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Jesse Jackson reassures ballot-challenged Palm Beach Gore supporters who have managed to vote for Pat Buchanan that they should "stand up and be proud." He performs an auto-da-fe in front of the residence of Theresa LePore, the Palm Beach supervisor of elections, a Democrat. LePore flees the country, complicating efforts to validate the vote in Palm Beach County...
Some states are dealing with the proliferation of mothers in prison by looking for alternative-sentencing solutions. California sentences some nonviolent female drug offenders to Family Foundations, a community-based residential drug-treatment program. In Santa Fe Springs, Calif., female inmates live in what resembles a converted school building with their children up to age six. "You're not just another number where you're not getting any help," says Sarah Ambrosini, 29, who lives there with her two sons, ages four months and 16 months. The program is expensive, averaging $40,000 a year per inmate, compared with...
These displays are rarely spontaneous. In Temple, Texas, for example, the No Pray, No Play group has a toll-free number (Press one for T shirts and merchandise; press two for media kits) to gin up support for the high school in the Texas town of Santa Fe that provoked the Supreme Court ban on student-led prayers last June. Response to the campaign has been mixed: some residents are eager to push the limits of the decision, but others resent agenda-minded outsiders who invite tens of thousands of people to attend home games and recite the Lord...
...With reporting by Paul Cuadros/Asheville, Hilary Hylton/Santa Fe, Elisabeth Kauffman/Nashville and David Nordan/Atlanta
ORDERED RELEASED ON BAIL. WEN HO LEE, 60, fired Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist suspected by the FBI of espionage in smuggling U.S. nuclear secrets to China; by a federal judge's decision; after eight months' solitary confinement in a Santa Fe, N.M., prison. Judge James Parker ruled that the case for holding Lee as a security threat until his Nov. 6 trial was unpersuasive. Lee must still meet $1 million bail and be stringently monitored at his home...