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...what about a moment of silence? Perhaps reading the Bible as part of a morning devotional was inappropriate, but what about recognition of extracurricular religious clubs? Justice Potter Stewart, writing in 1963, foreshadowed the debates of the 1980s and '90s when he warned that the court was hardly being neutral in its school-prayer decisions. A ban on noncoercive religious exercises in school placed religion "at an artificial and state-created disadvantage," he said...
...drugs. But instead, by a 5-to-4 vote, they discarded precedent and decided against Smith and Black on entirely different grounds. Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia declared that "the right of free exercise does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a 'valid and neutral law of general applicability.' " There was no need to use the compelling-interest test in such a situation, he said, because that would permit every person "to become a law unto himself...
...extent of saying we're going to be so neutral that we're going to ignore gender or ethnic background in a society where that does mean something," Evans says...
...long-term steps. To deal with the immediate crisis, he says, three antirecession measures are needed: 1) quicker spending on highway construction to provide 45,000 new jobs; 2) a higher ceiling on Federal Housing Administration mortgage guarantees to aid half a million first-home buyers; 3) a revenue-neutral tax- rate cut averaging $350 a year for middle-class families, to be paid for by increasing the tax burden on those who earn more than $200,000 a year. Most other Democrats favor a child-care tax exemption instead of Clinton's prescription, but only about half the population...
...Philippines, Douglas MacArthur's strange paralysis lasted only that first day -- and remains a mystery still. One theory is that MacArthur misunderstood Washington's orders against risking any military provocation of Japan. Another is that he and Philippines President Manuel Quezon thought the Philippines might somehow remain neutral in the erupting Pacific war. Still another theory is that MacArthur temporarily suffered the kind of breakdown that sometimes afflicts commanders in crisis -- as happened to Stalin when the Germans invaded in June...