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...exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 57, has a palace in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, a residence in Peking and now honorary citizenship in the Maryland town of New Carrollton (pop. 14,000). It was conferred during Sihanouk's visit to greet Cambodian refugees living there and pray with them in a service presided over by saffron-robed monks who later feted their former ruler with cakes and tea. The Prince, who is in the U.S. to generate support for a neutral Cambodia, is also visiting refugee groups to see how they fare in a faraway land. His estimate...
...Snow Making. All through November, no snow stayed on the ground. All through December, the same. The first week in January, still no snow. The local Roman Catholic bishop sent out a pastoral letter urging parishioners to pray for the stuff. Not a flake that fell survived the warm winter until Jan. 8-9, when a paltry 4 in. fluttered down. But Karl Fahrner, 50, was not worried. Says the man in charge of preparing the alpine courses: "We knew in November that we could make all the snow we needed, make better snow and better courses...
...implement the law, and then there's an injunction, it's a confusing signal. We tell the children they can pray on Monday, and then two days later they can't because a bunch of adults can't make up their minds," Lannon said...
...Students have the right to pray," school committee member Henrietta Attles said. "The silent meditation period they have now just does not give students a chance to really pray," she added...
Lillian Denicoff said she opposes prayer in the schools strictly on philosophical grounds. "If people want to go to church and pray privately, that's all right. But I believe in separation of church and state," Denicoff said...