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When antiwar activists look at an inverted Y inside a circle, they see a symbol for peace. But some school officials in Pasadena, Texas, detect something satanic: an upside-down broken cross that signifies the defeat of Christianity. This week they will vote on a new student dress code that would allow principals to outlaw the sign...
...court handed down two other significant First Amendment decisions. By a vote of 6 to 3, it backed the right of communities to force public rock concerts to be less noisy. Justice Anthony Kennedy said officials at New York City's Central Park could require performers to use a sound system operated by a city technician following municipal guidelines. By another 6-to-3 vote, the court threw out a $97,500 judgment won by a rape victim against the Florida Star. The small, weekly Jacksonville paper had, contrary to state law, / published the victim's name after obtaining...
Death-row inmates fared no better than drug dealers and racketeers. By a 5- to-4 vote, the Justices held that states do not have to provide free attorneys to such criminals seeking to challenge their convictions after losing their initial direct appeals. Observed law professor Franklin Zimring of the University of California, Berkeley: "The problem of sufficient due process when it comes to the death penalty is insoluble. You either finance the endless relitigation of these cases, or you discriminate against the poor." Two other major capital-punishment decisions are expected this week, along with the anxiously awaited ruling...
...been decided by so narrow a margin. "James Madison, who wrote the First Amendment, would have his heart warmed by the decision," said David O'Brien, a professor of political science at the University of Virginia, "but he would have been appalled that it was a 5-to-4 vote...
President Bush, who favors an approach based largely on tax credits, has threatened to veto ABC, but it is difficult to see how he can sustain such a veto. Although the vote broke down largely on party lines, nine Republicans joined 54 Democrats in passing the plan. Moreover, the House is working on a / bill similar to ABC that would also expand the Head Start program and offer school-based care to latchkey children. Bowing perhaps to political reality, the Administration indicated last week that it would be willing to discuss how ABC can be improved...