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Portion of Patriot Act ruled unconstitutional

LOS ANGELES - For the first time, a federal judge has declared unconstitutional a section of the USA Patriot Act that bars giving expert advice or assistance to groups designated foreign terrorist organizations.


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Gymnasts top meet

The Ohio club gymnastics team won the Ohio University Rockin' Invitational last Saturday. The event was held in Gallipolis and marked a historic moment for the club team.



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Aliases and those who crave them

Nicknames are more coveted than the 10th and final slice of a pizza split three ways; people have spent entire lifetimes trying to attain good ones only to get aliases like Honest Abe or Tricky Dick.


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U.S. District judge dismisses slave reparations case

CHICAGO - A federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit brought by descendants of slaves against corporations that supposedly profited from slavery, saying the plaintiffs had established no clear link to the companies they targeted.



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Students don't know their own power

My home university in Germany is on strike. Instead of going to class, my classmates in Leipzig made a soft porno to protest against cuts in the education budget. On the Web site www.stura.uni-leipzig.de you can see how well a naked woman acts like a devoted student. A man - also in his birthday suit - is the professor who gives his student an extra lecture. The rest I leave to your imagination.


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Complex size reduced

The original proposal for the Campus Edge Apartment Complex has been redesigned in an effort to gain approval from Athens City Council and Athens Planning Commission.


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Internet voting a huge mistake

With hundreds of counties across the United States buying new electronic voting machines, it's natural to look past the new devices toward future tools of democracy. As in so many other things, election workers are looking toward the information superhighway. In Michigan this year, the Feb. 7 Democratic primary will use online voting, and the Pentagon has spent $22 million on a program that would allow overseas American troops to use the Internet instead of absentee ballots. But because of the massive, anarchic nature of the Internet and the huge potential for fraud, the federal and state governments should not bank on using it in the near future.


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Athens students killed in crash

Two local high school students were killed and one suffered minimal injuries in a car crash this weekend in Athens County.


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Democrats compete for 18th district

Democratic voters in the U.S. House of Representatives' 18th district will decide on March 2 who will face U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, R-St. Clairsville, in the November election.


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City officials discuss strategy for litter collection

In the streets of Athens and on the properties of homes, an abundance of litter can be found regardless of the time or day of the week. Even if street cleaners sweep daily and trash has been picked up and thrown away properly, litter is accumulating at too high of a rate for the efforts to be noticed.


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