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...nonprofit Christian legal groups funded by televangelists and direct-mail appeals are pursuing a broad range of cases, pioneering a savvy brand of First Amendment fundamentalism. "Christians from the 1960s on have taken a major beating in the legal arena and have lost a lot of their liberties," argues Mathew Staver, president of the six-year-old Liberty Counsel in Orlando, Florida. "In the '80s we discovered we must enter the mainstream to assert those liberties." Along with a number of school-prayer cases, the Liberty Counsel has advocated free speech in an amicus Supreme Court brief on behalf...
Angel Angel is told from the alternating points of view of Augusta and her two twentyish sons Mathew and Henry, aimless young men who want to rouse their mother out of her torpor but haven't the emotional strength. It will take an outsider to revive this troubled lot, and she arrives in the form of Bette Mack, a taciturn beauty in pink sneakers as drawn to the Irises as they are to her. Stevens surrounds Bette with an excess of winged imagery to indicate that she is the savior who will lift the Irises from their aggrieved inertia...
...forbade protesters within a 300-ft. radius to approach patients and employees unless invited, and he drew an equally large circle around the houses of clinic staff. Madsen and others sued, claiming that the injunction infringed on free speech, was skewed against pro-life sentiment and was too overreaching. Mathew Staver, their lawyer, noting that 300 ft. is almost the length of a football field, maintained, "This injunction, instead of using a surgeon's scalpel, cuts with a butcher's knife." No one knew how the Justices would...
According to Mathew Rubin '62, chair of WHRB'sboard of trustees, a long-term plan was drafted byboth board members and undergraduates to improvethe station's continuity and financial viability...
Last year, Danny Rimer '93, Mathew Lee '92, and Matthew Butterick '92 were agitated by what they termed the trendy, upper-East-Side art propagated by Harvard's Triptych, (a group which had been in existence for three years) and conceived of Agitprop as a means of providing an alternative approach to cultural awareness. Simply put, Agitprop aims to mobilize interest in the arts at Harvard. Rimer explains that the most effective means to this end is to "coerce a response," and indeed, their events are designed to seize attention and elicit an emotional reaction...