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...second setback for opponents of the Solomon Amendment, the House of Representatives passed a resolution by a 327-84 margin Wednesday reaffirming its support for the 1996 statute and calling on the Bush administration to appeal the Third Circuit panel’s ruling...
Ever since the Pope barely survived a 1981 assassination attempt, Catholics worldwide have got used to praying for his health. Whenever John Paul II has a setback - and he's had quite a few in the past 10 years - speculation about his successor ratchets up another notch. So when the Pope was rushed to the hospital last week suffering from an inflamed windpipe, spasms of the larynx and the flu, people wondered how long he would be able to continue in office. The Vatican reported that John Paul was making a good recovery, but with the 84-year-old Pontiff...
Despite the setback, the Bulldogs, and not the Crimson, appeared to retain the momentum in the tally’s immediate aftermath...
...election. Four provinces have been declared not yet safe enough for voting, but Administration officials have not wavered in their insistence that the vote will be held on schedule. "I don't think it's a debate anymore," says a U.S. official in Iraq. "The tactical and strategic setback would be far more damaging than the problems we would face after the election...
...British pound but uses notes printed by local banks. The theft was so big that Northern Bank decided to withdraw all its cash - more than $560 million - from circulation to make most of the stolen money worthless. The political deficit looks harder to fix. "It's a serious setback, let's face it," Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, Paul Murphy, told TIME. Orde didn't offer proof but, if true, his accusation means the robbery was planned at the same time the I.R.A. 's political allies in Sinn Fein were negotiating with the Irish and British governments. The unionists...