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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Racial episodes shake Ohio's Oberlin College
Students walk in downtown Oberlin Tuesday, March 5, 2013. A series of hate-related incidents, including a report of someone wearing what looked like a Ku Klux Klan hooded robe, has shaken students at Oberlin College, one of the nation?s first universities to admit blacks. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Students walk in downtown Oberlin Tuesday, March 5, 2013. A series of hate-related incidents, including a report of someone wearing what looked like a Ku Klux Klan hooded robe, has shaken students at Oberlin College, one of the nation?s first universities to admit blacks. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Modjeska Pleasant, 19, talks about the racial incidents that occurred recently at Oberlin College Tuesday, March 5, 2013 in Oberlin, Ohio. Pleasant is a first year student studying biology. Oberlin College in Ohio says it canceled classes after a report that a person wearing a hooded robe resembling Ku Klux Klan gear was seen near an African heritage building. The college near Cleveland canceled Monday's classes after the early morning sighting. It calls it the latest in a series of hate-related incidents on campus. Racist graffiti were reported on campus last month. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Isaac Fuhrman, 21, talks about the recent racial incidents at Oberlin College Tuesday, March 5, 2013, in Oberlin, Ohio. Furrman is a third year student studying biology. Oberlin College says it canceled classes after a report that a person wearing a hooded robe resembling Ku Klux Klan gear was seen near an African heritage building. The college near Cleveland canceled Monday's classes after the early morning sighting. It calls it the latest in a series of hate-related incidents on campus. Racist graffiti were reported on campus last month. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
A student rides a bicycle on the campus of Oberlin College Tuesday, March 5, 2013, in Oberlin, Ohio. Oberlin College says it canceled classes after a report that a person wearing a hooded robe resembling Ku Klux Klan gear was seen near an African heritage building. The college near Cleveland canceled Monday's classes after the early morning sighting. It calls it the latest in a series of hate-related incidents on campus. Racist graffiti were reported on campus last month. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Joshua Blue, 18, talks about the recent racial incidents at Oberlin College Tuesday, March 5, 2013 in Oberlin, Ohio. Blue is a first year student studying vocal performance major. Oberlin College says it canceled classes after a report that a person wearing a hooded robe resembling Ku Klux Klan gear was seen near an African heritage building. The college near Cleveland canceled Monday's classes after the early morning sighting. It calls it the latest in a series of hate-related incidents on campus. Racist graffiti were reported on campus last month. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
OBERLIN, Ohio (AP) ? Scrawls of racially offensive graffiti and, more recently, a report of someone wearing what looked like a Ku Klux Klan-type hooded robe on campus have shaken students at historically liberal Oberlin College, one of the nation's first universities to admit blacks.
Two students are being investigated for possible involvement in the graffiti and are facing discipline by the college, but no criminal charges have been filed, said Oberlin city Police Chief Thomas Miller. It wasn't clear, he said, whether the culprits were pranksters or genuinely motivated by bigotry.
The college canceled Monday's classes after an early morning report of someone in a white, hooded robe. Investigators were trying to determine whether the sighting was reliable or related to a separate sighting of a person wrapped in a blanket.
Classes resumed Tuesday, though the atmosphere was still tense. The police department has stepped up patrols around the campus at the request of the college.
"I just really feel uncomfortable walking alone anywhere," Modjeska Pleasant, 19, a first-year student from Savannah, Ga., said Tuesday.
Pleasant, who is black, said she became upset after hearing a few white students suggest that the racist graffiti first found a month ago and anti-Semitic and racist fliers and other messages left around campus since then were just a prank to get out of classes.
In an open letter, President Marvin Krislov and three deans told the campus they hoped the ordeal would lead to a stronger Oberlin. Students and professors gathered Monday afternoon to talk about mutual respect.
Hate-filled graffiti and racially charged displays are not unusual on college campuses. But what makes these episodes so shocking is that they happened at a place tied closely with educating and empowering blacks.
Oberlin began admitting blacks nearly 180 years ago. Among its graduates are one of the first blacks elected to public office and the first black lawyer allowed to practice in New York state. The city itself was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
The college, with nearly 3,000 students, remains a liberal oasis in the middle of northern Ohio, surrounded by conservative farming towns and rust belt cities. Cleveland is about 30 miles away.
Isaac Fuhrman, a psychology major from Lexington, Mass., said the episodes were upsetting, especially for black students.
"I guess for them, Oberlin doesn't seem like such a safe haven perhaps," said Fuhrman, who is white.
The incidents began the first week of February, according to a police report that detailed the defacement of Black History Month posters with the N-word, a "whites only" sign written above a water fountain, a swastika drawn on a science center window and a student knocked to the ground by a person making a derogatory comment about ethnicity.
Some of the graffiti and fliers also included homophobic slurs, the police report said.
Joshua Blue, 18, a first-year student from Naperville, Ill., who is black, said the reports have cast the historically tolerant Oberlin community in a different light.
"We believed that there was what people call the 'Oberlin bubble,' which is the idea that we're in this area where hate and anger and stuff like that doesn't exist," he said after phoning his mother to assure her he was safe.
"It's a wonderful idea to feel safe and accepted," Blue said. "But the recent event was a reality that we're still part of the world and the issues of the world are also our issues, and you can't avoid that."
Blue, who is studying vocal performance, said he has begun riding home from evening rehearsals with classmates for safety.
Francis Bishop, 83, who lives near the campus, said he couldn't remember similar race-related incidents on the campus and speculated it was done by someone trying to cause a stir.
"It's so much of an isolated thing, in the long run I don't think it's going to make a hill of beans," Bishop said while walking his dog near the picturesque town square, lined with shops and college buildings.
Oberlin has no fraternity or sorority houses, and sports aren't a big part of campus life. Instead, students come to study music, art and creative writing.
Notable recent alumni include Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Lena Dunham, creator of the HBO series "Girls" ? a show featuring several characters who met at Oberlin.
Dunham wrote on her Twitter account Monday that she was saddened by the news from her alma mater.
"Hey Obies, remember the beautiful, inclusive and downright revolutionary history of the place you call home. Protect each other," she wrote.
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Associated Press writer John Seewer in Toledo contributed to this report.
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Monday, March 4, 2013
Musical of 'The Fortress of Solitude' heads to NYC
FILE - This Sept. 2005 file photo shows Jonathan Lethem, author of "Fortress of Solitude," outside his summer home in Blue Hill, Maine. A musical based on Jonathan Lethem's celebrated 2003 novel ?The Fortress of Solitude? is heading toward New York. The Public Theater said Monday, March 4, 2013, that it will co-produce the show and bring it to its downtown home for the 2014-15 season after it debuts at the Dallas Theater Center in March. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, file)
FILE - This Sept. 2005 file photo shows Jonathan Lethem, author of "Fortress of Solitude," outside his summer home in Blue Hill, Maine. A musical based on Jonathan Lethem's celebrated 2003 novel ?The Fortress of Solitude? is heading toward New York. The Public Theater said Monday, March 4, 2013, that it will co-produce the show and bring it to its downtown home for the 2014-15 season after it debuts at the Dallas Theater Center in March. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, file)
NEW YORK (AP) ? A musical based on Jonathan Lethem's celebrated 2003 novel "The Fortress of Solitude" is heading toward New York.
The Public Theater said Monday that it will co-produce the show and bring it to its downtown home for the 2014-15 season after it debuts at the Dallas Theater Center in March.
The musical has a book by Itamar Moses and music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, who also wrote songs for "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson." The new musical is conceived and directed by Daniel Aukin.
Lethem's novel tells the story of two boys, one white, one black, both raised by single fathers in 1970s Brooklyn and both of whom become endowed with superpowers.
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Online: http://www.publictheater.org
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Timbers come back,?draw Red Bulls
By ANNE M. PETERSON
AP Sports Writer
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updated 10:29 p.m. ET March 3, 2013
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Caleb Porter's first inspirational halftime speech for the Portland Timbers did the trick.
The Timbers overcame two early goals by Fabian Espindola to forge a 3-all draw with the New York Red Bulls in both teams' Major League Soccer season opener on Sunday night.
"It doesn't happen very often, coming back from two goals down," said Porter, who took over as head coach in Portland this season after seven seasons at the University of Akron. "But this team has shown incredible toughness and resiliency."
Espindola, a veteran acquired by New York in the offseason from Real Salt Lake, scored in the ninth and 24th minutes, while Jamison Olave, also obtained in the trade with RSL, added a goal in the 28th minute.
Argentine midfielder Diego Valeri scored his first goal for the Timbers, who played before a sellout crowd of 20,674 at Jeld-Wen Field. Darlington Nagbe's goal in the second half pulled Portland to within 3-2 before an own goal that bounced off Olave in the 83rd minute tied it.
"We came into the locker room (at halftime) and said `Let's push,"' Timbers forward Ryan Johnson said. "We figured that if we got the first one, the second one would come with momentum."
Both teams had new coaches on the sideline.
The Red Bulls went 16-9-9 last season, tied for third in the Eastern Conference, but they got bumped out of the first round of the playoffs by rival D.C. United. New York subsequently dismissed coach Hans Backe and promoted Mike Petke, who served as an assistant the last two seasons after playing for the MetroStars from 1998-2002 and later the Red Bulls from 2008-2010, replaced Hans Backe.
"At the end of the day, we took a point on the road - but we let two slip away," he said.
Portland went 8-16-10 last season to finish eighth in the Western Conference. Porter, who led Akron the NCAA championship in 2010, wore a suit on the sideline for his MLS coaching debut.
"This team continues to impress me, mostly with their determination and their talent," he said.
One of Portland's key offseason additions was Valeri, who was acquired from Argentina's first division Club Atletico Lanus. The 26-year-old had been with Lanus nine seasons, scoring 25 goals in 158 matches. It was hoped that Valeri will help scoring for a team that was second-to-last in goals scored last season.
"It's a long season. We have a lot of matches," Valeri said. "But I think we're making a good team."
The Red Bulls struck early with a goal from MLS veteran Espindola, acquired with Olave from Real Salt Lake in a three-way trade that also sent midfielder Will Johnson to the Timbers for allocation money.
Espindola, who had nine goals and seven assists in 30 games last season with RSL, charged the box for his first goal, taking advantage when tumbling goal keeper Donovan Ricketts failed to control the ball.
Valeri scored the equalizer, bounding between two defenders and firing out of New York keeper Luis Robles' reach in the 13th minute. But Espindola put the Red Bulls back ahead with a left-footed rocket from the right side.
Olave scored off a cross from Heath Pearce to put New York up 3-1.
Petke said the Red Bulls played like they were trying to save the lead in the second half - missing the aggressiveness they had in the first.
"Portland's a good team," he said. "They threw everything at us."
Portland narrowed the match after the break when Nagbe rebounded a shot off Robles in the 56th minute, before the own goal caromed off Olave and past Robles as the clock wound down. Portland had a chance to win it in the final minute, but Robles saved a shot by Ryan Johnson.
The Timbers outshot the Red Bulls 21-10 and maintained possession for 63 percent of the match. They played without veteran midfielder Jack Jewsbury, the club captain, who is nursing a sore hamstring.
The Red Bulls are 2-0-2 against the Timbers, who joined MLS in 2011. Portland is now 2-0-1 in season openers.
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Mid-life crisis? New Corvette convertible unveiled
It was just another car rolling down the assembly line this past week ? or would have been if it wasn't, in fact, the last sixth-generation Corvette to be produced at General Motors? assembly plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
The white two-seater with a dark canvas top was perhaps the appropriate way to end a product run that began in 2005. Sometimes referred to as ?America?s sports car,? the seventh-generation Corvette almost didn?t make it to production, the project nearly scuttled by GM?s 2009 bankruptcy. But even a year late, the new coupe version of the ?Vette, which fans call the C7, proved the star of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit this past January.
Company officials there revealed plans to add an assortment of spin-off models, and an all-new version of the Chevrolet Corvette Convertible will make its formal debut at this coming week?s Geneva Motor Show.
It was the star of the hometown car show but now General Motors hopes to prove its new, seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette has international appeal as it drops the top on the so-called "C7? by introducing the convertible edition at the Geneva Motor Show.
Though a few hazy ?spy shots? have surfaced in recent weeks, these are the first official images of the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible, which reveal that GM designers and engineers went to great lengths to maintain the striking shape of the coupe that was first introduced in January at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
Indeed, in a conversation with TheDetroitBureau.com, Tadge Juechter, the chief engineer on the C7 Corvette program stressed that it ?was designed with the convertible in mind.? That?s unlike the way GM and many other automakers have traditionally approached the development of a ragtop.
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All too often, they start out with a coupe and then find ways to slice off the roof. But that weakens the overall vehicle platform, something you clearly don?t want in a sports car, so it requires the introduction of significant supports and bracing. With the 2014 Corvette Convertible, however, there?s essentially nothing added. Yet the base model of the C7 droptop, Juechter said, is 20 percent stiffer than the old hardtop version of the higher-performance Corvette Z06.
There will be a modest gain in weight, he acknowledged, because of the folding rooftop rails and the motor drive system. Specific details won?t be released until Geneva, but the new convertible is expected to be operated by a single button and will be able to be raised and lowered while moving slowly. Considering competitive convertible sports cars like the Porsche 911 Cabriolet can operate in less than 20 seconds, the new C7 Convertible likely will be quicker, as well.
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Chevrolet eventually plans an assortment of Corvette Coupe variants, as in the past, with the stock hardtop shown in Detroit, and a higher-performance Z06 and a track-ready ZR1 to follow over the next several years, according to various sources. It?s not clear yet if the Detroit maker also will offer multiple versions of the Convertible, but that appears likely.
Chevrolet marked the final year ? and the 60th anniversary ? of the Corvette nameplate by introducing a tire-shredding version of the last-generation, ?C6? ?Vette. Dubbed the Grand Sport, it was the most powerful version of the 2-seater ever produced, at 430-horsepower and 424 pound-feet of torque.
At launch, the new C7 Convertible will share the same drivetrain as the new 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe, which means it will actually deliver more power than the Grand Sport, at 450-hp and 450 lb-ft. And though ever so slightly heavier than the hardtop, the al fresco edition should also be able to deliver 0-to-60 times of four seconds or less.
All that?s fine, but why go all the way to Geneva to introduce the new Chevrolet Corvette Convertible rather than, say, wait for less than a month and reveal it during the last of the season?s big U.S. car shows in New York?
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The answer has to do with the changing nature of Chevy itself. While you might think of it as ?the Heartbeat of America,? as it long billed itself, the modern reality is that nearly two of every three Chevrolet products will be sold outside North America this year. In an otherwise retrenching European car market, it?s one of the few growing marques. It?s an increasingly strong player in China and the bowtie brand has traditionally been one of the most powerful in Latin America, as well.
While many of those markets get unique products, such as the Captiva crossover, that we don?t even see in the States, the Corvette has been as much a halo car for Chevrolet abroad as it has been at home. And with GM?s largest brand aiming to turn the C7 remake of ?America?s sports car? into a truly global competitor, targeting exotics as far afield as Porsche and even Ferrari, Geneva takes the fight to their home turf.
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
Nadal blast past Ferrer in Mexican Open final
Spain?s Rafael Nadal serves to Spain?s David Ferrer es during the final round match at the Mexico Open in Acapulco, Mexico, Saturday, March 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)
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Spain?s Rafael Nadal returns the ball to Spain?s David Ferrer during the final round match at the Mexico Open tennis tournament in Acapulco, Mexico, Saturday, March 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)
Spain?s David Ferrer returns the ball to Spain?s Rafael Nadal during the final round match at the Mexico Open tennis tournament in Acapulco, Mexico, Saturday, March 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) ? Rafael Nadal blasted past top seed and defending champion David Ferrer 6-0, 6-2 in Saturday's final of the Mexican Open in a powerful performance that indicated he has quickly returned to near his best after a long-term knee injury.
Ferrer was a three-time defending champion and had won 19 straight matches in this event, but he could find no answer to Nadal, losing to his Spanish compatriot in just one hour and five minutes.
The women's final was similarly one-sided with Italy's Sara Errani beating Carla Suarez-Navarro of Spain 6--0, 6-4.
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Netanyahu gets 14 more days to form new Israeli government
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli President Shimon Peres on Saturday gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an additional 14 days to try to form a new government after he was unable to complete the task during an initial 28-day period.
Talks with potential partners have been deadlocked since elections on January 22 and if he is unable to form a government by March 16 a new poll could be called - a delay that also puts into question a planned visit by President Barack Obama.
Netanyahu's Likud-Beitenu won 31 of the Knesset's 120 seats - an eroded lead that forced him to cast a wide net for partners while juggling their disparate demands.
During the 28-day period, Netanyahu managed to forge a pact only with the party of former foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, whose six-member faction "The Movement" has given him 37 seats, way short of the minimum 61 needed to confirm a new coalition.
In a brief statement following his meeting with Peres on Saturday night, Netanyahu hinted that at least one potential coalition partner refused to sit alongside others.
Netanyahu has faced demands from the parties that placed second and fourth, Yesh Atid (There is a Future) and Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home), to slash mass exemptions from military conscription and cut welfare stipends to ultra-Orthodox Jews.
In coalition talks on Friday with Bayit Yehudi, Netanyahu's chief negotiator said the right-wing party was unwilling to sit alongside ultra-Orthodox parties but Bayit Yehudi officials denied this.
Although he did not name Bayit Yehudi or Yesh Atid as the reason for his inability to form a coalition, Netanyahu said some parties were boycotting others.
"In these past four weeks I tried to form the broadest possible government ... I think the ultra-Orthodox public is prepared to accept (demands by other partners) but the main reason that I have not managed to complete the task by today is ... because there is a boycott of a certain sector," he said.
Netanyahu's outgoing coalition includes two ultra-Orthodox parties which have generally backed him on policies such the settlement of occupied West Bank land in defiance of world powers who support the Palestinians' drive for statehood there.
Bayit Yehudi is even less accommodating of the Palestinians than Netanyahu, who says he wants to revive stalled peace talks.
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Should Netanyahu fail to co-opt allies for a parliamentary majority by March 16, Peres could hand the coalition-building task to another lawmaker and if after an additional period no government emerges, Israelis would have to return to the polls.
Netanyahu was backed by 82 of parliament's 120 lawmakers to form the next government so Peres, whose only real executive power is to nominate a Knesset member to form a government, may opt not to pick another candidate and elections would be called.
Obama is due to visit Israel at the end of March and Netanyahu's trouble in building a new government raises the question of whether he may call off that visit.
But when asked about Israeli reports he might cancel, an official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was no talk at this point about the possibility of Obama scrubbing the trip.
White House spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said: "President Obama looks forward to travelling to Jerusalem, Ramallah and Amman later this month."
(Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick in Washington; Writing by Ori Lewis; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/netanyahu-gets-14-more-days-form-israeli-government-003716165.html
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