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UNC students recall student president at memorial serviceMar. 19, 2008ByCHAPEL HILL, N.C. _ To hear her friends tell it, Eve Carson's energy and effervescence were most evident in her text messages and e-mails _ which she routinely overloaded with exclamation points. "Sometimes she would punctuate her messages with 7, 8 or even 10 exclamation points," Anna Lassiter, her roommate of two years, recounted Tuesday. |
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Prosecution's star witness takes the stand in Rezko trialMar. 19, 2008ByCHICAGO _ The government's star witness in the corruption trial of Antoin "Tony" Rezko took the stand Tuesday and in just 48 minutes laid out a stunning personal tale of bribery, treachery, rampant drug abuse and a precipitous fall from grace. In a brief but vivid prologue to what is expected to be days of testimony, onetime political insider Stuart Levine said he had illegally greased contracts to sell tires to the city's Streets and Sanitation Department and supply school buses to the Chicago Board of Education and even health insurance to members of a postal workers union. |
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Bush administration ready to ease No Child Left BehindMar. 19, 2008ByCHICAGO _ The Bush administration said Tuesday that it is willing to soften its long-held stance that every failing school, whether it fails marginally or miserably, be treated the same. Under a plan unveiled by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, states would be allowed to differentiate how they label _ and punish _ schools, based on the degree to which a given school fails to meet No Child Left Behind standards. |
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Detainee alleges interrogators repeatedly threatened him with rapeMar. 19, 2008ByWASHINGTON _ In a fresh document from the Guantanamo war court files, Canadian captive Omar Khadr alleges that he was repeatedly threatened with rape as an interrogation technique in Afghanistan and at a U.S. Navy base in Cuba. The partially censored nine-page affidavit, signed by Khadr on Feb. |
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Supreme Court upholds Washington state's 'top-two' primaryMar. 19, 2008ByWASHINGTON _ Washington state's "top-two" primary was upheld 7-2 by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, but the justices seemed to leave the door ajar for additional legal challenges. Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas noted that the state's primary system had been overwhelmingly approved by voters. |
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Cheney links Iraq invasion to 9/11 attacks as bombing victims are buriedMar. 19, 2008ByBAGHDAD _ Amid tears and wails, mourners in the southern city of Najaf on Tuesday began burying victims from a suicide bombing that killed nearly 50 worshipers and injured dozens of others just before evening prayers Monday in nearby Karbala. In Baghdad, a long-anticipated Iraqi national reconciliation conference began with great fanfare, then quickly dissolved into the usual sectarian and political stalemates that have marred several similar gatherings in recent years. |
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Obama confronts issue of race, says he can help heal itMar. 19, 2008ByWASHINGTON _ With controversy over his pastor's racially divisive sermons threatening his presidential campaign, Barack Obama tackled race in America head-on Tuesday in a defining speech that drew instant comparisons to John F. Kennedy's 1960 address about his once-controversial Catholicism. |
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