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...recent years the court has been divided on the proper scope of government aid -- direct or indirect -- to sectarian schools. In 1983, by a 5-to-4 vote, it let stand a Minnesota law that permits parents to deduct parochial school tuition from their state income taxes. Many experts believe there is a good chance the court would uphold a voucher plan like the one the Administration proposes. "It is exceedingly unlikely that this will be seen as a forbidden form of establishment," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, a leading constitutional scholar. "Given the existing doctrine about the separation...
...broaden its appeal, the B.J.P. in recent months has de-emphasized religion. Instead, it has promoted the party as the disciplined, ultra- nationalist remedy for the mounting ailments afflicting India, in particular the secessionist movements in Punjab, Kashmir and Assam and mounting sectarian and political violence. Since Rajiv Gandhi's assassination last month, the B.J.P. has appropriated the Congress slogan of "Stability" and argued that Gandhi's party, without a Nehru scion at the top, has become too shaky to lead India. Said Advani last week: "The B.J.P. appears to the common voter as the only oasis of stability...
...greatest fiction spanned the years 1938 to '51: Brighton Rock (1938), The Heart of the Matter (1948), The End of the Affair (1951) and, most hauntingly, The Power and the Glory (1940). The pilgrimage of the nameless "whiskey priest," on the run in a Mexican state from a sectarian tyranny, remains a thrilling adventure of despair and irrational redemption...
True, a number of these tales unwind in the future, although science has little to do with most of them. The title story portrays Beirut some 30 years hence, still the scene of senseless, sectarian slaughter. A weary soldier conceives a plan for peace that actually begins to work, until it is sabotaged by the United Nations forces assigned to referee the carnage. The reason why is the extremely incisive point of the whole exercise. In The Largest Theme Park in the World, Ballard looks ahead past the planned 1992 economic unification of Europe to 1995, when many...
...ceremonial position. And the Vatican appointed Cahal Daly, a fierce critic of the Irish Republican Army, as Primate of All-Ireland. The Belfast-based bishop's elevation pleased politicians and religious leaders in Ulster and London, where there is hope that his outspoken condemnations of violence might help quell sectarian terrorism...