Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collection and an audiotape of his voice. But she and her two elder brothers seemed close to their stepfather Beverly C. Russell Jr., the local businessman her mother Linda married in 1979. The divorced father of three, Russell eventually became prominent in both the state Republican Party and the Christian Coalition. Smith's brother Scotty said late last year that Russell was "the force that held the family together...
...easeon a flight to Chicago he boarded not long after Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered. Earlier, the defense team suffered a setback in its effort to present a theory that the murders were committed by drug dealers when Judge Lance Ito refused to allow the testimony of Christian Reichardt, the former boyfriend of Nicole's sometime houseguest Faye Resnick. Reichardt's testimony that Resnick's drug use had left her deeply in debt to dealers was crucial to the defense assertion the killings were meant as a message that Resnick should pay up. Ito, however, found the whole...
...they have lost it all the same. Last week as Burger was laid to rest, so too was another good bit of the Earl Warren legacy. When in a single day the court can rule against a black-majority voting district and in favor of public funding for a Christian student magazine--and for good measure approve a cross erected by the Ku Klux Klan in a public park--it can't be much fun anymore to be a liberal Justice...
...same day, the same five Justices also handed down a sizable departure from the court's standing doctrine on the separation of church and state. The majority ruled that the University of Virginia violated free-speech rights when it withheld financial support from the Christian student magazine Wide Awake while subsidizing other student publications. It was the first time the court had ever approved government funding for a religious activity. "This case has the potential of going a long way toward overturning the court's position against aid to parochial schools and school vouchers," says Jesse Choper, a law professor...
...vote, the court also decided that the University of Virginia violated free-speech guarantees when it refused to subsidize a student-run Christian magazine while subsidizing other student groups. And in a Fourth Amendment case, the court upheld by 6 to 3 a local school plan in Oregon that requires all student athletes to submit to random drug testing...