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Speak out for justice: Group promotes human rights
Caged up and blindfolded in the Diag, members of the University's Amnesty International chapter used a dramatic technique to attract students' attention to the issue of human rights.
The display drew more than 400 students who signed petitions advocating the release of people Amnesty International believes are politically persecuted.
High court won't hear rights case: Cincinnati gays fail to gain protection
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court allowed Cincinnati to deny homosexuals specific protection from discrimination yesterday, an order likely to create confusion over government policies on gay rights.
The action came just two years after the justices struck down as unconstitutional a similar measure in Colorado.
Regents to meet in Flint
This month's meeting of the University Board of Regents is unique from many others.
It marks the last official meeting among the board's current members before Michigan voters go to the polls Nov. 3 to decide who will sit on the University's executive board for the next eight years.
Oprah 'Beloved' as star in new lm
Oprah Winfrey talks - a lot.
An hour a day, seven days a week, nine months of the year, Winfrey has been talking since her self-titled talk phenomenon premiered in syndication in 1987.
Fieger, Engler propose tax cuts
Taxes are the one thing everyone loves to hate, and both gubernatorial candidates have proposals on the table to put tax dollars back into citizens' pocketbooks.
Republican Gov. John Engler said one of the foremost priorities for his third term is to lower the state income tax from 4.4 to 3.9 percent. He said his strong record of lowering Michigan's tax burden has put the state in a position of economic strength.
Meteorshowers abound in 1998
Jupiter had its turn in the spotlight four years ago when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into the planet.
Comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp dazzled audiences world-wide in the year of the comet, 1996.
Clinton's charges may be reduced
WASHINGTON - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) yesterday said he may "narrow" the impeachment inquiry of President Clinton and is considering consolidating or even dropping some of the 15 potential charges announced last week by the committee's chief investigator.
U.N. still paralyzed in talks with Iraq
UNITED NATIONS - The Security Council remained paralyzed yesterday in its effort to force Iraq to resume cooperating with U.N. weapons inspectors as it became clear that the latest confrontation with Baghdad has evolved into a waiting game.
GOP leaders say budget talks near end
WASHINGTON - The White House and congressional leaders are near a budget deal, Republicans said yesterday as lawmakers voted to keep the government open through tomorrow while the agreement is completed.
During a break in a long day of negotiating between White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles and GOP leaders, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said a deal could be completed soon and a package sent to the Senate floor as early as tonight. House Speaker Newt Gingrich was predicting an agreement by tomorrow morning and House action later that day.
MSA resolves to support Proposition 1
MSA passed a resolution last night to support Prop. 1, which will be on the Washtenaw County election ballot Nov. 3.
If approved, the proposition would raise Washtenaw County's property taxes by approximately $26 per household yearly for the next 10 years.
Amway sues Procter & Gamble over Website
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - Amway Corp. yesterday sued Procter & Gamble Co., accusing the Cincinnati company of using the Internet to scare away its customers and distributors in the latest twist of an ongoing legal battle.
The federal lawsuit contends Procter & Gamble paid consulting fees and provided information to Sidney Schwartz, the man it names as the author of an Internet Web site called "Amway: The Untold Story."
Fieger proposes insurance pool to cut medical costs
WESTLAND, Mich. (AP) - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Geoffrey Fieger says he would create a state health insurance pool to cut costs, and would toughen regulation of insurers who now "own" Republican Gov. John Engler.
Fieger unveiled his health care platform yesterday at a news conference outside a Wayne County Health Department branch in this Detroit suburb.
Workers at GM plant protest use of Mexican labor
DETROIT (AP) - About 300 union members protested the use of Mexican workers undergoing training at a General Motors Corp. test assembly plant yesterday by picketing in front of the factory.
That and other issues between GM and United Auto Workers Local 594 have been simmering for several months. The dispute comes as GM and the UAW have said they want to improve their weak relationship.
The Calendar: What's happening in Ann Arbor today
Notes: Graduate Student Union threatens strike at UCLA
The Student Association of Graduate Employees, with the support of the United Auto Workers, may go on strike this semester at the University of California at Los Angeles, The Daily Bruin reported.
On Oct 1, UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale received a letter threatening a quarter strike if the chancellor refused to honor the union's request for open discussion about the university recognizing them as a formal union.
Yugoslavia maps plan to solve crisis
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Rushing to meet a deadline set by NATO, the government outlined its plan yesterday to comply with a deal to solve the Kosovo crisis while foreign powers took the first steps to put 2,000 monitors in place to prevent cheating.
Israeli ambush clouds talks on eve of summit
JERUSALEM - On the eve of a crucial Middle East peace summit near Washington, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set a strikingly pessimistic tone yesterday, declaring "there is no chance of signing an agreement at this stage."
His remark came hours after gunmen believed to be Palestinian militants opened fire on a pair of young Israelis bathing in a forest spring near Jerusalem, killing one, wounding the other and darkening the already murky prospects for success at the Middle East peace summit beginning tomorrow at the Wye Plantation on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
Researchers from 5 universities win Nobel Prizes
Researchers at five American universities won the Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry yesterday for their investigations of the behavior of matter at the very smallest scale.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the physics prize to Robert Laughlin of Stanford University, Horst Stormer of Columbia University and Daniel Tsui of Princeton University for their discovery that under certain circumstances, electrons act like weird "quasiparticles" with only a fraction of the electrical charge that an electron is supposed to have.
Professors debate Internet essay grading
It took Hugo Rousselin, a sophomore at New Mexico State University, about 20 minutes to tap out his first essay for his psycholinguistics class on the computer in his bedroom. It took less than 20 seconds to find out he had gotten a "B."
Indiana Senate candidate raises money via Web
Internet surfers who log on to Evan Bayh's Website can now do more than read the Indiana Senate candidate's biography, see his commercials and learn about his stances on issues. They can also type in their credit card number and send him a contribution.
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