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...chief justice of Alabama's supreme court on the slogan "Roy Moore: Still the Ten Commandments Judge." But while he earned folk-hero status among Evangelicals and conservatives, last week he finally pushed the legal establishment too far when he ignored a federal court order to remove his largest monument to the Commandments, a 5,280-lb. granite carving known as Roy's Rock. Moore and some helpers had installed the sculpture in the rotunda of the state's judicial building during off-hours one night...
...ruling that the religious artifact is inappropriate in a court of law. Instead Moore declared, to the amens of supporters gathered on the building's portico, "I will never, never deny the God upon whom our laws and country depend." The hundreds of protesters had flocked to Moore's monument last week as if to a revival, carrying Bibles, wooden crosses and placards with phrases like KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS. DUMP THE FEDS. But within 24 hours of Moore's speech, his judicial colleagues suspended him from the bench and ordered him to face trial before the Alabama Court...
...Update: Suspended from the bench for his refusal to remove a two-ton Ten Commandments monument from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roy Moore remains defiant as he fights to have his case heard in the United States Supreme Court. Moore spoke with TIME's Paige Bowers before the monument was removed...
...Sharapova, less talented but possibly more determined than either - she ranked first in her age group last summer at the Mordovian Republican Games and won the 2002 Head of Mordovia Cup, the highest tennis prize in the region. Standing on the outskirts of her dusty village like a monument to Zhbanova's potential is a professional outdoor tennis court, high concrete walls surrounding it to keep out cows and vandals. Built for the village by a ranking federal-level official who comes from Perkhlyai, it is simply the best thing that ever happened to her. It is also, says...
...burns are preferable to mechanical thinning, which is labor intensive and therefore time-consuming and costly. But prescribed burns are not risk free, especially in areas that have been deprived of fire for long periods of time. Three years ago, for example, a prescribed fire at the Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico went off the reservation, igniting the blaze that swept into Los Alamos. Lost in the finger pointing that followed was the fact that the fire would probably not have proved so dangerous had fuel loads in the adjacent forest been lower. And this is precisely why thinning...