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Voting 6 to 2 in a case involving American Airlines, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that passengers may sue an airline for retroactively downgrading their frequent-flyer benefits. The Justices concluded that federal airline-regulation laws do not pre-empt such breach-of-contract suits in state courts...
...Pope is also laying strategy for the 1995 U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing, which figures to be a replay of Cairo. In June, he plans to meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church. John Paul has long spoken of mending the breach between the Roman and Eastern churches that became final in - 1054. The Berlin Wall, put up in 1961, came down 11 years into his papacy; undoing the effects of a millennium may take him a little longer...
...third violent breach of presidential security in as many months, somebody fired four to six shots at the back of the White House early Saturday morning. The 9-mm bullets -- one of which was found on the first-floor balcony -- appeared to come from a handgun fired from somewhere south of the mansion. Clinton was asleep upstairs at the time...
...Investigators have found a bullet in the state dining room of the mansion, while three others fell short of the apparent target and were discovered outside. There are still no leads on the identity of the gunman. The First Family slept through Saturday night's attack, but this third breach of White House security, after a plane crashed into the building earlier this fall and Francisco Duran later allegedly peppered the house with gunshots, raises new questions about president's safety.Post your opinion on theCrimebulletin board...
Following what some have called a breach in research and journalistic ethics, a prominent Harvard rheumatologist faces an investigation into whether he failed to disclose a conflict of interest regarding an article he co-authored...