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Today's lead stories:
Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action
Mid East Quartet Condemns Israel
Hamas Leader Assassinated
Worker Protests in South Korea
Healthy Forest: A Loggers Dream?
Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action
The Supreme Court has upheld the University of Michigan's
law school admissions policy, finding that race can be used
as a factor in deciding who gets in. In a separate ruling,
the high court struck down the point system the university
uses to give minority preference in undergraduate admissions.
Yet as Josh Chaffin reports, both sides of the debate are
claiming partial victory in this critical decision for affirmative
action policies.
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Mid East Quartet Condemns Israel
The Middle East Quartet, comprising the US, the EU, the
UN and Russia, yesterday sought to renew hope that a Middle
East peace roadmap can be saved despite the acts of violence
that are undermining the internationally backed plan. Meeting
in the Dead Sea yesterday, the quartet said all efforts should
be exerted to revive peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.
Oula Farawati has more
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Hamas Leader Assassinated
Meanwhile, on Saturday Israel assassinated a military leader
of Hamas, Abdullah Qawasmeh in Hebron. The killing was condemned
by the Secretary of State Colin Powell. And yesterday morning
before the Israeli parliament, Prime Minister Sharon called
for the expansion of Jewish settlements, a direct rebuff to
the Roadmap Peace plan. Our correspondent in Gaza Mohammed
Ghalayini spoke with Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahaar, member of the
Hamas’s Political Bureau in Gaza.
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Worker Protests in South Korea
Workers from various South Korean industries are filling
the streets of Seoul as days of protests are set to continue
through this week. From the teachers union to the transportation
sectors, labor unions are demanding to be heard. And yesterday,
after 11 hours of talks, South Korea’s Chohung Bank's
labor union called an end to a five-day strike after the South
Korean government agreed to delay the merger of Chohung with
Shinhan Financial Group unit for three years. And as Simba
Russeau reports bank workers have been occupying the main
headquarters of the Chohung bank because they say they if
the bank is sold to foreign investors it will dramatically
change the way unions function.
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Healthy Forest: A Loggers Dream?
Fire crews are still trying to contain wildfire that destroyed
more than two-hundred fifty homes and vacation cabins in the
Arizona mountain resort of Summerhaven late last week. The
large fire near Phoenix is one of a dozen in Arizona adding
to the sense of urgency some politicians feel to pass the
Healthy Forests Restoration act. The bill is scheduled for
hearings Thursday in the senate Agriculture, Nutrition and
Forestry Committee. But environmental activists see the bill
as an attempt to legalize logging in sensitive backcountry
areas, away from threatened homes. Leigh Robartes has more.
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