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...written about in the previous 12 months. With The Feelies, I take a trip back into the garage of classic pop culture and say another thank you to the refuse or relics left there among the cobwebs of memory. Perhaps I should also thank the cobwebs; for if they obstruct the clarity of the rear-view mirror, they also ornament it - they dress my favorite old songs, movies, books, magazines in a musty lace filigree. Or, wait, do all those cobwebs mean that my cultural past is a Saddam-like spider hole, where I hide from current (to me debased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lord of the Feeling: The Return of the Feelies | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...interfere,’ ‘hinder,’ ‘impede’ or ‘adversely affect.’” Congress deliberately did not use words like “impede,” “obstruct,” “hinder,” “thwart,” “inhibit,” “frustrate,” etc.; i.e., words which if used would indicate a broad and flexible prohibition on any adverse actions schools might take aimed...

Author: By John F. Banzhaf iii, | Title: A Better Way To Fight The Solomon Amendment | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

...Accompanying the Rehnquist story was an item about the 2002 school-voucher decision, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris. We said the court's ruling held that "a government program does not obstruct freedom of religion if aid goes directly to the student or parent, who then chooses a school." The issue involved was whether the voucher program violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, the guarantee that the government will not establish a religion but will maintain the separation of church and state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Galvin worried about how the University’s as-yet-unannounced plans for the land could obstruct or prevent any future efforts by state officials to add a lane or make any changes to the pike...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boston Officials Decry Land Deal | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...University’s construction can not obstruct or complicate the activity of the turnpike or the rail yard, according to the agreement as filed at the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boston Officials Decry Land Deal | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

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