Word: nebraska
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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...
Sophomore Bode Ogunwole took home the title in his bracket. Ogunwole, the No. 11 heavyweight, defeated Nebraska-Lincoln’s Jon May 1-0, 1-0, to win the crown...
Senator Chuck Hagel, a second-term Republican from Nebraska whom some consider a likely candidate for president in 2008, spoke about current military challenges yesterday to a large crowd at the Kennedy School of Government’s (KSG) John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum...
...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...
Devoted Springsteen fans will sense immediately where Devils & Dust is headed, largely because the Boss has left his boot prints on this territory before, most famously on 1982's Nebraska and 1995's The Ghost of Tom Joad. Those albums chronicled closed lives in open spaces with the kind of ascetic social realism you might find in a particularly earnest newspaper series, but they also had Springsteen's venerable empathy to warm them up and dramatize them. Fact and feeling mingle again on Devils, but not always in the proper proportion. The boxer on The Hitter who passes his estranged...