Prof Peter Child. Also onthe program Schuller's ~Song and Dance" and Hindemith's Symphony in Bb. 7:15 p.m.-Pre-concert talk/demon-stration (Call to confirm). $3 at the door. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Section.9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. - Grad Hillel Shabbat Soiree. Dessert reception for grad students. Free. Sponsor: Grad-uate Hillel, Graduate Student Council.9:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. - Club Z: Make-Your-own Ice Cream Sundaes + live Jazz. Enjoy free make-your-own icecream sundaes while you listen to the Gustavo Agatiello Jazz Trio perform live. Free. Room: 20 Chimmneys (Stu-dent Center 3rd floor). Sponsor: ClubZ.10:30 p.m. - Gosford Park. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.

    3:30 p.m. - Movements In Time 10th Anniversary Concert. Movements In Time Dance Company, an' amateurdance group at MIT, exposes dancers within the MIT community to professional quality choreography in a widerange of dance techniques, including ballet, modem, jazz, hip-hop, pointe and tap. Performances include jazz,Latin, ballet. hip-hop, and modern dance. $5 at door, $4 in advance. Room: Roxbury Community College MediaArts Center (1234 Columbus Ave., Boston). Sponsor: Movements in Time. -7:00 p.m. - Gosford Park. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. -10:30 p.m. - Black Hawk Down. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: lSC.

    Monday, May 6

    dance group at MIT, exposes dancers within the MIT community to professional quality choreography in a widerange of dance techniques, including ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop, pointe and tap. Performances include jazz,Latin, ballet, hip-hop, and modern dance. Reception follows. $5 at door; $4 in advance. Room: Sala de PuertoRico. Sponsor: Movements in Time.7:00 p.m. - MIT Gospel Choir Spring Concert. Free. Room: Lobdell Dining Hall. Sponsor: Gospel Choir, MIT.7:00 p.m. - Black Hawk Down. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3, 1993, the soldiers of Task ForceRanger were sent on a mission to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and return to base. It wassupposed to take them about an hour. Instead, they were pinned down through a long and terrible night in ahostile city, locked in a desperate struggle to kill or be killed. When the unit was finally rescued the followingmorning, eighteen American soldiers were dead and dozens more badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse:more than five hundred kil/ed and over a thousand wounded. Based on a true story. $3. Room: 26-100. Spon-sor: LSC.,8:00 p.m •• 11:00 p.m. - Patrol. Shoot your friends! Travel to strange, new classrooms; meet interesting,unusual people; an'd kill them. A team game of shoot-em-up; guns provided. Free. Room: Building 36, FirstAoor. Sponsor: Assassins' Guild, MIT.8:00 p.m. - One Flea Spare. Dramashop production of play by Naomi Wallace. Directed by Guest InstructorDaniel Alexander Jones. $8, $6 students wilD. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: Dramashop.8:00 p.m. - "American Originals." (MIT American Music Series-March 2-May 10). Aardvark presents aneclectic program featuring works by Gottschalk, Ives, Ellington and MIT Lecturer Mark Harvey celebrating thediversity of American music. Gottschalk's ~Bamboula," Ives' "Housatonic at Stockbridge," Ellington's" TheRiver" [excerpts] and a world premiere of a work by Harvey. (Call to confirm). Free. Room: Kresge Auditorium.Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Section.8:00 p.m. - Chorallarles Spring Concert. 25th Anniversary. Free. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: Choral/aries of MIT,The.

    ,9:00 p.m. -1:00 a.m. -La Fete, a Spring Formal for the MIT graduate community. Edgerton House hosts itsfirst Spring Formal, featuring live swing and latin music from the acclaimed White Heat Sextet in a beautifullydecorated courtyard, a DJ spinning dance music in Club Edgerton, a vast selection of divine desserts and irre-sistible edibles, and cash service by the Thirsty Ear. $15. Room: Edgerton House, 143 Albany St. Sponsor:Edgerton House Residents' Association. The Dean for Student Life, The Dean for Graduate Students. and theGraduate Student Council Activities Committee.10:30 p.m. - Black Hawk Down. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.

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    12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Eudora Quick Start. This session shows how to configure Eudora, create messagesand address lists, send and receive attachments, and sort incoming email. Room: N42 Demo. Sponsor: Infor-mation Systems.12:00 p.m. - Faculty/Staff Concert, Department of Architecture. Please join us for a spring concert of repre-sentatives of the Architecture Faculty and Staff on Monday, May 6, 12:00, in MIl's Killian Hall. This is a won-derful way to welcome the end of the term, take a brief break from your workload, and experience another sideof those with whom you work on a daily basis. Performers include Professors John Fernandez, William Porter,Stephen Senturia, and staff members Jose Arguello, Rebecca Chamberlain, and Anne Rhodes, performing themusic of Brahms, Britten, Debussy, Chopin, Faure, Messiaen, Puccini, and others. Free. Room: Killian Hall.Sponsor: Department of Architecture.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - See the Simons Lecture SerIes. Free. Room: 4-159. Sponsor: Differential Geometry .Seminar. Department of Mathematics.4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Annual Arthur Miller lecture on Science and Ethics. The Troubled Helix: Ethical Con-flicts and Political Choices in the New Biology. Free. Room: Bartos Theater, El5-070. Sponsor: STS.5:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.- The'Resllient City Colloquium: Trauma, Recovery and Remembrance. MIl's Resilient"City project was conceived in response to the terrorist attacks that destroyed New York's World Trade Center onSept. 11, 2001. The colloquium will examine critically how cities in the past have endured traumatic episodes,and prevailed to establish new order out of chaos and devastation. Weekly lecture series. Free. Room: Room10-485. Sponsor: Department of Urban Studies and Planning.7:30 p.m •• 9:30 p.m. - Hungarian Folk Dancing. Mezosegi - folk dance classes. $ '2. Room: 1-371. Sponsor:Hungarian Student Association of MIT . .,8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - UA Council Meeting. Meeting of the Undergraduate Association Council. Find outwhat's happening on campus! Free. Room: w20-400. Sponsor: Undergraduate AssociatiC?n. ,10:00 p.m •• 1:00 a.m. - Music at The Ear. The Lab8 Drum and Bass crew starts at 10 p.m. The Thirsty EarPub is located in the Ashd9wn House basement. Enter through the courtyard. Hours: Monday: 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.Tuesday - Thursday: 7 p.m. - 1 a.m. Friday: 4 p.m. - 2 a.m. Must be over 21. Proper ID required. This event isfunded in part by the Grants Program of the Council for the Arts at.MIT. Free. Room: The Thirsty Ear Pub. Spon-sor: The Thirsty Ear Pub. ATat, MITDMC.

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    The following movies are playing this weekendat local theaters. The Tech suggests using for a completelisting of times and locations.

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    Blade II ***Although the plot is even less original than

    the first, Blade 1/ still delivers with its blood-drenched, dark vision of the world hiddenbeneath our own. If you want a serious moviewith a deep story, move on, but if you wanthard action and horrific visuals, see Blade 1/.-Dan Robey

    Death to Smoochy * *XWarner Brothers markets the film's mascot

    as an adorable plush rhinoceros in a body bag,a symbol evocative of the guilty laughs andtwisted humor that characterize the movie.Smoochy viewers will raise eyebrows or dodouble-takes at twisted concepts like theinvolvement of the Irish mob, Edward Nortondressed as a giant rhinoceros, and DannyDeVito, in this hilarious satire of the children'stelevision industry. -Sandra Iv/. Chung

    Human Nature**This film's tongue-in-cheek title refers to a

    twisted mockery of modem science and mod-em humanity a la Brave New World. An eti-quette-obsessed behaviorist (Tim Robbins)

    and a hairy naturalist (Patricia Arquette) differover experimenting on a human raised in com-plete ignorance of civilization. -Sandra M.Chung .

    Monsoon Wedding ***The arranged marriage of a young Indian

    couple in Delhi brings together a whole cast ofdelightful characters who sing, laugh and cryas they are reawakened and strengthened bythe power of love to bring people together.Monsoon Wedding is a vibrant, light-heartedromantic comedy with a talented, all-starIndian cast and the intimate creative touch ofMira Nair. - Jonathan Choi

    Panic Room * * XWhile thrilling and fun for a while,Panic

    Room falls short of its ultimate potential andis overall forgettable. Though the last part ofthe burglary saga is spectacular, the endingleaves much to be desired. Fincher decides toend the story in no particular fashion, onlynotifying the audience that it's time to gohome. -Brian Loux

    Resident Evil * XWhile its violence is barely excessive

    enough to make you cringe, its plot is notdynamic enough to make you truly care. Ifyou're looking a cheap thrill ride, Resident Evilcan adequately conjure your adrenaline. If not,then avoid this. one like the T -virus. -Jumaane Jeffries

    Y Tu Mama Tambien * * * .Two doped-up and horny friends, convince

    a scorned cousin-in-Iaw to accompany themon a road trip to an imaginary beach on Mexi-co's Pacific coast. Along the way the threefriends learn to live, laugh and love. What YTu Mama lacks in setup and loses in slightexcess is more than compensated for by anunusual sobriety rarely found in Americanteen movies. -Jed Horne

    The Scorpion King ***Even though The Scorpion King isn't flaw-

    less, and even if it doesn't make sense at times,it makes up for it in coolness. If you're not pre-pared to overlook the movie's flaws, don't seethe movie. If you are, however, prepare to putyour brain in neutral and be entertained,because The Rock delivers everything youwould want in}a good action movie. -BrianLoux

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    Chmelewsky showed the stu-dents the first-round election resultsfor votes cast at the Consulate,where French nationals in NewEngland can vote. In contrast toFrance, Le Pen did very poorly inBoston, with less thim 3 percent ofthe votes, or 11 out of 429 people.Lionel Jospin, the Socialist candi-date, edged out Chirac 29% to 24%.

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    . ond round to keep Le Pen out ofoffice. Jerome Huber G said, "Somepeople say, 'I'm proud to vote for athief rather than a fascist. '" Chirachas been accused of corruption inthe past.

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    While Le Pen lacks a majority,students at the rally nevertheless feltthat it was important to express theirconcern. Pascaline Dupas, a visitingstudent at Harvard, said "We knowhe will not be elected, but to knowthat one French person out of five isracist is kind of unbearable." LePen's' platform also includes opposi-tion to abortion and the EU, and hesupports the death penalty. "Peoplehave to be responsible - when youvote for someone, you are agreeingwith his program," Dupas said.

    Helene Landemore, a graduatestudent at Harvard, criticized LePen's general platform, saying, "It'sso completely anti-everything webelieve in. This is a ridiculous ideato get rid of Europe and get rid ofabortion- everything is such ashame."

    , Delphine Roy, a teaching assis-tant at Harvard, said that it was"going back over 30 years of strug-gle to improve the lot of women inFrance."

    After gathering at the consulate,students linked arms and walked toCopley Place and back, holdingsigns reading "No to the NationalFront" and "We like smelly cheesebut not Le Pen."

    The rally day was chosen tocoincide with much larger protestsin France, where an estimated onemillion people rallied in the streetsagainst Le Pen and the NationalFront.

    Le Pen does poorly in BostonSeveral student representatives

    met with the Consul General ofFrance in Boston, StephaneChmelewsky, to explain the rally's

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