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MARLINS TIED TO MANNY RAMIREZ TRADE TALK ID She Miami Herald Bl THURSDAY JULY 31 2008 25 CENTS 105TH YEAR NO 321 c2008 MiamiHeraldcom kRD FINAL MIAMI-DADE SCHOOL BOARD MIAMI-DADE SCHOOLS 2 programs saved from budget cuts CARL JUSTEMIAMI HERALD STAFF TENSION: Superintendent Rudy Crew left and School Board members Renier Diaz de la Portilla center and Evelyn Greer attend Wednesday's budget session New rancor in Crew drama Working late into the night the Miami-Dade School Board on Wednesday listened to more than a hundred speakers who came to fight for programs set to be cut from schools next year So many signed up to speak nearly 150 that the meeting was expected to last well into the night And as of 11 pm the board had not yet voted on the tentative budget But as has become customary at School Board meetings of late the night was not without surprises TURN TO BUDGET 2A Tempers flew and chaos reigned during a Miami-Dade School Board meeting as a member read a memo calling for chief Rudy Crew's ouster BY KATHLEEN McGRORY AND LAURA ISENSEE kmcgrory aMiamiHeraldcom Touched by pleas from students speaking at the Miami-Dade School Board's first public budget hearing Wednesday night Superintendent Rudy Crew rescued two popular programs from the chopping block But he did not earmark $72 million needed to fund teacher raises one of the most controversial dilemmas the district faces in cutting the budget Hundreds attended the emotional hearing packing the district's auditorium and bombarding Crew and board members with reasons why their programs should not die the school district budget was to begin The fracas began when board member Renier Diaz de la Portilla speaking from a dais began to read a memo calling for Crew's ouster only to be harshly interrupted by another member TURN TO CREW 2A sible firing of embattled Superintendent Rudy Crew The highly unusual outburst created total disorder at the well-attended committee meeting just an hour before a public hearing on BY KATHLEEN MCGRORY AND LAURA ISENSEE kmcgrory fiMiamiHeraldcom A Miami-Dade School Board meeting erupted in chaos Wednesday after one member brought up the pos MiamiHeraldcom Watch video at Today's Extras ISRAEL LOBSTER MINISEASON LOBSTERS BEWARE jP STEVEN CHAYKIN 1951-2008 Miami attorney dies while trying to save wife 6 A leader in Florida's legal community died while on a family vacation BY JENNIFER LEBOVICH AND JAY WEAVER jweaveri MiamiHeraldcom Prominent Miami attorney Steven Chaykin died Wednesday in a freak hiking accident as he tried to rescue his wife after she had slipped while climbing a waterfall near Aspen Colo Chaykin 57 slid into the fast-moving current and hit his head knocking him unconscious The river carried his body MAPICE COHN BAND 'MIAMI HERALD STAFF Reluctant Olmert says he'll resign in 7-8 weeks Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert facing a political corruption investigation said he will resign in September BY DION NISSENBAUM McClatchy News Service JERUSALEM Embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Wednesday that he will resign in September bringing a premature end to his hopes of leading Israel into a stable era of peace with its Arab neighbors Facing a deepening political corruption investigation Olmert said he would step aside when his ruling Kadima Party chooses a new leader in seven to eight weeks Olmert made it clear that he was reluctantly stepping aside because the expanding corruption allegations had undermined his ability to lead the nation "I am not doing this because I cannot fulfill my responsibilities" Olmert said in a short live televised address from his Jerusalem home "I believe with all my TURN TO OLMERT 21A Jose Pujoi Fin center hoists his catch after it was checked by Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer Dan Gronsky right Also aboard are Yariel Mesa left and boat owner Yahonys Miranda back As the two-day lobster miniseason began Wednesday one diving death was reported in Palm Beach County and one in the Keys Coverage in Local 5B and Sports ID 10 Miami Heraldcom Video at Today's Extras down a waterfall to a pool where hikers found him minutes later face down Rescuers worked frantically to pull CHAYKIN HAITI Haitians pay dearly for political gridlock Haiti's latest political crisis has cost the country millions in foreign aid jobs and investments and time lost him from the water but he died after the 1:30 pm accident His wife Melissa was being treated at a local hospital for broken bones They had been hiking with 10-year-old daughter Sydney and another couple Chaykin's death swept through the Miami-Dade legal community Wednesday afternoon devastating colleagues who spoke of his passion for lite his family and the law Longtime friend Sam Rabin who had worked with him and against him in court called Chaykin "the prince of all men" TURN TO CHAYKIN 2A stalled Wednesday after several senators failed to show up to vote on economist Michele Pierre-Louis' nomination to become prime minister Haiti has been without a prime minister since April 12 when food riots led to the firing oi IKques Edouard Alexis and his govern ment "We are in a situation that is TURN TO GRIDLOCK 23A the Haitian Senate should have been elected by now Instead Haiti remains paralyzed by almost four months of political gridlock that is costing the impoverished nation millions in foreign aid badly needed jobs and investments and priceless time Efforts to end the stalemate BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharlesa MiamiHeraldcom The $74 million contract to pave the rutted highway in Haiti's Central Plateau region should have been signed last month American investors should be pouring in after Congress gave the ailing textile industry a boost And a third of PIERRE-LOUIS WEATHER jjK 1 mM ibJk SPORTS ID CAN GLENN GET IT DONE? 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