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"I think just looking at what she's been through and what she represents, that sort of stood for itself." Senior editor of Men's Journal Tom Foster on why Hillary Rodham Clinton was No.25 on the magazine's "The 25 Toughest Guys in America" list.
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Committee to discuss salary increases for professors
Members of the University Faculty Executive Committee plan to meet with the deans of all the schools to discuss policy for faculty all special merit recommendations.
racutty special merit recommendations are special salary increases given to a professor for having done well in his or her department.
Susan Twomby, a professor in the school of education, said the committee wanted people to know what the rules were and how the recommendations were given out.
Ray Davis, University Senate Executive Committee chair, said the committee would look into the process because it had the responsibility to look into matters of interest to SenEx and FacEx.
The meeting with FaxEx and the deans will take place next Tuesday.
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House committee considers same-sex marriage ban
TOPEKA — Dozens of spectators packed a House committee hearing yesterday to show support for amending the Kansas Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
Proponents say Kansas needs an amendment declaring that marriage exists only between one man and one woman because courts could strike down the state's 1996 statute that asserts the same policy. The proposed amendment would be put to Kansas voters if two-thirds of the House and Senate approve.
The Kansas effort was sparked by last November's ruling by Massachusetts' highest court declaring that state's marriage statute unconstitutional.
If it reaches a statewide ballot, the amendment would need approval by a simple majority to become part of the Kansas Constitution.
Four states already ban same-sex marriage in their constitutions, and proposed amendments are being considered in Massachusetts and at least 13 other states.
Life without parole option put before Senate panel
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A Senate panel heard testimony yesterday in support of a bill that would give juries the option of recommending life without possibility of parole in death penalty cases.
Kansas is among 38 states that have some form of death penalty, but one of just three that does not have the option of life in prison without parole. Currently, the state's stiftest sentence short of the death penalty is 50 years in prison without parole, the so-called "hard 50" sentence.
The bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee was drafted from recommendations offered by a study committee that looked at the cost of the death penalty.
Handy Hearrell, executive director of the Kansas Judicial Council, said a life without parole option could save the state between $400,000 and $500,000 per capital murder trial. He said due-process mandates from the U.S. Supreme Court account for most of the additional costs of death penalty cases.
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Al Qaeda suspect allowed to have access to attorney
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WASHINGTON — An American citizen held incommunicado by the military for more than a year as an alleged Al Qaeda supporter will be allowed to see a lawyer, the Pentagon said yesterday.
Jose Padilla, who the government says plotted to detonate a radioactive dirty bomb in the United States, is being held at a U.S. Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. No meeting has been scheduled.
In a statement, the Pentagon said that providing Padilla access to an attorney would not compromise national security or interfere with efforts to use him as an intelligence source.
Padilla's attorneys have challenged the government's right to hold him indefinitely, without charges or trial, as a violation of his rights as a U.S. citizen. The government, meanwhile, calls him an enemy combatant who can be held for the duration of the war on terrorism.
Still, the Pentagon maintained it was not required to let him speak with a lawyer.
The Bush administration lost the case in federal court and wants the Supreme Court to step in. In December, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling, ordered Padilla released from military custody unless the government charges him. That ruling is on hold while the Supreme Court considers taking the case. A decision may come as early as this month.
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Five student body presidential candidates signed a letter of support for a plan to allow Student Senate Funding for Gay Services of Kansas. GSOK supplied information and counseling to homosexual and heterosexual students. "This group serves the entire Lawrence community and the surrounding area. We're probably the most powerful gay organization in the Midwest," Michael Johnson, a member of the GSOK board, said.
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