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Dozens of Alabama Baptist ministers are upset over Kmart's decision to stay open on Easter Sunday for the first time in the company's history. The ministers contend the discount chain is exploiting a religious holiday to make money. Some 35 ministers wrote to the Troy, Mich.-based retailer and two store managers in Dothan, Ala., urging Kmart to reconsider. Kmart said its employees will be working short Easter shifts on a voluntary basis and that the company is staying open to meet the needs of customers...
Jurors in the O.J. Simpson case examined photographs ofblood stains found inside the Ford Broncothat prosecutors contend the defendant drove home after knifing to death his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. The photos showed stains all over the driver's side -- on the door, above the door handle, on the carpet, the steering wheel and the instrument panel -- plus four red stains on the plastic console between the front seats. Prosecutors have told the jury thatsophisticated DNA testsfound that the blood in the Bronco matched samples from Simpson as well as the two victims...
Times for the Crimson are anything but tough. The up-and-coming squad looks to contend with fellow powerhouses Brown and Princeton for the Ivy League championship...
...also avoid looking past Penn to an exciting showdown with Duke next Saturday. The Blue Devils (5-1) are ranked sixth in the country, and they should give the Crimson, ranked 19th, an idea of how far it has come and how much farther it has to go to contend for a national championship...
...would enacting term limits shift the balance of power within the federal government towards the President, as many opponents of term limits contend. The turnover in Congress was far higher during the latter part of the 19th century than in the decades since World War II. Yet the 1870s and 1880s were characterized by weak presidents and a dominant Congress, while recent decades have seen the exact opposite. Clearly, no relationship exists between the power of Congress and term limits...