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...more than a year go, Olivia could not have dreamed that her sweet, unassuming performance would become the subject of a church/state lawsuit, one that brought together such strange bedfellows as the Alliance Defense Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union, both fighting for her right to sing about God after school. But that's exactly what happened...
...song was religious, but the talent show was open to the public and held after school, no students were required to attend, and no rule prohibited acts with religious themes. Yet school officials worried that someone, especially a child, might still think they endorsed the message of "Awesome God" 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...
...Hizballah fighters and supporters were out in force, passing out flags and posters of Hassan Nasrallah, their leader. A new billboard played on the Arabic meaning of his name, declaring "Victory from God, Nasrallah is Back." That evening, as the terrace cafes of East Beirut filled with the first decent sized crowds since the war began, the southern suburbs erupted in fireworks and celebratory gunfire. Divided in war, the city is still divided in peace...
...both to be returning home and at what they perceived as Hizballah's victory over the Israeli military. One man, Hussein Suleiman of Jawayya, a village in the south, joyfully yelled "Hizballah!" when asked who won the war. He then held up a bumper-sticker that read, "Victory from God...
...yellow taxi heading north among the refugees claimed to have just come from the front in Nabatiyeh. Each wore short beards in the style of Hizballah fighters and all grinned when asked about the fighting. When asked about casualties, they declined to say, but only said, "God will compensate" for any losses...