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...outset, the 21 men had japed and jested like a group of sophomores about to be reprimanded for a prank. But for some of them, the humor led straight to the gallows. The men were among the 25 terrorists accused of attempted murder and conspiracy against Kuwait after seven bombs rocked the oil-rich gulf state one morning last December, leaving 60 wounded and five dead. "Long live justice!" cried one relieved young man among the spectators as Chief Judge Ghazi al Sammar declared five of the defendants not guilty. But in the course of his 15-minute verdict, Sammar...
...have the talent and we're hungry enough to win the title," Carr said. "K. C. has brought us back. Defense is taking its effect. K. C. has been feeding us from the outset and it's all jelling now, particularly on defense. We've got 10 days now to prepare ourselves for the playoffs...
...Pawtucket crèche case (see box). But advocates of school prayer are no longer willing to wait or to settle for private meditation. Says the Rev. Jerry Falwell, leader of the Moral Majority: "We didn't fight for the right to keep silent." At the outset of an election year, and with the assistance of a popular President who has fervently embraced the crusade on the campaign trail, prayer advocates are determined to mount a frontal assault in Congress for a constitutional amendment that would permit school prayer...
...electoral calculation. Fundamentalist and Evangelical Protestants contributed many ballots to Reagan's 1980 sweep. But some have been grumbling that the President has done little to advance the so-called social issues that concern them most, like antiabortion legislation. Some months ago, White House strategists decided that the outset of the presidential campaign was the right time to placate this "core constituency" and that school prayer was the issue to stress in doing so. Explains one of the President's top political advisers: "It's good politics, frankly, and it does not cost us anything...
Most, I believe, reject the snappy comeback, defensiveness, haughtiness, and nasty laughter, from the outset of our teaching careers. I imagine that many people go into the profession, which they know it or not, because someone filled the classroom for them with affectionate attention. When the look I give a student conveys a particularly challenging attitude of good expectation, some of that attitude comes straight from my fourth-grade teacher, Florence Sayer. The student I'm looking at sees a look that was directed at me in 1951, and that had been in use in dingy green classrooms as early...