Dunlap lies and football fate split town over polygraph
In Dunlap Illinois a school district used lie detectors on fifteen football bound students after an October party with alcohol. Seven of ten who took the test failed and, along with two who refused, were suspended from a first round playoff game. The case sparked community outrage and debate about priorities and discipline. Three students passed and were spared punishment.
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Bill Collier
Collier
Dunlap
Dunlap High
Associated Press
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Officials' mixed signals on public meeting attendance
Garden City officials debate a joint session between Garden City Community College and USD 457 boards along with Finney County and city leaders. Ed Rutter urged excluding chiefs and the Chamber head, drawing criticism as Kansas law allows public access and the talks should include all elected and staff participants.
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Garden City Community College Board of Trustees
USD 457
Finney County
Garden City Commissioners
Milt Pippenger
Pete Olson
Bob Halloran
Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce
Carol Meyer
Kansas
Meyer
Rutter
Political tensions and campaign chatter across regions
Quotes from Afghan commander Bismillah Khan urging fighters against Pakistan and the Taliban, Virginia governor candidate Mark Warner at a rally near the Executive Mansion expressing confidence, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres downplaying the impact of meetings with Yasser Arafat. Polls show Warner ahead of Mark Earley as election day nears.
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Taliban
Osama bin Laden
Bismillah Khan
Northern Alliance
Afghanistan
Lisa
Mark Warner
Virginia
Warner
Mark Earley
Shimon Peres
Yasser Arafat
Diplomats warn US public diplomacy failures in Arab world
A group of four retired American diplomats plus USIA veteran Joseph Duffey warn Washington is losing the battle for Arab public opinion. They cite budget cuts, the 2002 USIA absorption into the State Department, reduced overseas offices, limited Arabic broadcasting, and scarce student exchanges as barriers to countering anti American sentiment amid the Afghanistan campaign and wider war on terror.
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Afghanistan
Washington Post
Karen DeYoung
Washington
London
Islamabad
Taliban
Osama bin Laden
Pakistan
West Bank
Walter Cutler
Kenton Keith
William Rugh
Marjorie Ransom
Joseph Duffey
US Information Agency
USIA
Clinton
Middle East
America
Jesse Helms
North Carolina
State Department
Madeleine Albright
Foreign Relations Committee
Foreign Service
Congress
U.S
al-Jazeera
Election Day Remembrance and Historic Moments
Election Day November 6 marks a day of notable United States history with Benjamin Harrison’s victory in 1888, Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 presidential win, and Jefferson Davis’s 1861 Confederacy presidency. Tchaikovsky died in 1893, and Gilbert Highet offered a political thought on persuasion and votes.
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Grover Cleveland
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Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
St. Petersburg
Russia
Gilbert Highet
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