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• Bush gets mixed reception at Christian College | President Bush on Saturday championed faith in American society, but ran into some criticism as he courted his Christian base in a commencement speech at a Michigan college. (Reuters)
• Bush to 2005 grads: Get involved | Letters of protest run in local paper (CNN)
• Preaching to the choir? not this time | Calvin College, a small evangelical school in the strategic Republican stronghold of Grand Rapids, Mich., seemed a perfect stop on Saturday for the president's message. Or so thought Karl Rove, the White House political chief, who two months ago effectively bumped Calvin's scheduled commencement speaker when he asked that Mr. Bush be invited instead. (The New York Times)
• Protesters line roads with signs | It is perhaps to be expected that a visit by President Bush would attract a crowd of demonstrators. All his trips as president have sparked some kind of local dissent. (The Grand Rapids Press)
• Bush urges graduates to volunteer in community | President Bush told graduates of Calvin College in western Michigan on Saturday that the "public good depends on private character" and that they should embrace the American traditions of volunteerism and community service as they set out into the world. (The New York Times)
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• Stem-cell research: A matter of faith? | Tupelo couple gathers support for federal funding of the controversial science. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Miss.)
• President vows veto on stem cell research | Bipartisan measure seeks to ease curbs (The Washington Post)
• Next step on stem cells | Congress needs to pass an important bill to liberalize President Bush's restrictive policy on stem cell research. (Editorial, The Washington Post)
• Stem cell researchers feel the pull of the golden state | Up and down the East Coast, stem cell researchers are feeling the tug of a powerful, invisible force. It is a wave of recruiting calls from institutions in California seeking to expand their research programs with help from Proposition 71, the state's $3 billion stem cell initiative. (The New York Times)
• A surprising leap on cloning | In the upcoming struggles over stem cell legislation, supporters of sound science must ensure that no ban is imposed on therapeutic cloning that would further shackle American researchers while scientists in Asia and Britain forge ahead. (Editorial, The New York Times)
• US senator predicts passage of bill to allow more stem cell research | An influential Democratic senator is predicting congressional passage of a bill that would expand federally-funded medical research involving embryonic stem cells - despite a veto threat by President Bush. (Voice of America)
• Bush's veto plan more philosophy than biology | President's opposition to expanding federal funding for stem cell research out of touch with America (Neal Heller, Boca Raton News, Fla.)
• In rare threat, Bush vows veto of stem cell bill | Setting up a showdown with the Republican-controlled Congress over the thorny issue of embryonic stem cell research, President Bush vowed Friday to veto a measure, now pending in the House, that would expand federal financing for the studies - an extremely rare personal threat from a president who has never exercised his veto power. (The New York Times)

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