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Grid CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 John Rose, an associate profes sor of computer science and en gineering, view the computing grid as way to boost USC’s re search projects. “Basically, Dr. Sorensen has said that one of the only ways that USC can compete for re search dollars federally is to have our different departments work together,” Cameron said. He said the computing grid can enhance interdisciplinary research, especially among the different sciences. And accord ing to Rose, the grid will allow different disciplines the oppor tunity to use the university’s computers more efficiently. ' “If there is a biology re searcher who wants to work on a problem that takes a lot of computer power, rather than be ing limited to the resources of their own laboratory, it would _ be nice if they could take ad vantage of the campus’ compu tational resources that are be ing underutilized,” Rose said. “The grid gives them a way of doing that.” Another asset of the comput ing grid is that it saves money, a factor that is becoming increas ingly important in the face of state budget cuts. “You don’t have to buy a $10 million machine to solve prob lems. You have the machines al ready; you just have to figure out how to use them efficiently,” Cameron said. Rose said thinks the benefits of the computational grid will spread beyond the university. Cameron and Rose are hope ful that the grid computing ini tiative will aid USC in becoming one of the Top 50 research universities. “If we become a top 50 school, it will be the result of many, many people and many, many drops in the bucket,” Cameron said. “Will this be a drop in the bucket? I think so. This will be a big drop in the bucket.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Police Report CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 of extreme alcohol use. The subject was arrested for driving under the influence, then transported to Baptist Emergency Room for a medical evaluation. BY TERENCE HUNT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS - President Bush rejected calls from France and Germany for a swift transfer of power in Iraq on Tuesday, urg ing allies to put aside bitter divi sions over the U.S.-led war and help lead a massive reconstruction effort. French President Jacques Chirac challenged Bush by de manding a “realistic timetable” for granting sovereignty. In the first gathering of world leaders at the General Assembly since the United States toppled Saddam Hussein, Bush was un apologetic about the war and its chaotic aftermath and unyielding on U.S. terms for creating a demo cratic government. “This process must unfold ac cording to the needs of Iraqis — neither hurried nor delayed by the wishes of other parties,” Bush said, spurning demands of France and Germany in a replay of the ac rimonious year-old debate over Iraq that has shaken old alliances. Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder listened to Bush speak in the vast hall where historic debates have echoed for more than a half century. Ahmad Chalabi, the president of the U.S. appointed Iraqi Governing Council, took Iraq’s seat. Before Chirac took his turn at the microphone,,Bush left the chamber, followed by Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. The French president up braided the United States for hav ing taken a go-it-alone approach in Iraq after the United Nations failed to sanction the war. - “In an open world,” Chirac said, “no one can live in isolation, no one can act alone in the name of all, and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.” France has said it wants Appeals court OKs California recall election for Oct. 7 BY DAVID KRAVETS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO - A federal ap peals court Tuesday unanimous ly reinstated California’s Oct. 7 gu bernatorial recall election, swift ly rejecting a three-judge panel’s decision to put it off for months. Hours later, the American Civil Liberties Union said it would not appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, removing the fi nal legal roadblock to the election just two weeks away. “With the election just two weeks away, we do not believe we should prolong the uncertainty any longer,” Dorothy M. Ehrlich, the ACLU’s executive director for Northern California, said at a news conference. The 11-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the Sept. 15 decision of a three-judge panel from the same circuit. The original panel postponed the election on whether to recall Gov. Gray Davis because six coun ties would use outdated punch card ballots that were the subject of the “hanging chads” battle in the 2000 presidential election in Florida. The panel repeatedly cit ed the Supreme Court’s Bush v. Gore decision that effectively de cided the 2000 election. The appeals court reinstated a ruling by a district court judge who had refused to postpone the elec tion. The judges based their deci sion on the state’s constitution, not any precedent set by Bush v. Gore. “The district court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that plaintiffs will suffer no hard ship that outweighs the stake of the state of California and its citi zens in having this election go for ward as planned and as required by the California constitution,” the ruling said. Legal scholars had predicted the outcome. A day after the deci sion delaying the vote, the court announced it would revisit the case with 11 judges. SURF YOURSELF J Read more about the 9th Circuit’s decision: vww.ce9.uscourts.gov ,77T - -------- >-• The judges left open the possi bility of post-election litigation af ter the votes are in and counted. They said the ACLU is “legiti mately concerned that use of the punch card system will deny the right to vote to some voters who must use that system. At this time i it is merely a speculative possibil ity, however, that any such denial will influence the result of the elec tion.” Some observers thought a de lay in the recall vote would have benefited Davis by allowing voter anger over the state’s problems to cool, and because many Democrats would be attracted to the polls for the presidential pri mary if the recall election were moved to March. The 11 judges of the 9th Circuit heard oral arguments in the case Monday afternoon. Lawyers for Secretary of State Kevin Shelley urged the panel to overturn the three-judge panel. , They said the California constitu tion requires recall elections to be held no later than 80 days after enough signatures of registered voters are gathered. They also said the vote should go on because more than 600,000 absentee ballots had been turned in. Noting the uproar over the 2000 presidential election, the three judge panel had ruled that an Oct. 7 recall vote would be a “constitu tionally infirm election” and that not stopping it now would pave the way for “bitter, post-election litiga tion over the legitimacy of the elec tion, particularly where the mar gin of voting machine error may well exceed the margin of victory.” As the appeals court mulled its decision, the GOP congressman who bankrolled the effort urged ei ther McClintock or Schwarzenegger to drop out. Rep. Darrell Issa said Monday that if both leading GOP candi dates remained on the ballot, he would urge voters to vote no on recalling Davis because a yes vote would assure a victory for Bustamante. Bush won’t hurry Iraq sovereignty 1 1 Motorola 1 v6oi -j Phat Phones # with sweet games. 0 voice dialing. 0 custom ringtones. 0 check out our cool calling plans, too. starting as low as $30 a month. AWTWireless WeCetlf. 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Chirac pledged the French “wouldn’t stand in the way” of the U.N. resolution Bush seeks, and he said “France would like to help” in the process. Bush was very clear in telling Chirac “the premature transfer of sovereignty, which has been the French proposal, is just not in the cards,” a senior administration of ficial said. In his speech, Bush spoke broadly about a need for global help and outlined a limited role for the United Nations in writing an Iraqi constitution, training civil servants and overseeing elections. The United States is trying to come up with a U.N. resolution paving the way for other countries to contribute money and troops for Iraq’s reconstruction. a While the United States has not found any of the alleged weapons of mass destruction that were cit ed as justification for the war, Bush said the search continues. “We are now interviewing Iraqi citizens and analyzing records of the old regime, to reveal the full extent of its weapons programs and long campaign of deception.” Bush was unbending about the U.S. decision to go to war. “Across the world, nations are more secure because an ally of terror has fall en,” he said. Beyond helping in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush urged other na tions to help stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction, to combat AIDS and to stop slavery. -s