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MIT ay Lim' product infringesThe lawsuit was also noteworthy

because Lockheed did not developthe speech compression techniquethe Inmar at system uses. Lockheedbought its system from the MITspinoff Digital Voice Systems Inc.of Westford, Mass, known as DVSI,which designed and sells the "multi-band excitation" speech-compres-sion system at issue.

The chairman of the board andco-founder of DVSI is MIT Profes-sor Jae . Lim '74, whose inven-tions and patents have brought intens of millions of dollars in licens-ing revenue for MIT and have beenthe foundation of several patentinfringement lawsuits filed by MIT.

MIT lost a patent infringementlawsuit against Lockheed MartinCorp. that sought royalties for Lock-heed's operation of two UnitedStates ground tations for Inmarsat,a global satellite teJephone system.

On March 18, Chief JudgeWilliam G. Young of the federaldistrict court in Boston ruled that noreasonable jury could find thatLockheed's operation of twoInmarsat ground stations infringedan MIT patent on a technique forcompressing speech signals. MITwill not appeal the ruling, said Lita

elsen, director of the MIT's Tech-nology Licensing Office.

The lawsuit was noteworthy forseveral reasons. It is the first timeanybody can remember that MIT haslost a patent infringement lawsuit.

either The Tech nor Jack Turner,the TLO associate director, could findor recall a previous loss for MIT.Almost all MIT -filed patent infringe-ment suits end before trial when thedefendant agrees to pay for a license.

uicide rai e concern at MITRhee's suicide is the first in the

MIT community since 2001, whenJulia M. Carpenter's '02 death wasruled a suicide by cyanide poison-ing. Prior to that, there were foursuicides in 2000, including the death

By Keith J. WlnstelnNEWS AND FEATURE DIRECTOR

Matchup, Page 15

e-mails that he went through theresults by hand to pick people tocontact above and beyond thosewho he would be matched with."

DeSario said that she originallyaddressed her complaint tomatchup-request@mit.edu, theaddress listed on the Web site forthe matchup, http://www.mit.edu/matchup.

After she did not receive aresponse, DeSario said that she sus-pected that Monsarrat was the onlyperson receiving mail from thataddress, so she sent her complaint tothe MIT Young Alumni Club,which is listed on the web site as asponsor of the service. The clubthen filed a complaint with MITStopit.

The complaint DeSario sent to

Matchup Participants MIT LosesFile Many Complaints Patent

LawsuitBy Marissa VogtASSO lATE NEWS EDITOR

Harvard University students fileda series of harassment complaintswith MIT and Harvard campuspolice in connection with the MIT-Harvard-Wellesley Matchup serviceoffered this past February.

Both universities and MIT Stopitreceived compJaints from femelJestudents at Harvard Law Schoolabout persistent e-mails theyreceived from Jonathan Monsarrat'89, the matchup's creator andoperator.

Nicole J. DeSario, a student atHarvard Law School, said that"there's been a lot of people whohave been hearing from him evenwhen they don't respond to him."

DeSario said in an e-mail to theMIT Young Alumni Club that Mon-sarrat had "admitted in some of his

Rhee Death Apparently SuicideBy Beckett W. Sterner and a friend of Rhee's, said that she depression and had been hospital-A o 1ATE NEWS EDITOR died from an overdose of Valium. ized for panic attacks. He added that

The death of Jaemin Rhee PhD He said that the note mentioned that Rhee had undergone therapy and'01 appears to be a suicide. "she has some rent due," but it was was careful to follow treatment.

David D. Clark M '02, a friend 'literally a note" and no more. "She was doing all the right things"of Rhee and a member of the Ptole- MukheJjee said the note did not to stay healthy, he said.my Players, the chamber music mention a reason. The note "wasn't Sarwate said a possible factorgroup that she founded, said that really much of anything as far as I might be that she was "kind ofRhee had written a brief note before know," he said. stressed out" because she was par-her death. Her suicide "was a complete sur- ticipating in an upcoming research

Clark said that the note contained prise," he said, because right now conference. He also said that sheher parents' phone number and a "didn't eem like a particularly bad had not yet decided what she wouldrequest, "don't tell anybody else." time," said Anand D. Sarwate '02. do in the fall as her fellowship

Public Information Officer of the arwate also Rhee's friend and would have ended this year.Cambridge Police Frank Pasquarello publicity chair for Ptolemy, con-said that the official investigation firmed that Rhee had left a "a verywas ongoing and that no official matter of fact note."cause of death had been determined Concerning Pinker's decision toyet. leave MIT for Harvard just a few

Rhee was found in her apartment days before Rhee' s suicide, Clarkby one of her friends on Monday, said that "I'm pretty positive thatApril 8. has nothing to do with it."

Shayan Mukherjee PhD '01, a Sarwate said that in the pastpostdoctoral fellow in Course IX Rhee had suffered from periods of

Crowding, Page 18

NATHAN COLli 'S-THE TECH

Steam emerges from cracks In the sidewalk next to Burton-Conner Monday night. The cause wasnot Immediately apparent, but a passerby said a pipe of some kind that had been laid beneathAmherst Alley In front of Burton-Conner In the past several weeks may be the source.

moving off campus next year,including graduating seniors. Inaddition, 107 rising seniors haveapplied for Senior Segue and couldmove out of the undergraduate dor-mitory system in graduate housingas well.

However, there is not enough

REGINA CHEUNG-THE TECH

Nathan Hanagaml '04 kicks an opponent during his sparringmatch at the final Ivy/Northeast Collegiate League tourna-ment at Columbia University. The Sport Tae Kwon Do Clubwon the tournament, placing first In the league for the year.

By Kathy UnASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Several fraternities report thatmost of their freshmen pledges areplanning on moving into their fra-ternity houses next year, but somedegree of crowding is anticipated inthe dormitories next year.

Chancellor Phillip L. Clay andDean for Student Life Larry G.Benedict previously' vowed therewould not be crowding next year."Not if I'm going to work here,"Benedict said last November.

Assistant Dean and Director ofFraternities, Sororities, and Inde-pendent Living Groups David N.Rogers anticipates that about 80percent or more of the freshmanpledges will move into their respec-tive fraternities next year.

"It's understood that living [at afraternity] is a big part of being partof the community," said Joshua S.Yardley '04, the 2002 InterfraternityCouncil rush chair.

So far, 216 freshmen have decid-ed to live off campus next year, andabout 730 have confirmed that theywill stay on campus, said Denise A.Vallay, assistant director of under-graduate housing. About 65 housingconfirmations still have not beensubmitted.

Vallay said she "anticipate[s]that there probably will be a smalldegree of crowding next year," butthat it is hard to judge how much ofa problem on-campus crowding willbe.

A total of 785 people will be

Next September, CrowdingMay Return to Donnitories

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ward to a further trengthening ofthe U. .'s in olvement in po t-con-flict Iraq, initially in the coordina-tion of the humanitarian a i tance."

Tellingly, with anti-war coun-tries fearful they will be locked outof lucrative contracts to rebuild ahattered Iraq, the EU reaffirmed its

commitment to playing a ' signifi-cant role" in the reconstruction ofthe country.

Greek Foreign Minister GeorgePapandreou helped broker the word-ing of a statement intended to abet aconciliation that has begun with the

ictory of the coalition forces inIraq.

Blair who spent less than 24hours in the Greek capital, met pri-vately with Chirac - their firstface-to-face meeting since the warbegan. The sit-down continued anice-breaking process between Parisand Washington and London a dayafter President Bush and Chirac hadtheir first phone conversation sincethe war began.

The 15 current EU nationsappeared to agree that the priority inIraq is to help the country recoverfrom the Saddam Hussein regimeand the war that brought it down.But hard questions about how theprocess will work, and which coun-tries or institutions are best-preparedto participate, still hung in the air.

1982, Shultz became President Rea-gan's secretary of State. Shultz iscurrently a member of Bechtel'sboard. Caspar Weinberger was aBechtel director, vice president andgeneral counsel before becomingReagan's secretary of defense in1980.

Officials have stressed that poli-tics played no role in awarding thecontracts. USAID administratorAndrew S. N atsios emphasizedthat all 123 employees in theagency's procurement divisionare career civil servants, and thathe and all other politicalappointees are legally barredfrom participating in the process.The procurement staff awardedthe contract after evaluating thecompanies' capabilities andreviewing the cost estimates.

Nevertheless, the company is alightning rod for activists. Bech-tel's headquarters in San Francis-co's financial district was thescene of several demonstrationsas the war began at the end ofMarch. Even after the protestersstopped coming, the company leftthe crowd control barriers up infront of its building, just in case.

Bechtel has been the subj ect ofmore substantive criticism too. InBoston, Bechtel has come underfire for its co-management of theBig Dig project to replace a 7.5mile elevated highway with aneight-lane undergrOlmd tunnel.

Over its nearly 20-year histo-ry, the cost of the project has bal-looned from $2.5 billion to $15billion. The state government isinvestigating whether Bechtel isresponsible for making mistakesthat total more than a billion dol-lars.

"They were in charge of thebiggest infrastructure project inthe history of America and theyscrewed it up," said Brian of theProject on 'Government Over-sight.

Bechtel has defended itselfvigorously and says the criticismis "fundamentally flawed."

action in Iraq.Their action exacerbated long-

tanding conflict in the EuropeanUnion between France and Ger-many, which regard them elves asthe leader of the organization, andBritain, pain and Italy, whichbacked the Bu h admini tration'sconfrontation with the Iraqi regime.Moreover Chirac irritated futuremember countrie such as Polandwhich contributed force to thecoalition by criticizing their pro-U. . tance and hinting at potentialretaliation in the EU.

The war i ue dominated thiweek' proceedings even thoughGreece, which holds the six-monthrotating EU pre idency, had saidIraq would not be a topic for discus-sion at a meeting whose nominalfocu was to welcome the membersfrom Centr!11and Ea tern Europe.

With Annan the first dignitary toarrive in thens for the meeting andthe last to leave, Iraq 'hung over theummit like a sword of Damocles,"

one diplomat aid.The joint statement issued

Thur day declared that 'the U. .must playa central role, includingin the proce s leading towards self-government for the Iraqi people, uti-lizing its unique capacity and expe-rience in post-conflictnation-building. [The EU] looks for-

USAID, for a total of $1.7 billion-and the fact that it was cloaked underthe veil of national security drewcriticism from Capitol Hill and gov-ernment watchdog groups. 'A trou-bling pattern is starting to emerge,"said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore."We're seeing some of the country'smost powerful business interestsshowing up and getting these con-tracts. That ought to set off bells."

Wyden is co-sponsoring a bill toforce public disclosure of Iraq con-tracts awarded without open, com-petitive bidding. The GeneralAccounting Office, Congress' inves-tigative arm, has launched a wide-ranging investigation as well. Anamendment to the $80 billion war-spending bill President Bush signedthis week allocates more than $4million for AID's inspector generalto monitor and audit money spent inIraq.

Bechtel, which was founded in1898 by Warren Bechtel and isclosely controlled by his descen-dants, built the Hoover Dam in theearly 1930s. Other major companyprojects include the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the Trans-Ara-bian Pipeline, the Bay Area RapidTransit System and the EnglishChannel Tunnel.

Bechtel has often worked on mil-itary as well as other governmentcontracts, including the YuccaMountain nuclear waste disposal siteand the Idaho ational Engineeringand Environmental Laboratory.

Like many companies that workextensively with the government, ithas been a large political contributor:$1.3 million to federal campaignsand candidates over the last threeyears, according to the Federal Elec-tion Commission. Fifty-nine percentof the money went to Republicansand the rest to Democrats, recordsshow.

Over the decades, Bechtel hasbeen closely tied to the governmentin other ways, too. George Shultz,treasury secretary for President

ixon, stepped down in 1974 tobecome president of Bechtel. In

opean Union: U.N. Must~ ..t Role in Ira

By Sebastian RotellaLOS A GELES TIMES

Trying to overcome di 1 Ionleft by the U .. -led campaign inIraq, th European Union on Thur -day threw it weight behind a k yrole for the United ations in po t-war Iraq and aid the EU aloha apolitical and economic role to playin the recon truction of the country.

France, Germany and other anti-war countrie joined a pro-warcamp led by Briti h Prime Mini terTony Blair to i ue a carefullyworded tatement eeking to ea ethe United ation back into thebattered international deci ion-mak-ing process.

" 0 i ue ha 0 divided theworld ince the end of the ColdWar," U. . ecretary-General KofiAnnan M '72 aid at the summit in

then , Greece, held to welcome 10mostly former Communi t countriesinto the EU fold. "It i vital that weheal that divi ion now. The worldcannot afford a long period ofrecrimination. "

Annan pent Wedne day andThursday shuttling between meet-ings with leaders including FrenchPre ident Jacques Chirac, GermanChancellor Gerhard Schroeder andRussian Foreign Minister Igor S.Ivanov, all of whom teamed up toblock U. . approval of military

By David Streitfeldand Mark RnemanLOS ANGELES TIMES

Bechtel Corporation ReceivesIraqi Reconstruction. Contr3ct

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The federal government onThursday selected San Francisco'sBechtel Group for a sweeping $680million contract to oversee therebuilding of Iraq, a massive taskthat will involve everything from air-ports, schools, roads, bridges andrailroads to its power grids, watersystems and sewers.

So critical is this work to Ameri-ca's postwar presence in the wound-ed nation that the 98-page request forbids secretly sent out to a handful ofAmerican companies declared itessential to keeping the peace there.

Bechtel said it was "honored" tohave been selected by the U.S.Agency for International Develop-ment. Even critics conceded the taskwas extraordinary.

"This has never been done before- an American corporation rebuild-ing an entire foreign country," saidDanielle Brian, executive director ofthe D.C.-based Project on Govern-ment Oversight.

The government said Bechtel willinitially get $34.6 million under thecontract, which provides for up to$680 million during the next 18months. But USAID officials saidthe total will be far higher. Expertssay it will cost tens of billions of dol-lars to fulfill the agency's goal ofcreating "the fundamental structuresfor democracy and economicgrowth."

Bechtel said it had already startedworking with USAID to 'prioritizeand detail" what needs to be done.

The company's next step is tofind subcontractors. Bechtel will beresponsible for coordinating con-struction work by dozens of subcon-tractors employing thousands ofworkers.

"It will be a full and open andinternational bidding process," Bech-tel spokesman Mike Kidder said.

one of that was true in the firstround. The size of the contract - thebiggest of eight being awarded by

By Rob Steinrill:; WASfIINGTO POST

The Federal Trade Commi ion i uing one of the country' mo tactive purveyor of pornographic junk e-mail, part of a tepped-uppush by the agency to combat pam.

The uit, filed Tue day in federal court in llIinois, allege BrianWe tby of Mi ouri violated federal laws by ending e-mail who edeceptive subject line, uch as "What i wrong?" and "Fwd: You maywant to reboot your computer," di gui ed the actual content: image ofcantily clad women and links to 20 porn Web ite We tbyoperated,

many featuring "married but lonely" women.FTC official aid its pam databa e, which is receiving about

120,000 pieces of spam per day forwarded by citizen , collected 46,000from We tby' various endeavors.

The agency further alleged Westby u ed 'spoofing" - a commonpammer practice that di guises the Internet address of the computer

that sends the pam - and provided a means of unsubscribing from e-mail list that did not work. The complaint aid Westby has nettedmore than 1 million from his porn operations.

With looting and fighting till under way in part of Iraq, ornerelief group ay their effort to deli er aid have been everely bam-pered even as Iraq face an outbreak of di ea e and a critical bort-age of clean water.

A few groups have truckloads of upplies waiting in borderingcountries, while others say they have managed to get in smallamount of aid wbenever and wherever it's afe.

Catholic Relief ervices, an international aid agency, ha fourtruckload with 500,000 in medical upplies and food waiting inJordan to be delivered to Iraq. It will be the agency' fir t major con-voy of aid into the country. But becau e of safety concerns, officialsay, that could take a week to 10 days.

"We had hoped to go in a early a thi week, but it' ju t not afeat this point to go," aid Joe Carney, a poke man for the group."y ou can't guarantee the afety of staff or that the upplie will nec-e arily reach the people they're intended for."

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Today: Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 400s F (7°C). East winds10 to 15 mph.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 300s F (2°C). Eastwinds 10 to 15 mph.

aturday: Partly sunny. Highs 45°F (7°C) to 50°F (lO°C).Saturday night: Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 300s F (3°C).Sunday: Mostly cloudy. Highs near 50°F (10°C).

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Officials Fear ew TransmissionRoutes for SARS

Aid Gron s a EffortsHampe ed in Iraq

The SARS virus that infected hundreds of people in a 33-storyHong Kong apartment tower probably spread in part by travelingthrough bathroom drainpipes, officials said Thursday in what would bea disturbing new confirmation of the microbe's ver atility.

The possible explanation for what has been one of the most bafflingand worrisome outbreaks in the epidemic indicates the virus can betransmitted in way other than close person-to-person contact.

"The pos ibility that the virus could by aerosol move through a ver-tical pipe through other pipes ... into the air and affect so many people,that's not comforting," said Klaus tohr, who is leading the WorldHealth Organization's scientific efforts against SARS - severe acuterespiratory syndrome.

tohr tre ed, however, that even if the virus can spread throughplumbing or in other ways, the pattern of the epidemic 0 far indicatesthat would occur only rarely.

"If this would significantly contribute to the transmission of thevirus, the epidemic would look different. It would spread faster. We'dhave many more ca es that we could not link to a SAR patient," Stohraid.

everthele s, evidence of the viru has been found in almo t everybody fluid that has been tested, including blood, feces, urine, saliva andeven tears, Stohr said.

FTC ues Porn Web OperatorAs Part of Anti pam Efforts

By Jonathan KrimTHE II'ASIIISGTOt .. POST

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Few Deaths, But mv InfectionReaches 1.5 Million in Russia

Thirsty States Ask FedsTo Help Get the Salt Out

By Judy SarasohnTHE WASHI GTON POST

Concerns Over War in Iraq ContinueTo Cause Global Economic Troubles

The board investigating the Columbia space shuttle disasterThursday issued its first recommendations to NASA, saying that theagency's existing methods of inspecting the crucial heat shieldingon the leading edge of the shuttles' wings were "not adequate."

In urging a more thorough and scientifically advanced inspec-tion of the carbon composite on the leading edges, the board wasreflecting its prevailing theory about the event that triggered thedestruction of the Columbia and its seven crew: that a breach in theleft wing's heat shield allowed superheated gas to penetrate thestructure and caused the plane to disintegrate as it re-entered theatmosphere.

The board also criticized ASA's recent agreement with a gov-ernment spy satellite agency to capture detailed satellite images oforbiting space shuttles whenever the opportunity presents itself. Theboard urged that imaging of orbiting shuttles be a "standard require-ment."

Some board members, including former astronaut Sally Ride,have expressed bafflement that ASA managers refused to seek pho-tographs of the space shuttle in orbit after the left wing was struck byfoam debris during launch.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his top military officerreturned to one of their favorite recent themes Thursday, criticizingthe media's coverage of the war in Iraq as at times "inaccurate"and "conflicting."

Asked at a "town hall" meeting with Pentagon employees aboutthe perception that the media gave a negative view of the war,Rumsfeld complained that not long ago, "people were saying thatthe plan was terrible and ... there weren't enough people, and ...there were going to be, you know, tens of thousands of casualties,and it was going to take forever."

But he described two very different sides to the coverage. Onthe one hand, he specifically criticized "retired military officers"who opined on television and newspapers "that constantly, youknow, blare big headlines of 'Henny Penny: The ky Is Falling,''It's Just Terrible,' 'Isn't It Awful.' "

On the other Rumsfeld strongly endorsed the report that camefrom the hundreds of journalists "embedded " with units fightingthe war. "The American people were able to see slices of what tookplace," he said. "They could see accurate presentation and repre-sentations and written accounts of what the men and women in uni-form were doing."

Shuttle Investigators Call HeatShield Inspections 'Inadequate'

By Eric Pianln and Kathy SawyerTHE WASHINGTON POST

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Rmnsfeld, Myers Fault War Critics,Endorse Embedded Reporting

By Thomas E. RicksTHE WASHINGTON POST

FBI to Aid Probes IntoIraq Museum Looting

By Dan EggenTHE WASHINGTON POST

California, Texas and other thirsty states don't need a diviningrod to find water. There's the ocean - if only it weren't so salty.

Desalination is a technology that's finally becoming economi-cally viable in the transformation of seawater and brackish ground-water into potable usable water. But municipal water authoritiessay they're going to need help from the feds.

A group of large municipal water authorities has formed acoalition and hired a lobby shop - the Furman Group - to try toper uade Congress and the Bush administration to kick in for anew federal desalination program. To the tune of perhaps $1 bil-lion over 10 years, Hal Furman said.

"It's going to require a major effort," said Furman, a deputyassi tant secretary of the Interior during the Reagan administration.

Furman says that the local water authorities would be payingabout 85 percent of the total costs. He adds that the federal govern-ment already provides assistance for other water supply and treat-ment programs.

While he says "it's not inconceivable" that the coalition couldat least get the program authorized during the current Congress,Furman acknowledges that its "biggest challenge" is probably get-ting the attention of Congress and the administration.

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More than two dozen FBI agents in Iraq will help conduct crim-inal investigations into widespread looting at the ational Museumof Antiquities and other cultural sites, U .. law enforcement offi-cials said Thursday.

FBI Director Robert . Mueller III said the teams would aim tocapture thieves, recover stolen artifacts and cooperate with Inter-pol, the international law enforcement organization, to track sales"on both the open and black markets."

"We recognize the importance of these treasures to the Iraqipeople and ... to the world as a whole," Mueller said. "We arefirmly committed to doing whatever we can in order to secure thereturn of these treasures to the people of Iraq."

The FBI's looting investigation comes amid growing interna-tional furor over the ransacking of Iraqi museums and libraries thatwent unchecked by U.S. soldiers, resulting in the loss of countlessartifacts from Mesopotamia and other ancient civilizations.

Antiquities experts meeting in Paris on Thursday said there wasstrong evidence that many of the looters were highly organized andhad keys to museum vaults, raising suspicions that organized crimemay have had a hand in the thefts.

believe the losses may have beenoverstated. They say it will beimpossible to accurately tally upthe costs and assess the long-termeconomic effect until Iraq's futureis clearer and the implications ofSaddam Hussein's overthrow onregional balances is apparent.

"There is an enormous amountof uncertainty as to what institu-tions, what form of governance, isgoing to emerge from the post-warsituation," Jean-Louis Sarbib, aWorld Bank vice president, said inWashington two days after Bagh-dad's fall on April 9. "The situationis too unclear for us to say whichway the chips are going to fall."

While reconstruction of Iraqcould give an economic boost tothe region, in the short term ana-lysts expect declining tourism,investment, trade and transport.

Iraq was Jordan's major exportmarket, and it was one of Egypt'slargest trading partners. Iraqi oil,some of it smuggled, was an under-pinning of the Syrian economy.

Ernest Hopkins, director of federalaffairs for the San Francisco AIDSFoundation.

In its prevention plan, CDC side-stepped politically thorny questionsaround safer sex practices, needleexchange programs and abstinence-until-marriage education. Theagency has yet to work out manydetails, including how it will goabout placing greater emphasis onidentifying and treating partners ofHIV -infected individuals.

The recommendations receivedmuted praise Thursday from manyinvolved in AIDS prevention work.While sharp political divisionsremain over the Bush administra-tion's overall performance onAIDS and its sensitivity to privacyconcerns, most activists applaudedthe effort to increase testing.

Until now, CDC had recom-mended testing patients in acutecare hospitals with large numbersof AIDS cases or clinics that spe-cialized in treating sexually-trans-mitted diseases.

As part of that effort, CDC isloosening requirements that doctorsprovide extensive pre-test counsel-ing. Some physicians describe thecounseling as a barrier to testing,complaining that it takes too longand is not reimbursed by insurers.

gave any trong indication that keypreventive mea ures recommendedin the manual would be acted upon.

The World Health Organizationbook paints a bleak picture of prob-lems in Rus ian prison and manyother penal institution around theworld that contribute to the spreadof AID .

Russian prisoner urvey citedin the manual found that of 1,087respondents, 20 percent aid theyhad injected drugs while in prison,and of that group 64 percent u edshared equipment.

The manual suggests three wayto limit the transmission of HIVfrom drug use: providing sterileneedles, providing bleach so pris-oners can sterilize needles, andproviding methadone maintenancetreatment to addicts.

Russian prison authorities gen-erally say that given overcrowdedconditions and the susceptibility ofpoorly paid guards to bribery,keeping prisons drug-free is animpossible task.

be turning away customers. Flightsin and out of Cairo would be over-sold.

But these days one of theworld's great tourist destinationshas been all but forgotten, andeconomists estimate the war couldcost Egypt up to $8 billion in lostrevenue from several sources,including tourism, the Suez Canaland exports.

Egypt's troubles reflect eco-nomic concerns facing the Arabworld overall. A United ations'agency previously estimated thatthe 17 Arab countries could see$400 billion in lost productivityand the loss of 2 million "jobopportunities" in the next decadebecause of war.

Most estimates projecting thewar's catastrophic impact, includ-ing the U.N. one, were made beforethe U.S.-led invasion was launchedMarch 20. Because the war endedup being of short duration, did notspill over Iraq's borders and result-ed in a regime change, economists

drastically reduced the number ofAIDS deaths in the past twodecades, from about 51,000 in 1995to about 16,000 in 2001, accordingto CDC figures. But with preventionefforts stalled, the number of HIVinfections has remained steady andsome indicators suggest it couldsoon rise.

Officials fear a recent spike insyphilis cases in gay men signals alikely future jump in AIDS, sinceboth diseases can be spread throughunprotected sex and often occurconcurrently.

"Weare worried about trendswe are seeing in urban communitiesand among men who have sex withmen," Gerberding said in an inter-view, adding that the syphilis out-break "could be a harbinger of amuch broader expansion in thefuture" of HIV infection.

Although the guidelines are onlyadvisory, CDC intends to givegrants to states and groups to pur-sue the new strategies, including injails, homeless shelters and otherunconventional settings. The shiftin priorities could mean a loss offederal money for organizationsthat target high-risk groups throughprograms such as public servicecampaigns, condom distributionand community workshops, said

health organization appeared atthe media event, whi h wafocu ed on a new Ru sian-lan-guage health manual de igned foruse by pri on doctors. But in anindication of why the epidemicrages on, Pokrovsky aid inrespon to a question near the endof the news conference that thebook i full of nice ideals but idetached from reality.

The book reflect the bestpractices and the best intentions,"Pokrovsky said. 'Of cour e, thebook should be adopted taking intoaccount the economic ituation inthis country. The book reflects theideal situation. It doesn't take intoaccount the real situation. Thefinancial situation today does notallow the implementation of theseideas into Russian reality."

The news conference wasattended by representatives of theWorld Health Organization,Medecins Sans Frontieres, PenalReform International and Moscow-based AIDS Foundation East-West.But no one at the news conference

CAIRO, EGYPT

Ramadan Ibrahim counts him-self among the casualties of theIraq war as he looks out at theGreat Pyramids of Giza. The sur-rounding parking lots are empty,the tourist shops deserted. In hisstable, all 45 of his Arabian horsesare idling away the day in theirstalls.

"Where are the tourists?" heasks, before answering himself:"Far away. In their homes. The warmakes everyone think of nothingbut war. We are not Iraq, but peo-ple think they will get shot if theycome to Egypt. Will they evercome back? Only God knows."

Usually in March and April, theheight of Egypt's tourist season,Ibrahim's guides would be leading15 or 20 riders through the deserton a sunny, cool morning like this.Hotels from Cairo to Luxor wouldbe operating at full capacity.Restaurants along the Nile would

By David LambLOS ANGELES TIMES

The nation's top public healthdoctor, declaring current AIDS pre-vention programs a major disap-pointment, announced Thursday theBush administration will beginencouraging doctors to offer routineHIV testing to all their patients,especially pregnant women.

The new screening procedures,which will be voluntary, are aimedat curbing the 40,000 new infec-tions in America each year, saidJulie Gerberding, director of theCenters for Disease Control andPrevention.

"We are not achieving the over-all progress we intended to achievewith HIV prevention," she said inannouncing the $35 million initia-tive. Most alarming, she said, is thelarge number of Americans who aretotally unaware they have beeninfected with the deadly virus thatcauses AIDS.

"It is tragic and really unaccept-able (that) 200,000 people in thiscountry are HIV positive and don'tknow it," she said. "It is unaccept-able that we are 22 years into theAIDS epidemic and we cannotaccurately identify the incidence ofinfection in this country."

Life-extending medications have

Bush Administration to SuggestRoutine AIDS Testing ProceduresBy Cecl ConnollyTHE WASHINGTON POST

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While the number of AIDdeaths is still low, an epidemic ofHIV infection is raging in Russia,with up to 1.5 million Russians nowcarrying the virus, the country's topexpert on the disease aid Thurs-day.

Vadim V. Pokrovsky, head ofthe Health Ministry's AIDS Preven-tion and Treatment Center, madethe statement at a news conferencecalled to promote a battle againstHIV / AIDS in Russian prisons,where the disease readily spreadsand is then transmitted to the broad-er society as inmates are released.

Russia has 235,000 registeredHIV /AIDS cases, but the actualnumber is estimated at 700,000 to1.5 million, Pokrovsky sajd. Thisincludes 37,000 inmates who areconfirmed to be infected. The Rus-sia-wide totals are up from just 442registered cases in 1990 and 1,080registered cases in 1995.

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A photo caption on page 19 of Tues-day's edition misstated the nature of theincident that led to a two-year alcohol-related sanction for Alpha Tau Omegaand went beyond the. facts known to TheTech. It was an ''unruly'' crowd outside aNovember party, not a "scuffle," that ledto the sanction.

A feature story last Friday ["Mission tothe Amazon"] misstated the relationshipbetween a school trip to the Amazon andthe academic subject 12.000. The Amazontrip, led by Jeremy W. Boyce G, ProfessorRafael L. Bras '72, Lecturer Ari W.Epstein PhD '75, and Professor Kip V.Hodges PhD '82, was part of the Terras-cope freshman program. Terrascope, whichis run jointly by Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering (Course I) and Earth, Atmos-pheric, and Planetary Sciences (CourseXII), is a year-long program that alsoincludes classroom subjects 12.000 and1.016, but the trip itself was not formallypart of either subject.

ErratumRose Grabowski '05

opportunities it promised to provide. I alwaysknew that this was a world-class school. Sowhy do we have to constantly put down Har-vard with such pathetic conduct? I realize thatHarvard is sometimes overrated as an under-graduate institution, and MIT is often under-rated, but at the heart of it, both are goodschools. I am dismayed at the constant Har-vard bashing, not only because I have goodfriends who attend that school, but because itrepeatedly shows the insecurity and pettinessof the people doing the bashing.

Therefore it disturbs me to an exponentialdegree when the potential members of theClass of 2007 are introduced to MIT by the

,.Acbniniskati0n w.itlMl giantt ign'-deootmgl(mrinsecurities and lack of poise. We might aswell have painted on our foreheads "We haveno intrinsic confidence in ourselves or whatwe can accomplish."

Well I have confidence in MIT and what it- and all of its students and faculty - canaccomplish. And I don't need to bash anotherschool to express it.

Inferiority ComplexI was disturbed and saddened last Friday

when I saw the front page of the Tech. On itwas a photo of the CPW Welcome held forprospective prefrosh the night before, and thecenterpiece was a giant faux-emblem of ourneighbor to the north-west, Harvard. The signreplaced the traditional Harvard motto with"HU-GE- EGO".

Why is it that we have to stoop to suchcheap levels of demoralization in order to feelgood about ourselves? Ever since I came toMIT, I have been excited by the education

about as long as the walk from Burton-Connerto 77. Finally, there are few if any graduatestudents who live in the Back Bay area thatwould be served by the proposed route. If wedo indeed institute daytime Saferide duringwinter months, we should serve as large a per-centage of the student body as possible, notjust those few who are lucky enough to liveclose enough to make it sound inexpensive.

While daytime Saferide need not stop atevery FSILG, it should make some effort toserve them all with stops along Comrn Ave,Beacon, Bay State, and even in Brookline. Itshould also try to serve graduate students,with a Cambridge route stopping near grad,dorms and the mo t popular areas fOT.graduatestudents to have apartments. Priority for stopsshould be given to those areas not well servedby public transportation. Those living near thered line and buses can buy subsidized T-pass-es. It would be well worth any increase in costto serve three or four times as many studentsas the current plan allows.

If the cost becomes prohibitively high, theroutes could be funded partially by fares paidby those who wish to take the shuttle Stu-dents could buy passes to help pay for theircomfort. Even 25 cents per ride could offset asignificant portion of the expense to the gener-al student population while still providing thestudents using the service with an inexpensiveway to avoid walking miles in the snow.

Daytime Saferide isn't a bad idea. It's along cold walk to MIT from Boston most ofthe school year. But it's also a long cold walkfrom Cambridge and Brookline. A daytimeshuttle should fill holes left by public trans-portation to better serve all students, not justprovide a free way to follow the number 1.

Dina Feith '03

Advertising QuestionSince when is The Tech a space for the

U.S. Armed Forces to advertise freely? Giventhe amount of heated debate in the last monthIn this newspaper about the war, doesn'tdonating space for a recruiting ad for theNavy (April 15, page 20) bring your unbiasedperspective into question?

Mike Rolish '04President, MIT Objectivist Club

.Letters 10 The EditorLet Debate Be Open

Concerning Jeff Duritz's letter ("OffensiveContent", April 11): I was responsible forbringing Dr. Brook to speak.

The views of the Ayn Rand Institute areexplicitly spelled out on its web site,http://aynrand.org, so the curious can judgefor themselves.

As far as racism and "complexes," I thinkit is Duritz and his associates who areobsessed with race, and Duritz's behavior wasamong the rudest I have seen at MIT. Interest-ingly enough, I had a similar problem at anevent two years ago, with some of the samepeople involved.

In any case, 1 100 forward to continueddebate on this campus.

Brad Friedman G

On Daytime SaferideThe recent editorials about the benefits and

problems with the current proposal for day-time Saferide do not address some basic andimportant issues.

The proposed daytime Saferide is pointlessfor exactly one reason - the number 1. Thisbus already crosses the Harvard Bridge regular-ly, making stops along Mass Ave that make theproposed three stops a near perfect redundancyof the MBTA's bus service. Surely the mem-bers of the fraternities and sororities that arecio e to these stops can afford the 75 cents forthe bus and do not require the entire studentbody to pay for their heated transport on colddays. They aren't a large enough percentage ofthe population to warrant spending $30,000 ofstudent life money each year to serve them.

Consider that members of ZBT and ET arecloser to the nearest Tech Shuttle stop (atTang) than they are to the nearest proposedSaferide stop. Consider also that the walkfrom Beacon and Mass Ave to 77 is only

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The EndOfa Long

RaceAndrew C. Thomas

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An e ent of no small importance happenedearlier this week that went largely unnoticedby the general public: the Human GenomeProject was officially declared completed. Theproject, collaborated on by a public consor-tium of universities and research facilities,most notably Washington University, the

anger Centre in Cambridge, England, andMIT's own Whitehead Institude, sought tocraft this golden blueprint and make it pub-licly available in the interests of science.

What is so fascinating to me, and otherintere ted observers of the politics and eco-nomics of the scientific community, is thatwithout corporate greed, we likely would nothave had the benefit of this information forseveral years to come. The project became arace between the public consortium and Cel-era Genomics, who, according to the musingsof Professor Eric Lander, director of the Pro-ject's efforts at Whitehead and noted celebrityinstructor of Introductory Biology (7.012),had somehow arrived at the conclusion thatthe public effort wasn't moving quicklyenough. Craig Venter, the head of Celera atthe time, had declared that they could do it inan astonishing three years - setting a com-pletion time ofmid-2001.

What followed was a remarkable surgefrom the public effort, which wasn't entirelyunanticipated; the project had set a reasonableschedule for progre s in 1990. Prof. Lander'spopular hypothesis, which he has put forth toan attentive audience on several occasions, isthat elera had not taken into account the po -sibility that the project could be scaled upwith the advent of newly developed technolo-gy. oting that Prof. Lander has a terrificsense of humour, most in the audience at thetime likely realized that he was simply tryingto take a fun poke at the competition. Prof.Lander's sense of fair play is certainly not in

• question; the consortium and Celern managedto' call a truce in late 2000 to celebrate theaccomplishment of both groups, that a draftsequence had been completed and analyzed.The draft had very interesting ramifications initself - for example, the total number ofgenes that the genome is believed to carryreduced substantially, from 100,000 to30,000.

The finish line of this race, it turns out,was when the entire genome had beensequenced and covered ten times - sincemost methods cannot determine the entiresequence at once, a considerable degree ofoverlap is required in order to ensure both thatall sequences are in order, and acceptablyerror-free (since, as in cell, the ability to readDNA is far from perfect).

Cetera's bold move was no small gamble.By finishing first, they would have indis-putable control over the marketplace. Theirmethod, the "whole genome shotgun' , wasconsidered unreliable in its early stages for thehuman genome, despite it succes in thesequencing of Drosophila me/anogaster. Butby late 200 Ithey had declared ab olute victo-ry, claiming that they had available a "goldendraft" with lOX coverage, and they wouldbegin taking orders from laboratories, univer-sities and other re earch institutions for use ofthe completed sequence.

Celera might ha e won the race, but theyhad a powerful silent partner - the publicconsortium itself. Their lOX coverage couldonly have been achieved in the speed it had ifthey made use of the public sequence in orderto accomplish the overlap. 0 Celera wa infact marketing 5X coverage, which was at thetime necessary to make sure the informationwas reliable, and using the beneficent policyof freedom of infonnation a an advantage.

However, with the relea e of the publicconsortium's data this week, Celera's ready-to-order genome equence is now a white ele-phant. This does not mean that the money andeffort i wasted; the Celera machine hasproven itself on the battlefield, and will nodoubt hold a monopoly on future sequencingefforts. They aren't without competition. Thegenome of the virus that is believed to causeSARS was recently sequenced in a matter ofdays - an astonishing increase in speed - byseveral companies. And 0 even with the prof-it motives of Celera, and the next generationof equencing tartup companies we are ee-ing a genuine benefit to ociety. For now,though, it remains to be seen whether thecompleted human genome equence will growa trunk and tusk of its own.

in Major League Baseball is the New YorkYankees' $24.86, with an overall league aver-age of$18.69.

How is it that the Red Sox are able to getaway with this highway robbery? The answerin part lies in the fact that fans realize that theteam faces a major obstacle in the small sizeof Fenway Park. However, that is not thecomplete story. Sox fans are - in my humbleopinion - even more "loyal" than their Bruincounterparts, and the results are both heavenlyand disastrous. On one hand, the team hasbecome a pillar of the city. On the other hand,it hasn't one a championship in 85 years. Newowner John Henry, meanwhile, convinced thatFenway gate receipts and NE N television

subscription will notdrop off in the nearfuture slashed theteam payroll thi yearand opted not to goafter a few talentedplayers via free agencyor the trade. And yetthe fans will still bethere, all eason long.

The solution isclear; fans as a wholemust find orne way ofboycotting - not nec-essarily completely,but, more realistically,partially - struggling

and unproductive teams who produce a lessthan entertaining product. To be certain, somestrides have been made. Throughout much ofthe country, losing teams often tend to drawsmaller crowds, but the phenomenon is hardlyuniversal. A number of franchises attract peo-ple regardless of their actual product, and thesituation is simply infeasible financially - forfans, not owners, of course. The fault of highti.cket prices in professional sports lies solelyon the head of fans, as owners are merelyexploiting the obscenely and unnaturally highlevel of interest that frequently accompanieseven the lowliest of teams. Even if it maymean sacrificing some of my devotion toteams like the Red ox, Celtics and PatriotsI, for one, intend to follow through with mynew philosophy. Well, starting tomorrow, thatis. Tonight I head to Fenway. Come 00, Pedrois pitching; can't miss that, right?

online at http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/overview/egtrra. cfm.

According to a Jan 21, 2003 article in theew York Time , if you consider all other

ta e , not ju t the federal ones, the bottomquintile pay a much as the top as a percent-age of income. Of course, some might arguethat a flat tax hould mean the top I percentpay 1 percent of taxes, but uch people areusually con idered to be in the ame categorya flat-earthers.

The bottom of the income distribution doesreceive more in dir ct federal outlay than thetop; on the other hand, the top gets much moreof the indirect benefits, like the police (ittands to rea on that you're more intere ted in

not getting robbed if you're rich, the military,ci il courts even a healthier labor market thanotherwise. And there are tudies that howthat e en the direct outlay , which, being atax-the-rich-to-help-the-poor sort of a thing,are expected to b hea ily kewed toward thepoor, aren't as skewed as you might expect,with 60% of federal cash payments in 200 Igoing to the bottom 40% of the population.

One should also note that if you look at thestates that pay more in federal taxes than theyreceive in federal funds, you find quite a fewbleeding-heart liberal north-eastern states, soarguably they're putting their money wheretheir mouth is; and when they a k for federalbailouts, they just want their money back. -

Finally, a rather mean-spirited nitpick: inhis fourth paragraph, Mr. esmith opens bysaying," ever mind, for a moment, thehypocrisy that this position entails." Hismoment lasts only until the end of that sen-tence, however, ince he immediately launch-es into a cliched d.emonstration of thathypocrisy. ot all libenils are of the armchairvariety: quite recently a couple of them diedin Palestine, for example, and a lot more workin places like Zimbabwe, trying to help thelocal population. And on the other hand, notall conservatives are rugged, self-made indi-viduals: witness the current President.

Moreover, it seems quite unreasonable toexpect that you must starve yourself before youcan appeal to feed the hungry. Perhaps youshould not be allowed to complain about Eviluntil you've sold your own soul to the Devil?

Arvind Sankar is a graduate student in theDepartment ofMtttJremancs. . .... r"~ ....

OPINIO

There is a wacky but establishednotion that says that a 1oyal'

sports fan is one who follows histeam through thick and thin,

. who tvill show up for just asmany games in a rebuilding year

as a championship season.

ances, our automobiles - we tend to subvertthose high standards when it comes to follow-ing sports, all in the name of "loyalty,"emphasis on the quotation marks.

For some reason, there is a wacky butestablished notion that says that a "loyal"sports fan is one who follows his teamthrough thic~ and thin, who will show up forjust as many games in a rebuilding year as achampionship season. The notion is thick-headed and unproductive, and ultimately endsup undermining the team's future success.

The Boston Bruins are a perfect exampleof this phenomenon. Miserly owner Je,emyJacobs views his franchise as a business oper-ation - a perfectly reasonable stance - andas such, he is rarelywilling to spend themoney needed toattract top-class talentand produce champi-onships. In a moreideal world, fanswould respond to thisbusiness strategy bydemanding fewer tick-ets and avoidingspending money ontheir favorite team,thereby forcing Jacobsto pursue someamount of talent inorder to continue toprofit. Sadly, Bruins fans instead forget aboutbusiness and economics, and instead return totheir lifelong emotional arguments of "loyal-ty," choosing to support the team even intimes of dearth. A fan with a better sense ofthe big picture must realize that the only wayto be loyal to one's team is to attend gameswhen the team is perfonning at a high level,but limit following them during unsuccessfulruns, relying primarily on the daily paper orthe nightly news and severely cutting downtrips to the stadium.

As a lifelong local, it pains me to say thatmy beloved Boston is the home of anotheruseful case study, but of course, it is. A fewmiles away from the Bruins' home at orthStation, the Boston Red Sox charge fans anaverage of $42.34 to see a ball game at Fen-way Park. For some more perspective, consid-er that the second-highest average ticket price

which th poor imply starve to death if theycan't afford food, ER doctors rifle throughyour wallet before deciding whether to topyour bl ding, and ju tice con i ts of a bulletin the head? uropean coloniali m repres nt-ed an e treme form of capitali m. A democra-cy i arguably antith tical to extremist capital-i m, becau e its mantra of 'one man, onvote" do n't allow the rich to imply outbidthe poor. I ubmit that both extreme areuntenable: pure capitalism doe n't workbee au e humans care too much about othersand pure ociali m do n't work becau e they

care too little - ye aimpli tic statement,

but it ounds 0 good, Icouldn't resist.

So we're nowforced to considershades of gray, ratherthan black and white,always more difficult,but alway necessary.The federal govern-ment is essential, taxescan't be wished away,and at the same time,executing Bill Gatesdoesn't help anyone,South Park notwith-

standing. So let's consider whether tax ratesare punitive, and whether the proposed Bushtax cut is a good idea.

I don't know where Mr. Nesmith got hisfigures of the top 1 percent of taxpayerscoughing up half the federal budget. Accord-ing to "An Economic Evaluation of theEGTRR Act of 2001," published in theNational Tax Journal in March 2002, the top 1percent earned 19.2 percent of pre-tax incomeand paid 25.9 percent of federal taxes, but thatwas reduced to 24.9 percent by the 2001 taxcut. The bottom 60 percent of the populationearned about 22 percent of pre-tax income andpaid about 14.5 percent of federal taxes.(These values were not significantly affectedby the 2001 cut.) These 60 percent earned lessthan $44,000 per year. The bottom 20 percentearned 3.2 percent of pre-tax income but paidonly 1.1 percent in taxes; on the other hand,they earned less than $15,000 a year. So thefederal tax structure is somewhat progressive,

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It seems unreasonable to expectthat you must starve yourself

before you can appeal tofeed thehungry. Perhaps you should not

be allowed to complain aboutEvil until you've sold your own

soul to the Devil?

Arvind Sankar

The pecific of the 'bloody e periment"that Mr. e mith refer to in hi April 15 col-umn hould clue one in as to the hollown s ofhis overall case: comparing the premier econo-my of the world to one of the world's poore tnation , Ie s than 25 years ince it ind pen-dence, run by an unofficial dictator since thattime, with a quarter of it adult populationHIV -positive, and periodically ravaged bydrought (including for the last couple of years);and ascribing all of itsproblems simply to theland-reposession poli-cies recently imple-mented by PresidentMugabe is as dirty arhetorical trick as anythat can be contemplat-ed. India instituted asimilar program soonafter independence aswell, kicking outzamindars (landlords)and dispossessinghereditary kings oftheir kingdoms, but itdoesn't seem to havebeen too disastrous: Perhaps Mugabe's prob-lems lie more in the implementation than in thepolicy. Heck', the United States broke upAT&T in the eighties, implementing a policythat no doubt repels Mr. Nesmith as much asMugabe's, and is probably the reason whylong-distance is so expensive now.

I also believe that if Nobel laureates ineconomics and university professors of eco-nomics are all decrying the unjust distributionof wealth in America, one ought to listen seri-ously to them. My roommate is an economicsgrad student, and I am constantly remindedthat she has a far better grasp of these issuesthan myself. Education does count for some-thing, you know.

Further, if we are to contemplate the so-called "logical conclusion of leftist policies",surely we should compare it to the logicalconclusion of rightist policies, the abolition ofgovernment? Are even the most staunchlyconservative of the American people prepared

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In .Sports,.,Loyalty Can Hurt The Team. .

Ever notice how people in the professionalsports world only mention the business andeconomic aspects of their line of work whenthey stand to profit? We hear players com-plaining all the time about how they deserveto be paid a salary comparable to their marketvalue. Or owners griping about politicianswho refuse to pony up the money needed tobuild a stadium, which they claim would beall the team needed to be a financially viablechampionship contender. And.who can forgetJerry Maguire, a rather realistic portrayal ofan agent determined. to snag the biggest con-tract available?

Now don't get me wrong. I'm not here to. wax poetically about the glory days when ath-

letes played for the love of the game andcared not whether they made money. Such anotion is ludicrous. After all, professionalsports are businesses above all else. Playersand coaches should be encouraged to seek ashigh a wage as conditi,ons dictate, while own-ers should not be excessively chastised for

, pursuing profits instead of victories.Unfortunately, fans are the very last ones

to accept this blatant and undeniable truth.They continue to buy tickets and satellite tele-vision packages, wear team merchandise, andcollect paraphernalia, all while failing toadjust their standards to the quality of playthey witness on the field, court, ice, or grid-iron.

All of this can really be sized down andsummed up by basic concepts of supply anddemand. Professional sports teams supply onemain product: a game. Sure, they sell caps and.beach towels, hot dogs and beer, but when allis said and done, it is the game that drawspeople. Fans, meanwhile, demand this game,and they pay for it by showing up at the gateor watching it on television.

The problem is that there is often a far toohuge disconnect between the quality of theproduct supplied and the demand for thatproduct. When an owner opts not to spend themoney required to assemble a talented team,inevitably the wins dry up and quality of playdiminishes. However, while we demand quali-ty and perfonnance from everything else webuy in our daily lives - our food, our appli-

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this week.Though at times it contain melodic dis-

cord with it de pondent lyrics, Sleep andRelease can be unbelievably beautiful. Whilenot one ong i particularly catchy, collective-ly they are the moment in thi album thatmake it worth listening to.

However, Craig B.' vocal ability i limit-ed. He either perfectly exude a certain vul-nerability or creams death metal style andeem unable to decide which he prefers. In

any case, he fails to pull it off. But if you'reinto that kind of thing, you can catch Aere-ogramme next Friday, April 25, with The Del-gados at Paradise Rock Club.

ByJed HomeSTAFF WRITER

The Good ThiefWritten and Directed by Neil JordanStarring Nick Nolte, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Said Taglmuloui, Marc LavoiTre, and TehekyKaryoRated R for sexuality, some language, and drug content

I'lJ admit I was a little apprehensive about The Good Thief I usually find NickNolte smug and obnoxious, and Neil Jordan, the director, is famous for The Cry-ing Game, a movie that wouldn't be famous if it weren't gimmicky, and 1bategimmicky movies. But I've been wrong before, and I'm glad I didn't get it right

this time. The Good Thief, unlike our little adventure in the Middle East, proves youdon't have to shock to awe. The result is a low-key, sophisticated drama as entertain-ing as it is thoughtful.

Nick Nolte stars as Bob Montagnet, a petty gambler, beroin addict, and reformed thieliving in Southern France. Just under the watchful eye of friend/parole officer Roger(Tcheky Karyo), Bob hatches the plot of a lifetime: a multimillion dollar art heist at theCasino Riviera in Monte Carlo. To pull it off, he goes cold turkey, quits gambling, andenlists a crew of low-lifes and underworld types, including a prostitute (Nutsa Kukhian-idze) saved from an abusive pimp (Marc Lavoine), a transsexual, two identical twins, andan assortment of Arabs on the run from immigration.

Those of you expecting Crying Game-style bombast from Neil Jordan - anyone whoremembers the scene from that movie wiJl know what I'm talking about - will be disap-pointed. ick Nolte is low-key and smooth, and not in his usual obnoxious, pretentiousway (cf. The Prince of Tides).

Bob' sophistication, raspy junk-edged sense of humor and uncanny luck doesn'tgrate the way the Nolte of ten years ago would have. Instead, his presence is reassuring, arock in an otheiwise chaotic world of miscreants and low-lires even if his mmnbJiog is alittle difficult to understand at times. True, there is the transsexual (Sarah Bridges) but her(his?) camp appeal is wisely limited to a couple of jokes.

French singer/songwriter Marc Lavoine is eerily menacing as llemi the pimp, andTchelty Karyo does an admirable job as Roger the cop Bob's altar ego a co-dependentpolice officer' miDd:ful of Bob as he is in awe of him. Since I had trouble foIlowiDgtwi and turns of plot, IwOD't even try to give away what happeQs. But it'beside the point, . film j about the .c.

A jazzy SOUIldtract, iJry . e stop«tion Jthotograpby, and an off-color ofhumor are what keep it alive. The cbaracters e to feed the film's mood rather thanadvance their own interests. I found myself rooting for Nolte's anti-hero even when Iwasn't quite sure what was going on, and sympathizing with Remi even at his scummi-est.

As the film' title suggests,moments when Iwas a IiU:I irritatedband rerereac.

see the ground turn/From green and red,black to gray/Where everyone becomeafraid of you."

But who listens to lyrics nowaday?Apparently no one, if Celine Dion, Cher,Justin Timberlake, John Mayer, and JenniferLopez all have albums in Billboard's Top 50

before hifting gear to a strained calm. Thenthe heavy, indecipherable creaming b gins,and why the ound wa previou Iy 0 trainedbecomes clear. Fortunately, the creamingresurfaces only in "Wood." Unfortunately,it's even worse then.

Thi bleeding of track produce a cine-matic effect, like cene unfolding beforeyou. But what's the story? Sleep and Releaseexplore human form at it nadir. When he'not screaming, Craig B. 's trangely comfort-ing voice seemingly contradict his band'shaunting lyrics, creating a di jointed irony inwhat he's aying and how he's saying it." 0

Really Everything's Fine" (hardly a convinc-ing title) opens with, "The rea on we're alldi figured/I will say it again/The reasonwe're all disappointedJI innocence lost,"while "In Gratitude" features such encour-agement as "I know in time we'll get out ofthis mes /We will get out of thi mess." In"A Winter' Di cord," there's "one lastchance to hide up tairs," and "Black Path"repeats, " ee how lifeles life can be." eedI say more?

Just in case one is still in doubt, "A impleProces of Elimination" has at its end apathetic voice that pleads, "Please get in touchwith me. Please, please I need you. Help."The message i particularly unsettling whenjuxtaposed with a voice stating the date andtime. upposedJy, this appeared on drummerMartin cott's answering machine whilerecording the album.

As just shown, Aereogramme is lyricallyweak. The very first lines of the openingtrack, "Indiscretion #243," are, "I'm listen-ing like my father/Told me how to/And burn-ing like my brother/Always knew I would."Another example of poor lyricism comesfrom "Black Path," with the lines, "It's timeto follow the black path/Come tomorrow,you won't laugh at love/Face down you can

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CD REVIEW

Sleep and ReleaseAereogrammeMatador Records

uring the fir t twenty or 0 Ii tens ofAereogramme's sophomoric effort,Sleep and Release, Ifound the album,in a word, boring. The track were

blase and entirely forgettable, and if theyweren't, it's because they were 0 bad. Imag-ine my horror then when I found myself out-side a London club, a king my friend whomwe were there to ee, and he ca uaJly replied,"Aereogramme."

Being from Glasgow and on the Matadorlabel might tempt one to think of Belle andSebastian or Mogwai. Resi t if possible;Aereogramme does not deserve the compari-on. Their defining characteristic is not pre-

cociou melodies or experimental rock butinstead, unfortunately, the juxtaposition ofbeautiful melodies with har h satanicscreaming.

As it turns out, they weren't 0 bad live,though I u pect my not having slept andbeing more than a little drunk may haveinfluenced my opinion slightly. Aere-ogramme ha a soothing quality, which per-haps explains the album' title. But do notbe fooled.

Sleep and Release exists as an oxymoronbecause of it odd combination of frailty andanger, and it doesn't quite work. Unlike theirfirst release, A Story in White, tracks in Sleepand Release egue into another, bleedingthem together. Though this fails to disguisethe obvious clash in Aereogramme's sound, itdoes delay the effect. Delays until the fourthtrack, that is. "Older," following three fairlymellow and somewhat ambient songs,appears at first to be straightforward rock

Pathetic, let Beautiful?Aereogramme Combines Comforting Melodies with ~ak Lyrics

fILM REVIEW **, ,. FILM REVIEW *** ,Ghosts of the 1bys~ ~~nk:s No Crying in This .Gaine

Cameron Goes Overboard unth the Titanu: - Aga~n MO k 1\T. lte Sol'n°JtiGJI~ r;r. • The Good ThIJ.n!-'By Vladimir Zelevinsky respect to the historical significance and the 'tC 1,0 a :"'.11'1/ lJ ling r orce~n .rK{lADVISORY BOARD fact that it is, essentially, a tomb for thousandsGhosts oj the Abyss (IMAX) of people, it looks merely like a seaweed-Directed by James Cameron encrusted heap of rusty metal. An hour gazing

at it is at least fifty minutes too many;Cameron's decision to spiff up the visualswith costumed actors pretending to be passen-gers and crew on the fatal voyage inducesmore snorts than tears. It doesn't help thatPaxton's unscripted voiceover is generic andrepetitive, and that the actor clearly feelsuncomfortable inside the submarine.

From what can be seen on the screen -and this is the main problem with Ghosts ofthe Abyss - there doesn't seem to be muchpoint in Cameron's trip, even though a hand-ful of scenes do hint at some fascinatingundercurrents. There is a genuinely tensesequence with some nameless guy trying tosecure the submarine during a violent stonn,and a rather dark scene towards the close ofthe movie where a certain historic eventchanges the perspective on what's trulyimportant.

The most fascinating potential subject ofthe film can be glimpsed in a few shots, but islargely ignored. Too bad, given that this sub-ject is James Cameron himself. He's clearlydriven by some irresistible passion for adven-ture, presenting a puzzle of a man who wouldspend many millions to explore a rusty oldwreck (even the most famous of them all). Alate scene of one robot rescuing anothershows that he cares deeply about some things- namely, machines; but then again we aretalking about a man whose most memorablecharacters include a cyborg and an alienqueen. Humans are clearly not Cameron'sforte - funny, given that he is much moreinteresting than all that seaweed-coveredwreckage he keeps showing over and over andover again.

just e-mail join@the-tech.mit.edu

I'm not sure Iget it. Yes, James Cameronis clearly obsessed with the Titanic, buthe already channeled this personal obses-sion of his into a (terrific, in my opinion)

movie. I can also understand his desire tocome back to the real thing, after a year spentaround the replica set. Since he made untoldmillions from Titanic (and got Disney'sfinancing for this project as welJ), he is mostwelcome to hire the world's top deep-divingexpert , rent and/or design cutting edge equip-ment for deep-sea lighting and filming, andpend many weeks diving in amazingly engi-

neered submarines, filming the wreck with 3Dhigh-resolution camera to his heart's content.What Idon't get is, why exactly should I carefor any of thi ?

Rather unfair, I admit; any kind of a scien-tific exploration is exciting, especially if it'sdone under such extreme conditions and uti-lizing such amazing, borderline futuristic gad-getry. Only I'm afraid that nothing in Ghostsof the Abyss qualifies as scientific exploration.The opening ten minutes feel just right, withall the hustle and bustle on the deck of theexpedition ship, people yelling English andRussian at each other, a sense of you-are-right-there augmented by crisp 3D visuals ona giant screen. Bill Paxton, whom Cameroninvited to come along, is nicely self-deprecat-ing as the narrator; and the whole thing effort-lessly captures the feeling of the camaraderieof a bunch of top-notch professionals. Thenthe submarines go underwater, and from thispoint on, the film goes off the deep end.

There is nothing inherently fascinating inthe wreck of the Titanic now; with all due

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Willy Wonka, Move OverGhirardelli, Baker's Prevail in the Great C1wcolateTasting ContestBy Marissa A. Cheng unbaked de ert with chocolate - chocolate liquor (though it contain

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"Sugar and Spice" is a new column (debutedlast week as "Yummy Yummy') that we hopwill transform you, the average MIT tudent,into an ajficionado of all things food andfood-like.

The first thing I notice about my bag of$30 worth of chocolate is the aromathat literally fills the room when thebag is opened. Luckily, my backpack,

which carried it back from the supermarket,smells like it too.

Unlike Hershey's, or even Ghirardelli,which is generally the mo t expensive choco-late I'm wiJJing to pay to bake with, this choco-late smells like no other chocolate I've everhad - it has a warm, rich aroma that tayswith you, rather than dis ipating. It's beautiful.

I am about to embark upon my quest to findout whether or not the chocolate you bake withreally matters. I bought six brands of chocolate- Baker's semisweet and unsweetened fromthe United States, Callebaut unsweetened (97percent cacao) from Belgium, Valrhona PurCaraibe (66 percent cacao) from France, EIRey Bucare-Mijao (58-61 percent cacao) fromVenezuela, Ghirardelli Bittersweet from SanFrancisco, and Scharffen Berger Bittersweet(70 percent cacao) from California.

The plan: make one baked and one

mou and molten chocolate cake . I'll ta teit my If, as ell a ha e oth r p ople ta te,and e what I come up with.

hocolate began a an un weet n d drinkt rmed "food of th god" by the Maya andthe Aztec. Though hri topher olumbubrought cocoa b an to King Ferdinand andQueen I abella in 1492, chocolat didn't catchon until it wa introduced to pain a both adrink (now with sugar and anilla added to it)and an opportunity for a lot of money.

Chocolate was so popular in pain that PopePius V, in 1569, declared that drinking choco-late on Friday wouldn't break the fast. In Ger-many, chocolate became 0 popular that a per-mit was required in order to buy it or eat it.

Chocolate i a mix of cocoa beans, cocoabutter, sugar, and vanilla. Milk chocolateincludes condensed milk as well, and whitechocolate contain cocoa butter, but no cocoabeans. Cocoa tree grow in tropical regions inSouth America and Africa and yield football-shaped seed pods about the size of a lemon.After being harvested, they are fermented anddried, then bought by chocolate manufacturers.At the factory, the beans are cleaned, roasted todevelop their flavor further, and have theirouter shells removed. The remaining part of thebean, called the nib, is blended with other nibsaccording to the manufacturer's secret recipe,and then crushed into a paste called chocolate

no alcohol). hocolatliquor can be poured offinto mold and cooled asun eetened chocolate,hav cocoa butter andsugar added to it to makechocolate, or ha e most ofthe cocoa butter pre sedout to produce co oa.

Back to the ta ting. After finding that it iomewhat trying to make mousse six time in

a row on a aturday morning at 7:30 a.m. Iam finally through at 11 a.m. I'm kind ofmiffed that it took that long. And I still havethe molten chocolate cake to go.

The long and hort of it i that I put mo t butnot all possible care into the molten chocolatecakes. om are a bit oupy in the middle (notbaked long enough) and orne are too cakey(baked too long. I hope it won't be too notice-able. It takes a long time to chop chocolate, 0by now it's 2 p.m., time for people to tart tast-ing what I've made as I think guiltily about theproblem set and the I2-page paper due Monday.

Each of my eight-person tasting team(including me) samples the mou ses and cakesand ranks them by their numbers. obodyreaHy liked EI Rey at all - it placed in thetop three of a taster's preferences just once,with a rather off flavor that was reminiscent ofbad coffee. charffen Berger wa al 0 a no go,

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with a weak, underdeveloped taste. The Val-rhona incited a love-it-or-hate-it phenomenon,which was especially apparent with themous e.

ot surprisingly, given the size of the test-ing pool, results were fairly scattered, but itwas clear that the most-liked chocolate for themou se was a tie between the Callebaut andthe Ghirardelli. More than one person termedthe Callebaut mousse as tasting "very differ-ent," and in my opinion, it had the richest andmost complex flavor. The Callebaut didn'tfare so well in the cakes' instead, it resulted ina tie between not the expensive chocolates,but between the Ghirardelli and Baker'schocolate. So much for the much-vauntedprestige of premier chocolates.

My expert advice to you: stick with theBaker's and the Ghirardelli. If you reallywant something different, go for the Calle-baut, but as always, the secret ingredient toany recipe is love.

HaIvatd Rim ArchIve465 Huntington Ave., Boston. (617-267-9300), Mon.-Tues., 10a.m.-4:45 p.m.; check <http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org> formore details.

Exhibi~

Other

Museum of SCJenceScience Park, Boston. (617-723-2500), Daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri., 9a.m.-9 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 9 a.m.-5p.m. Admission free with MIT ID, oth-erwise $9, $7 for children 3-14 andseniors. The Museum features thetheater of electricity (with indoorthunder-and-lightning shows daily)and more than 600 hands-onexhibits. Admission to Omni, laser,and planetarium shows is $7.50,$5.50 for children and seniors.

Museum of Rne Arts465 Huntington Ave., Boston. (617-267-9300), Mon.-Tues., 10a.m.-4:45 p.m.; Wed., 10a.m.-9:45 p.m.; Thurs.-Fri., 10a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 10a.m.-5:45 p.m. West Wing openThurs.-fri. until 9:45 p.m. Admissionfree with MIT ID.Currently on exhibit until Oct. 20 is"Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: FourDecades of Art from the Broad Col-lections,. an exploration of contem-porary artists ranging from thosenamed above to Warhol to lichten-stein.

Isabella Stewart GanJner Museum280 The Fenway, Boston. (617-566-1401), Tues.-Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.Admission $10 ($11 on weekends),$7 for seniors, $5 for students withID ($3 on Wed.), free for childrenunder 18. The museum, built in thestyle of a 15th-century Venetianpalace, houses more than 2,500 artobjects, with emphasis on ItalianRenaissance and 17th-rentury Dutchworks. Among the highlights areworks by Rembrandt, Botticelli,Raphael, Titian, and Whistler. Guidedtours given Fridays at 2:30 p.m.

Com8dy ConnectJonMon.-Wed. at 8 p.m.; Thurs. 8:30p.m.; Fri. and Sat. 8 p.m., 10:15p.m.; Sun. 7 p.m. The oldest comedyclub in Boston. At 245 Quincy Mar-ket Place, Faneuil Hall, Upper Rotun-da, Boston. Admission $8-20. Call617-248-9700 or visit<http://www.comedyconnection-boston.col11>.

FIeetboston cetebrlty Sedes20 Park Plaza, Suite 1032, Boston,MA 02116.617-482-2595. Venuesvary by concert, consult Web site forfurther details, <http://www.celebri-tyseries.org>

Theater

rush tickets, if available, can beobtained at 5 p.m. on the day of theconcert (one ticket per person).<http://www.bso.org>

Boston Symphony OrchestraTickets: 617-266-1492.Performances at Symphony Hall,301 Massachusetts Ave., Boston,unless otherwise noted. Student

Classical Music

Apr. 18-19: Gato BarbieriApr. 22-23: Kenny GarrettApr. 24-26: Keely SmithApr. 30: Tower of Power

5cullers Jazz ClubDoubleTree Guest Suites, 400 Sol-

diers Reid Rd., Boston, 617-562-4111. <http://www.sculfersjazz.co111>. Call for schedule.

Apr. 18: Femando Huergo GroupApr. 19: Bebop GuitarsApr. 22: Brian Auger's Oblivion

ExpressApr. 23: Pete RobbinsApr. 24: Los Changos CD Release

PartyApr. 24: Temporada latinaApr. 26: Egue CastrilloApr. 29: Tim Miller Group

Ryles Jazz Club212 Hampshire St., Cambridge, MA.

617-876-9330Venue has two floors. Upstairs(U), Downstairs (D)

<http://ryIesjazz.com>

Apr. 18-19: Kenny BarronApr. 22: The Aquiles Baez QuartetApr. 23: GargonzApr. 24: Dominique Eade QuartetApr. 25-6: Michael Camilo Trio

Regatt8bar1 Bennett St., Cambridge, MA. 617-662-5000, <http://www.regattabar.col11> Usually two showsnightly, call for details.

Jazz

50 Foster St, Worcester, MA. 508-755-6800

<http://www.centrumcentre.com>

May 2: Cher, Dom IrreraJun. 13: Bill Gaither Homecoming

Apr. 18: DrexelApr. 19: Ricky ValenteApr. 21: Mull Historical SocietyApr. 22: The Broken WordApr. 23: McluskyApr. 24: Mendoza lineApr. 25: Aaron perrinoApr. 26: Rock City CrimewaveApr. 27: Radioinaetive & BusdriverApr. 28: Damien RiceApr. 29: Clones Don't Have Bellybut-

tonsApr. 30: Mercury Program, +/-

May 15-16: Avril Lavigne

TT The Bear's10 Brookline St., Cambridge, MA.

617-931-2000.<http://www.ttthebears.com>

Apr. 18: Jen Durkin & Bomb Squad,Donna the Buffalo

Apr. 19: Spookie Daly PrideApr. 20: The SamplesApr. 21: The WallflowersApr. 23: Afro-Cuban All StarsApr. 24: AdultApr. 25: The DelgadosApr. 26: Matt NathansonApr. 27: Damien RiceApr. 28: UfehouseApr. 30: Dixie DregsMay 2: Stephen LynchMay 3: CosteauMay 6: Yeah Yeah EvansMay 16: Steve Malkmus

PaIadIse Rock Club967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston,

MA. 617-562-8804

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With that warm, fuzzy Dave Matthews feel, BenKweller brings his soaring ballads to Axis with AdamGreen and Kings on Leon this Saturday; tickets $14.Apr. 26: Bonnie Rait, John Mayer 300 Arcand Dr., Lowell, MA. 978-Jun. 7: Lou Reed 848-6900.

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Apr. 19: Ellen DegenersApr. 25: Doors of the 21st Cent.

0rphefMn TheIItIe1 Hamilton Pl., Boston, MA. 617-679-0810

Apr. 18: DJ Benny BlancoApr. 19: Gigi, AdamsApr. 20: Postal ServiceApr. 21: CalifoneApr. 22: Midget JesusApr. 23: Oranges BandApr. 24-5: Throwing MusesApr. 26: Plan B, MappariApr. 27: Parker Houe & TheoryApr. 28: Sumo, Since by ManApr. 29: OzmaApr. 30: Supersuckers, The Forty

FIves, Throw Rag

FlHtCBnterOne AeetCenter, Boston, MA. 617-931-2787

May 12: Matchbox 20June 19: Dixie Chicks, Michelle

Branch

Apr. 18: Diane ZeiglerApr. 19: Vance GilbertApr. 20: SpeechwritersApr. 23: BMOPApr. 24: Deb Talan, Jennifer KimballApr. 25: Rani ArboApr. 26: Christopher Williams

ClubPaalm47 Palmer St, Cambridge, MA. 617-

492-7679Tuesdays: Open Mic at 8 p.m. (signup at 7:30). $5. See<http://www.clubpassim.com> forcomplete schedule

May 2: The RootsMay 4: lagwagonMay 9: ARMay 10: SoulflyMay 12: Pete YomMay 18: JuanesMay 16: Kottonmouth KingsMay 28: Stonesour, Powerman

5000, RA, OutspokenJune 3: Ziggy Marley

, The MIddle EastCentral Square, 617-354-8238Ticketmaster: 617-931-2787.Venue has two floors. Upstairs (U),

Downstairs (D)<http://www.mideastclub.com>

Apr. 25: Roeh, Snapcase

Apr. 18: SubhumansApr. 19: Ben KwellerApr. 20: MadballApr. 22: NothingfaceApr. 26: ThroneApr. 27: BlackaliciousMay 3: Grand DriveMay 5: YellowcardMay 8: Melissa FerrickMay 11: Give up the GhostMay 15: Ash

Avalon15 Lansdowne St., Boston, MA.617-262-2424

AxIs13 Lansdowne St., Boston, MA.617-262-2437

Popular Music

ManRay21 Brookline St., Cambridge, 617-8640400Wednesdays: Curses. Goth. Appro-

priate dress required. $5, 19+;$3,21+.

Thursdays: Campus. Popular tunes,House. Gay, casual dress. $10,19+; $8, 21+.

Fridays: Fantasy Factory (Rrst andthird Friday of the month. Fea-tures kinky fetishes and industrialmusic.) Hell Night (every secondFriday.) 19+. Includes Gothmusic. Ooze (the last Friday of themonth.) $10, 21+. Reducedprices for those wearing fetishgear.

Saturdays: Uquid. Disco/house andNew Wave. $15,19+; $10,21+.

KannaCiub9 Lansdowne St., 617-421-9595Sundays: "Current dance favorites.

by guest DJs. Cover varies.Tuesdays: Phatt Tuesdays. With

Bill's Bar, modern dance music.$10.

Wednesdays: STP. Gay-friendly,house. $15, 21+.

Thursdays: Groove Factor. House.Fridays: Spin cycle. Prog. house.

19+.Saturdays: Elements of Ufe. Intema-

tional House. $15.

Avalon1..5Lansdowne St., 617-262-2424

unda¥s' ~ i~'W:.~Q.- -.. __ ~~:-,W\M~long weekends). Featuring hard-core house and techno. $10, 21+.

Thursdays: Intemational Night. Euro-house. $10, 19+.

Fridays: Avalandx, with Axis. House.$15,19+.

Saturdays: Downtown. Modernhouse, club classics, and Top 40hits. $15, 21+.

AxIs13 Lansdowne St., 617-262-2437Sundays: See Avalon below.Mondays: Static. Gay, casual dress.

$5,18+.Thursdays: Chrome/Skybar. Progres-

sive house, soul, disco; dresscode.$10, 19+; $8, 21+.

Fridays: Avalandx, with Avalon.Saturdays: X-night (rock, altemative,

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words, but it's really quite a bit. I'm usually happy to breakthe bare minimum of 600 words. These are momentous occa-sions that usually result in me shouting and doing a little dancewhich usually gets me kicked out of whatever lecture 1happento be writing my column in at the. . Anything less than 600i 0 en acceptab t y t . ~ thePainAiI time w I tri to submit a 98 word column-- myeditQrs shouted at me and threw the column in my face' it washomble. What's reaUy memorable about that scarring event isthat I totally made it up, whicb isn't too bard to figure out con-sidering I submit my columns via e-mail. The only contact Ihave with my editors is an occasional call telling me that whatIwrote was totally incomprehensible, and would Imind terri-bly if they just rewrote the entire thing since I obviously have,at most, a tenuous grasp of the English language.

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9:00 a.m •• 5:00 p.m. - Spri 2003 Direct UROP Fund ng. All undergraduates whoare interested in applying for Summer 2003 Direct UROP funding, must submit theirmaterials to the UROP Office by 5 p.m. today. free. Room: 7-104. Sponsor: AcademicResource Center, UROP.10:00 a.m. - Admissions InfonnatJon SessIon (folio ed by the Campus Toul).Admissions Office Information session gathers at the Admissions Reception Center(lo-l00).Enter MIT at the main entrance, Lobby 7, 77 Massachusetts Ave (domedbuilding with tall pillars). Proceed down the center corridor to Room 10-100 on theright.Following the Admissions Information session is a Student Led Campus Tourwhich begins in Lobby 7 (main entrance lobby) Groups over 15 people need to makespecial reservations. free. Room: Admissions Reception Center, Building 10, Room10-100. Sponsor: Information Center.10:45 a.m. - Campus Tour. Student Led Campus Tours are approximately 90 min-utes long and provide a general overview of the main campus. Please note that cam-pus tours do not visit laboratories, living groups or buildings under construction.Groups over 15 people need to make special reservations. Campus tours start at theconclusion of the Admissions Informations session. The Campus Tour begins inLobby 7 (Main Entrance Lobby at 77 Massachusetts Ave). free. Room: Lobby 7 (MainEntrance Lobby at 77 Massachusetts Ave). Sponsor. Information Center.U:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Ch nese Culture Fair. A grand Chinese culture fair com-prised of magnificent Chinese art performance, exhibitions of China's culture heritagesites and interactive booths featuring FREE gorgeous Chinese snacks and sour-venlrs, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese drawing, Chinese paper cutting and GO games ..free. Room: Student Center Steps and Kresge Oval. Sponsor: Chinese Student andSCholar Association, Graduate Student Council. MIT Fund.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Writers Group. 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The objectives of this research are to provide aframework to determine the importance of product development processes and theirrelationship with organizational capabilities, to provide an assessment vehicle thathelps organizations assess their capabilities and make improvements, and toImprove predictions of project outcomes as the ultimate goal. Room: E60-255. Spon-sor: Center for Innovation in Product Development.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Good Friday service. Noontime Good Friday service in theMIT Chapel. free. Room: MIT Chapel. Sponsor: Lutheran-Episcopal Ministry.12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m. - ACDl Sem nar. "An Integrated CAD Methodology Applied toWind Turbine Optimization." free. Room: 33-206. Sponsor: AeroAstro.1:00 p.m .• 2:00 p.m. -1pm Mk:hael and Russel- QIP. free. Room: 4-357. Sponsor:Physics Junior Lab Orals.1:10 p.m. -1:50 p.m. - Muslim Friday Prayer. Weekly congregational prayer for Mus-lims. People of other faiths welcome to attend. Email ms~@mit.edu for more infor-mation. free. Room: Wll.110. Sponsor: Muslim students' Association.2:00 p.m. - Admissions Information session (Followed by the Campus Tour). free.Room: Admissions Reception center, Building 10, Room 10-100. Sponsor: Informa-tion Center.2:45 p.m. - Campus Tour. free. Room: Lobby 7 (Main Entrance Lobby at 77 Massa-chusetts Ave). Sponsor: Information Center.3:30 p.m. - Softball vs. 5mIth College (DH). free. Room: Briggs Field. Sponsor:Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation.4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Bra n and Cognitive SCiences Colloquium series: TeuberLecture. The Mil Brain and Cognitive SCiences Department is proud to present: The10th Hans-Lukas Teuber Lecture featuring:John Hopfield, Ph.D.Howard A Prior Profes-sbf. Department of Molecular Biology. Princeton Unhterslty:"Computlng with SpikeTiming'Reception Afterwards. free. Room: E25-111. Sponsor: Brain and CognitiveSCiences, BCS Colloquium series.4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. - Matrix Mutations and Dynkln DIagrams. 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free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Section.7:00 p.m. - U:59 p.m. - IT Anlme Club mini showing: an ece:entric dorm II aster.old bI lards. Special mini-showing (there's an anime convention across the river thatmost people will want to attend instead) from the Deliverator's collection: StarshipGirl Yamamoto Yohko (vide<>-game prowess as a gateway to piloting a star-fighter,don't miss the asteroid billiards episode!); Koko wa Greenwood (life in a dorm that isalmost as strange as *your living group). free. Room: 6-120. Sponsor: Anime Club,MIT.7:00 p.m. - D Another Day. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.7:00 p.m. - "Central Station" (1998). In the bustling heart of Rio de Janeiro, ayoung boy witnesses the accidental death of his mother. When a lonely, retiredschoolteacher reluctantly agrees to take care of him, they begin a journey across thecountryside on which they leam valuable lessons about each other and the humanspirit. Free. Room: MIT 4-231. Sponsor: MfT Westem Hemisphere Project.7:30 p.m •• 9:00 p.m. - BlbJe Study. Is there more to life than grad school? Webelieve the answer is .YES!.' Corne study the word of God with us. There will be din-ner provided and games afterward. free. Room: 1-150. Sponsor: Asian Baptist Stu-dent Koinonia Graduate Division.7:30 p.m. - The Lady and the Duke. A stunning use of digital technology, The Ladyand the Duke takes the viewer back two hundred years with meticulously recreatedFrench Revolution backdrops framing the digitally-"filmed" actors. Based on the auto-biography of Englishwoman Grace Elliot (Lucy Russell), the film follows her adven-tures in France with her lover Philippe, the Duke of Orleans. As the clouds of Revolu-tion approach, she clings to her aristocratic upbringing, while the Duke aligns himselfwith Revolutionary politics. When the Terror arrives, the pair faces a stark moralchoice between giving in to the mob and dying for their principles. Historically accu-rate, and replete with links to royalty (Elliot was a onetime lover of the Prince ofWales, future King George IV of England, and the Duke is the father of future KingLouis Philippe of France), The Lady and the Duke is for everyone who wants to beeducated, entertained, and challenged. In French and German with English subtitles.This program was made possible with the support of the Cultural services of theFrench Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC). 3.00. Room: 10-250.Sponsor: LSC. Culture services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry ofCulture.7:30 p.m .• U:OO p.m. - 2 Free Chinese MovJes.Chlnese Culture Week. 2 Moviesper night Wed-Sunday. Friday Movie 1: Emperor and the Assassin, The (Jing ke ci qinwang) http://us.irndb.comjTitle?0162866: Movie 2: Hollywood Hong;Kong (XiangGang You Ge Hao Lai Wu) http://us.lrndb.comjTitle?0290654 For more comingmovie shows, please visit MIT CSSA at http://cssa.mit.edu/chineseculture/. free.Room: 1-190. Sponsor: Chinese Student and SCholar Association.8:00 p.m. - "She Loves Me." Musical by Hamick and Bock directed by Michael Ouel-lette. $8, $6 students. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: Dramashop.8:00 p.m •• 11:30 p.m. - Sangam Movies. SCreening of popular movies. Please sutrscribe to sangam-request@mit.edu. free. Sponsor: Graduate Student Council,Sangam.10:00 p.m. - Die Another Day. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.10:30 p.m. - The Lady and the Duke. $3. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: LSC, Culture ser-vices of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture.

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12:00 p.m. - Softball vs. Clark University (DH). free. Room: Briggs Field. Sponsor:Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation.12:00 p.m. - Women's Outdoor Track II FIeld vs. Springfield College. free. Room:Steinbrenner Track. Sponsor: Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recre-ation.1:00 p.m. - Men's Lacrosse vs. Wheaton College. free. Room: Jack Barry Turf.Sponsor: Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation.1:00 p.m. - Men's Tennis vs. Clark UnIversity. free. Room: Katz Tennis Courts.Sponsor: Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation.4:30 p.m •• 1:00 a.m. - TMRCBuIld nme. These are our normal meetings, where webuild the layout. free. Room: N52-118. Sponsor: Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC).7:00 p.m. - Adaptation. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - 5apne: SAAS Annual Culture Show. This is the Annual Cul-ture Show put on by the South Asian American Students Organization (SMS). Comewatch and experience the diversity of the South Asian sul>-continent. There will beamazing dances, live music, video, acts, food, and fun! Doors open at 6pm. $2, allproceeds go to charity. Limit 2 per 10. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: SouthAsian American Students.7:30 p.m .• U:OO p.m. - 2 Free Chinese MovJes.Chlnese Culture Week. 2 Moviesper night Wed-Sunday. Saturday Movie 1: Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Tian mimil http://us.imdb.comjTitle?Ol17905: Movie 2: King of Masks, The (Bian Lian)http://us.irndb.comjTitle?Ol15669 For more coming movie shows, please visit MIT

CSSA at http://cssa.mit.edu/chineseculture/. free. Room: 54-100. Sponsor: Chi-nese Student and Scholar Association.8:00 p.m .• U:3O p.m. - 5angam MovIe Special. Movie SCreenings. Emails are typi-cally sent out if you subscribe to sanganwequest@mit.edu. free. Room: 2.105. Spon-sor: Graduate Student Council, sangam.8:00 p.m. -10:00 p.m. - EpIcurean: WIne T~ Corne join us this saturday for aguided horizontal tour of the 2000-2001 Shiraz and Pinot Noirs from three regions:the US, Australia and France. This could be Steve Millman's last wine tasting ses-sion, so don't miss it! Wine enthusiasts of all levels are welcome. 15. Room: NextHouse Dining. Sponsor: Epicurean, The.8:00 p.m •• U:OO p.m. - Patrol. Travel to strange new classrooms. Meet interesting,unusual people, and kill them! Patrol is a high-action game of live combat with rut>-ber-dart guns. Shoot your friends, then watch out as they try to take their revenge.free. Room: 36-115. Sponsor: Assassins' Guild, MfT.10:00 p.m. - Adaptation. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.

Sunday, AprI 20

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. - MIT Swapfest. MIl's electronics and ham radio flea will takeplace on the third Sunday of each month this summer, April thru October. There istailgate space for over 600 sellers and free, off-street parking for >2000 cars! Buy-ers admission is $5 (you get $1 off if you're lucky enough to have a copy of our ad)and sellers spaces are $20 for the first and $15 for each additional at the gate. Theflea will be held at the comer of Albany and Main streets in Cambridge; right in theKendall Square area from 9AM to 2PM, with sellers set-up time starting at 7AM. $5.Room: Albany Street Garage. Sponsor. Electronic Research Society, MIT, UHFRepeater Assn. W1XM, MIT, MIT Radio Society. Harvard Wireless Club.4:00 p.m. - Rajan II saran Misra, HIncIustanI Vocal. With Subhen Chatterjee, tabla.. $20, $17 members, $10 students. Room: Wong Auditorium (MIT Tang Center, 2Amherst St). Sponsor: MfTHAS, in cooperation with Sangam.7:00 p.m. - DIe Another Day. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.7:30 p.m •• 11:00 p.m. - 2 Free Chinese Movle5-Chlnese Culture Week. 2 Moviesper night Wed-Sunday. Sunday Movie 1: Roots and Branches rHo de Xiong Di Jie Mei)http://us.irndb.comjTitle?0304641: Movie 2: Breaking the Silence (Piao Iiang mamal http://us.irndb.comjTitle?0236598 For more coming movie shows, please visitMIT CSSA at http://cssa.mit.edu/chineseculture/. free. Room: 54-100. Sponsor:Chinese Student and SCholar Association.10:00 p.m. - AdaptatIon. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.

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8:00 a.m. - DC Tech Trek. Reasons to Sign Up: #1 Outstanding company lineup AOL- meet folks from 3 different divisions The Motley Fool - create our own MIT Sloanradio commercial for TMF XM Satellite Radio - meet execs and tour the broadcastingstudio WashingtonPost.com - schmooze in their top floor dining area USinternetwork-ing - panel discussion and tour the data center #2 Great Deal Airfare to BWI (Balti-more-Washington) is only $49 each way! $0 Local transportation costs (all transitprovided by your fellow classmates!) Company sponsored meals on April 21st! #3Networking Enjoy a sponsored alumni event with the local MIT chapter. A small groupof us means quality time with local executives. #4 Enjoy beautiful Washington D.C. atthe height of the Cherry Blossom season!!! The trip costs only $50 (to cover tripbooks and speaker gifts), plus a fully-refundable $100 deposit. Make $150 checkspayable to MIT Sloan MediaTech Club. Submit checks to Peter Vandre or Ben Aylor ..free. Room: Washington DC. Sponsor: MITEntrepreneurshipCenter. Sloan Media TechClub.10:00 a.m. - AdmIssIons Information 5essIon (FoHowed by the c.npus Tour). free.Room: Admissions Reception Center, Building 10, Room 10-100. Sponsor: Informa-tion Center.10:45 a.m. - C8mpus Tour. free. Room: Lobby 7 (Main Entrance Lobby at 77 Massa-chusetts Ave). Sponsor: Information Center.2:00 p.m. - AdmIssIons Intonnation 5essIon (Followed by the c.npus Tour). free.Room: Admissions Reception center, Building 10, Room 10-100. Sponsor: Informa-tion Center.2:45 p.m. - Campus Tour. free. Room: Lobby 7 (Main Entrance Lobby at 77 Massa-chusetts Ave). Sponsor: Information Center. .3:30 p.m. - BasebaII~. Bates Colge. free. Room: Briggs Field. Sponsor. Depart-ment of Athletics, Physical' Education and Recreation.4:00 p.m .• 5:00 p.m - HolIday. free. Room: 2-143. Sponsor: Differential Geometryseminar. Department of Mathematics.9:00 p.m. -1:00 a.m. - Trivia Night at the ThIrsty Ear. Every Monday is Trivia Night.Bring a team and compete for great prizes Ii!< VOs, CDs, sports tickets, moviepasses, and MORE!! The Thirsty Ear PUb is located in the basement of AshdownHouse. Enter through the courtyard. Free. Room: The Thirsty Ear Pub. Sponsor: Grad-uate Student Council, The Thirsty Ear Pub.

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he had an "incredibly dry, cyni-cal sense of humor," Mukherjeesaid, and she was "very much her-self and never tried to fake beinganyone else."

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Noelle Kanaga '06 gets the ball in Tue day's lacrosse gameagainst archrlval Wellesley; The last regular season homegame for Women's lacrosse ended In a loss for MIT with ascore of 11-6.

IPB gr nt d b ddrorne member of th tudent

Information Proc ing Boardwhich wa re pon ibl for grantingMon arrat the Web addre us d forthe matchup' W bite, r cognizedthe questionabl u e that thematchup could ha e. The matchupWeb addre s point to Mon arrat'home directory on Ath na.

I totally think it' a way for[Monsarrat] to get date ," saidRichard 1. Barbalace '97 in a IPBzephyr conver ation on Feb. 8recorded in IPB's z phyr log.Why would anybody ever s t up

any type of matching service unlessa) they were trying to make money,and/or b) they were trying to getdates? ... But that seem like a per-fectly fine fringe benefit to organiz-ing it."

"I would actually worry that he'sgoing to contact them at a later date,under some other pretext and inbulk," replied Camilla Fox '00."You don't ordinarily expect a dat-ing service to expose you to that, orfor a dating service creep to contacteverybody. "

Monsarrat said he hopes to runthe matchup again in June, this time

urve information mi handledDe ario e timate the number of

people repeatedly contacted byMonsarrat a potentially hundredsof people," though he ay he p r-onally know of only 10 who have

come forward."Just about everybody I' e talked

to at Harvard Law chool has beencontacted by this guy," De ario aid.

Monsarrat, who also participatedin the matchup service, said that hehad heard of complaints about hipersonal use of data from the ser-vice, but said "I kind of don't getthat. I signed up like everybodyelse. There was no privacy policy."

Monsarrat said that he received100 matches through the matchup,and contacted all of them. Each par-ticipant in the matchup was given20 possible matches and people whoreferred a friend got more than 20.

Monsarrat said that he referred afriend, and called the fact that hereceived 100 matches "not at allunusual," though he was "the onlyvolunteer" who received that many

Matchup Creator Contacts Over 100 ParticipantsMatchup, from Page 1 D ario aid that the e-mail match. offering participants unlimited in an e-mail that "at thi time, the

would probably not legally be con- Participant in the matchup w r matche. The new ver ion of the IPB ha received no official com-idered hara ment, but that cer- pair d u ing computer oftware that matchup, Monsarrat aid, will allow plaint. We will rely on the judge-

tainly what we hav her i an Mon arrat aid he de igned after participant to search the database. ment of the MIT authorities" in theunethical ituation." what he con id red to be a good IPB hair Chris T. Laas G said matter of a June matchup.

bu and hara ment, Mon ar- match to him. He then generalizedrat aid, ar' ry load d word ' . th properti of a good match and

He called the complaint flam u ed the oftwar to give partici-wars" and said, mo t p ople don't pant th ir matche .take editorial in the tudent nepaper eriously. I don't think they'llbeli th flam wars," Mon arrataid.

the MIT Young Alumni lub aidthat Mon arrat contacted at lea tone woman after he repeatedlya ked him to stop, and quote Mon-arrat a saying to one participant,you've made me wait too long; I

am getting impatient."Th complaint al 0 mentioned

Monsarrat's communication withanother participant.

He started sending her chart ofhi weight los , promi ing that hewould 10 e more weight in thefuture ... and begging her to meetup with him," De ario aid.

Monsarrat referred to the econdattempt at contacting each match aa "follow up e-mail" and said thathe used two form e-mails when con-tacting a potential match.

The second e-mail, Monsarratsaid, included the text "Forgive mypersistence. And I know you're busy.Life is short, and I just hate to lose agood opportunity. I don't want to berude, though, so ... if you don't replyI'll have to give up on you."

E-mails not legally harassmentDe Sario said that she met with

Harvard University police last Fri-day and that a "cea e and desist"letter will be sent to Monsarratinforming him of police involve-ment in the matter and saying thatfurther e-mails to Harvard studentswill result in criminal prosecution.

Monsarrat said that he has notbeen contacted by either the MIT orHarvard University police.

Above are the final donation totals for each candidate in theannual Institute Screw competition, which ended last Friday. Thecompetition is sponsored every year by Alpha Phi Omega to col-lect money for charity.

Verghese Wins ThisYear's Big Screw

as MBE does.MIT argued that the technique of

making everal voiced/unvoiced deci-sions was unknown in 1985 when itspatent application was first filed. As aresult, the patent' di claimer that

- ''recourse i never made to a voiced-unvoiced decision" should be readonly to limit the patent's coverage ofinventions that make a single, univer-sal decision of whether speech isvoiced or unvoiced for each ectionin time, MIT said.

The patent should still covertechniques that make multiple deci-sions (such as a decision for eachfrequency band) for each section intime, MIT argued.

But Judge Young did not agree.The patent's "empha i is on themaking of a voiced/unvoiced deci-sion itself and how 'particularly dif-ficult' this i to do," he wrote in aJanuary decision.

"No emphasis is placed on thefact that the binary method employsa single deci ion for an entire framever u multiple decision ," hewrote." 0 reference is made to thepotential for wa ted data that occurswith a single decision per frame.Instead, the pecification broadlyuggests that it is the difficulty of

making a voiced/unvoiced deci ionin it elf that MITIs new inventionsidesteps. "

A such, because DV I' systemused by Lockheed did makevoiced/unvoiced deci ions, MITmust necessarily lose the case, heruled. "The fact that Lockheed'sdevice al 0 makes a higher qualityproduct without re orting to a voic-ing decision as to an entire framedoes not make it equivalent toMIT's product," he wrote. "MIT hasfailed to set forth specific factsshowing that a genuine issue existsfor trial. A reasonable jury, on therecord before the Court, could onlydecide in favor of Lockheed."

The lawsuit was also notablebecause, like DVSI, Lockheed Mar-tin has strong historical ties to MIT."Lockheed Martin and MIT have along-standing relationship," MITsaid in a 1998 press releaseannouncing a $1 million Lockheedgift to create the Lockheed MartinSoftware Learning Center at MIT.

The center does not yet existbecause its future home, the Rayand Maria Stata Center, is not yetcompleted.

Ruling re ted on voicing decisionThe court's ruling concluded, as

Lockheed had argued, that becauseMIT's patent explained that"recourse is never made to a voiced-unvoiced decision," MIT could notsuccessfully sue for the use of a sys-tem that made voiced/unvoiceddecisions for each frequency band,

sion for each band," tllis per on aid.A "voiced/unvoiced decision"

refers to the efforts of a computer todetermine whether it is trying tocompress a section of speech thatconsists of "voiced" sounds uch amost vowels, or ''unvoiced'' sounds,such as the letters "s" and "t".

These decisions exist in almostall speech compression techniques,this person said, but "MBE general-ized it and made it work better" bymaking the decisions separately fordifferent frequencies.

Quatieri and McAulay, who alsodeveloped their method in the mid-1980s, did not work with the MBEdevelopers at MIT's Research Labo-ratory of Electronics, this person said.

Quatieri and McAulay "workedat Lincoln Lab, and the whole MBEstuff got its start in RLE on cam-pus," this per on said.

everal of those RLE researchersnow work at DVSI, including Lim,the chairman, John C. Hardwick'86, the pre ident, and Daniel W.Griffin PhD '87, the director ofresearch and development.

It was not immediately clearwhy MIT sued Lockheed but not theprovider of the allegedly infringingcompres ion system, DV I. "Wecould have sued DVSI, but theyweren't really the player," Turnersaid. "A number of years ago wetried to get a license agreement inplace with DVSI and could notcome to an agreement."

Lockheed, which acquired theInmarsat base stations when itbought the U.S. government-createdComsat Corp. in 2000, has sincesold the base tations to Telenor

atellite Mobile ervices Inc., asubsidiary of the principally-state-owned orweigan telephone com-pany Telenor ASA.

MIT's lawsuit against Lockheedwas therefore only for past infringe-ment. If MIT had won, it wouldlikely have been able to receive"several millions of dollars" in roy-alties, Turner said.Both systems developed at MIT

DVSI's technology, known as"multi-band excitation" speechcompression, or MBE, was alsodeveloped at MIT, said a personfamiliar with the lawsuit who spokeon condition of anonymity.

"The basic concept in MBE wasto take the signal and divide the sig-nal into multiple frequency bandsand to make a voiced/unvoiced deci-

Lim's 18 digital televisionpatents are among the most valuablejewels of MIT's patent portfolio,and his cooperation with Dolby

boratories Inc. in 1993 eventuallled to $30 million fOl MIT as aresult of an MIT-Dolby lawsuit set-tlement last April.

But this time, Lim is in anunusual position: the TechnologyLicensing Office believes, Turnersaid, that the customers of DVSl'stechniques and microchips areinfringing a 1989 MIT patent issuedfor an invention by two Lincoln Labresearchers, Dr. Thomas F. QuatieriScD '80 and Robert J. McAulay.(The patent was reissued in 1999 asU.S. Patent No. RE 36,478, "Pro-cessing of acoustic waveforms.")

Those customers include theIridium, Inmarsat, and ICO globalsatellite telephone systems, as wellas several other mobile radio com-munications systems.

"The speech codec [compressor-decompressor] in this system wasdeveloped completely by DVSI,"said Suat Yeldener, a former Lock-heed employee who advised thecompany in the lawsuit.

Despite this belief that Lim' scompany sells a product thatinfringes an MIT patent, MIT isunlikely to sue other DVSI cus-tomers, Turner said. "Given the posi-tion we've taken [not to appeal] inthe suit we did file, I don't think thereis still a suit to be filed," he said.

Lim, who is on sabbatical, didnot reply to an e-mail request forcomment late Thursday. Quatieriand representatives of Lockheed didnot return calls for comment.McAulay could not be reached forcomment. Robert Maher, the direc-tor of sales and marketing for DVSI,said he was not familiar with thelawsuit and abruptly hung up on areporter who was asking for infor-mation about the company.

Judge Rules inFavor of LockheedLockheed, from Page I

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Julie B. Norman (Orientation Schedule)Professors J. David Litster and John W. Belcher (TEAL)Professor Frank Wilczek (8.012)Dean Robert P. RedwineProfe~r Wesley L. Harris (Unified)Professor Gerald J. Sussman (SCheme)Professor John V. Guttag (6.170)Tony Eng (6.001)Dean Kim J. VandiverProfessor Janet Schrenk (5.111)Write-ins

Orie tation 20 3:Aprill 2003

vents, Less TiIile for Rush(

will allow tudent to be e po ed toall place on campus and not uckedover to just one iet."

'The partie won't be exactly thame. Each one will have it own

flavor," Ben on aid. The changewill allow fre hrnen to ' meet people,learn about the dorms, and have agood time."

The East Campus party will beheld from 8 p.m. to midnight onSunday, August 24. The West Cam-pus party wiJI be held the evening ofthe 25th, ju t a day before the hous-ing adjustment lottery closes.

When students arrive on campuson Saturday, August 23, their firstactivity at MIT will be the Fre hmanEssay Evaluation at I p.m., whichwill determine placement in fresh-men writing courses.

The Orientation Kick-off willbegin at 4 p.m. that afternoon, fol-lowed by the PlayFair, which wasintroduced at last year's orientation.

i working on way to make the fac-ulty more approachable.

"We are taking creati e chedul-ing idea that might be implementedin future orientations in '04 andbeyond," Vandiver aid.

This year's chedule i '99 per-cent complete" Vandiver said,though A ociate Dean and Orienta-tion Coordinator Julie B. ormanaid that the schedule is " till subject

to change."

East and West Campus partiesA new addition to the 2003 Ori-

entation are the East and WestCampus parties cheduled for Sun-day and Monday nights, respective-ly. The parties aim to encourage stu-dents to explore both sides ofcampus before the adjustment lotteryclo es.

"It's more of a geographic desig-nation rather than a cultural one,"Benson said. He said that the events

John on Athletic Center. Thi year,the dinner wiJI be held in individualdonnitorie .

Di cus ion about the detail ofthe dinners are till ongoing.

"It i our home, and 0 we feelit' important to have a ay in howactivitie in our dorm are happen-ing," Ben on said.

"The concern with the WelcomeDinner ... terns from concern thedonn governments were not directlyconsulted before thi event wascheduled," Cofer aid in her e-mail.

"Dormcon i confide~t that, in thenext few weeks before the Orienta-tion schedule is 100 percent final-ized, the few remaining concernswill be addressed and an amenableolution agreed upon by the ARC,

DonnCon and other appropriate par-tie ."

Professor J. Kim Vandiver, amember of the Committee on theUndergraduate Program, said that he

elcome dinners held in dormsThe freshman welcome dinner,

where students have a chance tomeet MIT faculty and other tudents,ha traditionally been held in the

p.m. on unday and after 3:30 p.m.on Monday of Orientation weekwould be re erved for "ResidenceExploration," or REX.

On the draft chedule, no eventare cheduled during tho e time .

'We want to make ure that it'sin the Hitchhiker's Guide 0 that stu-dents can understand to go to it,"Benson aid.

Last year, off-campus dinnerswere scheduled immediately beforein-house ru h events. Freshmenoften arrived late to rush events andmissed welcome tatements fromhouse governments and an explana-tion of the rush system, said EmilyE. Cofer 04, Dormcon's incomingpresident, in an e-mail.

Page 16 THE TECH

By Lauren E. LeBonASSOCIATE EWS EDITOR

The Cia s of 2007 will havethree day to relocate to new dormi-tories once they arrive on campu ,according to a draft of the 2003 Ori-entation schedule.

Student will move into their per-manent rooms on Thursday of Ori-entation week. Last year studentmoved in on aturday, giving themfive days to move.

"We would like more time, butwe also understand that there' alimited amount of time," said RossE. Benson '03, the Donnitory Coun-cil Judicial Committee chair. "It's acompromise." Ben on added thatthere is still discussion about thescheduling for in-hou e lotteries.

The amount of time allotted fordormitory exploration is not speci-fied on the schedule. In an interviewlast February, Dean for Student LifeLarry G. Benedict said that after 3

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pril 18, 2003 THE TECH Page 17

ZT ~ring-eekend 2003

Presenting a concert with the best inunderground hip hop with the lastest in up and coming rock.

Tickets are nearly sold out, and increase on day of concert.

Saturday, April 26, 2003Johnson Athletics Center, MIT. Doors at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are' $8 for MIT / $10 for selected other colleges / $10 on the day of concertFeaturing performances by Boss Beat Sound Crew and Cephalopod.

Spring WeekendBarbeque: Only the finestgrilled meats and gardenburgers from 12 - 2 p.m.

at the Kresge Pits

Brought to you by the Division of Student Life, theUndergraduate Association, Student life Programs,

Campus Activities Complex, Campus Police,and the Spring Weekend 2003 Committee.

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Friday, April 25, 2003InternationafFair: enjoy food and

performances from different cultures on Kresgeoval all day long. Hosted by the ISA

. AXO LilJ Sync: Laugh a your friends or wincool rizes at this annual event. Kresge at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $5 in lobby 10 or at the door. Proceedsgo to charity.

GetSlJrung: Tribute to hip hop culture featuringrapper Rahzel (member of the-Roots), Boss

Beat Sound Crew, Cephalopod, and DJ-JSl.Located in Lobdell from 10 p.m. - 1 a.m.

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a worldwide reputation a a cholarof the compo er Robert chuman.

Out ide the cIa sroom, friendssaid he wilJ be mi sed by their chil-dren, who called him UncIe John.His fir t top at his friends' homeswa alway the floor, where hewould instantly begin playing withwhatever game or toy was at hand.

"Every time we drive past hisoffice, my son asks if we can go seeUncle John," said Seitz, whose on i4. "He knew there'd be jelly beansthere. My son would get orne jellybeans and run around disturbingeveryone and John would think itwas absolutely hilarious."

For the last month, Seitz has toldher son that Uncle John was on vaca-tion. She doesn't know how or whenshe'll tell him Daverio is gone.

His father, a retired brick layer inan old steel mill town near Pitts-burgh, said he will not disturb hisson's bedroom, which remains exact-ly as he left it years ago: loaded withbooks, essays he'd written aboutmusic as a boy, and dozens ofrecords.

''This is John's room," his fathersaid. "This wilJ always be his room."

Globe Correspondent StefanyMoore contributed to this report.

office i in the center of everything."The only thing bothering Dave-

rio, according to hi friends, was hiparent ' declining health. An onlychild, Daverio di appeared ju t afterhe returned from vi iting his motherin a hospital in we tern Pennsylva-nia, where he was recovering fromconge tive heart failure.

"He had known that this wouldeventually happen to his parent ,"aid a colleague, Charle Fus ell.

"It's not as if this was a udden sur-prise to him."

The professor's father, alsonamed John Daverio, said his sonseemed on top of the world when hesaid goodbye at the end of the visit.

"1 didn't notice a dam differenceabout him at all," said bis father,whois 85. "He was his own self. Thatwas all ... You always hope and praythey would find him. I don't know ifsomebody played a dirty trick on himup there, but I can't believe he wouldhave done something to himself."

Friends said Daverio wilJ be sore-ly missed in the classroom, where hewas a passionate teacher who delight-ed in mentoring students and watch-ing them launch careers. A talentedviolinist, he was chair of the BUmusicology department and had built

are con idering the pos ibility that hewas walking near the river andlipped and fell on ice. But Tue day,

at a pres conference in the collegedean's office, they acknowledgedthat the circumstances of Daverio' sdeath might never be known.

Friend famiJ, students mournThe door to Daverio' second-

floor office was cIo ed Tue day, along yellow ribbon still danglingfrom his doorknob with the words"Return in afety Johnny D" hand-printed on it. A vase on the floor heldwhite gladiolus; Daverio's friendshave kept it stocked with flowers,mostly yellow tulips and ro es, sincehis disappearance, a colleague said.

More than 200 students and fac-ulty members gathered late Tuesdayafternoon in the college concert hallto learn of Daverio's death. Universi-ty officials, some of them crying,read from police reports and pre-pared statements. At the end of themeeting, the room sat in silence forfive minutes.

"It's kind of a relief - we knownow," said Hilary Castle, 19, a stu-dent from California who played in ayouth orchestra led by Daverio."This past month has been eerie. His

the pos ibility that he took hi ownlife.

, 0 way," said Elizabeth eitz, afellow BU mu icologi t and Dave-rio's friend of 17 years. "There's justno way. omething happened. 1don't know what it was, but he didn'tjust throw him elf from a bridge. Theonly way 1 would believe that is if Ifound a letter."

The last known image of Daveriowas captured by a surveillance cam-era in the lobby of the fine arts build-ing between 8:30 and 9 p.m. on Sun-day, March 16. In the grainy image,he heads out the front door to Com-monwealth Avenue, wearing a redjacket and carrying a white bag inone hand. Daverio, who lived in All-ston, appears to be bearing left towalk east toward the BU Bridge andKenmore Square, Boston UniversityPolice Captain Robert Molloy said.

His body was found within aquarter-mile of the bridge, whichcros es the Charles between BostonUniversity and Cambridgeport.

Upstairs in his office, police laterfound his wallet and briefcase, but nonote or any indication of where hehad gone.

Investigators, who are still look-ing for the bag Daverio was carrying,

Missing BU Professor Found Dead inCharles RiverBy Jenna Russelland Michael S. RosenwaldTilE BOSTO GLOBE

Students and professors at Bo tonUniversity gathered Tuesday, manyin tears, after receiving the new theyhad been dreading: The body of JohnDaverio, a profe sor mi sing sinceMarch 16, had been found floating inthe Charles River.

The body was spotted Mondayevening by crew tearn members neartheir Cambridge boathouse and iden-tified Tuesday using dental records,according to Middlesex DistrictAttorney Martha Coakley.

An autopsy found that Daveriohad drowned. Police said there wasno evidence of foul play, leaving sui-cide or an accidental fall as the mostlikely causes.

Cause of death unknownAt BU's College of Fine Arts,

where Daverio taught for more than20 years in the close-knit musicologyprogram, the news ended a month ofhoping by colleagues and friends.

Tuesday, as they struggled toaccept Daverio' s death, those closeto the 49-year-old professor -known for his reliability and a devo-tion to his aging parents - resisted

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"1 was excited to hear about thedaytime SafeRide plans beingapproved because that makes it easierto live off campus," Kreider added.

M1T is "encouraging fraternitiesto recruit all year round" to increasethe number of pledges, Rogers said.

Jennifer Krishnan contributed tothe reporting of this story.

"A lot of guys who are graduatingand staying for their [master'sdegree] will still live in the house" atZeta Psi, so there won't be many

. empty beds, Yardley said. Zeta Psi isYardley's fraternity.

There will still be a few emptybeds at Phi Sigma Kappa, but proba-bly fewer than there currently are,said Mark A. Halsey '04, a memberof Phi Sigma Kappa.

"We will still have empty beds [atSigma Nul We won't be in immedi-ate financial danger, but if there's atrend of fewer [students] moving in,then it could get ugly," Kreid ~d.

people don't move in because offam-ily, academics, or other reasons,"Yardley said.

"We think it's better for [thepledges] to live in the house," saidTimothy R. Kreider '03, Sigma Nupresident. However, "if it comes tohaving a brother on campus or nothaving a brother at all, ifit's someonewe want, it's okay to have them oncampus," he said.

MIT will continue offering thefraternities compensation for theirempty beds for the next two years.The need for this compensationvaries from fraternity to fraternity.

final, so some crowding is likely.

Pledges move to fraternity housesSome fraternities require that their

pledges move into their houses. Aslong as there is room and barring spe-cial circumstances, pledges areexpected to move in to Alpha EpsilonPi's house, said Jacob D. Beniflah'03, a rush chair at AEPi.

The fraternities "have reallyencouraged freshmen to move in,"Rogers said, but fraternities do notrequire their pledges to move in.

Many fraternities have a fewpledges who aren't moving in. "Some

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space at the Sidney-Pacific gradu-ate residence to accommodate allthe rising seniors who applied tolive there, so some students maynot be able to participate, Vallaysaid.

There are currently 80 emptyspaces in undergraduate dormitorieson campus. Putting together the cur-rent vacancies and expected vacan-cies leaves 972 open spaces for nextyear's freshmen class. That class isexpected to number about 1,000, andthe Senior ~egue numbers are not

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myself and my uncle Vic Janowicz, Heisman winner in 1950 forOhio State, nmning back for the Washington Redskios, and catcherfor the Pittsburgh Pirates. Here are this week's Jano awards.

Hitting: Milton Bradley of the Cleveland. Indians. He's not just agame maker, he's a play maker. Starting the season off on at least athirteen game hit streak, in the last week he batted .467 with threeruns, two home runs, four RBIs, and three outfield assists. Originallynot wanting to be the leadoff man, he bas filled the role beautifullyand is unstoppable. No wonder Coco Crisp was sent to AAA. Honor-able Mention: Rocco Baldelli of the Tampa Bay DevIl Rays.

Pitching: Runelvys Hernandez of the Kansas City :loyals. Whenyou got a job to do, you gotta do it wen, and Hernandez has beendoing so even while not well. In his last start at the Jake, he pitchedseven inning8y and gave up seven hits, two BBs, no runs, fanned four,.and threw up thrice. He begged manager Tool' Pena to let him startthat game despite his flu and to let him pitch seven innings. Hesparkled then and will continue to sparkle throughout the season.Honorable Mention: Kazuhiro Sasaki of the Seattle Mariners.

Utility: Eric Wedge, manager of tile Cleveland IndiaDs. Congratu)&-tions on your first career ejection. I'm sure there win be more to come.Honorable Mention: Danny Bautista of tile Arizona Diamondbacks.

Boner of the Week: White Sox fans. That was just ridiculous. Ithought the Gamboa incident last September was bad enough, but theWhite Sox fans do it again. During Tuesday's game in Chicago, fourWhite Sox fans ran onto the field on different occasions to disrupt thegame. Normally, this wouldn't be that big a deaf, but the fourth oneattacked first base mopire Laz Diaz. .

Some justice was served when the Royals beat the crap out of theguy, but that was completely wcalled for. If you're looking for amajor security risk, it's bebind first base in Chicago. Honorable Men-tion: Armando Benitez (he sbould win this award perpetually).

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A look into the National League theJuan. Twenty-two of the Expos' home ~ ear aro beingplayed in Puerto Rico, and Jose idro couldn't ~ happier. Vieiro hita game-wiJming home roD ofT Armando BeniteZ ( • stin PlaY-ing?) to send the Puerto Rican fans jumping. Hopefully, the Exposcan perform like this in Montreal

Also in the NL, the Cards are "Rolen" as he hit two home l'UDSWednesday against 1he Brew Crew. Matt Morris is getting back on track.after Jeff Kent mined his complete game win last week (tedmicaIIy, itwas still a complete game) by hitting a two-run homer off bim in thebottom of the ninth to give the Astros a 3-2 viclOry over the Redbirds.Pujols is also performing wen hitting aft« Rolen, and theSe Cards Wilt .be flying high when lzzy returns, although later than expecte(1.tinued the trend at the outset of the

third quarter with two straightgoals.

However, that command beganto slip as the third quarter waned.The Corsair attack felt more com-fortable face-dodging and rushingthe defense and taking more shotson goal. A goal near the end left thescore 6-5 MIT at the end of thethird, with the momentum in theCorsairs' favor.

MIT scored a quick goal to startoff the fourth, but that did not stopthe pressing attack that followed forthe next 14 minutes, slowly drainingaway the engineer lead.

A goal within the last three min-u;tes of the fourth quarter cu1 thelead to one. With less than a minuteto go, quick action by ChristopherK. Wilmer '02 and the rest of theMIT defense took the ball away andinto offensive territory. The clockwaned down in the Corsair third ofthe field, making a last ditch effortto fling the ball downfield for onelast UMass shot futile.

MIT went on to win its next togames against Clark and Norwichwith two consecutive blowouts. Theengineers defeated Clark 22-3 onSaturday and 18-9 on Tuesday.MIT's next home game starts at4:00 p.m. today on the omni turffield.

onds behind a Penn State squadfeaturing the under-23 nationalroad race and national track cyclingchampions.

Also putting in solid perfor-mances this weekend were D-cate-gory team members Isaac J. DancyG (8th in the criterium), BennyYam (15th in the criterium), andMichael Rosenblatt (27th in theroad race). MIT placed 5th in Divi-sion II in the weekend's pointstally. The team heads to the EasternConference championships April26th and 27th at the University of

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intense, physical, and sometimesangry match that. the competitionbecame. From the get go, yellowflags littered the field.

A questionable hit by defenderBrent M. Schreiber '03 just beforethe end of the second quarterappeared to be clean but nonethelessresulted in an unnecessary rough-ness call. Coach Walter A. Alessiquestioned whether the officialswere calling MIT too strictly oncontact after the early penalties inthe first quarter. UMass would goon to rack up an equal number ofslash and unnecessary roughnesspenalties later.

As penalties would go on to hin-der both teams frequently as thegame progressed, but neither theEngineers or the Corsairs success-fully dominated play in their respec-tive man-down situations. Mostgoals were scored during regularplay. Strong efforts from MIT'sman-down defenders Gordon F. Fel-lows '05 and Marc A. Dagenais '03helped keep UMass's attack out ofthe crease.

MIT holds on to leadAt halftime the Engineers had a

comfortable 6-2 lead with theiroffense dominating the game andcontrolling a majority of theground ball situations. They con-

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Caitlin Bever G rides to victory for the MIT Women's Cycling Teamat the Army road race. MIT placed 5th In Division II In the week-end's points tally.

superior tactical and handling abilitywith an 8th-place finish despite theinjuries he had sustained the previ-ous day.

Exhausted and sunburned, theMIT men lined up once more Sun-day afternoon to contest the Men'sA team time trial on a rolling 13-mile course. The team, consistingof Jurga, Herrmann, Chip Vaughn,and Jason A. Sears G, put in animpressive performance in anexceptionally strong field. Withthree of four riders in their firstseason of competition, MIT's teamfinished in 6th place, only 2.5 sec-

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MIT Lacrosse fended off a late-game run by the University ofMassachusetts at Dartmouth toedge the Corsairs out 7-6 lastThursday.

The Engineers' attack reliedheavily on the youth of the team topropel them to victory. StefanoYoung '06 from the acclaimed Gon-zaga High School contributed threeof Tech's seven goals on the day,while teammate Isaac B. Taylor '05sent another three to the back of thenet. Alvin "Carter" Powers '05attained what would be the differ-ence-making goal and also madetwo assists.

As time rolled on, the Corsairattack launched a late attack in thelast two quarters resulting in a 2-4tally for the last half, including athree goal run for UMass in thefourth quarter. The Corsairs seemedto have freshman goalie ChristopherNg's '05 number near the end of thegame, but some spectacular saves inthe last minutes of play - as wellas solid second and third quarters ofplay from MIT's only goalie -helped keep the lead in the hands ofthe home team.

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The women' and men's teamsof MIT Cycling made a strongshowing at the Spring Classic racesho ted by the U.S. Military Acade-my at West Point, .Y., thi pastweekend. The competition consistedof a road race on aturday followedby a criterium and a team time trialon Sunday. The event was part ofthe Eastern Collegiate Cycling Con-ference series.

Caitlin Bever G held off the B-category women in the group sprintSaturday to take first place in theroad race. Bever, the only MITwoman in the race, was far out-numbered by rival teams Dart-mouth and the University of ewHampshire. he single-handedlypunished her competitors on thehilly 27-mile course to win inI :33:25. The win put Bever in firstplace in Division IIwomen's B forthe season.

Stanley M. Jurga G proved to bethe toughest cycl ist in the men'sroad race by chasing down everyattack in the competitive Men's Bfield. Jurga escaped for his own 10-mile attempt in the third of four 14-mile laps before being caught in thelast few miles by the peloton, finish-ing 17th at the end of the day.

On Sunday, Ariel M. HerrmannG came back from a race-endingcrash the day before with an excel-lent showing in the Men's C criteri-um. Herrmann sat in within the 60-strong pack for most of the race,making a short appearance at thefront to take fourth place in a primesprint. Herrmann demonstrated his

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