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...research that involves the destruction of human embryos. It was a hard line, especially in view of his more flexible stance on abortion--he favors allowing victims of rape and incest to have the procedure. His campaign promise on stem cells was a huge relief to hard-liners who accept no compromise on the notion that life begins at conception. For them, destroying an embryo--even to get stem cells that could potentially save lives--is murder. But the moral firmness of his campaign line makes wiggling now politically unseemly. It's particularly hard for him to consider changing...
...Tanzania bombing and the deadlier attack on the U.S. embassy in Kenya that resulted in 224 fatalities. DIED. MAXIMUS V HAKIM, 93, 20th patriarch of the breakaway Greek Catholic Church of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem; in Beirut. Greek Catholics split from the East Orthodox Church in 1724 to accept the authority of the Pope. Maximus V led 600,000 followers, mainly in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. He advocated closer relations with the East Orthodox Church, straining ties with Rome. DIED. FRED NEIL, 64, folk-songwriter who penned the theme song Everybody's Talkin' for the 1969 hit movie Midnight Cowboy...
...college saw a record 52.3 percent of admitted students accept, yielding 86 more students than the 1,075 the college expected. Since housing on the Dartmouth campus was already a serious concern—178 sophomores still do not having housing for the fall—the college looked for a incentive to encourage students to defer...
...friendlier, having passed its version of campaign reform in '98 and '99 by comfortable margins--the last time with 54 Republicans aboard. All McCain's allies in the House have to do now is pass a measure similar to the Senate's. That way Senators can simply vote to accept the version the House approves without the two chambers trying to resolve their differences in conference, where G.O.P. leaders are sure to bottle...
...Senate to pass a ban on unregulated "soft-money" contributions to the national parties, which totaled $487 million for the 2000 election, McCain and his Democratic co-sponsor, Russell Feingold, had to accept amendments that have caused a near mutiny among reform supporters in the House. Liberal members of Congress object to a provision doubling the maximum amount of regulated "hard-money" contributions a donor can make to a candidate from $1,000 to $2,000. Public-interest groups such as Common Cause threatened to bolt over another provision that allows state parties to keep collecting soft money, arguing...