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...assignments can turn ordinary weeknights into four-hour library-research excursions, leave kids in tears and parents with migraines, and generally transform the placid refuge of home life into a tense war zone. "The atmosphere in the house gets very frustrated," says Lynne O'Callaghan, a mom in Portland, Ore., whose daughter Maeve, 8, does two hours of homework a night. "Some days it's just a struggle. Who wants it that way?" Laura Mandel, a mother of three in Warren, N.J., feels similarly embattled. "It's ironic that politicians talk so much about family values," says Mandel, "when...
Planned Parenthood has filed a civil suit against those involved with "The Nuremberg Files" in Portland, Ore., alleging that the site encourages violence against abortion providers and thereby infringes upon the 1994 Federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The case is the first of its kind both because it tests the boundaries of the 1994 Act with the question of whether words on a Web site can have the same deterring factor as physically blocking clinic entrances and because it questions the First Amendment rights of the Internet, asking whether the site is a purely political vehicle...
DIVORCING. ANDREW BLEILER, 33, who carried on an adulterous affair with Monica Lewinsky; and his wife KATHLYN; in Portland, Ore. A staff member at Beverly Hills High School when he met Lewinsky, Bleiler called off the five-year affair in 1996, then blabbed it to the world last January...
...team came out strong at the beginning of the tournament, easily pounding Portland State 36-10. Senior tri-captain Dustin DeNunzio (141 pounds) pinned his opponent within 52 seconds, junior Tom Kiler (157 pounds) within 4:32, Joey Killar (165 pounds) in 6:54, and freshman Dawid Rechul (197 pounds) got a pin at 6:54. Senior tri-captain Joel Friedman (149 pounds) easily dismantled his opponent 17-1, and Picarsic posted a 14-1 win at 133 pounds. Freshman Brandon Rhoades also turned in a solid performance with a 4-2 victory at 125 pounds...
When does an advocacy web site cross the line between providing information and inciting violence? In Portland, Ore., a federal trial began on Thursday to determine the viability of a web site titled the Nuremberg Files, a graphic antiabortion site (www.christiangallery.com/atrocity) that lists the names of abortion providers around the country and asks for help in gathering information about them. In some cases the site displays photos and other identifiers, such as addresses and phone numbers, as well as names and birthdates of family members. Planned Parenthood and five doctors accuse the site of being a not-so-thinly...