Word: smith
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Liberals fretted that the decision would make it easier for the government to trample on minority religions. Conservatives were worried that the Smith ruling would erode the autonomy of all religious institutions--making it easier, for instance, for a Catholic woman to sue her church to become a minister. The coalition that eventually formed in support of a new religious-freedom law includes centrist groups such as the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, Christian-right groups such as Focus on the Family and left-leaning organizations such as Americans for Democratic Action...
...week, in response to a subpoena from Burton's committee, the Texas Rangers will deliver a report on the pyrotechnic rounds. The Rangers still have 24,000 lbs. of Waco evidence in their vaults, and they are under orders to turn over the material to U.S. District Judge Walter Smith Jr. once logistics are worked out. Smith is committed to opening the evidence to public scrutiny--against the advice of the Justice Department. Documentary filmmaker Michael McNulty has already examined some of the material. Last week he told TIME that a second pair of 40-mm pyrotechnic projectiles may have...
Paradoxically, the near eradication of many diseases in the U.S. has caused many Americans to risk dispensing with vaccinations. "Today's parents don't know about polio and diphtheria," says Dr. Natalie Smith of the California Department of Health Services. Nor, she warns, are they always aware that in a shrinking world, polio and other infectious diseases can be "only a plane ride away." These are points that parents surely ought to consider if they're thinking of not getting their kids vaccinated...
...sign up for a buddy-cop film; 2) ad-lib your way through the criminally formulaic script; 3) get paid; 4) repeat. But Rock is playing it smart and working with Hollywood's edgiest comic directors. He has a co-starring role in Dogma, a film by Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy); a lead opposite Morgan Freeman in Nurse Betty, a film by Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men); and a star turn in I Was Made to Love Her for the Weitz brothers (American...
...sense what is being billed as the primary newsbreak of Diana in Search of Herself (Times Books; 451 pages; $25), Sally Bedell Smith's biography of the late princess, is not news at all. "Diana's unstable temperament," Smith announces a bit ponderously, "bore all the markings of one of the most elusive psychological disorders: the borderline personality...