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Religious, Racial Split in N.C., Indiana

By Jennifer Agiesta and Jon Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, May 10, 2008; B09

Religious voters in Indiana and North Carolina held to familiar patterns in Democratic primary balloting Tuesday, with the controversy over Sen. Barack Obama's relationship with his former pastor deepening the divide.

In network exit polling, about the same number of voters in each state said they considered the situation with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. "very important" to their vote as those who said it was "not at all important." And most who gave the issue a heavy weight voted for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), while those who said it was not a factor went for Obama, the Illinois senator, by wide margins.

Reuters
Friday, May 9, 2008; 11:41 AM

Wins for Celtics and Spurs in playoffs

Forty-six million Americans suffer from some form of arthritis, which is the most common cause of disability in the U.S., limiting the activities of nearly 19 million adults.

How can you recognize arthritis? Well if you feel pain and stiffness in your body or have trouble moving around, you might have arthritis. Most kinds of arthritis cause pain and swelling in your joints. Over time, a swollen joint becomes severely damaged, but the negative impact on your body doesn’t end here, as some kinds of arthritis can also cause problems in your organs, such as your eyes or skin.

A U.S. judge has ruled on a nearly US$111 million copyright-infringement decision against TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent peer-to-peer search site.

Updated 5/8/08 at 1 p.m. PDT

Meanwhile, Clinton Gives No Hint She'll Surrender

By Shailagh Murray and Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, May 9, 2008; A01

Sen. Barack Obama began taking the first steps to unify the fractured Democratic Party for a general-election battle against Sen. John McCain, even as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton continued to insist that she has the backing of a broader coalition that could carry the party to victory in November.

Returning to Washington yesterday, Obama was mobbed by well-wishers as he walked onto the House floor. But behind the scenes, his campaign worked with a light touch to win over uncommitted superdelegates and allies of Clinton, mindful of not appearing overconfident and of the fact that they would need the backing of the candidate, her husband and their supporters in the fall.

By Craig Timberg
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, May 7, 2008; 3:40 PM

JOHANNESBURG, May 7 -- Gangs of ruling party youths beat to death 11 opposition activists in a single remote Zimbabwean town Monday, setting a gruesome new standard for the post-election violence surging through that nation, according to opposition party officials.

Two large truckloads of youths, led by two senior members of President Robert Mugabe's party, marauded through Chiweshe, a rural area about 90 miles north of Harare, the capital, and beat prominent members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change with branches, gun butts, bicycle chains and whips, party officials said. Four of the victims were teachers, and at least two were elderly.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008; A17

75 Students, 21 Others Arrested in Drug Sting

SAN DIEGO -- Ninety-six people were arrested, including 75 students, after a six-month undercover drug investigation centering on San Diego State University, the district attorney's office said Tuesday.

Seven fraternity houses were infiltrated by undercover agents, officials said. Agents allegedly discovered evidence of widespread drug dealing among some fraternity members.

Lethal Injection In Georgia Ends 7-Month Pause

By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 7, 2008; A02

Georgia executed killer William Earl Lynd last night, ending a more than seven-month nationwide hiatus on capital punishment prompted by the Supreme Court's examination of lethal injection.

Lynd's execution at 7:51 p.m. was the first since the court ruled April 16 that the three-drug protocol most commonly used in executions by states and the federal government did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of Grand Theft Auto IV, has filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Transit Authority for pulling the advertising without providing the publisher any reasonable explanation. The suit was filed in Manhattan Federal Court for violation of contractual rights and violation of free speech. The suit states that the posters were pulled within days of the ads first appearing on April 22nd.

The suit accuses the Chicago Transit authority and the sales agent, Titan Outdoor LLC., of violating a $300,000 advertising agreement that included running the GTA IV posters on the sides of the city buses and on transit display spaces throughout the Chicago Transit system for six weeks. Take-Two is seeking damages of $300,000 as well as having the original ads run for the period of six weeks.

The ads were removed after a Fox News story was run reporting a wave of violent crimes in the city of Chicago. Further reports blamed past Grand Theft Auto games for rashes of violent crimes including beatings, car thefts, carjackings, drive-by shootings, increase of prostitution and drunk driving.