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Harry Potter, Heather's Two Mommies and Daddy's Roommate must be very proud. Wednesday, in Wichita Falls, Tex., a federal judge struck down a local law permitting locals to pull "objectionable" books from the library shelves (including those featuring the aforementioned characters), calling the measure unconstitutional. Outside Toronto, Canada, the Durham school board reversed itself, eliminating the need for students to bring in permission slips before the "Harry Potter" books could be read in class. "I think they're silly books," the chairman of the school board, who argued against the restriction, told wire reporters. "But my wife likes...
...Bush: Austin, Tex. Cheney: Bakersfield and Santa Barbara, Calif. Gore and Lieberman: Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Nader: Santa Barbara, Salinas, Santa Cruz, Calif...
...execution chamber in Huntsville, Tex., will be busy Wednesday night. Two inmates are scheduled to die by lethal injection - one of whom, Oliver David Cruz, has repeatedly tested below the threshold for mental retardation - and Governor George W. Bush will not be there...
...Champion of a simpler, flatter tax code, Dick "Short Form" Armey (R-Tex.) listed no assets and a meager teacher's pension as his only additional income... House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) is buried in student-loan debt... Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), a former investment banker, is worth over $5 million... Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), perhaps not surprisingly, is worth about $80 million... Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) put himself through law school playing the markets and made about $75,000 trading in 1999. "I wouldn't do it if it weren't profitable," he told...
DIED. GORDON BENEKE, 86, sax player nicknamed "Tex" who sang Chattanooga Choo Choo with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and became bandleader after Miller's plane disappeared in World War II; in Costa Mesa, Calif...