Word: suits
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...case is a "hoax perpetrated by people who don't want the 42 million schoolchildren in this country to learn about ideas these people disagree with -- everything from divorce to evolution." The two sides are clashing in a federal courtroom in Mobile, where the plaintiffs have brought a suit against the Alabama state board of education. At issue: whether some 45 texts used in Alabama schoolrooms illegally espouse a religion, called secular humanism by the Evangelicals, which they argue elevates man at the expense...
...club at Tuxedo Park, N.Y., wearing a red waistcoat with his best bib and tucker. The incendiary vest was bad enough, but what really stirred up the swells was the inescapable fact that Griswold's tails did not have any. The tailcoat was cut even and short, like a suit jacket. Scion or not, Griswold almost got the bounce, until cooler heads and appraising eyes took over...
...People talk about how strange I am," says the man who dances onstage like a Bunraku puppet leading an aerobics class and ended his last series of Talking Heads concerts wearing a huge white suit cut like a tailored tennis court. "Of course, being inside myself, not having the perspective, I don't think I'm odd at all. I can see that what I'm doing is not exactly what everyone else is doing, but I don't think of it as strange...
...with interlopers crowding their swimming pools and picnic tables, residents of the Detroit suburb of Dearborn voted last November to close the city's parks to outsiders. "Racism!" cried the local office of the A.C.L.U. and the Detroit chapter of the N.A.A.C.P., which promptly filed a suit against the town and kept the ordinance from being enforced. Dearborn (pop. 86,960) has fewer than 100 black residents, the N.A.A.C.P. argued, so only blacks would routinely be asked to show their city identification cards. "When they said 'residents only,' they were really talking whites only," said the Rev. Charles Adams...
...plaintiffs in Smith v. Board of Mobile County allege that the secular humanism found in the textbooks and the teachings in the Alabama Public School System hinder the parents' efforts to install religious values at home, said Ricki L. Seidman, director of a defense fund helping finance the suit...