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Where will the next battles be? Pro-life groups are pressing for a federal law that would make it a crime to take a minor across state lines for an abortion in a state that doesn't require parental notification. The House has passed the bill; the Senate has yet to take it up. Though a majority of Senators oppose banning abortions, "a sizable number" will consider such measures "on a case-by-case basis," says Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee...
...Unlike Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the supreme spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiites, Moqtada has only minor clerical status. But he has political muscle and influence derived from the heroic reputation of his forebears. Also unlike Sistani, Moqtada is a fervent advocate of the Khomeinist doctrine of "velayat al-faqi," or political rule by the clergy. His objective: to make himself the primary player in Iraqi politics...
...even longer list of 50 cities, including Columbus, Ohio, and Fresno, Calif. And the dollars shrank to $675 million. At that point, Weiner says, he lost heart. "We found a solution, and we're even screwing that up. We have some cities on there that don't even have minor-league baseball teams," he says. "Homeland security is just as much a pork barrel as every other program in Congress." New York City now receives 7% of the money...
...hills of Afghanistan, exhausted and laden with weapons and gear, an American perseveres. The face of Marine Corporal Patrick Gravenese on your cover said it all. He is tired of the war, but he has to go on--for all of us. We here at home lament the minor difficulties we encounter, while our troops are over there, sweating it. God bless them. SID O'BRIEN Signal Hill, Calif...
...including the obvious and uninspired (“communities of learning,” “student research”) and the vague (“internationalization”)—and the task forces that had been established—again, ranging from the minor (“timing of the concentration choice”) to the mindless (“wireless technology?...