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...national coalition including the country's two largest pro-choice groups, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood, launched ads in Rhode Island, Maine and on national cable last week. NARAL has launched a grassroots campaign among 27 affiliates around the country timed for the Senate's Thanksgiving recess that will target members by requesting meetings, writing letters to editors and circulating petitions...
Interviews with six of the more than 13 Iraqi attorneys defending Saddam and his lieutenants reveal a constant backdrop of threatened violence as they try to perform basic legal tasks like deposing witnesses, reviewing documents and preparing their clients for the trial, which resumes next week after a recess of almost five weeks. At best, the lawyers say, they face a logistical nightmare when visiting the U.S.-run prison on the western outskirts of Baghdad, where high-ranking members of the former regime are being held. At worst, they fear that every trip home from the office could...
...Asia to the White House. Still struggling in the polls, Bush has a full week and a Thanksgiving holiday to lower the political temperature before politicians return to the capital. After last week's tumult and partisan drama on Capitol Hill, Bush might be thankful that the lawmakers' November recess has arrived like the clang of the bell mercifully terminating a middle round in a heavyweight slugfest. Instead of irate, uppercutting critics, awaiting him in Washington are a stack of budget bills primped for his pen and a National Turkey urgently seeking presidential pardon. He leaves Tuesday to celebrate...
Harvard’s janitors will also receive several days of vacation during the winter recess or an equal amount of time off at another point during the year and six to twelve sick days, depending on seniority...
...goal is that by winter recess there will be a kind of collection of final reports that will be gathered together and presented,” he said...