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...Watts, the only black Republican in Congress, announced last week that he will retire when his fourth term ends next year--a blow to the G.O.P.'s efforts to widen its appeal. The conservative 44-year-old Oklahoman and former star quarterback for the University of Oklahoma talks with TIME's Douglas Waller...
...against four police officers, including Morse, and the city of Inglewood. The U.S. Justice Department opened a civil-rights investigation into the incident. Mitchell Crooks, who was staying in a motel across from the gas station, caught the beating on video. In a separate incident, two white officers in Oklahoma were videotaped beating Donald Pete, a black man, across his back and legs as he lay on the ground. EAST ASIA The Wrath of Typhoon Chata'an A tropical storm lashed northern Japan, killing five people and leaving three missing. The deadly weather system had already claimed dozens of lives...
...Markets need trust as much as they do liquidity. If Bush and Cheney aren't perceived as being clean, how much confidence can investors have in their reforms? "I'm one of these rare creatures who think there must be some responsibility," says Oklahoma City attorney Bill Federman, who is suing Halliburton. "The entire securities market is melting down, and you have the President and Vice President who were apparently involved in the same type of situation that's leading to the meltdown." Federman has company. In a new TIME/CNN poll, 43% said they believe the President's stock sale...
...court's 5-to-4 decision came in a case brought by an Oklahoma girl who objected to her town's policy of randomly testing students who participated in any school-sponsored group. It expanded a 1995 ruling that sanctioned drug tests for members of school athletic teams. Civil libertarians have argued that such policies violate young people's privacy. But in his majority opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, "Securing order in the school environment sometimes requires that students be subjected to greater controls than those appropriate for adults...
...schools that are willing and able to pay the price, the court's ruling provides one more weapon in the war against drugs. Oklahoma school officials say that after everything from surveillance cameras to canine patrols failed to reduce drug use, random testing was a desperate last resort--and proved the most effective deterrent of all. "Without testing for drugs, we just weren't effectively eliminating the problem," says Linda Meoli, attorney for the Oklahoma school district. "We really needed another, better tool." --With reporting by Joe Pappalardo/New York