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...fiercely as the flame burns the hope of a Games "without doping and without drugs," as Hockeyroos star Rechelle Hawkes said in the Olympic oath. And in choosing Cathy Freeman as the flame's final custodian, Games officials rekindled another hope. It was there in Freeman's eyes as the cauldron rose - a dedication not only to individual victory but to a collective one as well: to unity between black and white Australians. For a moment last Friday evening, anything seemed possible...
...saying they agree with the Boy Scouts, mind you, but the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the 90-year-old organization has the right to bar gay men from becoming troop leaders. The 5-4 decision also serves another purpose; by accepting the Scouts' interpretation of their oath - which requires members to be "morally straight and clean," and therefore, apparently, not gay - the Supreme Court has effectively banned openly gay boys and men from ever joining a local troop or participating in scouting activities...
Justice Stevens (writing the dissent): "Neither the Boy Scouts' law or oath expresses any position whatsoever on sexual matters. It is plain as the light of day that neither one of these principles... says the slightest thing about homosexuality...
...abstract one could worry about that dynamic," Casey says. "I have found many more times jurors take the oath thoughtfully and do not look at the wealth of the defendant. In my experience, Harvard has fared well...
LOSING IT President Clinton may have lied under oath, but a sampling of what other lawyers have been disbarred for in the past 18 months makes him look almost unimpeachable...