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50 Cents WEDNESDAY January 20, 2010 SPORTS: Our "Where Are They Now?" series kicks off with former ace. S-l BETTER LIVING: How best to stand up for your child to school officials. F-l SPORTS: Damon still looking for work after spurning Yankees. Klapisch, S-l She Kecorft GOP pulls upset in Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to victory over Democrat Martha Coakley in a U.S. Senate election Tuesday that left Presi CHRIS CHRISTIE SWORN IN AS N.J.'S 55TH GOVERNOR 'Change has arrived' dent Obama's health care overhaul in doubt.

The loss by Coakley for the seat that the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy held for nearly half a century signaled big political problems for the president's party this BROWN fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide. More immediately, Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could allow the GOP to block the president's health care legislation and the rest of Obama's agenda. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters.

Complete story on A-4 Shooter kills eight in Virginia rampage A lone shooter killed eight people in central Virginia, with seven bodies found at one home, police said Tuesday. State police said officers had the suspect, Christopher Speight, 39, circled in the woods late Tuesday near the home and they believed he was still alive. The eighth shooting victim was found on the side of the road and died on the way to the hospital, police said. All the victims were adults and both men and women were killed, state police Sgt. Thomas Molnar said.

Police refused to speculate on a motive and would not say what type of weapon was used. Molnar also gave no background on the suspect. Check northjersey.com for updates Buyback program collects 20 guns Paterson police collected 20 weapons in a neighborhood gun buyback drive Tuesday as part of an anti-gun campaign that has broad support from clergy and community leaders. But experts say weapons in the hands of the most dangerous criminals never turn up during buyback operations. Most of the people who dropped off the guns Tuesday were probably not criminals, police said.

Some were parents concerned that a child might find weapons stored in the house. Police pay $25 to $150, depending on the type of gun, no questions asked. Complete story on L-l www.northjersey.com Only on the Web: Five former N.J. attorneys general join fight against strip searches for minor crimes. TYSON TRISHSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The new governor passing six of his predecessors at his swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday at the Trenton War Memorial.

From left are Jim Florio, Thomas H. Kean, Christie Whitman, Donald DiFrancesco, Richard Codey and Jon Corzine. Inaugural day begins at Newark cathedral Partners in power Governor Christie delivered a memorable, "The Buck Stops Here" line Tuesday, with his characteristic, in-your-face, Jersey bluntness. "One person can make a difference I will make a dif- 4.1 iruL Kj icience, vimsue sam, eiiciung uie iui burst of applause in his inaugural speech MORE COVERAGE North Jersey GOP hopes new governor will lead the party's resurgence. Electorate gives Christie advice on what to tackle first.

The day in photos. Reporters' notebook. Coverage on A-6, A-7 ruesaay. But Tuesday's grand ritual under the dim orange glow of the Trenton War Memorial was not solely Christie's moment. Nor did it signal the Republican Party's long-awaited restoration, even though jubilant allies of the heyday of Governors DiFrancesco, Whitman and Kean wove through the crowd, a little more jowly and gray.

Christie's inaugural ushered in a new fear and uncertainty are not necessary and do not have to be permanent." Today he will sign executive orders "that will make our finances, our budgeting and our processes more transparent for all citizens to see," he said, a response to New Jersey's record unemployment, the country's highest property taxes, a multibillion-dollar budget deficit and a broke public-pension fund. "Our economy is stagnant and our people are suffering under the burden government has placed on them," Christie told the invited crowd at the See CHRISTIE Page A-6 By ELISE YOUNG, JOHN REITMEYER, ASHLEY KINDERGAN and TOM DAVIS STAFF WRITERS Christopher James Christie defiantly promised change will come, declaring New Jersey's problems no greater than its best resources: trade, transportation and educated people who want "a place to call home with pride and confidence in the possibilities ahead." "There is fear and uncertainty," Christie said after becoming the state's 55th governor Tuesday. "But CHARLES STILE POLITICAL STILE coalition government, the beginning of a power-sharing arrangement between the pragmatic Christie Republicans and the business-before-ideology See STILE Page A-6 INSIDE DON BOSCO MOURNING peril Survivors still in Haiti aid effort falling far short Advice F-2, F-3 Better Living F-1 Bridge F-1 1 Business L-9 Classifieds C-1 Comics F-9, F-10 Crosswords F-10, F-11 Editorials A-10 Horoscope F-10 Movies F-8 Obituaries L-4 People A-2 Public notices S-12 Sports S-1 Television F-11 Weather A-3 Home delivery: (888HREC0RD 2010 NORTH JERSEY Please recycle At least 34 recycled newsprint. 100 recyclable. 0 deforestation.

MEDIA GROUP INC. MORE COVERAGE High school French teacher hearing "painful" stories from relatives back home in Haiti. L-3 Local doctor in Haiti says infection is on the rise for patients. A-8 Rescue groups continue to work, even though time is running out for those buried by the quake. A Mexican team created after that nation's 1985 earthquake rescued Ena Zizi, 69.

She had survived a week buried in the ruins of the res-See HAITI Page A-8 help Haiti are proving inadequate because of the scale of the disaster and the limitations of the world's governments. Expectations exceeded what money, will and military might have been able to achieve so far in the face of unimaginable calamity. "God has abandoned us! The foreigners have abandoned us!" yelled Micheline Ursulin, tearing at her hair as she rushed past a large pile of decaying bodies. Three of her children died in the quake, and her surviving daughter is in the hospital with broken limbs and a serious infection. By JONATHAN M.

KATZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -The world still can't get enough food and water to the hungry and thirsty one week after an earthquake shattered Haiti's capital. The airport remains a bottleneck, the port is a shambles. The Haitian government is invisible, nobody has taken firm charge and the police have largely given up. Even as U.S. troops landed in Seahawk helicopters Tuesday on the manicured lawn of the National Palace, the colossal efforts to iSl I PRINTED WITH I jfc soy ink 8 528230000 1 5 52823 00001 Five hundred students and faculty were killed at a Haitian school that belongs to the same Catholic order as Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey.

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