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...hearing, in a New Jersey federal district court, was the first in a lawsuit that claims the 1995 law known as the Solomon Amendment infringes on free speech rights because it coerces academic institutions into allowing the military—which discriminates against openly gay individuals—on campus...
Rosenkranz asked U.S. District Judge Judge John C. Lifland in Newark to issue a preliminary injunction suspending enforcement of the law while the trial determining the law’s constitutionality proceeds...
Pakistan's campaign to hunt down suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas in the rugged territory bordering Afghanistan scored a major success last week with a raid by the Pakistani army in the country's South Waziristan district. Eight suspected militants were killed and 18 were detained--all foreigners and "certainly terrorists," said military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan. "As a matter of policy, Pakistan is determined to root out terrorism from its soil...
RULED OUT. The death penalty in the trial of ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, 35, self-professed al-Qaeda loyalist and the only defendant to be tried in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks; by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema; in Alexandria, Va. The ruling also barred from the trial any evidence or testimony linking Moussaoui to 9/11. Brinkema said Moussaoui could not get a fair trial after the Justice Department, on national security grounds, refused to allow testimony sought by the defense from other captured suspects. Prosecutors will decide whether to appeal or move the trial to a military tribunal...
...sunny afternoon in San Francisco's bustling Powell Street shopping district, swarms of spendthrifts bypass the Body Shop, which is empty except for the employees, to browse around Lush, a rival British skin-care boutique located a block away. With cakes of multihued soap piled high in the window, this whimsical cosmetics grocer packages its fresh, handmade lotions in what appear to be pints of ice cream--complete with sell-by dates--and arranges fistfuls of bath salts in produce-like pyramids of color. An overzealous employee is roaming the store, commanding shoppers to sniff the new Honey, I Washed...