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...much in the short term. As far as I know, there aren't any significant establishment-clause cases due to be decided in the next couple of years that would allow the Court to, say, overrule the school prayer cases of the 1960s. But the longer term is something else. There is a body of cases moving forward. The Pledge of Allegiance case will come back to the court. There are 10 or 20 10 Commandments cases in the federal courts right now, one or more of which will go all the way. The next Presidential election will have...
...HEARD of LCD television in the late 1960s, when Nobel-prizewinning French physicist Pierre-Billes de Gennes began studying liquid crystals, a form with properties of both liquids and solids, now used to create bright, clear displays for TVs and other devices. On awarding the 1991 Nobel to De Gennes, the jury called him the "Isaac Newton of our time." He was 74 and died of unknown causes...
...FATHER, raising a son in the Great Depression, urged him to pursue banking. Instead, Lloyd Alexander, enchanted by Greek mythology, Charles Dickens and world politics, wrote mythic, brooding tales for kids--most famously the 1960s five-book series The Chronicles of Prydain. Of the evil sorcerers his protagonist fights to recover a stolen magical sword--enemies that bear a resemblance to actual oppressive political regimes--the two-time National Book Award winner said, "At heart, the issues raised in a work of fantasy are those we face in real life...
...Such an approach would match Rumsfeld's own career in government, which was dotted with long stretches of time in the private sector. He was elected to Congress in the early 1960s, did stints in the Nixon and Ford Administrations and briefly in the Reagan era. In between, he ran several large corporations and became quite wealthy. He returned to Washington in 2001 as Defense Secretary after nearly a two-decade absence. He resigned last November as public support for the war in Iraq collapsed...
...movie musicals haven't caught on with mass audiences since Grease, it's because only a handful of them - Moulin Rouge!, Chicago, Dreamgirls - have been good. Contrast that with the 1960s, when studios churned out memorable musicals - West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins - like they pump out comic book films today. But this year, an eclectic slate of movie musicals is challenging the notion that the genre exists so the mommy quadrant can drag the daddy quadrant out on date night. Opening over the next few weeks is Once, a scrappy, Irish guy-meets-girl yarn made...