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First graders and high school seniors alike may pause at any point during the day for reflection, spiritual or otherwise. Obligatory group meditation serves no other purpose than to encourage teachers and officials to subvert the Constitution by endorosing particular religious rituals under state auspicious. Students are after all, a captive audience, forced by compulsory attendence laws to take part in school-sponsored ceremonies. A Federal judge from Tennessee emphasized these same arguments three weeks ago, when he overruled a law in his state that closely resemblem the latest New Jersey proposal...
...emphasizes the importance of entertainment, saying. "If you're dull, uninspired and conventional, then you're going to be walk." But he adamantly asserts that his histrionics do not subvert his seriousness, particularly when Harvard surfaces as the topic of discussion. For conventional student government is "not befitting of Harvard, Harvard requires a creativity, a higher sensibility, a greater awareness of the moment, a sense of destiny. "Evans says, his voice heightening in intensity and volume...
...eight dancers and singers add to the show with straightforward and unpretentious performances. Although they carve out individual styles, the performers never subvert the joy of the music. The feeling of community conveyed by the band and cooperative performers reflects the original Motown environment in Detroit which vaulted so much young. Black talent to superstardom...
...Masonic lodge known as Propaganda Due, or P2. Police found Calvi's name, along with those of other prominent Italian and South American politicians, military officers and businessmen (including Sindona), on the secret membership list. P2 was trying to support anti-Communist movements in South America and subvert the Italian state by taking control of its institutions through the lodge's influential membership. The discovery of P2 and its flock of politicians helped to topple the government of Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani...
...captivity, were put together again. Recalling their counter-terrorism training which instructs hostages to establish personal relationships with their captors--the two began talking to the students and trying to teach them English. But, Swift says, they found their guards wary and "well aware that we were trying to subvert them...