Archive for June, 2004
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004
ANC in the News 3
June 29 - A big crowd for a long-awaited event. Late Tuesday afternoon, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport opened the doors of its new Concourse C.
Hundreds attended an open house for the terminal, which will be ready for business Wednesday.
They weren’t handing out cake or champagne, but this event had the feeling of a giant […]
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2004
ANC In The News 2
In April, the Alaska Court of Appeals upheld the legality of a police traffic stop of a car that an officer believed was the same car about which a report of occupants fighting had just been called in. The officer said he saw, through the rear window (according to an Anchorage Daily News report) that […]
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2004
ANC In The News 1
In May, Anchorage, Alaska, public defender Leslie Hiebert, representing murder defendant Kenneth Padgett, explained why Padgett’s having stuck his mother’s corpse between two walls of her mobile home and sealed up the space as a tomb, was not evidence that he had killed her. Hiebert told the jury that Padgett was just trying to help […]
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
Supreme Rebuke
washingtonpost.com
Supreme Rebuke
Tuesday, June 29, 2004; Page A22
SINCE THE OUTSET of the war on terrorism, the Bush administration, across a wide range of issues, has had a simple message for the federal judiciary: Trust us and don’t interfere. Yesterday, in a pair of much-awaited rulings, the court delivered its response. First, the justices declared […]
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
The Court v. Bush
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June 29, 2004
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
The Court v. Bush
By ANTHONY LEWIS
ASHINGTON � A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation’s citizens.” With those words, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor confronted the claim of President Bush that the “war on terror” entitles him to act without […]
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
‘Good As New’ Bible Roils Britain
By Robert Nowell
Religion News Service
London, June 28—(RNS) A controversial new translation of the Bible that has St. Paul recommending a “regular partner” for sex has received a warm commendation from the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, for its “extraordinary power.”
The version, “Good as New: A Radical Retelling of the Scriptures,” was written by retired Baptist […]
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Monday, June 28th, 2004
It Is About Time
Court: Terror suspects can challenge detentions
Guantanamo Bay ruling is blow to administration’s policy on terror
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that foreign prisoners seized as potential terrorists and held for more than two years at a U.S. military prison camp in Cuba may challenge their captivity in American courts, a major defeat for […]
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Sunday, June 27th, 2004
Top Secret
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Sunday, June 27th, 2004
Keeping Kids Safe
It probably should’nt have, but this made me laugh: