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Friday May 16 2003 4A Tucson Citizen Senate OKs Pentagon orders 11 Ospreys for $817M S350B tax cut redesign parts of the aircraft to fix hydraulic and other problems The Osprey has fixed wings and propellers that can tilt upward so the craft can take off and land like a helicopter then tilt forward to fly like an airplane The Marine Corps wants to use the Osprey as a replacement for its aging fleet of transport helicopters The Air Force and Navy also are interested in using the Osprey A December 2000 crash in The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Pentagon yesterday ordered 11 new V-22 Osprey aircraft for $817 million giving a boost to a program plagued by deadly crashes and other problems The program had been in danger of being eliminated after 23 Marines died in crashes during testing in 2000 The aircraft's makers a joint venture between Boeing Co and Textron Inc's Bell Helicopter unit had to North Carolina that killed four Marines was blamed on a design flaw that allowed electrical and hydraulic lines to rub together while the rotors were tilted causing the hydraulic lines to burst The hydraulic and electrical lines have been rerouted to solve that problem the Pentagon said in a statement The deadliest crash was blamed on an aerodynamic condition called "vortex ring state" that happened during an unusu ally rapid descent Nineteen Marines died in that April 2iW crash near Tucson The Pentagon ordered another round of testing for ihe Osprey after the redesign and military officials have said those tests have gone well Ordering 11 more Ospreys to be built is a signal that the program has passed those testa The Osprey has a longer range and flies faster and more quietly than the Marines' current fleet of transport helicopters gives Bush win on dividends Passel of tassels at PCC IB Ml AV Kay provisions of bill Lowers income-tax rate for highest bracket from to 35 percent from 38 percent other brackets are lowered to 33 percent 28 percent and 25 percent Increases the child tax credit to $1000 from $600 Eliminates the "marriage penalty" in 2004 reinstates it in 2005 The marriage penalty would then be reduced by gradually expanding first the 15 percent bracket for married couples to twice the amount for singles by 2008 Other income-tax brackets for married couples would be expanded to twice the amount for singles by 2009 Expands the 10 percent bracket Allows homeowners to deduct private mortgage insurance premiums "Hi- I fi 4 XI Sitzsr Senate ilate waaariiivy narrowly approved SSI iiiiliim n-year tax-cut giaitage- handing: Presi- dent mush rtiarti win limited wictory im fir persuade fCungrm tliuti another major ireductiini iiii is the cure tor the uilnip tteinuinw StiiYiiil 'liafise TD49' after the Senute ugmititti dlage Bush's icrjntrnvcrsull nrnpiisal! to eJiini-mate tax i in dvnlenils at least temjiorarlK' Sen Aim ST'J! 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students graduating last night front Pima Community College graduating from a special evening nursing program is surrounded by Adachi received an associate's degree in liberal arts and plans to attend family members Joy Cobb (from left) Brian Tucker and John KiH ate bills include a large number of sinular provisions to cut income taxes for individuals and businesses they differ on enough key issues that GOP leaders are nu longer sure they can achieve the president's goal of having the final bill on his desk by the end of next week The House bill for instance takes a very duTerent approach on dividends it would cut the tax rate on them rather than eliminate it It does not include aid to financially strapped states which is considered crucial to getting any bill through the Professors met in 1958 as college students Continued from 1A Flat-out order Stop tortilla tossing By BLAKE M0RL0CK bmortocktucsoncitizencom Tortilla tossing in McKale Center makes University of Arizona President Peter I ikins hotter than a jalapeno He is threatening to cancel universit ywide graduation ceremonies if the graduation tradition does not cease beginning with tomorrow's commencement Likins sent a letter to the graduating class demanding that its meml)ers stop flinging the floury Southwestern staple about the hallowed home of and Spanish said he didn't get the connection between tortilla tossing and bigotry don't think it's racial" lie Zubeldia said "It's a goofy part of the (graduation) culture" Likins wrote that Heakers on the stage have been struck by tortillas and he worries about the impression it will leave on tomorrow's commencement speakers Gov Janet Napolitano and Sen Jon KyL Likins wrote to students "If you simply must throw tortillas please stay home to do so" Wildcat basketball "Unless our peculiar practice of throwing tortillas ceases we may be obliged to cancel future all-university commencement ceremonies" Likins said The tradition Is an affront to certain ethnic groups Likins wrote This behavior is disrespectful to many of our 1 lispan-ic and American Indian community memliers who feel that throwing tortillas is offensive to their cultures" Likins wrote Miguel De Zubeldia a UA sophomore studying business lie Aurora HepUM Mully Brtnff uftr tie trmt inmh of tier Safford home amid items that twr husuanfi lnrr Iniirmt it auction last week Storage unit's contents confiscated as evidence Myra Dinnerstein the founding director of the UA women's studies department and her husband Leonard who nursed Judaic studies from its infancy into a self-sustaining program won't be living a nomadic Winnebago existence Leonard will continue his research into the Holocaust Myra will continue to serve on UA's Millennium Project Oversight Committee which aims to improve opportunities for women and minorities at UA Their retirement begins June 30 Because they have devoted their careers to the classroom perhaps it's appropriate that they met in class 45 years ago They were in graduate school at Columbia University in New York City and Myra registered for the class late She needed notes from the days she missed and turned around to ask the man behind her if she could borrow his "I never take notes" Leonard said "I didn't take notes in high school college or grad school" Myra pointed out that he doesn't need to 'Tell him your birthday and he'll remember it" she said "You may not get a card but he'll remember it" He even remembers the date of the test that they studied together for on their first date: Nov 8 vm They were married Aug 20 in Myra's hometown Philadelphia Leonard went on to teach at Columbia then moved on to a stint at Karleigh Dickinson University In New Jersey before finally coming to UA on July lino "I thought This is the place you go in the next life if you didn't behave in this life" Ieonard said 'Three days after we got here we thought we made a mistake" Degrees awarded The following degrees will be awarded at the University ot Arizona's 128th commencement 3558 undergraduate degrees 822 master's degrees 221 doctoral degrees 10 specialist's degrees 91 medical degrees 50 pharmacy degrees 136 juris doctor degrees EF YOU GO Where: McKale Center 1721 Enke Drive Parking is free When: There will be two commencement ceremonies May 17 Both will be televised Hve on Cox Communications' Channel 76 and People's Choice TVs Channel 48 Gov Janet Napolitano will speak at the 9 am commencement ceremony for graduates of the Colleges of Architecture Planning and Landscape Architecture Education Engineering and Mines Humanities the Eller College of Business and Public Administration and the James Rogers College of Law Sen Jon Kyi will speak at the 1:30 pm ceremony for graduates of Arizona International College Agriculture and Life Sciences Fine Arts Medicine Nursing Pharmacy Public Health Social and Behavioral Sciences the School of Health Professions and University College -nntmiKt Iran Tt "In the beginning it was hard going" she said "We had to do a lot of work to prove we were legitimate" The department consisted of her and a part time student who wor ked as a secretary It now has more than a dozen full time faculty three staffers and offers both bachelor's and master's degree programs In VM Leonard who has a passion for studying his Jewish heritage seized the opMrtiinity to take over the nascent Judaic studies department He ran the years when three murders were investigated That was a pretty busy year" he saut adding that he can recall the last murder his agency has investigated- The last time he experienced such a media entourage was years ago during a labor strike Outside the storage compa-nv three candles burned in (hint of Cmt fi the white ramshackle building that Bright wished he had never bid on the unit where the bodies had been stnrf'd for almost a decade U-NM than six feet away two men who also attended Saturday' amnion were busy rum-mainng through boxes they'd purchased out of Tnit 4 "I wish I would never have been told about the babies" said John Branson 3H who compares storage unit auctions to i treasure hunt Tie contents of Unit which ''ist Urght $7r ineludetl a baby uroiler video games a word processor and several photo albums wth pictures of a woman and at least one child who looked to he about 1 Ail thom items have been I'linflsi as evidence "He was 'doping to rind a million dollars one sf those boxes" said Moilv llruht Tun's wife and mniluT of six ehildrr-n who hy what he found people are not eiuitht I hepn thev an deaif she 4iij hepe tliev are pav-iHL' ir v'lit thev i I 'it ttte leviiiit lUptisf 'v nit hunils now -i in the bad's ihe 'iid ilcadv iinvs im dill ary and she barked out That a off the record!" Their 42 year marriage they said is a testament to growing together They practice a lot of give and tike "We accommodate one another" Myra said "We both know here one of us ends and the other In gins itoth said their fields biive changed mure than the students they have taucht American history has grown more encompassing rather ttian iMing limited to the story of government I-eotiard said "I used to teach irom presi dential administration to presi dential administration" b'onard said "If I did thai today it would seem bizarre Hut there have l)een some changes for the worse Mvra countered "I have noti -ed that wntmc skills have detenorat'-d ovt the yeirs" she snd Leonard (if roii'so (j) agTnet "Students are the same novi as when 1 started tmg in ITH "fie siid "In everv p'-nera tion re are '-ii jdi av lioneb Now tie i-uluin t'auniv Sheriff i- ClflitH r-uig (i down the wiinun von list paid rent nr tin mir-im? mil mill u- ItelievKt1 uivn err tfm suite filie nii'v had i hi'vl'iimi! tie tine unt lived in tin of I'linu Invest iguio-r ar! nut: relenstiir nani'A "We're t-eiitug tini mai-tetuled tittattih" ud ilierir frank vm wait i person tait -if enhir-etnMii: uffi'ms hiin mr rouiulim: uu-m ri-i inc Meunviiie Inifurfa niier coninuinfv iiunit iii" niii'-f- Hmi'ti-i'ii ii "liieni) is rrynu" lociine ti v'-nn vilt lu "lvrrvinitK ir mm-r" said 1a-v Siicii i ir nit ronveriH'ri'e huh "jv-ej(o 1( tif: ni juniu: Things Iim 'tin: rar' Uiiiisua' tic" Tin inwi "elgiiiuH (an! 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Ktu-it mil 'ails 1: Ittt sun n--- our v''ic crirT "I v-- lie ')( Hiial Me tie mvi nii-niiiT unt unifier ii altinir v-vtioif i ti till ivilU "V- jt'i tin rm'iinij ii-1 Us ii i tn imi- scion' a- 111- llllt ll being cut" he said Dinnerstein added three professors to the program and Its enrollment doubled while he was in charge said Edward Wright current director of the program "He inherited a small program with lots of potential" Wright said "Under his leadership Judaic studies was able to start realizing that potential" Leonard Dinnerstein brought professionalism and Hronx moxie teamed with honesty "Brutal honesty" Wright called it "Few people have me personally more than he has" Myra knows all about her husband's trademark forth lightness "I have to tell him that sometimes honesty is not always the best policy" she said It's the reason that she said be would be temUe on university or civic committees Iz-onard grinned at his ife's argument She pointed out that cent of white males at I'A think women and minorities arc treat cd fairly He said a woman in the history d' iitlmerit opted not to try for a Ib-p-nN professorship iise v(i in't vtuit to Like the tune He siel sorm thing im ndl 'Students are the same now as when 1 started teaching in You've always got the intelligent students and the ones who are just along for the ride Leonard Dinnerstein department for seven years "I tried to change the culture to encourage research and professional travel not just so they could learn but so they could net woik and find out what's happening in their field" he said They got used to it In fact they raised two chil dren in Tucson and have no plans to leave Myra took a detour into the publishing Uusi ness before she received her Phi) in African history fnin 'oluinlla in l'Cl In T7-i she was to attend law si hool it I'A ut in -toad fu st ill! e( tor of till Studies Pro(-rim faiiuif: tn nrte 1 job as the Women's And Dinner-stem said he IS a big In hever in rea lung out to the roimtiutllty with lecture series and visiting si holars "If von don't have viipH r1 for your 1 1 1 j'! im in the community you ire way in danger of that students are ay or anoitn-r put you've al intelligent stul' oH'-s ho are rule- i oh viuo i i got and i mi of novel I fv.