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Congressman Michael E. Capuano, a Somerville Democrat whose U.S. House district includes Cambridge, obtained nomination papers yesterday to run for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant after the death of Edward M. Kennedy. “I believe that the voters of Massachusetts want to continue the progressive ideals that Senator Ted Kennedy fought for during his decades of service,” Capuano said, according to the Boston Globe. “No other candidate being mentioned or already announced more closely mirrors Ted Kennedy’s position on important issues of war and peace...
...Students have a right of free speech ... but this message is a divisive message.' TOM WITTMER, lawyer for the Alachua County, Florida, school district, on the decision to send several children home for wearing shirts bearing the statement ISLAM IS OF THE DEVIL, which he said violated a ban on clothing that may "disrupt the learning process...
Pollak, who graduated from Harvard Law School this past year, decided Tuesday that he would be challenging Jan Schakowsky to represent the 9th district of Illinois. In an interview with FlyBy yesterday, Pollak said he had been considering politics as a career option even before the altercation, but the responses he received afterward inflamed a sense of urgency...
Experts, however, declared the ossuary a modern-day forgery. It was seized by Israeli police and its owner, Tel Aviv collector Oded Golan, was arrested and charged with counterfeiting the ossuary and dozens of other items. Golan and co-defendant Robert Deutsch were put on trial in the Jerusalem District Court in 2005. Deutsch is accused of forging other valuables, though not the ossuary. Both men deny all charges. (Read a review of a book on fraudulent biblical relics and the ossuary of James...
...permitted to initiate the fight, German forces in July launched their biggest operation since World War II to clear Chahar Dara district, a Pashtun insurgent stronghold west of Kunduz city where hundreds of fighters travel openly in pickup trucks and demand money and food villagers. But, says local resident Abdul Matin, 28, the militants simply filtered back into the area when the Germans returned to base and police are nowhere in sight. The insurgent efforts accelerated ahead of the Aug. 20 presidential elections, which the Taliban had vowed to disrupt. President Hamid Karzai's running mate, Mohammad Qasim Fahim...