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...text-books, nor the coherence of the convictions from which the fundamentalists' argued--only the "sincerity" of their beliefs. In any normal case, say a murder trial, evidence is presented to reconstruct what happened outside the court and who was in the wrong. The deciding factor in the textbook case, however, was not a comparison of textbook content and a system of belief like Christianity or creationism, but a judgment of the authenticity of whatever the plaintiff chose to present. That is, the evidence was the proceeding itself...
...only possible evidence for their sincerity was the determination the fundamentalist parents showed pleading their case in the courtroom. This boiled down to the determination shown by representatives like parent Vicki Frost, who stood at the witness stand for hours on end detailing a hodge-podge laundry list, citing textbook examples of everything from scientific explanations of tidal waves to witchcraft and astrology to pacifism and situational ethics...
...does away with the all important relationship between a ruling and its context. It is the societal context, not the character of a court proceeding, that should be the measure of a case. But in this case the court merely judged how well the fundamentalists did on stage. The textbook case reduced the trial to a ritual. There is always an aspect of performance to courtroom proceedings, but in this extreme case the performance lost touch with the issues at hand...
...authorities and parent groups are shaping more thorough programs. The National Institute on Drug Abuse figures 72% of the nation's estimated 45.3 million elementary- and secondary-school students are being offered some kind of drug education, but sometimes it may amount to only a paragraph in a health textbook. The U.S. Department of Education's funding for drug education has been so tiny that no one has kept track of it. The department, however, is now considering a $100 million program...
...Madison Avenue store, on which Lauren has lavished more than $14 million, is his ultimate showcase and testing laboratory. In many ways the store rewrites the textbook for upscale retailing. Built in 1895 as the home of a wealthy heiress, the five-story limestone structure had been divided into three separate shops until Lauren managed to get a 49-year lease that covered the entire edifice. Estimated annual rent: $1 million. Now fitted with hand- carved mahogany woodwork and custom-forged brass trim, and dappled with expansive Oriental rugs and sprays of orchids, the store evokes the imagined atmosphere...