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After sound check, the band lounges about the venue in the hours before they take the stage. A few break for the door to enjoy a cigarette. “This smoking ban,” drummer James Butcher proposes, “is forcing people to be more social. No one likes not being able to smoke a fag indoors, but outside the smokers have their own little community.” He pauses. “In New York it was nice, we got to meet all these nice fans outside the club.” The band...
...broke up a rally of thousands of demonstrators in Yerevan calling for the resignation of President Robert Kocharian, seriously injuring 30 people and detaining 115. Opposition leaders, who claim Kocharian rigged his re-election last year, launched another rally at the end of the week, in defiance of a ban on further public protests. Going Public on Abuse SAUDI ARABIA Popular television presenter Rania al-Baz, above, who said she was beaten unconscious by her husband, allowed pictures of her bruised and battered face to be published in what she described as a bid to draw attention to the plight...
...quick to note, the President had a fairly acrobatic record even before the Condi flip, doubling back on everything from his "humble" foreign policy to steel tariffs, opposing the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance bill and then signing it, calling gay marriage a state issue and then backing a federal ban on it. In fact, the Times poll found, roughly equal numbers of voters see Bush and Kerry as flip-floppers (35% and 38%, respectively). But what matters is not the perception so much as the damage it does. Asked by a recent Gallup poll who is more likely to change...
Members of Congress singled out Harvard for rebuke, sharply criticizing a 1969 vote by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to ban ROTC on campus...
...incremental approach seems to be working for foes of abortion. Following passage last October of a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortion, the Senate last week voted, 61 to 38, to make it a crime to injure or kill a fetus when a pregnant woman is attacked in a federal crime. The House, spurred by the killing of Laci Peterson and her unborn son in California more than a year ago, passed the measure in February, and President Bush has promised to sign it. Supporters deny it is linked to abortion, pointing out that 29 states already have...