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Harvard Law School considering ban on offensive speech
BOSTON (AP) -- Harvard Law School is considering a ban on offensive speech after a series of racially charged incidents, raising fears that the rules will inhibit the kind of sharp-edged intellectual combat so famously depicted in the movie The Paper Chase.In the meantime, the school is also offering first-year students a new course to help them "manage difficult conversations" and learn how to speak with sensitivity on touchy issues such as race and gender.
World
NATO backs Bush in Iraq disarmament
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- Heeding President Bush's call, NATO leaders pledged Thursday to help the United Nations "fully and immediately" disarm Iraq.They also redrew the political map of Europe, reaching behind the former Iron Curtain for seven new members.
Barely a decade after winning independence from Moscow, the Baltic nations of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania joined former communist states Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia as the next wave of NATO states.
On the summit sidelines, Bush and his foreign policy team lobbied feverishly for an anti-Iraq NATO statement while urging individual allies to ante up troops and other military assistance for possible war against Saddam Hussein.
American missionary slain in Pakistan
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) -- An American missionary was shot and killed Thursday morning at a Christian center that provides medical care and aid to Palestinian refugees in southern Lebanon.Bonnie Penner, 31, was shot three times in the head as she opened the Unity Center, which houses a chapel and a clinic, police said.
It was believed to be the first targeted killing of a U.S. citizen in Lebanon in more than a decade.
A colleague found Penner in a pool of blood, police said. Police officers, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it appeared she was shot as she opened the door.
The gunman used a 7 mm pistol, police said.
Police had no suspects, and it was not clear whether the killing was politically motivated.
The center's director, the Rev. Sami Dagher, said there had been no threats before the killing.
The clinic provides medical care and help to local people and Palestinian refugees in camp nearby.
