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They're not saying they agree with the Boy Scouts, mind you, but the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the 90-year-old organization has the right to bar gay men from becoming troop leaders. The 5-4 decision also serves another purpose; by accepting the Scouts' interpretation of their oath - which requires members to be "morally straight and clean," and therefore, apparently, not gay - the Supreme Court has effectively banned openly gay boys and men from ever joining a local troop or participating in scouting activities...
...pursuit of retreating rebel soldiers, Tavington comes riding up to Martin's plantation at the head of a cavalry troop. Insouciantly, even rather jauntily, he orders all the Americans--most of them wounded--to be shot, the plantation fired, and for good measure, he marches Gabriel (by this time a dispatch rider for the valiant Colonel Harry Burwell, played by Chris Cooper) off to be hanged. When one of Martin's other sons tries to rescue his brother, he is coldly murdered...
...improve military readiness and troop morale...
...professors about their criticisms of President Richard M. Nixon's list of Supreme Court nominees. Within a month, President Bok and Dean of the Law School Albert M. Sacks write to the U.S. Attorney General, asking him to call off the FBI probe. 12 - Nixon announces increasing numbers of troop withdrawals in Vietnam. 21 - Harvard downs Yale in an embarrassing 35-16 win at New Haven...
...pilots--unlike those who led the way into Iraq and Yugoslavia--will no longer have to play hide-and-seek with enemy radar and deadly antiaircraft missiles. Before U.S. troops enter hostile airspace, a fleet of unmanned combat air vehicles will have attacked missile batteries capable of shooting down any troop-carrying aircraft. Sensors aboard each drone will detect targets, which will be attacked--after receipt of a human command--by the aircraft's precision-guided munitions...