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When Congress passed its landmark amnesty bill in 1986, it was considered a triumph for illegal aliens seeking to normalize their status. But the act contained limited provisions for individuals to appeal the handling of their cases by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Last week, by a 7-to-2 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the law did not bar broader legal challenges to INS policies and practices that are deemed unfair and illegal...
...Iraqi troop movements. Fires are outlawed for heating or cooking; hot coffee comes from tiny butane heaters hidden in cardboard boxes. Nights are so quiet that a cough can be heard from 400 yds., and the land is so barren that a single twisted piece of brush becomes a landmark known as the Tree. "It's easy to get lost out here. There are no terrain features," says Captain Scott Barrington, 29, of Chester, Va. "It's like the K mart parking...
...after bailing out strike-ridden CPS nine times in 18 years, the Illinois legislature passed the SRA. It was immediately hailed as a model for other cities' reforms. The news media and education experts called it a landmark in education reform. A broad minority coalition led by the Chicago Urban League enthusiastically supported the reform...
...landmark case was brought by shipyard welder Lois Robinson, who accused her employer of ignoring the display of pornographic images and condoning the routine verbal abuse of the six females among the 846 skilled-crafts employees. Robinson and two other women testified that they endured a barrage of comments from their male peers, perhaps the mildest of which was "I'd like to get in bed with that." The offending photos, many of which came from calendars provided by tool-supply companies, included a nude woman bending over with her buttocks and genitals exposed, a nude female torso with USDA...
...landmark accord with Indian leaders last year, the Smithsonian Institution agreed to sort through its collection of 18,500 remains and to return for burial all those that were clearly identifiable as belonging to a certain tribe. Stanford University then pledged to give back its entire collection of remains of the Ohlone tribe. Other museums and collectors followed suit, and in November President Bush signed a bill to protect Indian grave sites in the U.S. and to return remains to the tribes. In some instances, however, tribes have asked a museum to retain permanent control of the objects so they...