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10 THURSDAY, MARCH 27. 2008 Judges have leeway in setting bond rates BY TRICIA THOMPSON STAFF WRITER Durham courts have raised bond rates, making it harder for those arrested in the counts’ to get out of jail while they await sen tencing. The bond guidelines were changed just before Lawrence Alvin Lovette was charged in connection with the murders of UNC Student Body President Eve Carson and Duke University graduate student Abhijit Mahato. The 17-year-old faces a S3 mil lion bail in Durham for the Mahato Smaller settings can be beneficial BY ARIEL ZIRULNICK ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR Barack Obama got intimate with North Carolina voters on Wednesday, speaking with them during a town meeting-style cam paign appearance in Greensboro. More than 2,000 people bought tickets to the sold-out campaign stop, where Obama gave a brief speech and then opened the floor to questions from audience members. Smaller settings can be advanta geous for politicians because voters feel like they are getting a personal look at a public figure while the candidate still garners widespread media attention, said UNC jour nalism professor Leroy Towns. “He can go in a small room and be very intimate and talk to people one-on-one," he said. ‘Yet he gets the same media bounce out of it as he would with a big audience." North Carolina is likely to contin ue seeing such smaller-stale appear ances until the primary. Towns said. “When you're talking to a very specific group, it works well," he said. “It works less well in a gen eral election." UNC Students for Barack Obama organizer Kate Thompson said that small events can better acquaint vot ers with the candidates’ policies. “He's able to get into the nitty gritty details more." she said. “He's just making sure people have the opportunity to learn about them." 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Barack Obama answers questions Wednesday about how he would change policy while visiting Greensboro's War Memorial Auditorium. Katherine Lyons, a spokes woman for the N.C. Obama cam paign, stated in an e-mail that town hall-style events are beneficial for both parties involved. “The town hall-stvle event gives Sen. Obama the opportunity to have a substantive give-and-take with the audience," she said. In his speech. Obama targeted Republican presidential nominee John McCain for his economic plans and his support of the war in Iraq, a campaign tactic he began employing only recently. Thompson attributed the shift to pending trial." Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Carl Fox, a former district attorney who worked on the guide lines for three years, said the bond a judge sets is decided by a variety of factors. Ties to the community, prior criminal history, the nature of the charge, evidence, the number of charges pending, and whether the person was released previ ously on bond all are considered. Fox said. Judges have some leeway in deciding bond rates and can set a narrowing of the candidate field. "There's fewer candidates," she said. "It s easier to draw contrasts." Towns said that voters can expect to see both Democratic candidates beginning to attack McCain more frequently as proof of their com mitment to winning the nomina tion and the general election. "It's a signal to supporters that they're willing and able to take McCain on." he said. “It's a subtle signal that they are the candidate." Contact the State £? National Editor at stntdesk(a unc.edu. News bonds higher than the guidelines, which Woodall said is a starting point. Fox ranked protection of society as the most important factor in determining bond. “When there is a higher degree of them fleeing town, they have a higher bond, or in some cases no bond," said Matthew Suczynski, an attorney with Everett Law- Firm. But some worry increased bonds will create an influx in jail popu lations, which already are over crowded. National and World News FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL McCain against saving borrowers SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) Republican John McCain on Tuesday derided government intervention to save and reward banks or small borrowers who behave irresponsibly though he offered few immediate alterna tives for fixing the country's grow - ing housing crisis. “I will consider any and all proposals based on their cost and benefits," the certain GOP presidential nominee, who has acknowledged the economy is not his strong suit told local business leaders south of Los Angeles. Former first lady endorses McCain BEL AIR. Calif. (AP) Former first lady Nancy Reagan endorsed John McCain for president Tuesday as the Arizona senator continued to collect backing from leading Republicans who might help him unite the party and win over critical conservative voters. The GOP nominec-in-wait ing, in the midst of a West Coast fundraising swing, stopped by the Southern California home of President Reagan’s widow to accept the endorsement from the Republican matriarch he called beloved and wonderful. Graduate ' n 8 semesters. Rummer at Carolina. **'*'•• summer.unc.edu : FFLEE, for 9 Sew ester • * rLEASE~\ ij • 1 Wthe verqeim i • • sign a lease and be entered in a drawing! • Z • winner will be announced at the move-in party! J ; The 7th Timothy B. and Jane A. 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If you have Special needs, we and like to accomodate you Please indicate your needs when you register the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill maintains a policy of equal education opportunity “The higher secured bonds you have, the higher number of peo ple you'll have in jail," Suczynski said. “That's something to be taken into consideration, especially in Durham where the jail is near, if not at, capacity." Fox said alternative sentencing helps correct the possible over crowding in local jails. Orange Chatham Alternative Sentencing provides ways for defendants who have not been convicted of serious or multiple crimes and are not dangerous to Two die w hen 30-story crane crashes to ground and destroys famed home MIAMI (AP) Authorities are investigating what caused a section of construction crane to plummet 30 floors into a home that a contractor used for storage, killing two people in the nation's second deadly crane accident in 10 days. The accident occurred at a downtown Miami high-rise con dominium Tuesday when work ers tried to raise the crane sec tion to extend the equipment's reach, said Miami fire spokes man Ignatius Carroll. It fell 30 floors and smashed through the Spanish-tiled roof U.S. Na\y regrets shooting Egyptian CAIRO (AP) - The U.S. Navy expressed regret Wednesday that an Egyptian citizen was killed when a navy-contracted ship fired warning shots at approaching motor boats in the Suez Canal. In the aftermath of the inci dent late Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the U.S. Navy maintained that according to the security team aboard the vessel there were no casualties. But on Wednesday, an embas sy statement said it “appears that an Egyptian in the boat was killed by one of the warning shots." 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Five workers wen hurt, one critically. U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration investiga tors were at the site Wednesday. A canine team that surveyed the site of the more than 40- story Biscaync Bay luxury condo tower found no evidence of any trapped people. Carroll said. The crane's main vertical sec tion was intact. Florida does not regulate or license tower cranes and crane operators. U.S. exasperated with North Korea WASHINGTON. D.C. (AP) The United States and South Korea said Wednesday that patience is wearing thin among international negotiators press ing North Korea to hand over a promised declaration of nuclear weapon efforts. A spat over the North's dec laration, which was due by the end of last year, has dead locked six-nation nuclear talks. Disarmament negotiators insist that it address claims of a secret uranium enrichment program and allegations that the North transferred nuclear technology to Syria. 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