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...attacker or attackers opened fire, blowing out the Toyota's side windows, the car lurched forward, finally coming to a rest on a median strip 40 yards south across the intersection. Glass fragments scattered around the car where it stopped show that the killer or killers continued firing as the Americans tried to flee. The right hand side of the car was hit with at least 24 bullets and the side windows on both sides of the car were shattered. Blood pooled beside the car's front doors...
Christian groups at the University of North Carolina and Harvard are fighting similar efforts to strip them of funding unless they embrace nondiscrimination clauses. The schools claim that they are simply adhering to anti-discrimination policies. The students say it makes no sense to forbid a Christian fellowship to require its leaders to agree with certain tenets of Christianity. "We're not trying to exclude," says Laura Vellenga, New Jersey area director for InterVarsity, which has fellowships on 560 campuses across the U.S. "But we want to reserve leadership positions to what the fellowship is about." --By Perry Bacon
...Vegas Review-Journal: Top 10 Shows on the Strip. Gladys Knight, at the Flamingo, edged out Blue Man Group: Live at Luxor...
...should be wary to make, regardless of what Vaux has to say in defense of its validity. The debate over Ebonics remains decidedly that—the assertion that Ebonics holds strong official status among African-Americans remains seriously in question. I have no doubt that Vaux seeks to strip Ebonics of whatever negative connotations it has had to bear, and I commend him for those efforts, but that should not lead students to assume that, even as Ebonics could be adopted in a positive light among linguists, its validity as an “African-American language?...
...concerned about supporting the new Afghan government that it handed off its contract to provide security to President Hamid Karzai--who was nearly assassinated in September--to DynCorp Inc., a private firm in Virginia. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once spoke of the land in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on which Bush wants to see a Palestinian state as the "so called" occupied territories. Vice President Dick Cheney has always given the impression he believes that the world, far from being ready for Jeffersonian democracy, is a dark and threatening place, as if he carried a misanthropic scar from...