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...highlights of the Christmas season is taking his wife and seven children to visit the Nativity scene in a downtown park. But in order to keep alive the family custom started by his grandfather, Lynch has had to form a private group to purchase the crèche from the city and take over the cost of maintaining it. A federal appeals court ruled last month that Pawtucket's city-funded crèche, and others like it, violate the First Amendment clause prohibiting the establishment of religion. It was the biggest victory to date for civil liberties groups...
...confrontations have focused on depictions of the Nativity. The government "may not participate in or promote the Christian celebration of Christmas," explained Judge Hugh Bownes in the Pawtucket case. "The crèche is purely a Christian religious symbol; this is the distinction between the crèche and Christmas as a holiday." Christmas trees, for example, are generally considered secular because of their origins in pagan rituals. Public school Christmas pageants have won court approval as long as the cultural significance outweighed the religious...
...Kennedy's ten favorite books, eight were history and biography. He devoured the 407-page Sir Robert Walpole: The Making of a Statesman in one evening. Eyeing China, J.F.K. called for two of Mao's books. Seeking insights into world trouble spots, he dug into Che Guevara's accounts of guerrilla...
Alton's Peron is a Machiavellian, if occasionally befuddled, politician. And R. Michael Baker's Che stands as a deserving counter-Force to Alstay's Evita. He's on stage almost throughout the show, jumping, running, kneeling--seldom content to stand silently as Evita becomes increasingly popular and disingenuous...
...recent television docudrama based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. Evita presents itself as newsreel-supported fact, leading to an occasional gap in credibility. While it seems reasonable to expect audiences to understand that some of Evita is fiction, for instance, the revolutionary narrator is superfluously identified as Che Guevara. As the program notes. "Che and Evita never met... when she was at the pinnacle of Argentine politics. Che was a student in medical school." Characters never even refer to Che by name. "I don't know why they didn't just call him Juan, or Roberto," Baker said...