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Supreme Court declines to hear appeal on execution of juveniles

Published October 22, 2002

W By Shannon McCaffrey Knight Ridder Newspapers ASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court refused Monday to consider abolishing the execution of juvenile killers. By a 5-4 margin the court declined to...

Delays and price hikes for prepaid tuition

Published October 21, 2002

P By Albert B. Crenshaw The Washington Post rospective college students and their families hoping to sign up for Maryland's prepaid tuition program this year are going to have to wait awhile - and probably...

Black hole in the Milky Way

Published October 21, 2002

A By The Washington Post n international team of astronomers says it has confirmed that an enormous black hole lurks at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Rainer Schodel of the Max Planck Institute for...

Experts speculate on Kim’s motivation in making admission

Published October 18, 2002

W By Sonni Efron The Los Angeles Times ASHINGTON - What was Kim Jong Il thinking? As North Korea-watchers in Washington and Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday digested the bombshell admission that Pyongyang...

U.S. proposal may break impasse at U.N. over iraq

Published October 18, 2002

W By Karen DeYoung and Colum Lynch The Washington Post ASHINGTON - The United States has agreed to drop its insistence that a United Nations resolution on Iraq include an automatic trigger for military...

Britain suspends Northern Ireland assembly

Published October 18, 2002

B By Glenn Frankel The Washington Post ritish officials suspended the province's local assembly in which Protestants and Catholics share power and blamed the Irish Republican Army for a crisis in the Northern...

Andersen Hit With Maximum Penalty

Published October 17, 2002

H By Lee Hockstader The Washington Post OUSTON - A federal judge Wednesday imposed the maximum punishment on Arthur Andersen LLP for its part in obstructing a federal inquiry into the collapse of former...

Small things can give big breaks in finding serial killers

Published October 17, 2002

W By Paul Richter and Aaron Zitner The Los Angeles Times ASHINGTON - Juan V. Corona was careful enough in crime that he killed and buried 25 farm workers in rural Sutter County, Calif., without leaving...

North Korea admits having secret nuclear arms

Published October 17, 2002

W By Peter Slevin and Karen DeYoung The Washington Post ASHINGTON - The North Korean government has acknowledged for the first time that it has been secretly developing nuclear weapons for years in violation...

U.S. Offers U.N. Council a Compromise on Iraq

Published October 17, 2002

W By Robin Wright, Tyler Marshall and Edwin Chen The Los Angeles Times ASHINGTON - Bowing to pressure from France and Russia, the United States on Wednesday offered a compromise proposal at the United...