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With some of its most important objectives yet unrealized, is feminism over? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asked people from across the political spectrum to discuss the state of feminism.Charles Gallagher is an assistant sociology professor at Georgia State University. Students are what they thought they were not In my Intro to Sociology class, which is a large class filled with traditional college-aged students, I ask them a simple question. I say "Raise your hand in the air if you would define yourself as a feminist." And in a class of 100 almost no one does. Only three or four people. And...

<p>NOT ENTIRELY COMPOSED WHEN DEPOSED. That would be Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ed Rendell, who was recently deposed in a federal lawsuit in which he is a defendant.</p> <p>Rendell appeared at times angry, frustrated and incredulous over some of the questions asked during the June 14 deposition in Philadelphia. More than once, he threatened to walk out of the proceedings.</p>

Protests against killing of geese turn violent Saturday, June 22, 2002By HECTOR CASTROSEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER   The clash between federal wildlife agents gathering geese to euthanize and demonstrators opposed to the practice became violent this week.King County sheriff's deputies Thursday arrested a 55-year-old Seattle man for investigation of assault after he allegedly caused a collision with a U.S. Department of Agriculture truck."He was basically trying to cause an accident and finally did," said Mike Linnell, assistant state director for the USDA.The incident happened about 7:30 a.m. Thursday in the 11500 block of Rainier Avenue South, sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Greg...

Plans laid for limiting shutdown Stopgap budget, emergency spending order considered By Tom Humphrey, News-Sentinel Nashville bureau June 23, 2002 NASHVILLE - Contingency plans are quietly being laid to provide for a partial, instead of complete, shutdown of state government if the Legislature fails to adopt a budget this week. Faced with a July 1 deadline, legislators will be debating whether to raise taxes or enact a budget that cuts spending to existing revenues. Bitter divisions in the Legislature raise the possibility that both efforts will fail. "We don't really want to operate under the assumption that the General Assembly...

<p>JONESBORO, Ga. — If the Republicans' attempt to unseat Max Cleland this year is to succeed, they'll have to find a way to counter the kind of support Georgia's senior senator found at American Legion Post 258 during a recent campaign stop.</p>

The Sunday Talk Shows Sunday, June 23, 2002 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and Palestinian cabinet minister Nabil Shaath.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Shaath.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.).THIS WEEK (ABC): Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill, Sens. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) and Graham, and Saudi foreign policy adviser Adel Al Jubeir.LATE EDITION (CNN): Afghan President-elect Hamid Karzai, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott...

<p>WASHINGTON - Select any moment in American history and you can find agitation about the meaning of the Constitution. Right now, though, the pondering, probing and hand wringing have reached something of a constitutional clamor.</p> <p>Secret detentions, wiretaps on lawyers' conversations with clients, military tribunals, monitoring of ordinary Americans. Each day seems to bring new worries about freedoms being infringed, a concern shared in some cases by judges who have blocked the government's course.</p>

<p>President Bush should wield his veto power, something he has not yet done, said House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois Republican. In a wide-ranging, pre-taped interview that aired yesterday on CNN's "Novak, Hunt & Shields," Mr. Hastert clearly suggested he wishes the president had vetoed some bills he had signed.</p>

<p>Americans for Democratic Action, "the nation's oldest liberal political organization," unveiled its Liberal Agenda for a Secure Nation at the group's annual national conference in Washington this weekend.</p> <p>Guest speakers told more than 200 ADA delegates that the Democratic Party can win the 2002 and 2004 elections only by adhering to a platform of "liberal values" that downplays the importance of combating terrorism and developing a missile defense shield.</p>

WASHINGTON - On Air Force One on Friday, Ari Fleischer gave reporters a preview of the president's schedule, including a pitch for fitness in Orlando, a Republican fund-raiser in Florida, a T-ball game on the South Lawn, a Presidential 3 Mile Run in Washington, the White House Fitness Expo and another fund-raiser at the Washington Convention Center.For W., time well spent making soft money and hard bodies.The press secretary then brought forward John Bridgeland, the director of USA Freedom Corps, who briefed the press on the commencement speech Bush was about to make at Ohio State on the culture of...

<p>A vehicle and structure destroyed by the "Rodeo" fire are seen outside Show Low on Saturday.</p> <p>Two raging Arizona wildfires merged Saturday to create the largest fire in the nation, bursting into Heber and Overgaard and forcing the evening evacuation of Show Low, Pinetop-Lakeside and Hon Dah.</p>

<p>Top Senate Democrats met Hispanic leaders at the Capitol one day last week to reaffirm the party's bond with the minority group.</p> <p>It was also day 407 without a confirmation hearing for Hispanic judicial nominee Miguel Estrada.</p> <p>"It's a joke," said Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I don't want to impugn their sincerity on wanting to help Hispanic people. But it goes both ways. Take Estrada — you'd have to look the world over to find anybody more intelligent and more capable. They haven't got a thing they can find fault with, other than that they think he's conservative."</p>

Soldier punished for exposing sexcapades? Transferred out while adulterer remains protected in 'sensitive' post Posted: June 23, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Jon Dougherty © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com A U.S. Army sergeant stationed in Germany is being punished, instead of the senior enlisted man he caught having an affair with his wife, even though such adulterous behavior is illegal. Worse, according to sources in Germany, senior officers may even have been ordered by top brass to keep quiet about the incident out of fears that the senior sergeant involved "may have something on them." Details of the affair involving Sgt. Ken...

We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail! [President Bush] Good morning!! Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!! Investigators have determined the anthrax used in the attacks a few months ago was made only within the last couple of years. This concerns officials as it means whomsoever did the deed could do it again easily. Hot, dry weather across the west is now fueling 17 wildfires. Congress is...

<p>Washington -- The statues keep moving in the hall of recent American presidents. John F. Kennedy retains the paramount place of honor. No recent U.S. leader commands a higher approval rating -- JFK's remains in satellite orbit at 83 percent -- or lower disapproval rating than his ground-level 7 percent.</p>

June 22, 2002 Smallpox Proposal Raises Ethical Issues By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN TLANTA, June 21 — The decision by a government advisory panel to recommend smallpox vaccination for about 15,000 health care and law enforcement workers raises logistical and ethical issues involving not just the people who will get the vaccine but also those who will come in contact with them. If experience from the time when smallpox vaccine was routinely administered to the public is a guide, doctors say, some of the 15,000 "first responders" who receive the vaccine may suffer serious — potentially even deadly — complications. Steps...

<p>On Jan. 6, 1995, Philippine police, responding to an apartment fire of suspicious origin, recovered a laptop computer belonging to al Qaeda bomb expert Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who was involved in plotting the first bombing attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. The computer contained detailed plans, code named Operation Bojinka, to bomb 11 U.S. airlines over the Pacific Ocean. Bojinka also included using airborne suicide attacks with hijacked passenger airliners onto key targets such as the White House, the U.S. Capitol Building, and CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va.</p>

<p>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is earning a nearly perfect liberal voting score in her first year-and-a-half in office, while boosting her job approval polls with frequent trips to upstate New York to smooze with voters and bring home the bacon.</p>

<p>In 1985, JC Penney sold a T-shirt that displayed a rundown trailer on the front; over the picture in sloppily scrawled writing were the words "home-skooled." That same year, five families from Florida were prosecuted for truancy, and one temporarily lost custody of its children. All of that was because these families decided to educate their children at home.</p>

New York has about 1.75 million Jews The leader of a militant Jewish group says he is going ahead with plans to mount armed patrols after the FBI warned of possible terror attacks against Jewish schools and synagogues. Rabbi Yakove Lloyd said 50 people were planning to take part in the patrols, set to begin in the Brooklyn area of New York on Sunday. "Those of us who have shotguns and/or rifles have permits" Rabbi Yakove Lloyd The New York Police Department said any armed vigilantes would be arrested. But Rabbi Lloyd, who leads the Jewish Defence Group, told...