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...military’s interpretation of the statute was a change to the Solomon Amendment in 2000 giving the Department of Defense “more options regarding enforcement” of the law. A procedural rule issued by the department in December 2000 allowed it to rescind funding from an entire institution because of the actions of one of its elements...
...houses. Two shows that shuttered following the attack, the Rocky Horror Show, and off-Broadway’s Bat Boy, will resurface later this month. And one of the only two planned shows that was canceled, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s By Jeeves, found sufficient financial support to rescind its cancellation and will come to New York after...
...hosts, because its airspace and military bases are essential to any effort to strike inside Afghanistan, and its intelligence may be required to actually find Bin Laden. But the government of the nuclear-armed Muslim nation is under tremendous domestic political pressure from its own sizable Islamist constituency to rescind its somewhat reluctant decision to support the U.S. campaign, and there are real concerns over whether General Parvez Musharraf's military government would ultimately survive the domestic political turmoil a full-blown war would almost certainly unleash...
...country to help maintain a nature trail and to tout the money he's put in his budget to help restore national parks, the news out of Washington carried a very different message. The Washington Post ran an article about the Bush Administration's likely plan to rescind a Clinton-era executive order that forbids road-building (and therefore logging) on 60 million acres of public land. And several newspapers published pieces about the Environmental Protection Agency's pending decision on whether to loosen the rules governing toxic emissions from factories, a move heavily favored, not surprisingly, by the industries...
...simple, says state District Judge J. Manuel Banales, who on May 18 ordered Trevino and 13 other "high-risk" sex offenders on probation to post the signs in their yards. "It will keep people like you, sir, honest," he told Trevino last week after denying a request to rescind the order. "Your neighbors will watch you and make sure you're not taking another child into your home." Hours later, Banales ordered yet another sex offender--No. 15--to put up a sign on release from jail...