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...cannot separate our present holiday celebrations from our historical legacy. To deny such roots is to disown the origin of our American culture. The Supreme Court wisely considered the arguments in deciding Marsh v. Chambers (1983). In Marsh, the Court permitted the Nebraska legislature to continue opening its sessions with a prayer from a state supported chaplain. The Court abandoned a strict constitutional analysis; instead, the Justices cited the substantial history of legislative chaplains and found no significant First Amendment violations...
...newsworthy. CBS was accused of following this damn-the-consequences policy in October when it aired videotapes of the arrest of Automaker John De Lorean on cocaine trafficking charges, even at the risk of imperiling the chance of finding an impartial jury. The tapes were of dubiously lawful origin-CBS acquired them from Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt, who bought them from a clerk at a law firm that had briefly represented De Lorean-and they did not break news that would otherwise have gone unreported: the actual footage was scheduled to be introduced into evidence at the trial. The network...
Greek authorities know little about the 17th November group except the origin of its name: a bloody 1973 uprising by students at Athens Polytechnic School against the U.S.-backed military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. The Tsantes slaying was clearly timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Polytechnic rebellion. Greek authorities are worried about the rise of Athens as a focus of terrorism. Tsantes' killing was the third political murder in the city since August. The other victims were an aide to P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat and a security officer at the Jordanian embassy...
...forum for social commentary. The actual football games themselves are less important, the audience discovers, than what they represent to each of the characters. To the players, the sport symbolizes an avenue away from the Pennsylvania steel mills, where their families have worked since the town's origin. To the coach, who doubles as a typing teacher, football offers a means of working his way out of an underfunded, unsupported public school system where few kids get beyond high school. And finally, to the townies, it represents a spirit of camaraderie a means of unifying the unemployed steel workers while...
...playfulness were his friends, but he left out frustration. Of the six years it took to finally shut Zuckerman's mouth, he says, "Ten out of every twelve months spent writing are spent being wrong." This is a hard fact of literary life. It might well be the origin of Dr. Spielvogel's concluding line in Portnoy: "Now vee may perhaps to begin...