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...incoming chair praised Shepsle, who is Markham professor of government, for his sense of humor and his fairness. He said Shepsle had "upheld the traditions of the chair...
...Alabama, the new school-prayer bill attempts to skirt those boundaries. The legislation requires "a brief period of quiet reflection for not more than 60 seconds with the participation of each pupil in the classroom." Although the courts have upheld some moment-of-silence policies, civil libertarians say they have struck down laws featuring pro-prayer supporting language of the sort they discern in Alabama's bill. In the eyes of many church-club planters, such fracases amount to wasted effort. Says Doug Clark, field director of the National Network of Youth Ministries: "Our energy is being poured into what...
...stopped,? prison officials decided to forcibly medicate him.? That puts the state of Arkansas in a very dicey box. "In the majority of similar cases across the country, courts do not allow insane people to be put to death," says TIME Austin bureau chief Sam Gwynne.? "Nor have courts upheld the right of states to medicate prisoners so that they will be sane enough to execute...
...test. They distributed small samples to three laboratories for radiocarbon dating. Several months later, the labs revealed their verdict: the linen of the cloth dated no earlier than the late Middle Ages. Skeptics rejoiced; romantics were subdued. One crestfallen enthusiast later wrote, "It seemed that anyone who had previously upheld any serious case for the shroud's credibility...had been dealt a fatal stab to the heart...
...President of the United States is asserting--for the first time in history--that the Secret Service is prohibited from testifying about "anything" they learn on duty, because cooperating with a criminal investigation would be an "intrusion." If this outrageous claim is upheld, we will have an imperial Presidency far beyond the wildest dreams of Richard Nixon. Simultaneously, the president is asserting that executive privilege prohibits his wife and assistants from testifying--about matters unrelated to the president's official duties, and which cannot be construed as touching upon national defense. If upheld, this too would be a mind-boggling...