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nation 7 THE BATTALION Thursday, August 8, 2002 'hursday, August j; of less (price mus ing personal posse;: 2- If item doesn’tse f to qualify for tlie u cancelled early. ELF WANTED » help needed. Fuf..., attempt to work ar:;. employment drug sj ply in person, Bii cj 'Xt.151. OTORCYCLE i EX 500R, J :all Jesse 676-0245 ion. 1995 YamarlT; Kmi. $3200, (903)eui <awasakl, 250CC £ -5427, ask for Ulses PETS : Brazos Anima; ww.shelterpeuor; achshund, Black • Shots, $250. Cai r| 670. / white tabbies. ‘-I trained. S15,82(K£- idle has a great sea: • for adoption! 9M« )OMMATES Judge turns to Muslim law professor in bid to give Moussaoui legal advice tJfofze. P^eq*ta*tc44> Ge+U&id, • " * OF BRAZOS VALLEY I ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP)— A federal judge has encouraged accused Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui to consult with a law professor who once worked with Arab-American organizations. I Sadiq Reza, who teaches criminal law at New York Law School, refuses to discuss the Moussaoui case. A court- appointed defense team pur posely has avoided any contact With Reza, who has met with Moussaoui at least once. I U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema’s is trying to find a legal expert to whom Moussaoui will listen. I Moussaoui, 34, a French citi zen, is representing himself against charges he conspired with Osama bin Laden and oth ers to plot the Sept. 11 attacks. Moussaoui, who faces the death penalty, has said he is a loyal member of al-Qaeda but denies a role in Sept. 11. ' He has shunned the court- appointed lawyers — who remain in the case despite Moussaoui’s characterization of them as a “horde of blood suckers.” Moussaoui wanted a Muslim lawyer from Texas to provide advice. Brinkema rejected the request when the lawyer refused to formally enter the case. Reza, 37, a U.S.-born Muslim of Indian heritage, has criticized both bin Laden and the Justice Department’s secret detentions after Sept. 11. After Reza’s brief meeting last month with Moussaoui, Brinkema encouraged further contact. She also encouraged Moussaoui to learn more about conspiracy law, following his attempt to plead guilty as a ter rorism conspirator without admitting complicity in the attacks. Moussaoui admitted he was in al-Qaeda and agreed to other allegations in the indictment, but Brinkema said that was not enough for her to accept a plea. There was some indication the judge’s plan is working. Moussaoui has filed motions asking to meet again with Reza. But, in a July 31 plead ing, he said, “Of course Professor Reza might have been contaminated by my ‘interpretation’ of Islam.” Moussaoui said he wanted Reza’s advice on the time needed to prepare a defense, but com plained that meetings were pro hibited until the professor received a new security clearance. Reza, a former public defender in Washington, D.C., has worked as a lawyer for the American Muslim Council and the American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee. The Harvard Law School graduate teaches a course on how other countries investigate and prose cute criminal charges. He is an expert in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. From his apartment in Battery Park City in lower Manhattan, he watched the World Trade Center towers col lapse on Sept. 11. He told New York Law School students the attacks violated three Islamic principles: war should be waged defensively only; illegitimate targets, including women, chil dren and the elderly, should not be harmed; and war should only be authorized by a legitimate head of state. WHAT WOULD A REAL MAN DO? 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Dingell is ■—d expected to win this fall in the heavily Democratic district ( West of Detroit. e needeTSSr' "Campaigns are a whole lot jrnished, vefyiwjdifferent things — it's TV and , 0 +i/3 utilities, i-''radio and mail and it's personal * 5 !lf?^., con t aC ts with a lot of people," needed cres' D'Hgeh said Wednesday. "Our eftorts in this were extraordinar ily successful." h, Cripple i needed. W*',, No smokii#'/' 5/mo., includes m/2bth house, # +bills. 694-15j^. 3. 3/2 house,* 1 s, 695-0027^ aded. House,) 1 ' $325/mo. 1/ 4bllli wanted. ® le route. Granholm is one of 19 women running for governor in 17 states, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. Six are Republicans and 13 are Democrats, including Kathleen Sebelius, who was unopposed in the Kansas primary and will take on GOP nominee Tim Shallenburger in November. Already, a record number of women — five — are serving as governors, in Arizona, Montana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Delaware. Three are Republicans and two are Democrats. Center spokeswoman Gilda Morales said she expects the number of female governors to double in November. Granholm and Sebelius are considered strong candidates, while all the Arizona candidates are women as are the top contenders in Hawaii. Morales said the influx of women isn't surprising: In 1994, voters elected the largest num ber of female statewide office holders ever and those women are now seeking their states' highest office. Granholm didn't mention her gender after her primary victory or at a party breakfast Wednesday. But she made sub tle references to it throughout her campaign against Rep. David Bonior and former Gov. James Blanchard. “If you want the same old, same old. I'm not your man," she said during a debate last month. She made a similar com ment in a recent TV interview and winked at the camera. The women who are being elected governor have generally held statewide office before, including Jane Hull, who was secretary of state when she first ran for Arizona governor in 1996. Of the current candidates, Sebelius is Kansas' insurance commissioner and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is Maryland's lieutenant governor. Mazie Hirono, the Democratic nominee in Hawaii, is the lieu tenant governor. "These women were very well known in their states. They had held high office before," Morales said. "That's a new phenomenon." In Kansas, Sebelius's nomina tion was hardly groundbreaking. The late Joan Finney, a Democrat, was state treasurer when she was elected governor in 1990. Primary battles across the nation Kansas, Michigan and Missouri faced tight primary elections Tuesday for the fall ballot. These states will have elections in November. Got Insurance? 2002 for Students and TheuL t- H E A L T H I system . 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Cash, Check, Aggie Bucks, Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express accepted. ■lli 11 PXt Iw Probe uncovers possible cheating on GRE in Asia on Share-' £ nmate needed 9 d house. 156. . 11(281)844^ drm/2bth duple* shuttle bus. $ t5 6 ^____— asap. 3W,rl ^ yard, 9 arl pt bedroom, y 680-1811 PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — A probe into possible cheating the Graduate Record xamination uncovered Asian- language websites with answers the test, officials at the Educational Testing Service said Wednesday. The web sites, based in China and Korea, included cur- ren t and past Questions from the § r a d u a t e ^ ^missions e xam that jiiiTTpdnT' Pvv ere illegally emale, drm dup |e * , '3bills. CallM " CES . Driving- ket dismisi isal** i-T(6pm-9P^ at.- Fri(6P*; Sat(8am-2 : ^. Walk-ih®' Peer Cour- a Every year we'd get someone from China who had high verbal scores on the GRE then had little or no knowledge of English when begot to the classroom. — Howard Lijestrand UT graduate adviser 3S ile for Travis hom< 57l j5 obtained by est takers, p - a 1 d Princeton - ased ETS, w hich admin- lste rs the test. . A yearlong investigation found average Ve rbal scores ln four coun- hies China, Hong Kong, taiwan and South Korea — had as en significantly. Test officials “tribute the rise to the Web sites, „ ! c ,*3 Were written in Chinese an d Korean. in * 00 ^ e d at score changes countries and noticed a sig- tri 1C » nt r * se ’ n on ly these coun- es ’ said Carole A. Beere, the Oman of the GRE board. the answers were posted on the Internet nor when it noticed scores increasing. “Every year we’d get some one from China who had high verbal scores on the GRE then had little or no knowledge of English when he got to the classroom,” added Howard Lijestrand, graduate adviser at the University of Texas. The investiga tion found a sharp increase only on the verbal part of the test, not the quantitative or analytical parts. In the wake of the discovery, computer-based versions of the test will be sus pended in those four countries. Only the paper version of the GRE General 979.691.8599 J| / . idANCJE CI_u” AT RIVER RANCH MIsUiTlIiT, HOLLYWOOD I O l-UO KNOCKOUTS I U-CALL IT female I ALL NITE LONG oil iBBjiiim WRESTLING |21 HOLLYWOOD KNOCKOUTS Lftlik-:,;/ ilraiMI c hairwi ETS would not reveal when Test will be avail able on two dates set so far: Nov. 23, 2002, and March 15, 2003. The change is expected to affect more than 55,000 students each year. 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