Word: brief
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...liberties," argues Mathew Staver, president of the six-year-old Liberty Counsel in Orlando, Florida. "In the '80s we discovered we must enter the mainstream to assert those liberties." Along with a number of school-prayer cases, the Liberty Counsel has advocated free speech in an amicus Supreme Court brief on behalf of the Ku Klux Klan, which wants to erect a cross on the Ohio statehouse grounds. Other legal groups focus on defending antiabortion activists, while the Rutherford Institute, established in 1982, concentrates on what founder John Whitehead calls "legitimate civil liberties cases," such as school prayer and home...
...critical of the fact that Mr. Hanks was invited in the first place. "Maybe these Harvardians should not be so star-struck," Ms. Rose high-mindedly intones, perhaps forgetting that elsewhere in her own article she refers to Mr. Hanks--with whom she has presumably interacted only through his brief press conference--as a "delightful mix of thoughtfulness and winning verve," a "mensch," and a "doll" who may be the "one nice guy left in Hollywood" (Ms. Rose has presumably met all the other guys in Hollywood--hey, she's a Crimson editor). Did Mr. Hanks behave well...
Richardson said in a brief interview yesterdaythat changes are "certainly under discussion, butthese things take time...
Harvard dominated the third game from start to finish. Outside-hitter Olson started things off well for the Crimson with a kill. And even though Roger Williams showed a brief sign of life by evening the score at four apiece, Harvard was clearly in control...
...fleeting brushes with stardom. A brief synopsis and analysis of these two encounters reveals American pop-movie stars to be a bizarre and varied breed. The inevitable products of mass consensus in popular tastes and superficial public whims, these poor souls venture out into the world either basking in the public attention which sustains them, or else fleeing from it in terror. In the end though, one realizes the absurdity in all this manufactured fame, the perverse incongruity of ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations...