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<p>ITHACA -- The City of Ithaca Republican Committee has endorsed John Beau Saul's campaign for Ithaca City Mayor, despite his Democratic candidacy.</p> <p>The City of Ithaca Republican Committee voted unanimously to endorse Beau Saul over the weekend, City of Ithaca Republican Committee Chairman William Murphy said.</p>

<p>ITHACA -- The sun shone and a springlike breeze blew on at least 800 locals who marched and shouted protest against the war in Iraq Saturday afternoon.</p> <p>In solidarity with tens of thousands of others across the nation, the Ithaca-style march, organized by the Ithaca Coalition for Global Justice, started at DeWitt Park at 1 p.m. and looped its way around the Commons.</p>

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Maura Stephens, editor of the Ithaca College Quarterly, has withdrawn her request for $2,000 in funding from the college to pay for her trip to Iraq. Four college offices had committed last week to give $500 each for her humanitarian and activist mission with the women’s peace delegation Code Pink: Women’s Pre-Emptive Strike for Peace. "I withdrew my request for support," Stephens said Tuesday afternoon. "I don’t want the college to be under any kind of cloud over this. I will be funding it myself." The Ithacan Online published a story earlier Tuesday that raised questions about...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Maura Stephens, editor of the Ithaca College Quarterly, will travel to Iraq Thursday as part of a national women’s peace delegation. The trip is both humanitarian and activist in nature: The group plans to deliver relief aid along with a powerful antiwar message. Stephens, a senior editor in the college’s Office of Marketing Communications, will arrive in Baghdad over the weekend with 14 other women led by Medea Benjamin of Code Pink: Women’s Pre-Emptive Strike for Peace. Code Pink is a women’s peace group that has been holding an antiwar vigil outside the White House since November....