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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2008
National and World News
Mideast talks end
without progress
JERUSALEM, Israel. (MCT)
Outgoing U.S. Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice is wrap
ping up the Bush administra
tion’s yearlong attempt to broker
Israeli-Palestinian peace with few
tangible successes.
Bush launched his late-term
diplomatic push last November.
Israel has defied U.S. pres
sure by building hundreds of new
homes in disputed West Bank set
tlements and Palestinians remain
divided, with hard-line Hamas
leaders who refuse to recognize
Israel holding firm control of the
Gaza Strip.
Economic crisis
hits tech industry
San Jose, Calif. (MCT) -
Evidence is mounting that
California’s Silicon Valley, which
previously had seemed unaffect
ed by the global economic crisis,
is beginning to feel the pain.
Sun Microsystems recently
reported a $1.67 billion quar
terly lost, and the internet net
working giant Cisco Systems
predicted sales would drop by
10 percent. Even Apple is plan
ning to scale back production of
its popular iPhone.
By some estimates, at least
half the business revenue gen
erated in Silicon Valley is from
tech industries.
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Japanese economic stimulus plan
may give citizens 12,000 yen each
TOKYO, Japan (MCT) -
Under the Japanese government’s
new economic stimulus package,
it has been proposed that 12,000
yen be distributed to each citizen
and permanent resident, with an
additional 8,000 yen to those 18 or
younger and 65 or older, as cash
benefits.
The plan would distribute a
total of 2 trillion yen.
12,000 yen is equivalent to
around 123.20 USD according to
Sunday’s exchange rates.
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the economy first
CHICAGO, 111. (MCT) -
President-elect Barack Obama
used the Democrats’ weekly radio
address Saturday to pledge quick
action by his upcoming adminis
tration to tackle the nation’s eco
nomic woes.
While Obama promoted the
“rescue plan” to boost job creation
efforts, he also said the downturn
should not delay moving ahead
with his agenda of promot
ing clean energy tech and jobs,
expanded health care, education
investment and tax cuts for the
middle classes.
He also praised President Bush
for his help during the transition.
Komeito will decide the sum and
other details regarding the cash
benefits, such as setting an income
cap for households to qualify for
the benefits and how the benefits
will be distributed.
The idea also aims at distribut
ing additional funds to households
with elderly people and children.
If this were implemented, a cou
ple with two children aged 18 or
younger would be given 64,000
yen in total. Foreigners with per
manent residency status also will
be subject to the benefits, which
would be distributed at local gov
ernment offices.
Palin criticizes
unnamed sources
ANCHORAGE, Ala. (MCT)
Gov. Sarah Palin returned to
work in her Anchorage office
Friday afternoon and spoke out
against anonymously sourced
stories critical of her behavior
on the campaign trail, saying “it’s
immature, it’s unprofessional
and those guys are jerks.
“It’s just very, very disap
pointing because this is Barack
Obama’s time right now. This
can be a shining moment for
America in our history,” Palin
said.
She stated she was just glad
to get back to Alaska to work as
governor again.
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the Tar Heels, who continue next weekend with three matches in the ACC/Big Ten Clash.
Community mourns
loss of local drummer
BY JESSICA BODFORD
STAFF WRITER
The musician some described
as a Jedi master with drumsticks,
Kevin James Brock, 37, died in his
sleep of natural causes early last
week.
“When he played drums, my
God, the Earth shook,” Chapel Hill
writer Mark Derewicz said in an
e-mail. Derewicz played alongside
Brock two years ago at the Carrboro
Music Festival.
“He took our music to a level I
never knew could exist.”
Despite many attempts, neither
Derewicz nor Brock could reunite
the band for another performance
before his death.
“I started weeping because I
realized, selfishly, that I’ll never
play music with Kevin again,”
Derewicz said in an e-mail.
“Kevin took our music and made
it more powerful than I could have
possibly imagined.”
Brock taught music in the
Chapel Hill area and performed
with the local group Paperhand
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atrical productions, including “I
am an Insect,” in the Forest Theatre
earlier this fall.
“He communed with rhythm
in infinite spaces,” Donovan
Zimmerman, the group’s co
founder, said in an e-mail. “His
music stirred the emotions of all
that heard it. The hole left in our
hearts will not easily be filled.”
He died in his home in
Graham.
Crystal Fisher, sales manager of
the Orange Community Housing
and Land Trust, has seen Brock
perform twice at Forest Theatre.
“You could tell that he got as
much joy from the talents he
shared as those of us in the audi
ence,” she said.
Brock also performed with a
variety of artists including gypsy
jazz group Club Boheme, world
music group Different Drum,
jazz bassist John Brown and sing
ers Jimmy Magoo and Jonathyn
Byrd.
Chapel Hill resident Patrick
Cross, guitarist of the Michael
Jackson tribute band Who’s Bad,
has also played alongside him in
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the past.
“It was always a pleasure when I
saw him or played music with him,”
he said in an e-mail.
“It’s rare to find someone who is
both such a wonderful person and
such an exceptional musician.”
Even as a schoolboy, Brock was
well known amongst his peers.
“He had such a gentle soul and a
kind heart,” Cynthia McNeil Orr, a
special education teacher at Union
County Public Schools who attend
ed both middle and high school
with Brock, said in an e-mail.
A memorial service was held
Sunday night in Chapel Hill, and
Brock’s family will receive friends
Wednesday at their home in
Roanoke, Va.
“I was amazed at how his smile
and warm personality could light
up an entire room of people,” Cross
said in an e-mail. “It is a great loss
to everyone here in Chapel Hill and
Carrboro.
“He will be dearly, dearly
missed.”
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