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...addition to the Guard, Phelps' antics provoked anti-funeral-demonstration legislation, passed in nine states and proposed in more than 12 others and in Congress. Most of the laws establish a protest-free buffer of several hundred feet around memorial services. Civil libertarians say such statutes are vulnerable to challenge, especially since a Supreme Court decision in 2000 allotted only an 8-ft. buffer around anyone entering protested abortion clinics. David Hudson of Washington's First Amendment Center argues that the bikers' vroom trumps clearing room. Paraphrasing former Justice Louis Brandeis, Hudson says, "The remedy is more speech, not enforced...
...group laid down a tarp about 20 feet from the Jell-o and erected four tents. They then looked for a saw to cut up boards for the bonfire; the boards were left over from the Human Iditarod, an event organized by the club earlier this year...
...Leading off the fifth, the 6’7 Brunnig cranked a double off the wall in center field, approximately 400 feet away...
...fastball in yesterday’s penultimate inning.Klimkiewicz, the Crimson senior first baseman, entered the batter’s box in the eighth inning of a 10-9 do-or-die thriller. He ambled into second base, after shooting Dartmouth reliever Chris Lapointe’s pitch nearly 400 feet away into the centerfield gravel, in the midst of a 23-9 Big Green embarrassment.Klimkiewicz’s RBI double, the first of 13 insurance runs that followed sophomore Taylor Meehan’s go-ahead RBI single in the eighth (not to mention sophomore Matt Vance?...
...motorcycle outrider spotted her, says military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe. Her determined manner, that bump-it didn't look right. The outrider swerved, blocked her path and, when she kept coming, dismounted and kicked her to the ground. As she lay there with Fonseka's car a few feet away, a blinding flash erupted from her belly. Nine people died and 29 were injured. A 10th died three days later. Fonseka was in critical condition and on life support, but stable. Forensic experts initially said Kugenthirasah's "baby" was several kilograms of explosives strapped to her belly. Last Saturday investigators...