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STRUCK DOWN. A Nebraska constitutional amendment imposing a BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE; by U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon; in response to a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal; in Lincoln, Neb. The measure, passed by voters in 2000, went further than those in other states by denying such legal protections as health insurance to gay couples, and possibly interfering with rights of adoptive and foster parents. Conservatives unhappy with the ruling vowed to press for a federal...
...outsiders: it's where young, creative Washingtonians go to shake off their political straitjackets. It's also home to some of the city's richest but oft-forgotten cultural history. Back in the U Street corridor's heyday, the place to be on a Saturday night was the Lincoln Theatre. The Before Harlem There Was U Street walking tour gives you a peek inside (the theater's been restored and again hosts performances), as well as offering stops at two of Duke Ellington's childhood homes, the African American Civil War Memorial (the museum is down the block...
...white Lincoln limousine, was heavily charred from its front engine to its rear doors...
...life charade. Those same politicians are too cowardly to attack at the federal level the real right-to-life issues?abortion and the death penalty. I pray for Schiavo's parents and husband. We all have a right to a dignified death without government meddling. Bernard Joseph Wilson Jr. Lincoln, Nebraska...
...rising water forced the National Park Service to close the Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln monuments, and K Street in historic Georgetown was awash, as a giant low-pressure system moved up the Atlantic Seaboard last week, unloading ten to twelve inches of rain into the James, Potomac and Roanoke river basins. But while Washington was getting its feet wet, parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland were devastated...