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...smaht kids” are taking up more space at the Kong than they used to, there isn’t necessarily bad blood between the two groups. “I have noticed that there are more Harvard kids there lately,” says Brian Goodwin, 22, a waiter at John Harvard’s and a Cambridge native who has been going to the Kong since he was 18. “But I don’t think that has anything to do with the fighting, or that there’s any tension between townies...
Older Oktoberfest-goers bypassed the train in favor of a trellis-enclosed beer garden on the patio of Au Bon Pain. At 1:15 p.m., only a few patrons sat in the still-quiet beer garden. About 25 people stopped in during the first hour, said Brian C. Goodwin, an employee of John Harvard’s Brew House who was supervising the area...
...since the days immediately following Sept. 11, politicians from both parties called the decision "ridiculous," "unbelievable," "nuts." The Senate quickly passed a 99-0 bill endorsing the unexpurgated pledge. The House condemned the decision by a 416-3 vote. Perhaps deciding that retreat is the better part of valor, Goodwin stayed his decision even before an appeal was filed. The case is virtually certain to be heard by an 11-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit and virtually certain to be overturned either then or later by the Supreme Court...
...Lost amidst all the flag-waving and God-avowing furor was the fact that Goodwin may have had a point. "As a matter of common sense, a court should struggle not to reach this result," says Jack Balkin, a professor at Yale Law School. "But the reasoning isn?t crazy. It?s technically correct." Vincent Blasi, a law professor at Columbia University and the University of Virginia, agreed. "If you?re being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious questions, then the Ninth Circuit opinion is quite persuasive," he says. "There is a powerful desire...
...Goodwin was a victim of bad timing. The pledge, written by a socialist clergyman in 1892, has often served as a rallying cry in times of national crisis. During World War II, Congress officially recognized the pledge and changed its accompanying salute from an outstretched arm that resembled Hitler?s favored salute to the current right hand over the heart. In 1954, in the midst of the cold war against godless communism, President Eisenhower urged Congress to add the words under God to the oath to reaffirm "the transcendence of religious faith in America?s heritage and future." Now faced...