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Imagine Olivia Turton, all grin and energy, bounding to the front of Erica Bruner's music room at Frenchtown Elementary School in New Jersey. "There's thunder in His footsteps and lightning in His fists," chirps the eight-year-old with fine brown hair. "And so you better be believing that our God is an awesome God." A few minutes later, the song is over, and Olivia is relieved. After weeks of rehearsal and a big disappointment - she initially wanted to sing "Part of Your World" from the movie The Little Mermaid, but she didn't have a karaoke version...
...because they sponsored the show, so they pulled the plug on the song. Olivia's supporters said this was nonsense - as well as illegal: She has the free-speech right to sing any song within the rules, and no one could possibly believe that her speech was also Frenchtown Elementary...
...school districts are nimble enough to navigate between religion and speech without tumbling into a lawsuit, so I can't blame the Frenchtown officials for trying to play it safe. But despite their conflicting politics and agendas, the ADF, ACLU and Justice Department all seem to find the district's position ridiculous, a reaction that suggests they have more than the law on their minds...
...exporters of construction, transportation and mining equipment experienced a drop in exports to Pakistan from $129 million to $38 million. "It'll take six months to be able to reinitiate contact with the agencies" that were under sanction, says Frank Folmsbee, sales and export manager for Aries Electronics, a Frenchtown, N.J., maker of electronic components. Aries (with $25 million in annual revenue from manufacturing and export sales) lost approximately $3 million a year as a result of the sanctions...
...romance of the plow will endure in memory. It is too great a legend to lose. Besides, some land will still need plowing. Down Highway 70 below Bowling Green near tiny Frenchtown, Bill Goettemoeller's family feeds 1,000 head of cattle, and it is necessary to plow in the manure and straw from the feedlots, though even the Goettemoellers plow only about half as much land as they used...