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Brenner received his Master's of Public Policy (M.P.P.) in 1982, Williams in 1985. Canfield graduated in 1984 from the one-year mid-career program that Harvard's youngest professional school offers. Their post-Kennedy School path has led them on the much-traveled Cambridge-Washington circuit, where along with growing numbers of K-School alumni, they are forming a new corps of congressional administrators and policymakers...
...which the product liability cases were based. The federal warning provides uniform labeling of cigarettes, the courts reasoned, and was intended to balance concerns about the health of smokers against the economic benefits derived from domestic commerce in tobacco products. Said Judge John Brown for the first U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Palmer vs. Liggett & Myers: "It is inconceivable that Congress intended to have that carefully wrought balance of national interests superseded by the views of a single state, perhaps of a single jury in a single state...
...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...
...unanimously overturning Hand's decision, the three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Appeals Court in Atlanta sidestepped the issue of whether secular humanism is a religion. Even assuming that it were a religion, wrote Appellate Judge Frank Johnson Jr., the plaintiffs had failed to show that the books promoted secular humanism. The information in the books, Johnson argued, was "essentially neutral in its religious content." Hand had also maintained that the history and social studies texts had been drained of virtually all mentions of the role of religion in society. That may be true, Johnson & responded...
Leno is the best at his job right now, but several other young comics are also making their mark on the club and concert circuit. Among the standouts...