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...next year the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois sued Chicago itself for sponsoring 28 troops of Explorers, a career-oriented Boy Scouts program for older youth. It was the first time a chartering institution, rather than the Scouts, had been sued. In 1998, the city relented and withdrew its sponsorship...
...council voted to amend the bill to remove calls for lawyers to be allowed in Administrative Board hearings and to end Ad Board gag orders. Feeling the bill had lost much of its meaning, Orr withdrew his sponsorship...
...island of Sipadan overnight Sunday by gunmen suspected of being members of a Philippines-based Islamic separatist movement. A spokesman for the Abu Ayyaf organization, a dwindling radical Islamic group with links to superterrorist Osama bin Laden, on Tuesday first claimed responsibility for the attack, and later (sort of) withdrew the statement, saying: "I'm not saying we are the ones; I'm also not saying we're not the ones - let's give the government a puzzle." Although Philippines officials were skeptical of the claims, the group - which has been eclipsed by the larger Moro Islamic Liberation Front, currently...
...minimum wage. The Texas Governor also has his own recent past to overcome, including a bruising primary fight that featured him cozying up to the religious right and running a singularly uncompassionate campaign against his opponent, John McCain. Which explains why Bush has spent the month since McCain withdrew trying to resuscitate his "compassionate conservative" message by issuing a series of conspicuously centrist--some might even say liberal--policy proposals. And also why his aides insist, on what seems to be an hourly basis, that whatever Bush is announcing that day proves yet again that "he's a different kind...
...them for concessions. "Barak may have floated the possibility of returning Anata to the Palestinians in order to test Israeli reaction," says TIME Jerusalem correspondent Aharon Klein. "Earlier, when he'd considered giving back another village, Abu Dis, the opposition had rallied public opinion against him. This time, he withdrew the suggestion before opposition had time to develop." Next week's handover of territory, amounting to just over 6 percent of the West Bank, marks the final Israeli withdrawals before a final peace treaty is completed, and Yasser Arafat's negotiators have long looked to Abu Dis - which was included...