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...July, filed a lawsuit contending that the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman, is unconstitutional. Coakley supports same-sex marriage...
...used to the discordance. Once the next stimulus is passed, Obama will make reducing a record-breaking deficit a theme of his State of the Union address in January. His second and third years in office will turn on whether he can fix the economy while still reducing the deficit and bringing two wars to a close. If he succeeds, he will enter the 2012 campaign in a strong position for re-election. If he fails, even he may not want the job of cleaning up the mess...
...security forces, of which the total number is still unknown. "When we wanted to know of the exact number of schools that were being occupied by the security forces, the government refused to provide us the details," says Subrata Bhattacharjee, president of the Jharkhand chapter of the People's Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL), an advocacy group based in that state. The PUCL filed a public-interest lawsuit in Jharkhand and found that 52 schools in that state were occupied. Despite an order issued by the state supreme court to vacate the schools by January 2009, all but 13 remain...
Cambridge police just released this photo of the man who quietly robbed the Harvard University Employees Credit Union last week by presenting a letter to the teller...
Sivak acknowledges Morales' sometimes autocratic bent. "He inherited this from his years as a union leader," he says. "He has trouble trusting others, and so it means he's involved in 50 decisions every day, which is not always a good thing." But the process earlier this year to rewrite Bolivia's constitution, which increased indigenous rights and let Morales run for President one more time, satisfied democratic criteria; and even Morales' decision last year to expel the U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, Philip Goldberg, for allegedly meddling in Bolivian politics was supported by most Bolivians, who feel Washington's insistence...