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Washington state rescinded Davey’s Promise Scholarship when he decided to major in theology as a student at Northwest College in Kirkland, Wash. Davey, now attending the Law School, sued the state on the grounds that this decision infringed upon his First Amendment right to worship freely...
RELEASED. TIN OO, 77, vice chairman of Burma's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) and a key adviser to Noble Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi; from Kale Prison in Sagaing, northwest Burma. A Defense Minister in the mid-1970s before falling out with former dictator Ne Win, Tin Oo helped form the NLD in 1988. He was detained along with Suu Kyi and hundreds of other pro-democracy supporters after their convoy was attacked by government-backed thugs last May. Like Suu Kyi, he is now under house arrest in Rangoon...
...case dates back to his days as a student at Northwest College outside of Seattle, where he was refused a state-funded scholarship there because he was studying pastoral ministry. Davey could have changed his major to a non-religious field, but he chose to stick to his instincts. He contacted the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a conservative law firm founded by Pat Robertson, one that has been called the right-wing answer to the ACLU. “I thought maybe they could just send a letter to the state or something. I didn?...
...Northwest College, which Davey’s close friend and fellow Northwest alum Jeremy J. Frank says is sometimes jokingly called “Northwest Bridal College,” doesn’t have that kind of bias. There, it wasn’t unusual for Davey to have married his high school sweetheart, a girl he’d been dating since he was 15, while a sophomore in college. And it wasn’t taboo to challenge the separation between church and state. Indeed, the school recently featured a summary of Davey’s case...
...intellectual atmosphere was a welcome change, its social scene provided a challenge. “Things like marriage are just culturally different,” Frank says. “I think at Boston College out of the 14,000 students they have two married undergrads." At Northwest, he says, married students were common...