Los Angeles Riles Over Gay Pride Month in Schools
LAUSD marks the third Gay and Lesbian Pride Month and a student prom sanction, prompting praise from gay rights advocates for tolerance and dropout prevention, while critics urge parents to keep children home, hoping to jeopardize state funding tied to attendance. Leaders defend the programs as protecting students from harassment against a backdrop of parental protest and organized opposition.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Unified School
Louis Sheldon
Ents
Students United
Italian merchant bank Mediobanca under probe in Italy
Prosecutors told Mediobanca executives they are under investigation for knowing of accounting irregularities at Ferruzzi group and failing to act. The case centers on Ferruzzi Montedison and the Enimont venture with kickbacks to politicians and restructuring advisory by Mediobanca.
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Rome
Mediobanca
Ravenna
Enimont
Italy
Custo
Ferruzzi Montedison
Bosnian factions jockey for position before peace talks
In central Bosnia the Muslim-led army moves to gain ground ahead of cease-fire talks in Geneva. Bosnian Serbs, Croats, and Muslims weigh territorial splits as mediation from the United States, Russia, and the EU eyes a framework for future negotiations. Siege lines and mountain battles persist around Mount Vlasic and towns Teslic and Tesanj as diplomacy advances.
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Sarajevo
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia
Rasim Delic
United Nations
Geneva
Switzerland
Radovan Karadzic
Yugoslavia
United States
Russia
European Union
Sup
Vitaly Churkin
Zagreb
Belgrade
NATO
Mount Vlasic
U.N
Maj
Rob Annink
Teslic
Tesanj
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Traditional Values Coalition
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Jeff Horton
Los Angeles Board of Education
Eadie Gieb
Gieb
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Gulag Archipelago
Vladivostok
The
Associated Press
Dian
Ferruzzi
Fiat
Jenny Craig
Thiere
Danser
Sandi
Mesa Pavillion Hilton
W. Holmes Ave
Corner Superstition Fwy
Alma School
Stephen D. Laird
Was Summit Health Program
Summit Health Ltd
Gliibert
Mesa/Tempe
Cigna HealthCare
Greater
Phoenix Area
Mesa Hilton Pavilion
West Holmes Avenue
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