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virginia quarterback kevin newsome has gone from “very probably a allot in the near future” to “guy who just committed.” different alarums. retell: i really into michigan is the godfather of college football and that’s what makes the michigan-ohio federal game so flagrant.it is hoped he will place opponents forsake the ring.i since monday recruitin’ was heavily focused on newsome, let that suffice as his google-stalking. there is also this get a load off one’s mind from conquering heroes that fills in some additional blanks. espn’s opinion: newsome is an provocative inclusive athlete to watch. as a quarterback, he reminds us a little of cameron newton at florida and while newton has more height and is depth along as a passer, newsome is a better messenger and athlete. … he is a player that can make plays on the move rolling right or red. … he is a “street-ball” model of qb right with it, with darned inadequate polish. mechanically, he can be awfully inconsistent– gets by on athleticism unaccompanied. … footwork, timing and persistence through his progressions will support his development as a passer.newsome is michigan’s third recruit in the crest 50 and the first off of two or three quarterback recruits they’ll bring in this year.side note: i mentioned tuesday that i thought both running back recruits would finally pick up four stars; when rivals released an updated 250 neither was present. this isn’t surprising when it comes to teric jones, who is just a fast kid who went to a combine and settle upon have to prove his skills on the field this fall. fitzgerald toussaint, however, has a body of work already and didn’t make it. a pestered rivals analyst suggested horrible grades might be holding his rating back, which is wild in two ways. one: it’s likely bunk since that didn’t ban them from rating jerrelle powe, who’s in his fifteenth year of fatiguing to get into ole miss, highly. they righteous don’t think that much of his gift. two: horrible grades, would obviously frustrate him from matriculating unless he can get them up to ncaa minimums. adjust your recruiting faces a little on the frowny side, and then be twin “hey, we have a top-50 dual omen quarterback” and adjust them to creepy enzyte guy levels.

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McCain says U.S. government failed New Orleans

(CNN) — Sen. John McCain on Thursday blasted the Bush administration and all levels of government for the failed response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

We know we didn’t have the right kind of leadership … where government agencies were getting information from watching cable television rather than have a flow of information, McCain said during an event at Xavier University in New Orleans.

It was not only a perfect storm as far as its physical impact … it was a perfect storm as far as the federal, state and local governments’ inability.

Never again will there be a mismanaged natural disaster, he said, later assuring the crowd that it will never happen again in this country, you have my commitment and my promise.

McCain was into his fourth day in New Orleans on a tour through some economically struggling Democratic states, trying to convince voters he’s not necessarily your typical Republican.

He made stops this week in Selma, Alabama; Youngstown, Ohio, and Inez, Kentucky. Watch McCain discuss the economy in Youngstown, Ohio

The Arizona senator toured the New Orleans’ 9th Ward — the neighborhood hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina. He discussed the challenges ahead for this poverty-stricken area.

We … know that there’s enormous challenges ahead, McCain said. Americans have not forgotten New Orleans. Watch more on McCain’s tour in New Orleans

McCain and his wife Cindy, along with Louisiana’s Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal, walked about 20 minutes through the Lower 9th, stopping at a house being rebuilt by about a dozen volunteers from DeutscheBank in New York City.

I’m proud to be in your company. You’re what America’s all about, McCain told them.

McCain also visited with workers at the Lower 9th Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Association. He asked worker Leroy Crawford how things were going. It’s work, but we’re working, he replied.

On Wednesday, McCain toured Inez, where President Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty — a campaign McCain’s party has criticized for decades.

As well as touring, McCain is trying to put out a political fire set by members of his own party — a controversial ad slamming Sen. Barack Obama that is running in North Carolina.

After McCain had effectively clinched the Republican nomination, he called on his party to run a respectful, above the fray campaign. Watch more on McCain’s campaign focus

But the ad, conceived by local North Carolina Republicans, appears to defy that call.

For 20 years, Barack Obama sat in his cube listening to his pastor, the TV ad says.

The ad then airs comments from Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who says: And then wants us to sing God Bless America? No, no, no. Not God Bless America, God [expletive] America.

McCain’s campaign released an e-mail he sent North Carolina’s GOP chairwoman Linda Daves that asked her not to run the ad.

In the strongest terms, I implore you to not run this advertisement, he wrote. This ad does not live up to the very high standards we should hold ourselves to in this campaign.

North Carolina Republicans refused to pull the ad.

I can’t dictate to them. But I want to be the candidate of everybody. I want to be the candidate of Republicans and Democrats and independents, he said Wednesday.

But even as McCain promised to stick to issues, he found an opportunity to knock Obama for remarks that suggested rural and working-class voters, bitter about the economy, focus on issues involving religion and guns.

Those are elitist remarks, to say the least, McCain said.
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Tsvangirai won Zimbabwe election, says U.S. official

(CNN) — Zimbabwe’s opposition leader won the disputed March 29 presidential election, the top U.S. envoy to Africa announced on Thursday, The Associated Press reported.

Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer was speaking in South Africa at the start of a visit to increase international pressure on President Robert Mugabe, AP reported.

Zimbabwe is locked in a political crisis as the government refuses to release the results of an election that opposition leaders claim as a victory over Mugabe, who has ruled the country for 28 years.

We think in this situation we have a clear victor, Frazer told AP, responding to questions about whether a power-sharing agreement could resolve the election impasse.

Morgan Tsvangirai won and perhaps outright, at which point you don’t need a government of national unity. You have to accept the result.

There may need to be a political solution, a negotiated solution.

Meanwhile, a Chinese ship that drew international condemnation for attempting to deliver weapons to Zimbabwe amid the country’s political crisis is returning home without offloading its cargo, officials in Beijing said Thursday.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said the vessel was being diverted back to China because Zimbabwe had failed to receive the cargo as scheduled.

The An Yue Jiang had attempted to make delivery to landlocked Zimbabwe — where violence continues in a dispute over election results — via South Africa, but was blocked by a court ruling preventing transport of the arms across the country.

The opposition, which says it is being targeted in attacks by government forces, claims that the weapons would have been used to intimidate voters in the event of a run-off election as Mugabe attempts to shore up his support.

As the ship left South Africa in search of another port, the United States had urged other southern African countries not to allow it to dock. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown also called for an arms embargo on Zimbabwe.

Deputy U.S. State Department spokesman Tom Casey told CNN the United States did not think it was appropriate for anyone to provide additional weapons in Zimbabwe as they are going through a political crisis.

China on Thursday defended the arms deal, saying it was finalized a year ago before Zimbabwe’s current troubles escalated, and called Washington’s pressure unjustified.

There are some people in the United States who would like to pose as the world’s policemen, but they are not welcomed in the world, spokeswoman Jiang said. We have friendly relationship with African countries.

David Cockroft, general secretary of the International Transport Workers Federation, said last week that the shipment includes 3.5 million rifle rounds, small arms, mortar shells and rocket-propelled grenades.

Another U.S. administration official said the ship’s cargo was bound for Zimbabwe’s security forces.

The ship also tried to dock in Mozambique, but was refused permission, the official said.

China is a major small arms supplier for several countries, but the U.S. official said the timing of this arms shipment is important given the instability in Zimbabwe. Tensions are high there as a result of the government’s refusal to release the results from last month’s presidential elections.

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says its candidate Tsvangirai won the election. The ruling party of Mugabe, ZANU-PF, claims the MDC engaged in election tampering.

The delay in releasing the results of the vote sparked violence and a government crackdown on opposition members, according to the opposition and human-rights organizations.

In an interview last week with CNN, Tsvangirai said he was concerned about the Chinese ship and feared that the weapons could be used to intimidate voters.
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Disabled Iraqi athletes compete

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — We’re standing on Baghdad University’s running track in the midst of a sandstorm. The sky is yellow, and a gritty cloud of dust whips our faces. Two large explosions rumble from downtown. No one here pays much attention.

These 250 athletes from 14 Iraqi disabled sports clubs aren’t fazed by much. Many of them were maimed by this war, missing arms, legs, blinded and deafened. Few people, from what I can see, have artificial limbs or prosthetic devices. A man with one leg using a simple wood cane jogs by me at a blistering pace.

We’re here for the opening of a three-day national competition organized by the Iraqi National Paralympic Committee. As the announcer calls out to various teams, athletes and their families gather under two large windswept tents.

There are no crates of bottled water, no power bars, no competition T-shirts . This is sports, Iraqi-style. Even to get here, people have to literally dodge bullets and terrorist mortars.

Under the tent I meet 26-year-old Sabrina Wardi. Like almost all the women here, she is wearing a scarf to cover her hair Iraqi-style, a baseball cap topping it off. Watch Wardi train and describe what happened

I used to be an amateur athlete before I had my accident, she tells me. The accident, I learn, was a car bomb. My left leg was amputated, Sabrina says, I had fractures in my right leg and shrapnel in my arm and jaw.

Sabrina is wearing a running suit with the logo of a local sports club for the disabled. After the accident she thought she would never do sports again, but a friend encouraged her to join the club. Now Sabrina is throwing a shot put, discus and javelin.

But Sabrina has the same problem almost all of these Iraqi athletes have: traveling to the club where she trains can, in itself, be an obstacle course; there’s no special transportation for the disabled, potholed streets, blasted sidewalks, elevators that don’t work, sporadic electricity and other realities of today’s Baghdad.

Then there’s the danger: I’m afraid to go out alone because of the security situation, she tells me. My mother needs to go everywhere with me.

At the other end of the tent the organizers of today’s competition are interviewing a young boy in blue running shorts, black high socks and a ton of energy. It’s 11-year old Hussein Abdul Zahara and he’s jogging in place as his coach gives him some pointers for an upcoming race.

Hussein tells me he has been running since he was 6. Last year he was shot in the head, as he stood on a street corner. He lost his sight.

He says he’s not upset and feels pretty comfortable but deep down inside, I’m always sad.

At the starting block, Hussein’s coach ties an old handkerchief to Hussein’s hand, grabs hold and guides him down the track.

No one knows precisely how many Iraqis were crippled or maimed in this war. The head of the Paralympics Committee, Fakhir Ali Al-Jamaly, estimates there are some 3 million disabled people throughout this country of 27 million.

We have no training center, no cars for people with wheelchairs, he tells me. He’s been lobbying the Iraqi government for help.

A man with no legs but whose shoulders could lift a mountain swings himself into a chair and warms up for the shotput. On the track, four men are at the starting block for a race. The referee claps his hands … and they’re off.

One man moves out in front. He has only one arm. I ask Mr. Al-Jamaly what he thinks of when he looks at all the disabled athletes gathered here together in the midst of a sandstorm.

It’s a normal and happy thing, especially since we’re in the midst of an abnormal situation, he says. It’s something exceptional for them and for their families.
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CNN Student News Transcript: April 24, 2008

(CNN Student News) — April 24, 2008

Quick Guide

League of First Time Voters - Get a take on the race for the White House from some first-time voters.

Today’s Headlines - Learn about a space capsule’s rough re-entry and the people who survived it.

Ri$ing Food Co$t$ - Discover some of the reasons behind the current increase in food costs.

Transcript

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: We are kicking off a brand new Thursday edition of CNN Student News. Glad to have you with us. From the CNN Center, I’m Carl Azuz.

First Up: Race for Delegates

AZUZ: The votes are in, the polls are closed and Pennsylvania is in the rearview mirror. But before we leave the Keystone State, let’s break down the results of this week’s primaries and see how they affected the overall race for the White House. Hillary Clinton came out ahead for the Democrats. She rode the wave of momentum all the way to Indiana, which is hosting the next round of presidential contests. But Clinton is still trailing in the all-important delegate count. Barack Obama leads there with 1,719 delegates to Clinton’s 1,586. It takes 2,025 to win the party’s nomination. As for the Republicans, John McCain won the Pennsylvania primary and is currently campaigning across the country. And delegates? Done! McCain wrapped up his party’s nomination earlier this year. His sights are now set on the general election.

League of First Time Voters

AZUZ: Every time an election rolls around, whether it’s a presidential primary or a regional referendum, a new group of voters gets the chance to cast ballots. It’s not an exclusive club. All you have to do is turn 18 and register. That’s how you join the League of First Time Voters. Rick Sanchez sat down to talk with some of this year’s new members.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

RICK SANCHEZ, CNN REPORTER: You guys are the first ones to talk to me about health care and say, This is a priority. This is important for this country. Why is that?

FIRST-TIME VOTER: I’ve grown up the majority of my life without health insurance, so I know how costly it is to go to the doctor, to go to the hospital and not have any backup. You never want to see somebody get rejected or think they shouldn’t go to the hospital because they can’t afford it. I think that’s inhumane.

SANCHEZ: She calls it universal healthcare. Republicans say it’s socialized medicine. Is that a fair criticism?

FIRST-TIME VOTER: I think there are certain situations where government should step in and put in certain programs that are gonna help overall. You need some kind of overall…

SANCHEZ: So, you think the government should be relied on to do some of these things?

FIRST-TIME VOTER: Yes.

SANCHEZ: Just to do it better?

FIRST-TIME VOTER: Yeah.

SANCHEZ: (to others) Agree?

FIRST-TIME VOTER: I think it goes beyond government. If we’re a community, if this country is everything that we say it is, I think it’s our responsibility, our civic duty, to take care of one another.

FIRST-TIME VOTER: I live, like, 20 minutes out of Scranton, and it’s just so poor. There are so many people who are not covered and who can’t go to the hospital like Steph is saying. They can’t live up to their potential because they don’t have insurance or because the school systems are so poor around here.

FIRST-TIME VOTER: I think there’s a difference between taking a socialist idea and working with it, as opposed to taking socialism and putting it into the country. And I think that’s the core difference between what Hillary’s doing and what Barack is planning on doing, and what people are saying they are doing.

SANCHEZ: We’re looking like we’re gonna be spending something like a trillion dollars in Iraq. Money well spent? Raise your hand if you think we ought not to have gone into Iraq, that it was a mistake? (4 raise hands)

FIRST-TIME VOTER: If we were to pull all of our troops out and take them home, I feel that would be more disastrous.

SANCHEZ: You guys believe this country needs change.

FIRST-TIME VOTER: We shouldn’t be at war, and John McCain is going to keep our troops at war.

SANCHEZ: What makes you think that Hillary or Barack Obama will be any better?

FIRST-TIME VOTER: He doesn’t talk about his policies. He just talks about how everything needs to be changed.

FIRST-TIME VOTER: The young American public is getting really caught up in his campaign because all he speaks of is change. They hear him speak and they’re like, Yes, change. Change. But they don’t really know what he wants to change.

FIRST-TIME VOTER: Right. He’s a good speaker. Words come out of his mouth and people like to hear them. They don’t think about the implications of what those words mean, though.

SANCHEZ: Do you believe the next president of the United States will be a Democrat? Raise your hands. (5 raise hands) All but one. Thanks, ladies.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

Is This Legit?

GEORGE RAMSAY, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this Legit? In 1971, the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave 18-year-olds the right to vote. Right year, wrong amendment. The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18. The 25th Amendment actually deals with presidential succession.

Today’s Headlines

AZUZ: Now, on to some more headlines this Thursday. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he wants General David Petraeus to start moving on up to take over U.S. Central Command! Petraeus is currently serving as the top U.S. commander in Iraq. If the Senate approves the new assignment, his responsibility will expand to include nearly 30 countries. Secretary Gates is asking the Senate to sign off on the move by Memorial Day.

A three-person crew of international astronauts is safely back on Earth. But they faced some serious danger on the trip home from space. Check this out: The Russian capsule they were flying in entered the atmosphere facing the wrong direction! To make matters worse, it landed about 260 miles off-target. Amazingly, no one was hurt in this wreckage, but officials are checking into what went wrong.

Up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… What is it? That’s what some Phoenix-area residents were asking when they spotted these red lights earlier this week. But the truth is out there. One man claims he’s the cause. He says he attached road flares to balloons to create the eerie effect. We’re guessing, just for the heck of it.

Ri$ing Food Co$t$

AZUZ: All right, let’s turn our attention to the economy, where some important numbers are heading in opposite directions. Oil and gas prices are up, and the dollar is down. That adds up to tough economic times. Another addition to the up side of the equation: food costs. Ali Velshi explains why those are on the rise.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ALI VELSHI, CNN REPORTER: As the housing market continues its plunge and stock markets gyrate, one market, the market for commodity futures, stays red hot. In the past year alone, corn futures have spiked more than 60 percent, soybeans over 90 percent and rice has more than doubled. Hedge funds and other pools of big money are pouring billions into commodities. They want a better return than real estate, the stock markets or the U.S. dollar can give them. Why do you care? Because this speculative fever is finding its way here: to the checkout line.

LAKSHMAN ACHUTHAN, ECONOMIC CYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: When we get the momentum in a market going one way, smart people can make money doing that. And that is what their job is. What is happening now is that this is showing up and impacting, you know, people very much on Main Street and on their dinner tables.

VELSHI: Now, to be fair, these high prices aren’t just caused by speculators. Bad weather has caused the price of food grains to spike. And growing demand from emerging markets like China and India and the weak U.S. dollar is also playing a part. But as futures markets rally, companies that buy crops to make food must swallow higher prices to guarantee future delivery of the raw goods that they need. And that’s driving prices even higher.

KENDELL KEITH, NATIONAL GRAIN AND FEED ASSOCIATION: It ultimately adds to the cost in the marketplace of merchandizing and marketing grain.

VELSHI: Bottom line: At least some of the price boom appears divorced from the laws of supply and demand. Proof, say some economists: Easily traded commodities like corn and wheat are showing historic gains, while commodities that are not widely traded, like rubber and burlap, are up by a much smaller amount. Others say that connection is tougher to make.

VIC LESPINASSE, GRAINANALYST.COM: It’s very difficult to say exactly how big of a role speculation has played. I think it is relatively minor. The speculators are not setting the trend, they’re just following the trend.

VELSHI: Traders say the fundamentals play a much bigger role than speculation. Drought in wheat-growing Australia, for instance. And they say don’t forget higher oil and gas prices that make it more expensive to produce and transport food. Now, you’d think farmers here in the U.S. would be happy about these high prices, but even some of them are complaining that all of this speculation has thrown the whole market out of whack. They say they’re not feeling the full benefit of the price increases, and they’re asking the U.S. government to somehow limit speculation in food markets. Easier said than done. But speculation in commodity markets is provoking food rage.

ACHUTHAN: When you have, you know, your milk price double or your bread double or something like that because of some financial gyrations, and you say something is wrong here. And I think that’s what people are really reacting to and are feeling right now.

VELSHI: It may be wrong to some, but a global market is a hard thing to stop. Ali Velshi, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

Word to the Wise

RAMSAY: Two Words to the Wise…

supply and demand. These are the keys to determining price. Supply is the amount of a good or service available, and demand is the amount of that good or service that consumers are willing to purchase at a certain price.

source: www.investorwords.com

Before We Go

AZUZ: And finally, a crime-fighting team you just don’t find every day.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ALLAN KIETA, SAVED BY DOG: She was acting like she was scared, and she’s an excellent alarm dog. Yes, she is. She is very good. (Dog growls)

REPORTER: She’s telling you something now, right?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

AZUZ: What Bella was scared of was a suspected intruder in her house. So, she woke up her owner Allan, probably using that same growl. This is where we should probably mention that Allan is visually impaired. Didn’t matter. He found the source of the disturbance and fought him off for 30 minutes!

Goodbye

AZUZ: That is a smack down. We hope to see you again tomorrow to close out the week. For CNN Student News, I’m Carl Azuz. E-mail to a friend

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