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Riders love the journey for what they can dream as well as for what they can see: the elk, which roam the Rockies ("Is that a reindeer?"); the prairie towns, which resemble those in a grainy old movie; the vanilla flatlands; the rolling farms. "More than anything else I can imagine, it makes you appreciate the size and grandeur of the country," says Geraldine Stevenson, 71, a retired schoolteacher from Saskatchewan who has ridden the Canadian many times. "It seems we're always being nibbled at here and there. We're losing our identity, and trains are a part...
...next to a Christmas tree outside Pittsburgh's City- County building was constitutional; yet in the same decision, they concluded that a Catholic-sponsored creche depicting the Nativity in the county courthouse one block away was not. The tenuous principle governing the decision seemed to be the so-called reindeer rule, suggested in 1984 by the court's decision that a government-owned creche in Pawtucket, R.I., was constitutional because it was flanked by such secular paraphernalia as Santa's house and reindeer and therefore would not be seen as an endorsement of a religious faith. Apparently, the Pittsburgh creche...
Such hairsplitting is sure to keep judges, local politicians, priests and rabbis scratching their heads over Yuletide and Hanukkah dos and don'ts for many holidays to come. But far more than cradles and reindeer is at stake after last week's decision. The creche and menorah case, County of Allegheny v. A.C.L.U., saw the emergence of an outspoken bloc of four conservative Justices, just one vote shy of a majority, who are openly intent on challenging long-established views on the separation between church and state. The creche dissent in the Allegheny decision brought together Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin...
...court will rule in the Pittsburgh case is a matter of great speculation, but both sides hope for something clearer than the 1984 decision. Otherwise, the legitimacy of every municipal creche will have to continue being evaluated on its own peculiar merits -- or the quantity of its reindeer, which leaves jurisprudence on the horns of a dilemma...
...Revisiting the "reindeer rule" for the holidays...