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...Tennessee case, a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Appeals Court in Cincinnati ruled unanimously that public school students can be required to read and discuss the disputed books, even though parts of those books might conflict with their beliefs. In a suit they brought in 1983, seven Fundamentalist families had contended that exposing their children to such material violated the First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion. Citing more than 400 objectionable passages, the parents charged that the readings taught such taboo topics as evolution, feminism, situational ethics and belief in the occult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Going Back to the Books | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

When 44-year-old John Powell died at Cincinnati's Drake Memorial Hospital last | March, doctors were not surprised. Powell had suffered severe head injuries in a motorcycle accident and had been comatose for eight months. But an autopsy revealed that Powell had actually died from a lethal dose of cyanide received shortly before his death. After a brief investigation, Donald Harvey, a 35- year-old orderly at Drake, confessed to the killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lethal Doses: Police probe 34 deaths | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...evidence of mental illness, and his lawyer says he will probably abandon the insanity defense. The attorney is reportedly trying to strike a deal with prosecutors that will spare Harvey the death penalty. "My son has always been a good boy," Harvey's mother Goldie Harvey McKinney told the Cincinnati Post. "He's still a good boy. He's just sick, terribly sick. And he needs a good doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lethal Doses: Police probe 34 deaths | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...erupted into the Fire This Time. Ghetto despair gave way to grotesque destruction: 43 dead in Detroit, 26 killed in Newark, injuries and arrests in the thousands. By September more than 100 cities had been scarred by rioting, an alphabetical roster of shame that stretched from Atlanta, Boston and Cincinnati to Tampa and Toledo. National Guardsmen patrolled the streets, and a federal commission probed the causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghetto: From Bad to Worse | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

Would you be willing to give up some of your vacation time or sick leave so that it could be used by a co-worker? When employees at the Internal Revenue Service's Cincinnati office read in an office memo a proposal to do just that a few weeks ago, their response was generous indeed. By last week 291 employees had donated 813 days of their sick leave and 92 days of vacation time to a co-worker, William Ault, 28, an IRS examiner who has leukemia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMPLOYEE BENEFITS: Giving a Buddy Your Break | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

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