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...Supreme Court dealt gay rights activists a severe blow in June 2000 when the justices, in a 5-4 vote, ruled that New Jersey could not prevent the Boy Scouts from ousting a homosexual scoutmaster. Now, a team of gay rights activists and law school professors hopes to wrest a major victory from the jaws of defeat.The June 2000 case, Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, could figure prominently in oral arguments this morning as the justices consider a high-profile dispute over campus military recruitment. A coalition of three-dozen law schools, the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights...
...Pyongyang's politics are opaque even to long-time foreign residents. But the government's attempt to wrest control of grain sales from private traders is widely seen as an attempt to reassert political control. One of the few slivers of freedom granted in recent years?the right to trade produce and household goods in the officially sanctioned farmers' markets?has already engendered a modest change in mindset. But there have been indicators of greater repression since last year, when the government outlawed cell phones for the general public shortly after setting up a national network. This year, officials...
...year U.S. hold on the America's Cup and put it in a bulletproof glass case in the Royal Perth Yacht Club. Barely a month after that defeat, the first Americans showed up in Perth, followed since by yachtsmen from five other nations, all of them plotting how to wrest the Cup from the Aussies. Last week the joust began...
...Crimson came into the 2005 campaigns with bigger aspirations. After falling to the Bantams in the 2004 CSA Team Championships 5-4, Harvard returned seven players to its lineup and was prepared to wrest the title away from Trinity...
...Church - which owns some of the most important Christian shrines in Israel - between a few loyalist bishops and a rebel group led by Eirinaios' former right-hand man, Bishop Aristarchos of Constantini, which wants Eirinaios out. It has also provided a pretext for local Palestinian adherents to try to wrest control of the Orthodox Church from its Greek hierarchy. At an extraordinary crisis meeting in Istanbul last week, world Orthodox leaders voted to sever ties with Eirinaios, paving the way for the election of a new Patriarch in Jerusalem. But Eirinaios, who stormed out of the Istanbul meeting, shows...