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This summer, which happens to mark the 75th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey Trial," LeVake will take his cause to Minnesota's Court of Appeals, where, after losing in district court, he is suing the Faribault school district for discrimination. Really, he's suing for the opportunity to teach evolution in a new way. LeVake is a Fundamentalist Christian, but his biology lesson plan doesn't include the word God or creationism. All he asks is that as a scientist, he be allowed to let students know about some of the holes in Darwin's theory...
...Andover and Yale? "What a great putt on nine" is what winners have said to losers for generations at the Cape Arundel Golf Club in Kennebunkport. Last June on Bush's maiden campaign swing, he stopped at the family compound on the Maine seacoast to celebrate Poppy's 75th birthday, a subtle reminder that he was better bred than the unworthy occupant of the White House. If some thought the young Bush had had it too easy, remained too much the carefree frat boy, they could still count on the fact that he was his father...
...seems to get the fame thing too. When the school that rejected Damon 20 years ago wrote recently asking for a photograph for its 75th-anniversary wall display, Damon and his mother talked it over for a while. What he had predicted had come to pass. "Karmically, it was big," says Damon. A pause. "Of course I'll send them something." Of course...
...film] is so much like me, but I like that. I remember one of the first reactions I had when reading it was quite creepy: when I did live in New York, which I have not done for many, many years now, I lived at 7 1/2 W 75th Street. So when I read the first few pages and saw the number 7 1/2, I thought that perhaps someone was stalking...
...topic that most fascinated him was how to maintain dignity and grace during times of both triumph and adversity. I asked him to talk about that at TIME's 75th-anniversary party early last year and to tie it to his father and mother...