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TORONTO (CP) - Barely a year after an Ontario court gave its blessing to same-sex marriage, a lesbian couple is trying to untie the knot in what critics dismissed Wednesday as little more than a judicial stunt to test the limits of Canada's divorce laws. The pair, identified in court documents only as J.H. and M.M., were together for five years prior to their decision to get married last June, but were separated just five days later - two weeks after the Ontario Court of Appeal legalized same-sex marriages. "It's clearly a set-up case after five days where they are...

<p>Joseph Fitzgerald Jr. served in the Marine Corps from 1980 to 1986. He recalled yesterday how he lost friends and squadron members in a suicide-bomb attack in Beirut in 1983, just two barracks from where he lived.</p> <p>"I can sympathize with what the U.S. soldiers are going through now" in Iraq, he said. "President Bush just declared the war over, so why are soldiers still dying every day?"</p>

<p>PHILADELPHIA — Even Ira Einhorn laughed at the rambling testimony of a defense witness who generated giggles at his murder trial. Now, his lawyer says, it's up to the former hippie guru to convince a jury that he should go free instead to jail for the 1977 slaying of his girlfriend.</p>