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When Americans choose to follow a particular faith, they should do it uninfluenced by state-funded education. Earnest, voluntary religious faith, the foundation for organized religion’s many positive effects on American society, should never be indirectly controlled by government support of obviously doctrinaire curricula. The Court is not discriminating against religion. It is just ensuring that the tradition of religious pluralism on which this country was founded continues to flourish...
...navigate your way through a happy sea of gay newlyweds. Dozens of small groups were strewn randomly on the mayor's balcony, on the grand staircase, under the echoing rotunda modeled on the U.S. Capitol. Each group offered a similar emotional tableau: the couple beaming with pride, the earnest volunteer officiator in casual dress, the distracted children, the supportive friends wielding cameras or holding up cell phones so parents could hear...
...this he'd like to add volume and depth to the strings' middle and low registers. "In orchestras around the world, we have 16 first violins and eight bass. It's a nonsense!" he proclaims. "It's absolutely unbalanced." Gelmetti's quest for a Sydney sound begins in earnest this week. For the Verdi Requiem, he's bolstered both the cello and double-bass desks, as the composer originally intended. "He's played with that a bit in Sydney and it's fabulous," reports Calnin, now with De Waart at the Hong Kong Philharmonic. "So you get a more complete...
...Harris, the true story of the philandering Scarsdale-diet inventor Herman Tarnower, who was killed by a jilted lover in 1980. Attention-grabbing roles are now his routine, but Kingsley hasn't forgotten how it feels to be a novice. Unsurprisingly for a man who answers questions with earnest soliloquies befitting a drama professor, he enjoys teaching. He gives several master classes a year and says that, even in interviews, "young actors are the ones I'm talking to." His 2001 knighthood only intensified his desire to help the next generation: "If my country is going to honor me with...
...dogged and earnest as she is when she is campaigning for Kerry on her own, Teresa (pronounced Tuh-ray-za), 65, does not function nearly so well as a prop. Onstage beside her husband during yet another recitation of his stump speech, she stands with her wavy hair falling over her eyes, looking preoccupied or, worse, bored. Only recently did she begin using Kerry's last name, switch her party registration from Republican and quit referring to the late Senator Heinz in the present tense as "my husband." She still has a tendency to volunteer what another political spouse might...