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...ritual animal sacrifice protected by the First Amendment? A recent case centering on this question gives the Supreme Court a new opportunity to re-evaluate its increasingly narrow-minded position on freedom of religion...
...presidential ballot is not really a national vote but a combination of 50 separate state elections. In one Gallup/CNN/USA Today tracking poll, Bush surged to a statistical tie, pulling 40% to Clinton's 41%. Other polls showed the Democrat's lead around seven points, but all indicated it was narrowing. Bush reacted by slamming harder than ever on "character" issues. Clinton hit back personally as he had not before, saying Bush was the one not worthy of trust. Bush's great problem, though, is that state-by-state surveys show Clinton with so big a lead in electoral votes that...
Petrarca has insisted in past interviews that to call this a play about AIDS is to narrow its scope, and to ignore McPherson's original intentions in 1990. But to think of this play as not about AIDS is also to narrow its scope and to ignore McPherson's current sensibilities. McPherson wrote in the note for the program in 1991: "Now I am 31 and my lover has AIDS. Our friends have AIDS. And we all take care of each other, the less sick caring for the more sick. At times an unbelievably harsh fate is transcended...
...clever TV analyst for ESPN: "If Walsh was a general, he would be able to overrun Europe with the army from Sweden." Leonard Koppett, whose observations of the game have graced many publications, including the New York Times, for almost 50 years, puts it another way: "In that narrow field of conceptual football, Walsh is a genius the way Heifetz was a genius with the violin...
This dereliction of intellectual duty has made the academic ground fertile for the growth of a "sentimental and non-critical nostalgia for the past," he says. In addition, "moral vision has been replaced with narrow and naked group interest" among the youth...