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...Speaking of Pence, the right-leaning third-term Congressman usually has little common ground with the left-leaning New York Times Editorial page. But last week the paper of record found time to praise Pence for co-sponsoring legislation that would impose tighter guidelines on prosecutors who want to force reporters to testify about confidential sources. Many states have these laws already, but over the last year several reporters, including the New York Times' Judith Miller and TIME's Matt Cooper, have been ordered to divulge sources or face jail time. The Times said "We agree strongly with Mr. Pence...
...success of the church in the South could be influential beyond the Mason-Dixon Line. Southern Catholicism "is changing the nature of the church in America," says Patrick McHenry, 29, a Republican who last month became Charlotte's first Catholic Congressman. "We adhere to a truer and purer view of Catholicism." Roman Catholics, still the largest religious denomination in the U.S., at 65 million strong, will debate what "truer and purer" means. But one thing seems certain: Southern Catholics, influenced in no small degree by their morally hard-line Protestant neighbors, as well as the strong piety of Latin America...
...State's ban on cameras in the courtroom during trials), maintains that TV has been unfairly blamed for the "circuslike" atmosphere at some trials. "Cameras only show the circus," he contends. "They don't create the circus." Ted Poe, a former Texas criminal-court judge and now a Republican Congressman, is another advocate. "The argument that cameras are intrusive and could somehow affect someone's testimony is bogus," he says. "Once [judges] find out the sky won't fall when a trial is televised, they will be more supportive of the idea." Yet the issue for judges in high-profile...
...newspaper ads, seen in Pakistani towns, signify a shift in the theory about where bin Laden might be. Congressman Mark Kirk, the Illinois Republican who wrote the bill boosting the reward and who just traveled to Pakistan, says it's possible bin Laden is not in some snowy mountain cave but has melted away into one of the teeming Pakistani cities, as had several other al-Qaeda agents who have been captured. "What we're looking for is some young Pashtun living in a town who knows the value of $25 million and can figure out how to reach...
...down. It depends on how fast Iraqi security forces come along." Members of congressional armed-services committees are being warned privately by senior uniformed officers to expect at least 100,000 U.S. troops to remain in Iraq not only through this year but perhaps even through 2006. Democratic Congressman Martin Meehan, who recently returned from Iraq, says, "There's no evidence I've seen in any briefings to suggest that violence will go down. It absolutely won't go down...