Word: courtly
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...enthusiasm caps a decade of extraordinary growth for Christian youth groups in middle and high schools. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1990 upheld a law effectively allowing prayer clubs to meet on public school property, if they did so outside of class hours and without adult supervision. Since then, thousands of Bible and prayer clubs have whooshed into what their members saw as a God-shaped vacuum. The new groups are not refuges for dweebs. Unlike their evangelical parents, who often defined themselves as outsiders, today's campus Christians, says Barnard College religion professor Randall Balmer, "are willing to engage...
Lynch will spend her time at Harvard studying human rights in different countries. She has covered the Canadian Supreme Court and justice department extensively...
...than utilities problems are Monday's protests by families of army reservists. After promising over the weekend that on-leave reservists who were needed as breadwinners wouldn't be redeployed, the Yugoslav army Tuesday warned that men who failed to return to their units by noon would face a court-martial. "The reserves are furious because they'd been promised that they would be replaced in Kosovo," says Anastasijevic. "They feel they've done their part and now it's somebody else's turn, but logistical problems caused by the bombing have prevented Belgrade from doing that. Now the army...
...burly law-enforcement types burst in a house in some low-rent neighborhood followed by a film crew. Well, don't expect to see any more such programs. In two unanimous rulings Monday relating to such coverage by the Washington Post and the Cable News Network, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches "for police to bring members of the media or other third parties into a home during the execution" of a search or arrest warrant, if allowing such outsiders to tag along into the home...
...court decided that publishing or broadcasting pictures of people in their own homes without their consent is a serious invasion of privacy," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. The problem is compounded by the fact that "some of the people caught on film may not even be accused of a crime," she adds. A subsequent case is likely to decide whether the media itself can be sued for such activity, though issues posed by the First Amendment right of free speech could result in a different outcome for journalists...