11. Political storm over bid to conscript rabbinical students. 12. President-elect Bush nominated defeated Missouri Sen. John Ashcroft to be attorney general on Friday, choosing a conservative Republican who lost his re-election bid to a dead man. 13. Weather problems force Steve Fossett to give up bid to travel around the globe in a balloon. 14. The NKP bid to change laws on the agency coincided with a move by the government to strengthen the police force. |