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After Iran's hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenged President Bush to a televised debate last week - and again warned the U.S. not to impose sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program - the White House approved his proposed September visit to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. A few days before, over the objections of conservative Republicans and after a spirited Administration debate, the U.S. approved a visit to several U.S. cities by Iran's former president, Mohammad Khatami - the highest-ranking Iranian to tour since President Carter severed relations with Iran...
...this week, the President will hold a Cabinet meeting and speak Thursday in Atlanta on the global war on terror. On Sunday, the day before the 9/11 anniversary, the President and First Lady Laura Bush will participate in a wreath-laying at Ground Zero in New York City, then attend a service of prayer and remembrance...
...accurately described what prospective college students should look for when applying to a school. I am a college student who does not attend an Ivy League institution, and I am surrounded by people who devoted their high school years to trying to get into Harvard, Yale and Stanford. Does an Ivy League degree necessarily equate with success? Education is priceless no matter which college you are able to attend. ALEFIYAH YUSUF SHIKARI Darien...
...hard-core G.O.P. supporters. But Applebee's America, a new book aimed at helping political, business and religious leaders market themselves, disagrees. The authors--ex-Bill Clinton aide Douglas Sosnik, Bush strategist Matthew Dowd and journalist Ron Fournier--analyzed 2004 exit polls and found that Protestant suburbanites who attend church at least weekly are 49% Democrat or independent and 39% believe in gay rights. "Democratic leaders should stop stereotyping and start targeting," they write. If Dems do, they may find an audience that's used to it--the authors interviewed megachurch pastors like Rick Warren, who talk frankly about employing...
...Illinois housewife and humanist (a term she preferred to atheist) whose objections to religion classes at her son's school led to a landmark 1948 Supreme Court ruling protecting separation of church and state in public education; in Champaign, Ill. After her son decided he did not want to attend the Protestant-oriented classes--Jews and Catholics went off-campus for instruction--she sued the school board. McCollum, who endured threats to her family and lost her job, later said she fought because "I knew I was right...