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...Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch said in an advisory opinion that the state would recognize any marriages legally performed in other states, although he said the courts would ultimately decide whether same-sex marriages would be considered valid...
Allison Cole's "Never Ending Summer" (Alternative Comics; 48 pp.; $11.95), just released, marks her graphic novel debut. As is the DIY style, the author focuses on her own life and relationships, putting it onto paper with a beguiling simplicity. Set during a summer between semesters in Providence, Rhode Island, Allison works at a comic store and collects LPs. Asher, her boyfriend, has left for a two-week trip. Suddenly she gets a phone call. He wants to go back to Australia for the rest of the summer - where his old girlfriend lives. Uh oh. The rest of the book...
After a sensational showing at Dartmouth last weekend, the Harvard co-ed sailing team stormed into Rhode Island looking for the crown at the New England Team Racing Championships...
Pastore said that "from the information available to me, it is my conviction that some atmospheric testing is necessary." The Rhode Island Senator said the student protestors "have been carried off by cliches and slogans." He observed that "they haven't dealt with the Russians," and therefore "cannot know our problems...
...Still, in answering questions from Rhode Island Democratic senator Jack Reed about whether instructions may have been issued to "soften up" detainees for interrogation, Rumsfeld made what may be the central point of the events at Abu Ghraib. Interrogation of suspects, he explained, was an essential part of protecting U.S. soldiers in Iraq. And that brings several unresolved issues squarely into focus...