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...three opinions appeared to weaken a major rule announced in the 1971 case of Lemon vs. Kurtzman. But in all the newest religion cases, the court forcefully reaffirmed its commitment to the Lemon test, which makes three demands on any religiously oriented legislation: that it have a secular purpose, that it neither advance nor inhibit religion and that it avoid "excessive entanglement" between government and religion. Justice Brennan's application of the test in the New York school case left officials in what dissenting Justice William Rehnquist called a "catch-22." City school officials argued that they took special care...
...from far more radical and fundamentalist Shi'ite factions, especially a group called Hizballah (Party of God), which has strong ties to Iran. Although Assad's relations with Iran are friendly, he has no desire to see Lebanon become a Shi'ite theocracy that might eventually oppose his own secular form of rule...
...these secular times, it is the state that claims, "Vengeance is mine," and insists on the sole right to decide what is just and to impose punishment. Any personal attempt at retribution is dismissed as vengeance, and vengeance is dismissed as psychotic, almost taboo. Yet as Susan Jacoby points out in her interesting book Wild Justice, vengeance comes to appear necessary when the state (or the gods) fails to provide justice...
...need of uncovering. This represents a twist of the theme of generational conflict that is at the crux of much of Potok's work. In both The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lee youngsters from religious backgrounds partially break away from their families and communities in pursuit of secular goals. In Davita Harp however, the pattern reversed here religion is the forbidden trust...
Coming from the man who, in Love Story, captured the Harvard of the early '60s right down to 'Cliffie bitchiness and the secular religion that is Crimson hockey, it's no surprise that the college portions of the novel ring true. The one problem here is that the period 1954-58 was not, to put it mildly, a time of campus unrest or even great social shakeups. Segal makes up for this with painstaking accounts of such bygone rigors as the Step Test and the Swim Test, while ignoring real campus news like the hockey heyday of Bob (really...