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A Cleat Channel Entertainment Event get liUfeZ^SS Por /pring break ’03 m m m *^1 1637 S.Texas Avenue • Culpepper Plaza ^Izdlatxxzzn dLastnxtit (dante&t TONIGHT I st & 2 nd Place OPEN MIC NIGHT 1.00 Orange Pints ALL NIGHT LONG Six Bridges playing on Saturday, November 2nd 8A Thursday, October 31, 2002 THE ^ E iWS battal New York City competes fotFed< 2012 summer Olympic gan# ke NEW YORK (AP) — This is a city of shrugs, a place where mil lions of people brush off suffocat ing subway crowds, strict securi ty and the glare of the world spot light with a wry smile and shared expression: “Only in New York.” This is a place that takes pride in its ability to absorb nearly any sort of special event — and organizers hope to con vince the U.S. Olympic Committee that staging the 2012 Summer Games here will be no different. “It absolutely plays to our strength,” said Daniel Doctoroff, founder of NYC2012, the city’s Olympic lobbying group. “The real test is what city has the capability of managing it, and no city has the experience New York does.” The USOC will choose between New York and San Francisco on Saturday as the U.S. candidate for the Olympics, and the winner will compete against a strong field of worldwide candi dates. The International Olympic Committee will choose the host city in 2005. In their competition with San Francisco, New York organizers say they hold a clear advantage: efficiency. Their hopes center on the “Olympic X,” a design that would align venues into a rough cross-shaped pattern, with a high-speed ferry run ning north-south and commuter rail lines running east-west. on at The idea is to get athletes and spectators from place to place — baseball at Yankee Stadium, soccer at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, equestrian Staten Island, gymnastics Madison Square Garden — without tying up traffic. The New York organizing team also is quick to point out that in August, when the Games probably would be staged, nearly 1 million fewer people use city transit because school is out and many New Yorkers are vacationing. When the Summer Games were last held in the United States, in Atlanta in 1996, traf fic snarled, confusion reigned and global Olympic officials made their displeasure clear. The lesson was not lost on New York planners. “I’ve been to three Olympics, and just to get to the games can be frustrating,” said Cristyne L. Nicholas, who heads the city’s tourism agency, NYC & Company. “When you have to spend an hour or two to get there, you just prefer not to go. That’s not going to happen in New York.” Still, as they try to woo the USOC — and, they hope, the International Olympic Committee — New York organizers have had to fight loud opposition. At the heart of the dispute is a $1 billion proposal to convert a rail yard in Manhattan along the Hudson River into an Two cities compete for Olympic gold New York City and the San Francisco Bay area are thetwofr ?3 fc for the potential U.S. site for the 2012 Olympic Games. On Sato the U.S. Olympic Committee will decide which of thetwoota diverse tourist meccas will be chosen as the American candid San Francisco Bay area New York City ► 92 percent of venues within a 32- mile radius aue: ► 80 percent of venues already in place ► Comfortable summer dimate ► Natural beauty of area will draw visitors ► Advanced technology capabilities ► Almost 70,000 hotel rooms will be available ► Regional bid with San Frandsco, Oakland. San Jose, and Sacramento ► $2.4 billion budget, $409 million projected surplus ► looped of venues within a 2k mile radius ► Tight infrastructure includes mass transit by rail andferryfa athletes and visitors ► Reflects Olympic ideals lit the nobility of competition am strength from adversity ► Established international media resources ► More than 66,000 hotels ROCKVILLE halted when !ting investigi • a local lav Maryland LL ither suspect \ leral law requ asked for a the dispute \ over which against Job After a thre ion, Muhami stop on a ft mbers of the Later that da two were tai icial said. Task force in boroughs, New Jersey and Lot Island ► $2.7 billion budget SOURCES: NYC2012; BASOC. Associated Press Olympic stadium and an adjoining 8-acre plaza. Some New Yorkers, particu larly in the Hell’s Kitchen sec tion near where the stadium would be built, claim the project would destroy neighborhoods, displace poor and middle- income residents and saddle tax payers with a huge bill. “The city can probably han dle it. The question is, do the cit- in New York City, with 122.1® apport and m in metropolitan area However, a s< ► Events in New York City’sf* 11 anon y m ' ^errogators am The Justice L was in the ca only things icthing to ea Task force c ision ended 'orcement soi “He was tal ainly a grer imhim." DiBiagio. hi izens want to handle if Bob Trumpbour, a Illinois University | who studies stadium “If the IOC thinks it ms hung up, that might hunia Trumpbour believes si lers from the sports teams looking homes might jump intolis the financial load on the® but not enough to takei the burden off taxpayers. pects, and cc Muhammad red to confes: Gov. Jeb Bush pressured to as! President for release of Haitian MIAMI (AP) — A congresswoman pressed Gov. Jeb Bush on Wednesday to ask his brother, the president, to order the release of 200 Haitian immigrants detained in Florida after they jumped off a freighter and waded ashore. The Republican governor was confront ed during a campaign stop by Rep Carrie Meek, D-Fla., who said the Haitians should be treated like Cuban immigrants. “All you have to do is call — the wet foot- dry foot policy would take effect,” Meek said. Normally, Cuban immigrants are allowed to remain in the United States if they reach land, while those intercepted at sea are returned. The governor said he agrees Haitian immigrants should be released until their asylum request is heard, like immigrants from other countries. “Haitians should be treated in the same fashion that Jamaicans, people from the Bahamas, people from any country in the world,” Bush said. A day earlier, the governor said he had called White House officials regarding the immigrants, but he did not elaborate Wednesday or say whether he had spoken with his brother. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the Haitians were being treated fairly and humanely and that the president would not intervene. “The Immigration and Naturalization Service will apply the law and make the proper judgments,” Fleischer said. The 50-foot wooden freighter carrying 211 Haitians and three Dominicans ran aground Tuesday on a stretch of beach near a road south of downtown Miami. Six Haitian nationals were charged with illegal smuggling in the case. The Haitian immigrants included 150 men, 35 women and 26 juveniles, INS spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said. One of the minors was hospitalized for dehydra tion. If Bush could champion the issue, he could shift the balance in the election. The time for lip service is over. ” —Ari Fleiscer white house spokesman Gonzalez declined to say whether any of the immigrants had asked for asylum. The immigrants’ detention sparked protests by Haitian-Americans who said U.S. laws discriminate by favoring other immigrants — particularly Cubans. Jean Robert Lafortune, president of the Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition, said the detention poses a leadership test for Gov. Bush. Worn for tc ■ EVANS VIL m A French felony charge conduct at an megedly unc ‘If Bush could champion the ii could shift the balance in the ele Lafortune said. “The time forlipser^j over.” Bill McBride, the Democratic® for governor, released a letter to P®® 1 aum e, - Bush asking him to order the release ust in an ai turity screen A judge Tue jle cause for t iane Yvc aim to faces misc HTalsoTooic to Hailian-MO ksistinglaw phc indecent airwaves. . A„„;n “We should not have one set oU § ui ' laume aoDlv to one set of people and ones* ien the judj ruTs'lo apply ,o Haitians," Meg h^nal. during a call Wednesday to WSK Fort Lauderdale. Thousands of Haitians each y e dangerous voyages aboard rickety,c boats to flee their impovenshed Unlike Cubans, Haitian immigrants® are denied asylum and sent back. About 4,000 immigrants have been, cepted at sea this year, including 1,500 Haitians, the Coast Guard saw- lontinued The Bush administration j'L changed its detention P^ C ^ ur ,Iaches, Wigl refugees in December ^ ^ ^ , rthe nght ^ applying M ommunity%Wigl e y comment t [e hearing. jThe felony p charge w 1 a state law W terrorist Ethics feared mass exodus. Before t e ^ Haitian immigrants were released into the - their petitions were processe • change, Haitians have been kep gration custody. , Immigration attorneys sue ment in March, saying the ne P detention was biased. AH tickets only $7.50! Original Music by Joe Scruggs Lights out! 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