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...Sincere Censorship," attacks the longstanding First Amendment doctrine that government may prohibit or burden the free exercise of a person's sincere religious beliefs only when necessary to achieve a compelling governmental interest. Discussing the recent Tennessee court ruling against a school district that suspended students who refused to read certain textbooks on religious grounds, Mendelsohn condemns the court for examining the sincerity, not the merits, of the religious beliefs involved. He contends that courts hearing free exercise claims should evaluate the "coherence" of religious beliefs, determine whether they are compatible with the outside world or "in the wrong...
Although Sandburg speaks fluent Italian, knows a number of regional Venetian and Alpine dialects, and can read Latin, Spanish, French and German, he says that certain aspects of fieldwork--especially communicating with natives and gaining their trust--can be extremely difficult...
Option A: Forcing the student to read an issue of the Harvard Lampoon cover to cover and then translate the Vanitas section into English...
...England writers will read selections...that expose the horrors of war, affirm the value of life, and address the paramount issue of peace in a nuclear age," said Mazur...
...opportunity to open people's hearts to these questions, and be reflective, in some ways," said Assistant Professor of Literature Michael C. Blumenthal, who read "Song of Myself," a poem by Walt Whitman that expresses a theme of universal brotherhood...