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Since 1868 25 Ul 'saint' puts Bush& Blair visages back • together again rematn IV LAURA HOlMES Mcdicnl Adhesive Type A. defiant 'TH OAI 'f IOWAN Th prosth iBis clamped in the mold until it has t. BY JIM VANDEHEI AND Onken aid the glue usually MIKE ALLEN ·;- - . .. I ta about two day , and then I WASHINGTON POST he use some more. He added t ' . ' that o1though he can sleep in it, ~ •.. r.lci! '' WASHINGTON - President he wrutdly takes it off before he Bush and British Prime Minister to bed. Tony Blair, who jointly defied Markt, who has been doing international opposition to oust facial pro theses since 1995, Saddam Hussein, Thursday id th y never look perfect. stood side by side and vigorously -w 're trying to make rubber defended their military camprugn look like kin," he said. "But once in Iraq and the intelligence they you go out in th un for a couple presented to justify it. or houra, the color can change With both leaders facing sharp compl tely.• Some patients get criticism for mounting casualties in nround lhi by having a different Iraq, the failure to find weapons of p · for each season. mass destruction, and their reliance Onken has nothing but praise on disputed intelligenoo, Bush and for the doctor and his work. Blair smd history will show they "Ur. Markt had t.o keep trying were right in taking out Saddam different colora on it to get it and oonfronting global t.er:rorisrn. right," Onken id. "As long as I hold this offioo, I will • 1arlrt ud he loves his job and never risk the lives ofAmerican citi th l h ce great sati faction zens by assuming the good will of out ~ ab to make people dangerous enemies," Bush said at a bt about themsel¥ . 26-minute White House news oon people who don't have ference with Blair. "'ur people are a , for example, don't even going to find out the truth. And the Y.ant to com out of their hou : truth will say" the war was based he 'd. •out ifi can make them on trustworthy intelligence. new one to make them more 'There's no doubt in my mind." confid nt, that's great." Hours before the news confer Although the glue used to keep ence, the political war over the dis on USWllly lasts for two puted intelligenoo escalated. Sen. there have been a few occa Dick Durbin, D-ill., a member of wh n t.h d vice haven't the Senate Intelligence Commit where they should. tee, said CIA Director George of my patients was a 9- Tenet told senators in a closed ,..... ,~.Abo •," Markt 'd." One hearing Wednesday that a senior y, h w playing basketball White House official had pushed an in the ear, and it the agency to approve the allega t fl . Only the and the tions used in the State of the boy'1 moth r med to notice, Union. Durbin made the comment though. [The boy J just ran over, on ABC's "Good Morning America" • od it up, uck it right back on Blair continued to stand by the 'n, and k.ptplaying.• [· 01 John Rlchard!The Daily Iowan Dr. Jelf Martd poses with a prosUietic eye and nose that he made at the Ul Hospitals and Clinics on Wednesday. SEE IRAQ, PAGE 3 n OK budget, classes Myers bows out with laughter BY CRISTA HAHN THE DAILY IOWAN UI cour e adds, drops approved "Thank you, Dick Myers" read the sign above the Holiday Inn in BY J.K. PERRY State University, and UI Coralville, where outgoing Iowa lHE DAllY IOWAN provosts who review academic House Minority Leader Dick programs to make sure there Myers, D-Coralville, ended hls isn't any duplication. six-tenn stint in the Legislature The result of fewer faculty with a commemorative roast members and more incoming Thursday. students will mean less vari The man of the hour retired ety in course selection, which July 1 because of health prob officials believe should reflect lems, and he said he is looking global trends. forward to his retirement. .. We should always be Myers, 68, sat at a table with adding classes because the his wife, Dorris, facing his roast world is changing and accred ers and laughing out loud at itation is changing," Podolef jokes targeting him. Three hun sky said. John Richard/The Daily Iowan dred and thirty-four supporters Retiring Iowa House Minority leader Dick Myers, D·Coralvllle, and for The regents also approved a and friends attended the event proposal by the Ul to change -the proceeds of which benefit mer Vennont Gov. Howard Dean laugh at a limerick poking fun at Myers the statistical-genetics sub ed the Johnson County Democ at acommemorative roast for the longtime local politician on Thursday. track of the biostatistics Ph.D. rats and the Truman Fund. to a Ph.D. program in statisti Speakers included Gov. tom education, expanded health care, scanned her own life for lessons cal genetics. It will be a new Vilsack, presidential candidate and economic opportunity." from her father. d partment within the College and former Vermont Gov. Dean made lightrhearted stabs "He believes that Democratic ofPublic Health. Howard Dean, Myers' youngest at Myers, asking, "When he was principles are best practiced outr "We believe this is a reposi daughter, Shelly Myers, and ill in the military, he once stole a side the home," she said, adding tioning of a program that President David Skorton. fire engine to get back to base, iB that no matter how much she com already exists," said ISU "He was a friend. This job of that true?' Dean also advised the plained about something to her Provost Benjamin Allen, being in public life at whatever retiring representative on the father, he would simply say that adding that it will help the UI level can sometimes be quite teaching position he has been their holl8e was not a democracy. to better rve th state. lonely," Vi1sack said. "It is at offered by the UI: "Before you get Despite the numerous jokes, The mo¥ rcOocUI what other those times you understand the into the classroom, eat and go to many people had kind words to univet'Bitics nCl'OIIS the nation true character of somebody." the bathroom; it may be five say about Myers. I ha done, U1 officials enid. Addressing Myers, Vilsack hours before you get out of class." "Dick was somebody who "The leading schools are continued: "I personally want to Bill Wimmer, a lobbyist and worked extremely hard on bring I ing this way," said UI Pres· thank you because it is impor Iowa court reporter, also gave ing people together to solve prolr id nt David Skort.on. "It's the tant to me knowing I have Myers similar advice about his )ems," said state Sen. Joe Balk ( birth of an interdisciplinary friends like Dick Myers." offer to teach. "You should go to com, D-Iowa City. fl ld." Vtlsack said he hopes the per teach for [Skorton) - with what "He had a lot of friends on both [ ·,..All 01 ~li'OIIU~ J.IC. ,_, AT. son who fills Myers' position will you did to [the UI's] budget, go to sides of the aisle." JOIIIII·KINNilH·I'tRRY0UIOWA.IDU have "the same passion and com teach for him for free," he said. E-MAIL 01 REPORTER CiusTA HAIIN Al: mitment in advocating for quality Shelly Myers said she CRISTA·HAHN0UJOWA.EDU E 5 ELL OF IND P NDENCE INDEX For some ballplayers and fans, a quirky phenomenon Arts On Saturday, th university will hold its annual vehicle 5 t 77 ttt om pr tty good prices in store. known as an independent league is true baseball. Classifieds 8 Mo tly cloudy, See Italy, .-ve10 Crossword 6 l 5 bf zy Opinions 4 CHECK US OUT AT Sports 10 2-The Daily Iowan- Iowa City, Iowa- Friday, July 18, 2003 NEWS Volume 13~ I IU 29 BREAKING News Dean talks war, economy in CR Phone: (319) 335·6063 E-mail: dally· iowa~iowa lldu 5--5787 Fu: 335·6184 BY ANNIE SHUPPY St. S.E., was his second showing we need labor standards, and we going on with George Bush," dl , •••••• ,... ·eo30 THE DAILY IOWAN in Eastern Iowa this month, the need environmental standards; I said Sullivan, whose 1927 Buick CORRECTIONS other being a July 2 event in think that's his stance, too, but Brougham served as a backdrop Call. 335.0030 CEDAR RAPIDS - Howard Iowa City. Sarah Leonard, I'm not sure," said Dean, who for photographs of Dean. "Hard Polley The Dai}J Iowanst rMII for aceu Dean has a knack for creating Dean's Iowa press secretary, said was never in Congress to vote on ly anyone was willing to take racy and fairness In the reporttOQ of clamor with just a few words. campaigning in Eastern Iowa is the issue. 'The issue we do dis that position [against the war)." news. If ar eport Is wrong Of m1 lng Employing his oft-repeated critical to the caucuses, adding agree on is the war; he voted for Nance Crow, Sullivan's wife, a request for a correciJOn or a clanflca mantra, "We can do better than that the campaign is not neglect it, and I didn't." said that although she is a tlon may be made A correction or a -5844 clarlflcatton Will be publiWd that," while addressing the ing Central and Western Iowa. Most of Dean's supporters are staunch opponent of the death economy, foreign policy, and the unified by their adamant stance penalty, a view which does not "Gov.