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...depiction of a gay Christ figure. In Japan, school officials cut a John Updike short story about three bathing suit-clad girls from a textbook, saying it would disrupt classes. In South Carolina and Tennessee, high schools canceled Indigo Girls, top, concerts because of offensive lyrics. And in Alabama, a minister banned the singing of Stevie Nicks' Landslide at a baccalaureate service, saying she is a witch and Satan worshipper (an old rumor that Fleetwood Mac's lead singer denies...
...What we and the FBI don't know is where Rudolph is, which is why he ascended to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list today, a mysterious figure sought in connection with the Atlanta Olympic bombing and a subsequent Alabama abortion-clinic bombing...
...Thomas P. Windom '00, who interned for both of Alabama's senators last summer, said SIWP also offered something more than the traditional Harvard parade of big names--a chance to get outside and have fun. Windom said the softball games, held in sight of the Washington monument on the Mall, were especially enjoyable...
...Freedom amendment, a constitutional revision proposed by House Republican Ernest Istook of Oklahoma, which would reinstate full-scale school prayer. It passed the Judiciary Committee, 16 to 11, last month but will probably fare less well when the full House votes in May. One of many local battlefields is Alabama, where last week the state senate passed a bill mandating a daily moment of silence--a response to a 1997 federal ruling voiding an earlier state pro-school prayer law. Governor Fob James is expected to sign the bill into law, triggering the inevitable church-state court challenge...
...Alabama, the new school-prayer bill attempts to skirt those boundaries. The legislation requires "a brief period of quiet reflection for not more than 60 seconds with the participation of each pupil in the classroom." Although the courts have upheld some moment-of-silence policies, civil libertarians say they have struck down laws featuring pro-prayer supporting language of the sort they discern in Alabama's bill. In the eyes of many church-club planters, such fracases amount to wasted effort. Says Doug Clark, field director of the National Network of Youth Ministries: "Our energy is being poured into what...