The lawsuit alleges school principal, Gregory Bock, called the girls into his office and reamed them on their alleged sexual orientation and “coerced” one girl into saying she loved the other.

The following day, he told the girls they could not remain in the school harboring “those feelings.”

"It teaches children that ... they're for sale," says Gary Ruskin, executive director of the consumer group Commercial Alert. "They're just a bunch of sardines packed in a bus being sold to an advertiser."

But a recent investigation has uncovered a ghoulish side to Bruno's death. Authorities believe his body and those of hundreds of other people _ including famed British broadcaster Alistair Cooke _ were secretly carved up in the back rooms of several funeral parlors citywide to remove human bone, skin and tendons without their families' permission. Authorities allege the body parts were then sold for a profit.

Worse, health officials fear some of the stolen body parts were diseased, and could infect patients who received them in skin grafts, dental implants or other orthopedic procedures _ a risk concealed by paperwork doctored with forged signatures and false information.

As Hollywood starts its annual awards season leading to the March 5 Oscars, key front-runners in main categories are either gay-themed or political films, with Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain," a drama of love between cowboys, leading the pack in the all-important best picture race.

Gay romance 'Brokeback Mountain' tops Oscar bets

Pryor died of a heart attack at his home in the San Fernando Valley sometime late Friday or early Saturday, Flyn Pryor said. He had been ill for years with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease of the nervous system.

Remind them that since 9/11 our intelligence forces have headed off a number of major plots to attack Americans on U.S. soil. Tell them you don't want the rules changed. If we do not defeat the McCain amendment, we'll play right into the hands of the most brutal and fanatic enemy America has ever faced.

Make no mistake: Right now, terrorist are plotting to kill women and children all over the globe -- as well as launching sneak attacks on our troops -- and we're supposed to walk on egg shells when we try to find out which Americans they intend to kill next?

Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo obtained by The Washington Post. But senior officials overruled them and approved the plan.

The memo, unanimously endorsed by six lawyers and two analysts in the department's voting section, said the redistricting plan illegally diluted black and Hispanic voting power in two congressional districts. It also said the plan eliminated several other districts in which minorities had a substantial, though not necessarily decisive, influence in elections.

"The State of Texas has not met its burden in showing that the proposed congressional redistricting plan does not have a discriminatory effect," the memo concluded.