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...governmental "establishment of religion." So, to avoid objections from school boards, textbook publishers have often purged mention of the religious underpinnings of events like Thanksgiving or of moral values involving such matters as teenage sex and divorce. The result is a temporal outlook that critics, particularly Christian Fundamentalists, contend has become a creed of its own, secular humanism. Last week U.S. District Judge W. Brevard Hand, who has previously indicated his sympathy for such arguments, banned 45 textbooks from Alabama public schools because they unconstitutionally promote "the religion of secular humanism...
...also had to contend with stronger league competition this year. Former pushovers like St. Lawrence and Colgate suddenly were among the ECAC's top teams. There were no more sure wins for the Big Red, or anyone else...
...historians argue that the Allies have used the Holocaust as a weapon to subordinate the German people in the years since World War II. Using historical events such as Soviet massacres of Armenians and the Kulachi, the German historians assert that the interpretation the Holocaust should be revised. They contend that their nation was not guilty of anything in particular and that the moral persecution has to stop...
...employees except in lounges. It offered stop-smoking clinics to the 25% of its employees who indulge. USG Corp., also based in Chicago, has said that it would dismiss any employee of its acoustical-plants who smoked on the job or even at home, a move that critics contend treads on shaky legal ground. According to a poll of its members taken last fall by the Administrative Management Society, 42% of the firms now have some kind of smoking policy, up from...
Fashionably thinking individuals have co-opted Brecht's argument. They contend that to call one man nobler than another leads inevitably to... (Please read the ellipsis as an ominous allusion to Nazism...