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President Clinton, moving to steal thunder from religious conservatives, ordered the Education Department to distribute guidelines to the nation's schools pointing out thatstudents can already pray in the classroom. "The First Amendment does not convert our schools into religion-free zones," Clinton said in an address at James Madison High School in a northern Virginia suburb. Instead, he pointed out, the Constitution allows students to read Bibles or other scriptures, say grace before meals and take part in religious clubs in high schools. "Students can also pray to themselves," he said, drawing laughter when he added: "Preferably before tests...
Thanks to Thunder Gulch, which won the Belmont Stakes last week, D. Wayne Lukas became the first horse trainer ever to win five consecutive Triple Crown races. His horses took the Preakness and Belmont last year and this, as well as this year's Kentucky Derby (Thunder Gulch again...
...might run for president if 7 million voters signed petitions urging him to do so. "Gingrich simply refuses to close the door on a presidential bid," saysMichael Duffy, TIME's national political correspondent. "If anything, he has opened it a bit with these comments." The immediate effect is tosteal thunder from the nine GOP candidatesalreadytrying to raise money and support. Gingrich maintained today that he was only half-serious in his comment to Business Week. Maybe so, but the excited reaction among GOP activists to renewed talk of a potential Gingrich candidacy was telling. Duffy notes: "The longer he stays...
...Thunder Gulch, the dimmest star in trainer D. Wayne Lukas' trio of starters, thundered out of a wall of 18 horses to win the 121st running of the Kentucky Derby. --By Kathleen Adams, Lina Lofaro, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders and Sidney Urquhart
...with a heavy bass line that will leave moviegoers' bottoms tingling; and it is shot with lots of close-ups of manly jawlines, as if every sailor were posing to be sculpted like the U.S. Presidents onto Mount Rushmore. When in doubt, director Tony Scott (Top Gun, Days of Thunder) lets loose a spray of water, sparks and sweat-the signature flourish of this Helmut Newton of movie machismo...