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...Federal prosecutors have taken a similar position in the case of Yaser Esam Hamdi, a Louisiana-born man who came into U.S. custody after he was captured in Afghanistan, allegedly fighting for the Taliban. He has been declared an enemy combatant as well, held in a Navy prison in Virginia and prevented from seeing attorneys...
...home in Boston. From 1955 until 1982 when his position was cut, Sinnott looked over movies, music, plays and strippers to decide if they should be "banned in Boston." He kept the Jackson Five from performing and forced Edward Albee to remove lines from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at a local theater...
Once a social taboo, love across the color line is becoming increasingly common. The number of interracial marriages in the U.S. has leaped almost 1,000% since 1967, when a landmark Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia, voided state antimiscegenation laws that forbid unions between the races. Today there are more than 2 million interracial marriages, accounting for about 5% of all U.S. marriages, and almost half a million of them are between blacks and whites...
...Crimson hosts No. 17 Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), who look to be the squad to finally knock the Crimson (17-8, 7-0 Ivy) from its high horse...
...stepped to the podium last Friday to address more than 100 researchers and one White House advisor, his mien counterbalanced a series of pat presentations by the fast-talking colleagues who flanked him. Bent over the MIT-crested lectern, he cracked a few self-deprecating jokes in a West Virginia drawl and keyed through some Powerpoint slides bearing droll titles...