Word: arizona
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...never banned the teaching of evolution or required the teaching of the Biblical story of creation, it dropped Darwin's theory from standardized tests taken by Kansas students. The ousting of three anti-evolution members cast the die for changing the standards. Kansas is one of several states, including Arizona, Alabama, Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, where school boards have attempted to play down evolutionary concepts...
During a 1970 protest at St. Louis University, Howard Mechanic lobbed a cherry bomb at police and firefighters. He fled to Arizona and began a new life as a businessman. But his secret came out when he ran for the Scottsdale city council last year, and he went to federal prison. His successful pardon application drew support from several Senators. But in Clinton's haste to process so many pleas, he signed a pardon letter that contained a typo and ended up clearing Mechanic of the wrong charge...
...Former Arizona Governor John Fife Symington sent his application directly to the White House three weeks before Clinton left office. In 1997 the Republican was convicted of fraud and forced out of office. The verdict was overturned, but prosecutors have been weighing whether to retry the case. Some Arizonans think the pardon was payback: Symington saved Clinton from drowning at a '60s beach party...
...gone for Gore. It was "terrible," she said; her husband explained that she wants to retire but not with a Democrat choosing her successor. She's expressed the same desire to friends. Another report, even more recent, had Rehnquist pledging to take a chair at the University of Arizona law school next fall. The guessing game comes in the wake of the court's bitter 5-to-4 decision shutting down the Florida recount and handing the election to Bush--a ruling that left the court wounded and at war with itself. O'Connor, who voted with the majority...
...Harvard women's tennis team escaped the cold and drizzle of New England this past holiday weekend for trysts with two of the southwestern region's big enchiladas, Arizona State and UNLV...