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luly 25. 2007 Page A2 King’s Temple Hosts Festival K in g 'sT em p leC h ristian C en te r is inviting the com m unity to join them for a concert in the park. A day o f food, music and testi- m onials is planned W ednesday, July 25 at Dawson Park, located at North Stanton Street and Wil- liams Avenue. Participate in Democracy Zoic To contact (ß h se ru e r Call 5O3-288-OO33 ads@portlandob server.com INVESTING IN YOU HAKIM JONES FINANCIAL ADVISOR FINANCIAL PLANNING ASSOCIATE Better Health to Our People Christeen Johnson presents a heart defibril lator to Melissa Knight on behalf of First Steps Sports Academy, the organization that hosted Community Health Care in the Park on Saturday at Irving Park in north east Portland. Johnson presented the life-saving device in honor of the Eddie Barnett Jr. Foun dation, the non-profit she founded in her 15- year-old son's name after he died of heart failure during a basket ball game in 2005. 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M ost A m ericans believe their fellow citizens hold strong biases against m inorities, according to a new landm ark poll by Zogby Inter national. The survey o f 10,387 A merican adults, one o f the m ost com prehen sive ever conducted on prejudice, according to Zogby, explores atti tudes about race, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender, physi cal appearance and politics. W hile67 percent o f respondents claim ed to have no preference them selves between a white, black or M iddle Eastern clerk in a conve expect A frican A m ericans to be nience store, 71 percent said, most involved and 55 percent expected Americans would seek out the white blacks w ould be involved in a drug bust. But for non-violent crim es clerk. Just I percent said A m ericans’ like identity theft and insurance first choice would be to approach a fraud, m ore than h alf said that m ost black clerk, w hile less than 0.5 per A m erican s w ould ex p ect these cent said the same for an M iddle crim inals to be white. T he poll also asked w hich politi Eastern clerk. And yet, ironically, 55 percent o f respondents said race cal party is responsible for the grav relations have im proved over the est problem s facing the world. Re publicans w ere blam ed 62 percent past 10 years. O ther results on race w here re for war. For other issues like preju spondents picked from am ong sev dice, poverty and corruption the eral races show just how m uch race Republican Party was polled as the im pro v em en ts m ay not be im dem on for m ore than h alf o f the resp o n d en ts. proved. H ow ever w hen it cam e to crim e, In the event o f a shooting, 73 percent said most Americans would 42 percent blam ed D em ocrats and 23 percent blam ed Republicans. “O ver my years o f polling. I'v e learned that A m ericans tend to o f fer socially acceptable responses when questioned on theirow n views about race and prejudice. T h at's why in this poll we predom inantly asked people about 'm ost A m eri can s’" view s on race and preju dice," said Pollster John Zolby. “We believe this provides a far more accurate w indow into how people really think about these issues. A m ericans are more forthcom ing w hen discussing the problem in the context o f their neighbors’ lives than in the context o f their own lives.” T he p o ll’s m argin o f error was p lu so r m inus one percentage point. Doctor Cleared in Katrina Deaths stayed at their posts and served people most in need,” Poe said. If another hurricane threatened, Pou added, she w ould stay on duty (AP) — A grand jury in New in a hospital, but she is concerned O rleans refused on Tuesday to in her case will keep other medical dict a doctor accused o f murdering professionals from rem aining with four seriously ill hospital patients patients during storms. "All o f us need to rem em ber the w ith drug injections during the desperate afterm ath o f H urricane m agnitude o f human suffering that Katrina, closing the books on the occurred in the city o f New O rleans only m ercy-killing case to em erge in the w ake o f H urricane K atrina so we can be assured that from the storm. th i s never happens agai n Dr. A nna Pou ac and that no health care know ledged adm inis p r o fe s s io n a l s h o u ld tering medication to the ever be falsely accused patients but insisted in a rush to judgm ent," she did so only to re she said. lieve pain. Regarding her feel Pou and tw o nurses ings tow ard the attor were arrested last sum ney general, Poe said m er a fte r A tto rn e y she "puts his fate in General C harles Foti G od's hands." concluded they gave Dr. Anna Pou Charges against the "lethal co ck tails" to four patients at the llooded-out, nurses, Lori BudoandChcri Landry, sweltering Memorial M edical C en were dropped after they were co m pelled to testify last month before ter after the A ugust 2(M)5 storm. At a n ew s co n fe re n ce, Pou the grand jury under legal guide fought back tears as she read a lines that kept their testim ony from prepared statem ent. She refused to being used against them. M any peo p le in N ew O rlean s answ er questions about what hap pened at the hospital because of believed the three acted heroically lawsuits filed by families o f three u nder p u n ish in g co n d itio n s. Last w eek, a gro u p o f d o cto rs and patients. "Today’sevents are not a triumph nurses held a rally on the a n n i but a moment of remembrance for versary o f P ou's arrest, and h u n those who lost their lives during the d red s o f peo p le tu rn ed out to storm, and a tribute to all those who show support. Grand Jury says ‘no’ to charges I /