Some Latino groups noted yesterday that no question on the new test refers to Latinos.
In the complaint, the groups noted that Google collects the search histories of its users, while DoubleClick tracks what Web sites people visit.
Noreen Connell, executive director of the Educational Priorities Panel, a coalition of civic groups, noted that the city budget passed in June included $500 million in tax cuts.
Some scientists and private environmental groups noted that the cause, according to the government, was mainly moderate weather and high prices for oil, natural gas and electricity.
But several rights groups noted that China's sincerity is called into question by its refusal to fulfill an obligation under the anti-torture covenant that it has already ratified.
Ismael Abu Shanab, a leader of Hamas, the most powerful of the militant groups, noted tonight that his group's agreement to suspend attacks on Israelis for three months was conditional on the release of all prisoners.
Pro-life groups noted that Bush did "not have to wait for Congress to act" to begin overturning Clinton orders on stem-cell research and the import of RU-486.
Catherine A. Hanssens, a lawyer with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund who filed a brief on behalf of a coalition of civil rights groups, noted that President Bush's father had signed the Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990 and a brief supporting the law in this case.
Paul Streckfus, a former I.R.S. official who edits The EO Journal, a newsletter that follows legal and accounting issues affecting nonprofit groups, noted that several such organizations lean to one side or the other of the political spectrum, including the Heritage Foundation, the Brookings Institution and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Images of people slogging through water did not generate the same kind of sympathy as a leveled city, even though the dimensions are similar, aid groups noted, especially since, according to the United Nations, more than 15 million people have been affected and are often difficult to reach.
Several Egyptian human rights groups noted in a statement this week that the prisoners in question had been sentenced by special state security courts operating without due process under the 30-year state of emergency imposed by former President Hosni Mubarak.
