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BOSTON – Faculty members confronted Harvard president Lawrence Summers (search) at a tense meeting where some questioned whether he could still lead the university after recently suggesting innate differences help explain why more men than women excel in math and science. Some professors said Tuesday that Summers had a responsibility …

RICHMOND, Va. – A proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage (search) in Virginia easily won final approval Saturday by both chambers of the General Assembly. The measure would have to be approved again by the Legislature next year and ratified by voters in the 2006 general election before it …

KALAMAZOO, Mich. – A confessed serial killer (search), who last year received a life prison sentence for killing a woman in 1979, was ordered Tuesday to stand trial in a second Michigan killing. A judge ruled there was enough evidence for Coral Eugene Watts (search), 51, to stand trial in …