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U Honors Youth Leaders at MLK Celebration

January 21, 2002

Students and educators from the Salt Lake Valley were honored at the close of the U's celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. U President Bernie Machen awarded 10 students with the Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Leadership Award. He also presented two high school teachers, a counselor and a secretary to the principal with the Martin Luther King Jr.

Israeli Army Takes Over Entire Town

January 21, 2002

TULKAREM, West Bank?For the first time in 16 months of fighting, Israeli troops took over an entire Palestinian town Monday, imposing a curfew, searching homes and arresting suspected militants in retaliation for attacks on Israeli civilians. One Palestinian was killed and 15 were wounded in gun battles as troops took over Tulkarem.

Lindh to Relocate Soon To Undisclosed Area

January 21, 2002

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan?American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh will probably be flown Tuesday from the Navy ship where he is being held to an undisclosed location, U.S. military officials said. On Monday, the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to divulge Lindh's ultimate destination or other details, saying only that he would transit through the U.

From Under the Bombs: Hiba Al-Zahawi Remembers a Childhood in Gulf War Iraq

January 21, 2002

There are children in Afghanistan, and Hiba Al Zahawi has a pretty good idea how they may feel huddled in their homes while military planes drone overhead. Now a U student, Al-Zahawi was eight years old and living in Baghdad, Iraq, when a U.S. led United Nations coalition began dropping bombs on the capital in January of 1991.

Educators Fight to Stop Budget Cuts

January 21, 2002

SALT LAKE CITY?Educators plan no job actions this session and they will be battling not for significant improvements but just to hold their own. The $1.7 billion education budget already has taken a $52 million hit and the educators will be fighting not only against more cuts but against tuition tax credits, which they say would eat into public education's budget.

Shared Mistakes Tumbled Enron

January 21, 2002

WASHINGTON?A fired auditor has told congressional investigators that Enron and its accounting firm share the blame for the partnership arrangements that helped drive the energy giant into bankruptcy. Former Arthur Andersen auditor David Duncan "did not point the finger at Enron; it was more of?'we made mistakes,'" Rep.

MLK Remembered Across the Country

January 21, 2002

BOSTON?Yolanda King, the eldest daughter of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., recalled Monday that her father long expected that he wouldn't live past age 40. That expectation came true on April 4, 1968, when James Earl Ray shot King at a Memphis motel, one day after he predicted his own death.

BYU freshmen skip dorm life, head off campus

By By U Wire • January 21, 2002

PROVO?Despite the amenities of living on campus, which are enough to entice most freshmen, about 2,000 at Brigham Young University skip life in the dorms and head straight to off-campus housing. While most freshmen have the convenience of three meals prepared for them on a daily basis, free high-speed Internet connection and a less than five-minute walk to campus, those freshmen living off-campus go without such benefits.

Police Report: Two Parkers Arrest Each Other

January 21, 2002

Two women started arguing in a parking terrace near University Hospital. Woman A claimed woman B acted aggressively and used abusive language for no apparent reason. Woman B said woman A had opened her car door into woman B's car and when woman B took steps to prevent it from happening again, woman A became irate.

Student Leaders Plan to Rally Legislature

January 21, 2002

In a year with few state dollars to spread around, student leaders are planning a rally to tell lawmakers not to neglect the state's colleges and universities. The state's $200 million tax revenue shortfall forced lawmakers to spend the past two weeks behind closed doors re-writing this year's budget.