Word: prays
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...just begun. last week the prosecution in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson rested its case -- appropriate terminology since the whole drawn-out affair has been exhausting. This week Simpson's so-called Dream Team of lawyers begins its defense, and jurors and trial watchers can only pray they don't live up to their name in the soporific sense. In half-time analyses, legal pundits have seized upon the numbing numbers the trial has generated: so far, there have been 92 days of testimony, 58 prosecution witnesses and 488 exhibits. Ten jurors have been dismissed and 12 books published...
President Clinton, moving to steal thunder from religious conservatives, ordered the Education Department to distribute guidelines to the nation's schools pointing out thatstudents can already pray in the classroom. "The First Amendment does not convert our schools into religion-free zones," Clinton said in an address at James Madison High School in a northern Virginia suburb. Instead, he pointed out, the Constitution allows students to read Bibles or other scriptures, say grace before meals and take part in religious clubs in high schools. "Students can also pray to themselves," he said, drawing laughter when he added: "Preferably before tests...
...send their own contributions not to Harvard, but, instead, to Radcliffe College, the one institution within Harvard University which is committed to safeguarding the treatment of women at Harvard. Perhaps with greater support Radcliffe can ensure that Harvard professors intent on abusing their authority will have to find their pray someplace else. Alison Games '85 Assistant Professor of History Grinnell College
...read about O'Grady's escape, I shed tears not only for him but for all the young men who have gone before him and those who will follow after going on dangerous missions. I am the mother of an Air Force pilot. I pray for him fervently because he flies an aircraft from which seat ejection is impossible. Beverly Neuman Paradise, California...
...land as, say, a law forbidding the eating of caterpillars with cream cheese. Representative Nadler's worries about the separation of church and state can similarly be put to rest. It would be one thing if Congress were trying to establish a genuine religion, requiring, for example, that one pray to the President or the Speaker of the House. But all we are being asked is that we treat the flag, whatever "the flag" turns out to be, like an image of the Ineffable One--and who could object to a little harmless idolatry...