Word: courting
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With a new course on the Swing Era this spring, Core shoppers no longer have to resign themselves to classes like Literature and Arts B-35, "The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent: Art, Architecture, and Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court...
...Eugene, Ore., Register-Guard learned about the recording and reported it. Oregonians were outraged. The Vatican sent a note of protest. Mockaitis sued, and won a $25,000 settlement after a federal court said the taping was wrong, in part because it violated the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The reasoning was that the D.A. had interfered with Mockaitis' religion by taping a sacrament. But in 1997 the Supreme Court struck down that law, saying it was too broad; Congress could not dictate terms of religious conduct to every community with a single law. So the new bill...
Constitutional scholars disagree over whether the new bill is still too broad, and it will surely face a Supreme Court test if it passes. But there is a more basic problem: the law may not be needed. Mockaitis, for instance, did not need the religious-liberty law to win his case. The federal court that ruled in his favor said the taping violated both the Fourth Amendment, which bans unreasonable searches and seizures, and the federal Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on religion. (Hale, as it turned out, was convicted of the three murders, and the tapes, which...
Torture may no longer be de rigueur for terror suspects in Israeli hands, but it?ll remain the last resort. Prime Minister Ehud Barak indicated Wednesday that he?ll support legislation to soften a landmark Supreme Court decision outlawing torture by Israel?s security services. Barak doesn?t want the security forces? hands tied when bombs are ticking ? although the Supreme Court indicated it might accept a "ticking bomb" argument in specific cases, such exceptions would be made only after the perpetrators had been brought to trial. "This is an extremely emotional issue for Israel," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief...
...Even if it?s softened, the Supreme Court ruling should make life easier for Palestinian detainees in Israeli hands. "Interrogators in the past had routinely used torture," says Beyer. "Now that they may be put on trial, they?re more likely to first consider the context and the consequences." But even though the perpetrators of last weekend?s failed car bombings turned out to be Israeli Arabs, the main terrorist threat comes from Hamas supporters inside the Palestinian territories. Good thing for Israel, then, that there are fewer restraints on the Palestinian security police...