Word: permitting
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Various courts around the country have already wrestled with the same issue. California earlier this year ruled against the constitutionality of graduation prayers, as have Iowa and Rhode Island. Virginia and Pennsylvania permit them; it falls to the Supreme Court to decide which is right...
...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...
That tragedy intensified demands from refugee advocates and Democratic Congressmen for the Bush Administration to suspend the forced repatriations of the boat people and permit them to remain in the U.S. until conditions in Haiti improve and the government is restored. But the President, seeking to dissuade thousands more Haitians from taking to the water in the hope of gaining asylum, insisted that the massive interception of the boat people that started last month must continue. Allowing the boat people to enter the U.S., he warned, would only lead more Haitians to risk their lives in the dangerous journey...
...move toward a resolution of the crisis seemed to take a little of the ferocity out of the fighting. In Dubrovnik, where the guns were stilled at midweek to permit the evacuation of wounded civilians and 14 European Community monitors, a tenuous cease-fire held from one hour to the next. In Vukovar the fighting also subsided, largely because the Serbs seemed to have subdued the Croatian forces, despite reports that an organized force of holdouts had taken refuge in the sewer system. Although the army continued to pound Vukovar with rockets and artillery, a Western diplomat said, "They...
Ethel: He left notes, like this one: "Do not under any circumstances permit an autopsy. It is against Jewish law." And this kid didn't know the first thing about Jewish law, because we're not that religious...