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Republican and Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kerns reported multiple death threats from homosexual activists because she criticized their lifestyle. In California, many Proposition 8 supporters reported similar threats. But gay rights activists mourned the murder of a gay leader—San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk—by a fellow Democrat...
...think we were a different team [from February] and they were a different team, but the game was quite similar,” Barton-Kettleborough said. “Both teams had parts of the game where they played really well and other parts where it didn’t go so well...
...Schumer estimates that employers would have to pay up to $800 for card-reading machines, and many point out that compliance could prove burdensome for many small-to-medium-size businesses. In a similar program run by the Department of Homeland Security, in which 1.4 million transportation workers have been issued biometric credentials, applicants each pay $132.50 to help cover the costs of the initiative, which so far run in the hundreds of millions. "This is sort of like the worst combination of the DMV and the TSA," says Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the ACLU, an organization that...
...that the U.S. would hasten delivery of F-16 fighter aircraft, helicopter gunships and unmanned reconnaissance drone aircraft. But U.S. officials stopped short of agreeing to a key Pakistani demand: that the U.S. recognize Pakistan as a nuclear power, giving it parity with its rival India, which secured a similar accord from the Bush Administration. Washington officials were reluctant to comply because of Pakistan's having secretly sold nuclear technology to North Korea, Iran and Libya...
...bare the way in which Washington called the shots, often ignoring British advice and excluding British diplomats and military commanders from discussions. Chilcot and his fellow committee members plan to travel to the U.S., probably in May, to interview members of the Bush Administration and U.S. military figures of similar heft to the inquiry's British witnesses, who have included not only Blair but also Britain's serving Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. (See "Unbowed on Iraq, Blair Argues for Targeting Iran...