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...didn't help that the majority anti-abortion crowd (apparently brought in from all over the state) applauded loudly after each statement made by their two speakers, no matter how trivial. Neither did the armed guards and police barricades create a comfortable atmosphere for compromise. But mostly, it was the fierce denial of the motivations and causes of anti-abortion extremists that fed the distrust and anger on both sides...
...have said we will not punish parents" who refuse to let their children take the MCAS, D'Alessandro said. "That is unpopular in the state because we've been asked to do something more critical of parents...
...Alessandro said she expects more parents to refuse this year than last and is concerned about state policy that counts students who didn't take the MCAS as having failed the test...
...Smith & Wesson committed to a "code of conduct" for the sales and distribution of handguns as well as a number of new gun safety and design standards to be implemented over the next year. In exchange for these commitments, the Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Treasury and state and local government officials agreed to dismiss pending lawsuits against the nation's largest gun manufacturer...
...thriving democratic, multiethnic Kosovo - and more important, perhaps, hints at the fact that NATO's troop presence needs to be maintained, or even expanded, to prevent a renewed outbreak of hostilities. "If NATO left either Bosnia or Kosovo, they'd be back at war within months," says TIME State Department correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "Although things are certainly immeasurably better now than they were a year ago, the deep-seated political problems are by no means solved...