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THIS WEEK m USC TODAY SG Executive Candidate debate-. 12:30 p.mi| Greene .Street in front, of Russell House THURSDAY Clifford Leaman faculty saxophone recital: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 FRIDAY Caleb Hood senior voice recital: 5:30 p.m. School of Music 206 SATURDAY Nami Hashimoto senior violin recital: 7:30 p.m. - School of Music 206 Stacy Wiley junior violin recital: 5:30 p.m. School of Music 206 USC Concert Choir &r University Chorus with S.C. Philharmonic: 7 p.m. Roger Center SUNDAY Jessica Robinson junior violin recital: 1:30 p.m.. School of Music 206 Miss, governor in 2008 Cmily Ulagster THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Tuesday made his most definitive public statements to date about his political future, saying he won’t run for president in 2008 because his time is occupied with Hurricane Katrina recovery. The Republican said he intends to seek a second term as governor in 2007. He said he’ll make a firm decision about the governorship by this summer or fall. Barbour’s remarks Tuesday came in response to questions from The Associated Press. “There’s no way that I can consider running for president,” Barbour, 58, said at the state Capitol. “I’ve been flattered by the people who have encouraged me or said they would support me.” ON THE WEB © www.dailygamecock.com Read online five days a week. Everyone loves a hero. Mighty pucks Columbia Inferno forward Pat Noonan plays a puck along the boards during Monday’s match against the Greenville Grrrowl. State FEMA to stop paying evacuees’ hotel bills CHARLESTON — Fewer than 100 Hurricane Katrina and Rita evacuees remain in South Carolina hotel rooms as the federal government’s short-term housing program winds down. The Federal Emergency Management Agency was to stop paying for hotel rooms Tuesday unless evacuees applied for a weeklong extension. Nationally, FEMA will stop paying for an estimated 11,500 evacuees in 5,000 rooms today, said Libby Turner, head of the Hurricane Katrina/Rita Transitional Housing Unit at FEMA. More than 80 percent of evacuees living in 25,000 hotel rooms nationwide have asked for the extension, Turner said. wV Nation Autopsy reveals teen shot himself in head BOSTON — The teenager accused of two slayings and going on a rampage at a gay bar fatally shot himself in the head in a gunfight with Arkansas police, authorities said Tuesday. Jacob Robida, 18, of New Bedford, turned the gun on himself Saturday after he fatally shot a West Virginia woman who was in his car, said Bristol District Attorney Paul Walsh Jr. Police originally said that they shot Robida Saturday after he fired at them at the end of a high-speed chase in rural Arkansas. Robida killed Gassville, Ark., police officer Jim Sell and led police on a 20-mile chase before being stopped in nearby Norfork. Police had searched for Robida since early Thursday. World Despite U.N. security, skirmish delays polls PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Scuffles broke out and polling stations opened hours late Tuesday as masses of Haitians waited, sometimes in mile-long lines, to vote under the protection of U.N. peacekeepers. Rene Preval, a 63-year old former president backed by many poor Haitians, is the front-runner, according to pre-election polls. Among 33 other presidential candidates are a factory owner whose slogan is “Order, Discipline, Work,” and another former president ousted in a coup. Turnout for the vote, called a key step toward steering this bloodied, impoverished nation away from collapse, all but overwhelmed electoral officials. Weather Forecast TODflM THU. FRL SHT. SUn n High 56 High 49 High 56 High 52 High 50 loui 34 low 28 low 34 low 28 low 23 CRIME REPORT FRIDAY, JAN. 3 Larceny of MPy player, Noon National Advocacy Center, 1620 Pendleton St. The complainant, 27, said she placed a gray MP3 player belonging to another person in the Lost and Found with the intention of sending the property to the owner at a later date. When the complainant went to retrieve the item, it was missing. Estimated value: $300 Reporting Officer: M.D. Evans Petit Larceny, 7:yo p.m. 315 Main St. The victim, 30, said someone removed two sets of Sony headphones and one Aiwa CD player. Estimated value: $70 Reporting officers: M. Davis, C, Knoche MONDAY, JAN. 6 Assistance rendered, 12:53 P-m Gibbes Court, 900 Barnwell Sr. Reporting officer M. D. Evans was called to the scene when _ the complainant, 41, experienced shortness of breath. First Responder arrived, gave her oxygen and took her to Baptist Hospital. Third degree burglary, Grand larceny of laptop computer, 2:05 p.m. Hamilton College, 1512 Pendleton St. The victim, 39, said an unknown person entered his office and removed ^ his laptop computer ^ without his consent. Estimated value: $2,700 Reporting officers: M. Davis, C. Knoche Scientists discover \Lost World* in remote Indonesian jungles Robin ntcDouiell THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JAKARTA, Indonesia — Soon after scientists landed by helicopter in the mist-shrouded mountains of one of Indonesia’s most remote provinces, they stumbled on a primitive egg-laying mammal that simply allowed itself to be picked up and brought to their field camp. Describing a “Lost World” — apparently never visited by humans — members of the team said Tuesday they also saw large mammals that have been hunted to near-extinction elsewhere and discovered dozens of exotic new species of frogs, butterflies and palms. “We’ve only scratched the surface,” said Bruce Beehler, a co-leader of the monthlong trip to the Foja Mountains, an area in the eastern province of Papua with roughly 2 million acres of pristine tropical forest. “There was not a single trail, no sign of civilization, no sign of even local communities ever having been there,” he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Washington, D.C. Two headmen from the Kwerba and Papasena tribes, the customary A landowners of the mountain * range, accompanied the expedition, and “they were as astounded as we were at how isolated it was,” Beehler said. “As far as they knew, neither of their clans had ever been to the area.” The December expedition was organized by U.S. based Conservation International and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, and funded by the National Geographic M Society and several other ™ organizations. Minutes after the small team of American, Indonesian and Australian scientists were dropped into a boggy lake bed and set up camp near the mountain range’s western summit, they said they encountered a new species of bird — a red-faced and wattled honeyeater. The next day they saw Berlepsch’s Six-wired Bird of Paradise, described by hunters in the 19th century and named for the wires that extend from its ^ head in place of a crest. 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