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...Haji, the 68-year-old, one-eyed captain, was up in the darkened bridge, sitting cross-legged on a stool to the right of the wheel, making constant and almost imperceptible adjustments to the course of the ship. Navigational instruments?radar, sonar and GPS?glowed faintly on the control panel, but Haji paid them no heed. He has been sailing these waters since his youth; subtle changes in the shape of the coast and the position of the stars are all he needs to know exactly where he is. Just before dawn the Marco Polo reached the eastern coast...
...hysterical moment, Alfred Goodwin replaced Osama Bin Laden as the most reviled man in America. The federal judge?s crime was to attack two of the 31 words that constitute the Pledge of Allegiance. Writing for the majority of a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over nine western states including California, Goodwin held last week that the words under God were unconstitutional because they violated the separation of church and state required by the First Amendment. He was responding to a case brought by Sacramento, Calif. emergency-room physician Michael Newdow...
...bill endorsing the unexpurgated pledge. The House condemned the decision by a 416-3 vote. Perhaps deciding that retreat is the better part of valor, Goodwin stayed his decision even before an appeal was filed. The case is virtually certain to be heard by an 11-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit and virtually certain to be overturned either then or later by the Supreme Court...
Members of the panel said the Boston area’s transit services are inadequate, with a need to reduce pressure on a subway system that is well-used and overcrowded...
...Israel's demand to renegotiate the composition and terms of a U.N. inquiry into the events at Jenin are proving to be grist to the mill for the Palestinian PR campaign. The Israelis expressed the fear that a panel composed of one senior diplomat and two humanitarian officials would be insufficient to understand the military dimension of the problem Israel faced in Jenin, and be more inclined to reach negative conclusions on the humanitarian consequences of the operation. The Palestinians decry the Israeli demands as part of a cover-up effort. But Secretary General Kofi Annan appears inclined to accommodate...