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...legal battle is not over yet. The Department of Justice has 20 days to decide whether to ask the Supreme Court to review the case. While a Justice Department spokesman was noncommittal last week, lawyers for the government said from the outset that they would appeal an adverse decision to the highest court. Which is where proponents of the CDA say the case belongs. "We wrote this law based on previous Supreme Court decisions that have a lot of merit, so it will be looked on very carefully," says Senator J. James Exon, who introduced the original bill and believes...
...proponents of the CDA are fueled by outrage that hard-core pornography can be found on a computer network to which children have access. "We're talking about material going into the hands of young people whose lives can be permanently altered," says Mike Russell, spokesman for the Christian Coalition, which campaigned hard to get Congress to do something about...
JORDAN, Montana: Authorities negotiating with the Montana Freemen said a resolution to the standoff could come in the next few days, now that a jailed Freemen leader has approved an FBI settlement. On Tuesday, the FBI flew Freemen spokesman Edwin Clark to Billings, Montana, to discuss terms of the surrender proposal with Daniel Petersen Jr. and LeRoy Schweitzer, whose arrest in March triggered the confrontation. Clark was returned to the ranch Tuesday evening and the Freemen gathered in a barn later, apparently to confer on the proposal. "Ed Clark puts a lot of stock in Schweitzer's opinion," TIME...
Crisis: Who will help Sandra Bullock save the world from public transportation this time? Speed star KEANU REEVES has turned down an $11 million invitation to rejoin the actress in the sequel. Reeves' spokesman explained that the actor, who has been the subject of a college course and had bouts of Shakespeare, "doesn't really see himself as an action star." What he does see himself as is Eddie Vedder. Reeves will spend the summer touring with his grunge band, Dogstar. (One critic described its music as "Flipper meets an industrial accident.") The group has yet to sign a record...
JORDAN, Montana: Authorities negotiating with the Montana Freemen said a resolution to the standoff could come in the next few days, now that a jailed Freemen leader has approved an FBI settlement. On Tuesday, the FBI flew Freemen spokesman Edwin Clark to Billings, Montana, to discuss terms of the surrender proposal with Daniel Petersen Jr. and LeRoy Schweitzer, whose arrest in March triggered the confrontation. Clark was returned to the ranch Tuesday evening and the Freemen gathered in a barn later, apparently to confer on the proposal. "Ed Clark puts a lot of stock in Schweitzer's opinion," TIME...