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Foreign students, in particular, were targeted by U.S. law enforcement agencies after authorities discovered the role several students played in two high-profile terrorist acts--the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City and the shooting outside Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va...
...spectacle many conservative groups are relishing. But it's not exactly a fight between church and state, which is what the Rutherford Institute more typically pursues. Since Whitehead founded it 15 years ago with $200 and his family's Christmas-card list, the nonprofit foundation in Charlottesville, Va., has generally stayed focused on what he says is "my calling from God"--to defend religious liberty against what he sees as government encroachment. In interviews and publications, the institute describes Christians as a besieged population assaulted by a coarse, secular culture and the government that fosters it. Dramatizations in the group...
...backseat to Senate tradition. That's the lesson Senator Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.) learned last week when his request to bring a computer to the floor for note taking was soundly rejected by the Rules Committee. "We didn't start out with laptops," says chairman John Warner (R., Va.), "and I don't think...
...dumping such plans on voters' doorsteps is often preferable to the alternative. The Navajo nation showed great restraint in rejecting its leaders' proposals to build as many as five casinos on its territory. And then there was Castlewood, Va., whose residents decided to disband the town ? and give themselves a refund. "The town should never been formed in the first place and we don't want it," said Mayor Roy Castle. "It was double taxation without representation." The people have spoken...
SENTENCED. MARV ALBERT, 56, the ex-NBC sportscaster with an X-rated sex life; for biting lover Vanessa Perhach; to a 12-month suspended sentence; in Arlington, Va. Albert, who admitted "I am sorry" in court, could have received up to a year behind bars and a $2,500 fine for his guilty plea last month to assault and battery...