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...Democrats and Republicans, latched on to the abortion issue as the sort of emotional question that extracts votes and campaign funds from true believers, they unleashed a venomous public argument. That debate heated up again last week in the wake of a highly divisive Supreme Court decision. The Justices upheld a federal regulation, conceived by the Reagan Administration three years ago to assuage conservative constituents, that bans discussion of abortion in federally funded health clinics...
Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the powerful Shi'ite literary critic who upheld a death sentence against Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses, wants to be a best-selling author himself. Rafsanjani's co-author is offering the 400-page manuscript for Our Revolution: The Ideology Behind the Movement to U.S. publishing houses. Excerpts from the work show that the Ayatullah Khomeini's political heir still has a jaundiced view of the Great Satan. "Our real desire, from the beginning, was to humiliate the United States throughout the world," writes Rafsanjani. Moreover, Westerners "are members of the school...
...agency giving Scientology the most grief is the IRS, whose officials have implied that Hubbard's successors may be looting the church's coffers. Since 1988, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the revocation of the cult's tax-exempt status, a massive IRS probe of church centers across the country has been under way. An IRS agent, Marcus Owens, has estimated that thousands of IRS employees have been involved. Another agent, in an internal IRS memorandum, spoke hopefully of the "ultimate disintegration" of the church. A small but helpful beacon shone last June when a federal appeals court ruled...
After Brown (5-1 Ivy, if the match is upheld) won at second doubles, 30th-ranked Amy deLone and Jamie Henikoff prevailed in a three-set barnburner, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4, to give Harvard a 2-1 lead after doubles play. DeLone and Henikoff had beaten their primary competition--Princeton's Aila Winkler and Lauren Fortgang and Boston College's Pam Piorkowski and Jennifer Lane--to assume a front-running position for a NCAA tournament berth earlier this week...
...longer be overturned automatically -- provided that an appeals court finds that other evidence would have been sufficient to obtain a conviction. Some legal experts fear that the new standard will tempt prosecutors to introduce questionable confessions in borderline cases in the hope that any resulting conviction will be upheld...