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Writing for the majority, Justice William Brennan declared that the Louisiana requirement ran afoul of the First Amendment's ban on laws "respecting an establishment of religion." He found that creation science "embodies the religious belief that a supernatural creator was responsible for the creation of humankind." Therefore, he concluded, the statute's mandate that it be taught "advances a religious doctrine" and "seeks to employ the symbolic and financial support of government to achieve a religious purpose...
...will feature not one but two successors to the nation's best-known advice columnist, who will continue to write her own column at the rival Chicago Tribune. The other lucky selectee is Diane Crowley, 47, a divorced lawyer with two children, whose late mother Ruth was "the original creator of the Ann Landers column," according to Sun-Times Publisher Robert Page. Crowley's law practice has given her "a lot of experience in solving problems for people," she notes. "I've done divorces. I've done adoptions . . ." Her column, called "Your Problems," is expected to dispense wisdom...
...campaign--with Nussbaum as its figurehead manager--quickly snowballed, and The Crimson invited Pogo's creator, Walt Kelly, to Harvard to deliver a chalk talk for his character...
...Bakker, defrocked and exiled creator of the scandal- ridden PTL ministry, surfaces to accuse Jerry Falwell of stealing his empire through phony threats of a takeover. Falwell responds with new accounts of Bakker' s sexual and financial sins. Can PTL raise enough cash to survive? Has TV evangelism been fatally weakened? Stay tuned...
...Life is full of choices," Charlie Brown once observed, "but you never get any." That bit of wisdom might also be applied to the life of his creator, Charles Schulz, 64, who notes, "It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was." Last week the soft-spoken artist was inducted into the Cartoonists Hall of Fame for 37 years of his Peanuts comic strip, which is carried in some 2,000 papers in 36 countries. Schulz is characteristically reflective about the enduring popularity of Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy...