School choice: Is the Supreme Court making room for vouchers?
Byrne, Harry J.
C ORRESPONDENCE A clarification In my letter inquiring about the church's agenda regarding a sexual orientation that it considers objectively disordered, the editors of Commonweal replied,...
...The January 26 issue was the last straw...
...payments for school maintenance and for the salaries of teachers of secular subjects were struck down...
...Polio, meningitis, and typhoid—all nearly eradicated before the war—are also on the rise, and cases of cholera quadrupled between 1997 and 1999, from 486 to 2,398...
...The case is likely to be taken up by the Supreme Court, so some final clarity on this question may be imminent...
...In 1993 (Zobrest v. Catalina School District), the Court upheld Arizona's provision of a sign-language interpreter to a deaf student who chose to bring her to his Catholic high school...
...It was enough to make a Catholic speed home with the intention of reuniting the procreative and unitive dimensions of the conjugal act...
...I caught her last month at the Interfaith Center of New York...
...ben shafer Chicago, III...
...He urged that we think of ourselves as "citizens, not spectators...
...When the home page appears you are greeted with an image of a man or a woman underneath a beauty ballot...
...In the immediate future, the Federal Reserve's lowering of interest rates is likely to work more smoothly and more quickly...
...Those that remain are regarded with less suspicion by ethnic Romanians than the much larger Hungarian minority...
...Until very recently, we had no television in our home...
...Furthermore, down the line the cuts could turn out to be inflationary, bringing back the huge deficit that the Clinton administration inherited from the last Republican interregnum and finally tamed with the discipline supplied by the aforementioned Alan Greenspan...
...Her barely contained anger at the pope prevents her from seeing what James Carroll honestly acknowledges: for all his failings, John Paul II sincerely reveres Judaism and has taken once unimaginable steps toward Jewish-Catholic reconciliation...
...I'm sending in my check today...
...Goaded on by Gordon, the crowd turned the evening into an orgy of anti-Catholic speechifying...
...Again, the key to constitutional legitimacy was the private choice of the individual...
...I think he's a dangerous figure...
...True—and again like the Pentagon—it has no features that would tempt one to take a closer look...
...Drawn up by Tom Campbell (R-Calif...
...By the time we returned, the man had been untied and now lay quivering on the ground...
...Furthermore, since widespread water contamination persists, a result of bombed-out infrastructure and the curtailment of chemical production and importation, dysentery and gastroenteritis are rampant, affecting both the old and the young...
...He put his head inside the window and said, "Should I do it inside the station then...
...An hour later, the bulletins from Gujerat flashed across the nation...
...In March 2000, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan openly expressed concern about sanctions on Iraq...
...A plea beneath the photo reads "Please help keep this site fun, clean, and real...
...But that was last January...
...In a runoff with Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Iliescu received over 66 percent of the vote, much of it from moderates whose candidates failed to make the second round of voting...
...It is in this latter area that the Supreme Court has been frequently challenged to decide whether a practice constitutes "an establishment of religion" or its appropriate "free exercise...
...Aghast, I asked someone in the crowd what was happening and he told me that the police were trying to get a confession about a recent string of robberies...
...While the Courant series in no way exonerated Hussein for his failure to meet UN requirements, and blistered him for refusing to release humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people, nonetheless it reported that during the period sanctions have been in place, percapita annual income in Iraq has dropped from $3,500 to $750...
...Johnson is careful to be inclusive of concerns of men and women, heterosexual and homosexual, single and married...
...Carroll, a laicized priest, has done that too often in upscale magazines and newspapers like the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Boston Globe...
...and British experts say no...
...are nasty— a Bush /Cheney campaign poster is the first image you see—while others are plain bizarre ("Am I interested in weather shielding for my brickwork or not...
...This was a bit of a hoot, since the substance and tenor of her remarks rarely deviated from her outrage over the pope's refusal to do things the way she thinks they should be done...
...What might the center's next program be, "Mormonism: A Weird Religion for Weird People" or "The Hasidim: Haven't They Heard of Birth Control...
...I approached nervously (a crowd outside a police station is never a good sign), but what I saw there was worse than anything I could have imagined...
...Sources dose to the curia claim the Vatican is in talks with AOL / Time Warner to develop a site...
...What is left are nineteenth-century neoclassical government and commercial buildings, domed at the corners and chastely ornamented...
...That barrier is now gone...
...Ravi warned him that he would be inviting his own punishment if he continued to violate the law so flagrantly...
...The affluent can afford the high tuition for private schools and the more moderate tuition for parochial schools...
...6 NOTEBOOK SANCTIONS ON IRAQ Ten years & counting Last month, a wave of medical concern raised a hot debate in Western Europe...
...In a divided decision, the court ruled that state aid could not be neutral if it went predominantly to religious schools...
...The four justices were joined in a separate concurring opinion by Justices O'Connor and Stephen Breyer that, overruling past barriers, nevertheless enunciated some remaining restrictions...
...And by the way, for what it's worth from a nontheologian, I think the advertisers, media, celebrities and population in general, promote "the (Continued on page 30) 4 Taxing rhetoric To the surprise of many Americans, George W. Bush delivered an elegant inaugural address on January 20...
...She had been deeply affected by an account of a school in Italy that had collapsed in an earthquake, killing every single student inside...
...Yet everything that the Bush administration hopes to accomplish, from education reform to modernizing the military to providing Medicare prescription coverage, may depend on marshaling resources that lie in those surpluses, to say nothing of all that needs doing and currently goes unattended...
...In Mitchell, the "computer" case, the Court relied heavily on its 1997 Agostini ruling and on two other decisions involving challenges to benefits with religious overtones...
...At the same time, they argue that the UN's sanctions have neither undermined Hussein's will to survive nor significantly weakened his hold on power...
...the letter argued that "morally, it is wrong to hold the Iraqi people responsible for the actions of a brutal and reckless government...
...What if there were an earthquake...
...In dissenting from a 1985 decision (Aguilar v. Felton), Chief Justice Warren E. Burger wrote that the Court manifested "hostility toward religion and the children who attend church-sponsored schools...
...By night, the haze, not quite as thick as that in Blade Runner, softens signs and street lights, making the vendors' stalls and the cobbled side streets of the Old Court district look like the Left Bank in Paris...
...Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of other buildings fell to Ceausescu's wrecking ball, their sites open wounds...
...One of the joys and burdens of being alive today is that we know too much," she said...
...None of that is good enough for Gordon or her fans...
...Ravi spoke with him at length about the difference between interrogation and torture, and reminded him of the Supreme Court decision against the use of excessive force in extracting confessions...
...He had no choice, he assured us...
...Indeed, it took me over a minute of staring to register what I was seeing, and even now I have difficulty believing I saw it...
...It was half an hour before I realized it and the story from the novel came back to me immediately...
...It may not harmonize with the classical buildings to the north of University Square, but compared to the dark glass rectangle of the Intercontinental Hotel just to the southwest, it looks restrained, even elegant...
...The National Theater, a cube slightly rounded at the edges, would grace, or anyway not disgrace, a good-sized American city...
...She could never shake the image of the parents who must have sent their babies off that morning as if it had been any other day...
...But the Romanians will insist that every visitor see it, so prepare to be appalled...
...The new one is likely to take a harder line toward Iraq...
...I am not moved by him kneeling at the wall," she boasted...
...II (Continued from page 4) goodness of sexual pleasure" more than enough...
...On January 26, my son had slipped out of the house while I was busy making my daughter's lunch and I didn't say good-bye to him...
...Or again, has anyone demonstrated that dissent from Humanae vitae has produced more stable and faithful marriages...
...9 Robert Murray Davis REPORT FROM ROMANIA Ceau§escu's legacies Eleven years after the end of Communist rule, Romanians still try to fill the gaps and resolve the contradictions created during four decades of repression and isolation from the West...
...I think he's done an enormous amount of harm...
...casualties in Vietnam—and there has been a change in U.S...
...And then I remembered that God hung between two thieves and said that yes, we were worth saving...
...It overturned in their entirety its previous bans on instructional equipment (Meek v. Pittenger, 1975...
...So the experience of having blowby-blow, minute-to-minute accounts of such a nightmarish tragedy was quite new to me...
...That evening, as still more heartbreaking images of infant corpses and grieving fathers were shown on television, I could think only of that man—a thief perhaps, but also somebody's precious child—beaten senseless by another human being and I wondered if there was any hope for us at all...
...Still, he was one of the more reasonable people in the crowded room at the Interf aith Center...
...I think we need to remember that John Paul II is a consummate actor and a media expert," Gordon said...
...God knows, the history of Christian anti-Semitism is horrible, but Carroll is not the first or the most authoritative to write about those crimes...
...I think he's too easy on the pope," Gordon began her remarks about Carroll's book, which, incidentally, does acknowledge that John Paul II has done more than any other pope to bring Catholics and Jews together...
...As an educator of adolescents and a married mother of three, I have searched for writings that present a balanced view of the gift of sexuality, including both its pleasurable and difficult aspects...
...According to a series published last fall in the Hartford Courant (October 22-25,2000), birth defects in Iraq have nearly tripled since the end of the war, raising the issue of whether the use of depleted uranium-tipped weapons bears greater scrutiny there...
...Choice has become a key word in public opinion, politics, and the nation's jurisprudence...
...Well, almost enough...
...administrations...
...RAY TOLOSKO West Newbury, Mass...
...After thinking about the article, I concluded that it produced some very thought-provoking ideas...
...Gordon was there to "pay homage" to James Carroll, who was launching the publicity tour for his new book, Constantine's Sword...
...ANTHONY DI RUSSO Greenville, N.H...
...If I have an open mind to the Bible and to the magisterium, then those ideas can result in very wholesome and faithstrenghening thoughts...
...Instead, Bush instinctively appeals to a hardy American prejudice: taxation is a form of confiscation...
...In 1997 in Agostini v. Felton, the Court overturned this troublesome precedent, declaring: "We therefore conclude that our establishment clause law has significantly changed...
...In its tortuous efforts to distinguish between "forbidden religious aid and lawful secular benefit," the Court's evolving incoherence and uncertainty came to be recognized by its own members...
...Pope John Paul II has a specific message to convey, and there are at least two of us who think his message is right on...
...Can a prayer be offered before public school graduations or football games...
...Other social and legal complications surfaced...
...Bucharest was, by older accounts, a lot more like Paris before various disasters: earthquakes in 1940 and 1977, the bombing of World War II, and the megalomania of Ceausescu, who, like Nero, wanted to demolish large sections of his capital in order to build a monument to himself...
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...If you've ever asked yourself that question, here's a Web site for you: www.AmIHotOrNot.com...
...The secular nature of a book could be readily determined and thus permitted, but equipment could be diverted to religious use and thus was prohibited...
...John Paul II's agenda, Gordon told the audience, is to return the church to its triumphalist past...
...per-capita daily protein intake has fallen from 81.6 grams to 53.3 grams, landing the country on the list of nations endangered by malnutrition...
...We left finally, knowing that our response had been inadequate and perhaps futile...
...What a woman...
...More than three years ago, Bishop Anthony Pilla, then president of the U.S...
...I sure would like to know...
...Providing secular textbooks was approved by the Supreme Court...
...to the philosophical ("Am I an existentialist or not...
...If s simply too easy...
...Writing for a plurality in the Helms computer case, Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Antonin Scalia, made specific reference to past bigotry against Catholics resulting in Court decisions banning aid to students in schools that were "pervasively sectarian"—code language for "Catholic...
...I have enough questions of my own...
...When the metaphor is theft, tax cuts are taken as a form of restitution...
...Like the Pentagon, it doesn't look that big because it's a lot broader than it is tall and because, from the front, its full dimensions are not observable...
...AmICatholicOrNot.com hasn't yet emerged...
...AmIGeekOrNot.com asks "How much of a geek are you...
...Submit your picture and find out...
...Not for the lukewarm "A Disembodied 'Theology of the Body'" reminded me to look again at C.S...
...He described them as a blunt instrument which "hurt large numbers of people who are not their primary targets...
...There was much to applaud in Bush's brief address, though to his credit, the president did not play his lines for easy applause...
...By American standards, the buildings aren't bad—or at any rate are no worse than most of our municipal architecture...
...Ravi looked at him for a long moment, speechless...
...Today there are literal gaps in the city, especially in the south center, where the market was cleared and remains empty and boarded up...
...The House of the People could be worse...
...The polarities of views on this question range from the "objectively disordered" to "a gift of God...
...It was as if the Court treated religion like potential cyanide in the public water supply...
...I had read a novel earlier that week in which one of the characters explained how she always made a point of sending her children off in the morning with a loving good-bye because you just never knew what might happen in the course of the day...
...Absent the particulars, examine and consider the justifications for the cuts frequently repeated by Bush and Company: "The surplus belongs to the taxpayer, not to the government...
...The jurisprudence of our nation's high court has developed with many twists and turns from a twofold bedrock principle it established in 1947 in upholding state-provided bus transportation to children attending parochial schools: "No government can pass laws which aid one religion or all religions" and "State benefits provided to all citizens without regard to religion are constitutional...
...The Church and the Jews, A History...
...One doesn't denounce the state of Israel, for example, because of the passing (we hope) popularity of Ariel Sharon...
...Within hours of the tragedy our living room had become a kind of command center...
...People in former Communist countries tend to blame party ideology for what is merely official bad taste...
...O'Connor's concurring opinion is refreshing for this affirmation and also for its rejection as an "absurdity," in the dissent of Justices David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and John Paul Stevens, their opposition to giving library books as a benefit...
...I share that skepticism...
...AmIHot.com, a similar site, has personal ads with each photo...
...He had been tied in the "chicken" position (knees to his head) and then hung upside down on a pole stretched across two chairs...
...In calling for civility, courage, compassion, and character, he spoke to the desire of many for greater national comity and citizen accountability...
...Although there is no specific case dealing with public aid to religious schools on this year's Supreme Court docket, the future may bring more long-overdue relief to parents who choose religious schools for their children...
...That bias leads directly to another: the government that governs least _5_ Hot or not...
...The first question—or rather speech—from the audience was a stem-winder that started out expressing doubt over the possibility of change in the church and descended into a rant on the Catholic origins of civil violence around the world, the sinister immigration policy of the church, and predictably enough, the Catholic overpopulation problem...
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...Souter and Ginsburg had argued that a religious school could assign such a book for a religious critique...
...Why is contraceptive intercourse not like the Romans' vomitorium...
...Can unemployment benefits be denied a Seventh Day Adventist discharged for refusing to work on Saturdays...
...Johnson is also sensitive to the hidden sexist underpinnings of much of the current church teaching and to the basic logical flaws in many of its supportive arguments...
...other Western Europeans are not so sure...
...Even more stark than the effect of radioactive contaminants on veterans and local populations, however, is another, continuing action against Iraq...
...As we walked past him and into the station, he stared at us dully, dearly in shock...
...But do we...
...Similar sentiments have been expressed by justices in other cases...
...Moreover, as you are well aware, a sexual orientation is only one component of the totality of personhood...
...The site has inspired copycats of several varieties...
...Halliday warns that although the sanctions have failed to dislodge Hussein, they have turned a whole generation of younger Iraqis against the West, creating a veritable breeding ground for future extremists...
...All of this appeared to go down very well with those in the room...
...Then he reached out and took his hand...
...Simply stated: How will it respond, assuming no change in its present stance on nonheterosexual orientations, if the cause(s) of such orientations are uncovered in the future and subsequently the orientations themselves are subject to change within the canons of acceptable ethical norms...
...Bucharesters especially mourn the lost churches, and the more superstitious feel mat their destruction released forces even more malign than Stalinism and what they called Ceausism...
...C ORRESPONDENCE A clarification In my letter inquiring about the church's agenda regarding a sexual orientation that it considers objectively disordered, the editors of Commonweal replied, "We doubt that the official church is supporting research to eliminate gays through genetic surgery, or otherwise" (January 12, 2001...
...Gordon was particularly incensed over the beatification of Pius IX and John Paul It's support for Pius XII's canonization...
...It is rare to find this in a single voice...
...It's not hard to play to the worst suspicions of those who are either wholly ignorant of Catholicism or passionately disaffected from the church...
...But the Court went much further...
...It was related not to mad cow disease but to depleted uraniumtipped shells fired by NATO in Bosnia (1994-95) and Kosovo (1999...
...We have no right to ask anyone else to do anything the way we would do it," she announced...
...The man was a known criminal and by "interrogating" him for two days, he had already recovered a huge collection of keys and several stolen items (he gestured across the room toward a stack of VCRs, cassette players, and TVs...
...In Cluj (Klausenberg under the ID Harry J. Byrne SCHOOL CHOICE Has the Supreme Court changed its mind...
...Still, in December, Cleveland's voucher program was judged unconstitutional by the U.S...
...mansions of the nobility and higher bourgeoisie turned by the Communists into museums, writers' clubs, and other cultural sites...
...No small irony in the title of that venue...
...Such facts are slowly beginning to dawn on the American public...
...Your attractiveness will be rated on a scale of one to ten—ten for hot, one for not...
...A smug, liberal caterwauling animated the evening...
...Samples are being examined for toxicity in five European countries, and an official assessment is expected in March...
...Lest we forget, all of this was said at the Interf aim Center of New York...
...The Aguilar decision, which excluded public school teachers working in federally funded remedial programs from parochial school buildings, on the grounds of political divisiveness and "entanglement," had intolerable consequences...
...Just to clear my head a little, I went out for a walk...
...Postmodern people of faith, like Gordon and her admiring listeners, have access to a sense of humility that fundamentalists and so-called Catholic triumphalists explicitly renounce...
...His widely praised overtures, such as his apology for historic violence against the Jews, his visit to Israel, and his pilgrimage to the Western Wall, are a fraud and a lie...
...Given Romanian attitudes toward what Ceausescu managed to build before his fall, they should be more tolerant of the ruins...
...Supreme Court has long been challenged to strike a balance between the religion clauses of our First Amendment—"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
...Some, like "Am I capable of understanding basic logic or not...
...Help thou my unbelief...
...And morally, if not politically and militarily, when do sanctions become objectionable...
...My inquiry was directed toward the implications of the current, official institutional position of the church...
...The chief policeman was gracious...
...By day, the grime visibly coats the buildings and dusts the cars (mostly Dadas, locally assembled) that crowd streets and clutter sidewalks...
...and Wolman v. Walter, 1977), stating that mere potential divertibility to religious use was no longer an invalidating factor...
...As noted in the original letter, until such time as the church can adopt a more neutral stance on the interpretation of the orientation itself, the dialogue will remain one of defensive posturing...
...Humility," she said, "that is the virtue most called for in a pluralistic world...
...In its 6-3 decision, the Court declared a computer was like a book...
...In the coming months, look for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to issue norms for a Catholic Internet rating system, tentatively titled Ex corde Webesiae...
...One is forced to ponder: If the purpose of sanctions is to oust Saddam Hussein, are they working...
...Patrick Jordan I PAUL BAUNANN CATHOLICISM & ANTI-SEMITISM An evening with James Carroll & Mary Gordon When it comes to Catholic bashing—and especially pope bashing—the novelist Mary Gordon is in a class of her own...
...Pilla noted that the UN sanctions should be "reviewed, reshaped, and narrowed to achieve their legitimate objectives of ending threats to peace," and promised that the American bishops would hold the Iraqis' sufferings "in our hearts and prayers...
...Writing in the May/June 1999 issue of Foreign Affairs, John and Karl Mueller describe comprehensive state sanctions as an "impressive method" of mass destruction...
...Reducing the federal deficit used to be a Republican mantra...
...A year ago, seventy members of Congress sent President Bill Clinton a bipartisan letter stating that the UN sanctions offered the Iraqi government little incentive to comply...
...Last June the Court took another major step (Mitchell v. Helms) in making its church-state jurisprudence more coherent, its principles more unambiguous and equitable...
...Three years (and many prayers) later, the sanctions remain in force, scarcely reshaped or narrowed...
...As many economists have pointed out, there appears to be little economic justification for tax cuts that will kick in after the current slowdown has ended...
...Increasingly, religious people were "fundamentalists," true believers whose faith was rooted in "hatred and terror and uncertainty...
...As Commonweal's reviewer Robert Louis Wilken persuasively showed (January 26), Carroll's book is deeply flawed, especially his insistence that any traditional Christian understanding of the Crucifixion is inherently anti-Semitic...
...Downright hilarious, though, was Gordon's analysis of the nature of faith in a postmodern age...
...Take the promised tax cuts: the first and almost only extended round of applause during Bush's speech went to the reiteration of his campaign promise to cut taxes...
...Larger things are at stake than one politician's cynicism or one pope's bad decisions...
...A plethora of decisions followed, striking down aid programs that did not lend themselves to this easy application...
...Can creches and menorahs be placed on government property...
...Glitzy signs for Western consumer products only partly mask Communist gray...
...It was, the Court said, as though an individual had received a paycheck and turned a portion of it over to a religious institution...
...In a time of budget surpluses, it is an offer that few will resist...
...Much-needed clarification and fairness were on the way...
...His bare legs and arms were a mass of angry red welts and his entire body was trembling violently...
...Tudor, head of the Greater Romania Party and fierce opponent of Jews, Hungarians, and gypsies, then asked Romania's highest court to set aside the vote on grounds of fraud, bribery, collusion, and a number of other allegations...
...A crowd had gathered at the police station which is at the top of our road...
...In the same case, Justice William H. Rehnquist referred to "entanglement" as a Catch-22 paradox since "aid must be supervised to ensure no entanglement but the supervision itself is held to cause an entanglement...
...It cost him nothing...
...In addition, a UN inquiry in Kosovo had found that eight of eleven areas where the shells had been used were still contaminated with low-level radiation...
...The principal issue, of course, is how to interpret orientation itself...
...We finally gave in to the children's pleas only a few months ago...
...Sex & the pope Luke Timothy Johnson has gotten it right ("A Disembodied 'Theology of the Body/" January 26,2001...
...Much of the gray is literal...
...During the Gulf War (1991), more than 900,000 rounds of such ammunition were fired (compared to 31,000 rounds in Kosovo and 11,000 in Bosnia...
...But her reaction lacked any sense of proportionality...
...You can upload pictures of yourself and be rated by visitors to the site...
...From these, one can see what early twentieth-century Bucharest must have been like...
...Hoping & praying I thoroughly enjoyed Jerry Ryan's "1054 & All That" (January 12,2001...
...Do you want to do this to yourself...
...Yet, as carefully crafted as the speech was in its appeal for the nation "to seek a common good beyond your comfort, to defend needed reforms against easy attacks, to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor," it also exposed the contradictions embedded in the Republican agenda—contradictions that belie the president's appeal to the common good...
...Taxpayers know better than the government how to spend their money...
...Who needs it...
...He was on the phone to friends in the United States to mobilize funds, speaking to the prime minister's office to determine the areas of greatest need, receiving reports from friends in the affected villages and towns, and meeting with his team to plan strategies for temporary shelters as well as long-term reconstruction and relief...
...Others range from political satire ("Am I President or not...
...In 1975 (Meek v. Pittenger) and again in 1977 (Wolman v. Walter) the Court established a further principle: "books for kids in religious schools, yes...
...What seems on landing to be a golden ground haze turns out to be smog that rises higher and grows thicker toward the center of the city...
...The Court faced the question: Is a computer like a book and thus a "lawful benefit" or is it equipment and accordingly "forbidden aid...
...A man was being tortured...
...Did they cause a growing number of cancer- and leukemia-related deaths among NATO veterans...
...It requires that the aid be merely supplementary and not relieve the school of expenses it would otherwise incur, that the aid be to the child, not to the school, and that "any aid...that ultimately flows to a religious institution does so only as a result of the genuinely independent and private choices of the aid recipients...
...and mortality rates for children under five have quadrupled (UNICEF estimates some 500,000 premature deaths in that subgroup...
...Wherever you do it, brother, the upper-wallah (God) will be watching...
...President Bush insisted that we take our responsibilities seriously both in this country and in the world, reminding us that "compassion is the work of a nation, not just a government...
...It also seemed to dispel, at least among the Court's majority, any spirit of hostility toward religion and children in religious schools...
...In the 1985 Aguilar decision, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, also writing in dissent, questioned "the utility of entanglement as a separate establishment standard in most cases...
...Twenty?...And who is doing the counting...
...One Canadian expert, the Courant reported, has warned of likely lung cancers developing among Gulf War veterans...
...If not in ten years, in fifteen...
...Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit...
...tape recorders and projectors, no...
...It would be excellent for Johnson to expand these topics and to open the dialogue for those who would join him in his plea for a revisiting of Humanae vitae...
...Paul O'Neill, secretary of the treasury, acknowledged at his confirmation hearings the high priority a tax cut has in the new administration...
...As state and local governments attempted to provide secular benefits in fairness to parents of children attending parochial schools, extreme church-state "separationists" were quick to lodge court challenges...
...As a candidate, George W. Bush called for a strengthening of sanctions, and Hussein will no doubt be a primary focus of Bush's foreign policy—in terms of energy security and family honor...
...And sometimes, as in last December's election to the presidency of former Communist Ion Iliescu, who served from 1990 to 1996 as the country's first president after the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu, they make progress by going backward...
...It would be interesting to see an article explaining why the analogy is unreasonable...
...Millions of dollars were diverted from the educational aspects of the program to lease classroom vans placed outside the schools and to provide for bus drivers, maintenance, and heating...
...Where else can you get all this for $44 per year...
...D 8 JO McGOWAN Corporal punishment Natural & other disasters in India Just minutes before the January 26 earthquake hit Gujarat, India—we live in Dehra Doon, north and east of that state—I was thinking about earthquakes...
...And Alan Greenspan's mixed blessing a few days later (cut, but not too much...
...Gordon also warned the audience that the growth area in religion was not among the broadminded, compassionate New Yorkers gathered in the room...
...In 1986 (Witters v. Washington Department of Services to the Blind), the Court upheld state financial aid to a blind ministry student, pointing out that the aid had been directed to the Christian college, not by any choice of government, but by the private choice of the recipient...
...I never stated, or implied, that the church is supporting research to eliminate gays (human persons...
...Gaps and attempts to fill them are not confined to Bucharest...
...But parents have been limited by their economic status in choosing the kind of education they want for their children...
...Catholic bishops' conference, wrote to Patriarch Raphael Bidawid of Baghdad, his Iraqi counterpart, saying that while the international community held the Iraqi government accountable for threatening the peace, world leaders must not "hold the Iraqi people hostage or harm innocent people...
...But he knew there was much more and he was determined to get it back...
...My thought was: with my weak faith, do I really need to read discussions about the deficiencies in the Catholic church as perceived by others...
...Even nihilists can find a home in cyberspace at the Web site "Am I not or not...
...One of the most poignant stories involved a class of thirty high-school juniors (my son's age) who had been called in for a special exam (January 26 is a national holiday in India, and children generally attend school only to participate in outdoor parades and patriotic displays...
...Think of your own humanity...
...On average, 5,000 Iraqi citizens have died each month since the war, according to the Courant, as the result of UN sanctions leveled against the regime of Saddam Hussein...
...It is as if acts of God are not enough—we have to create our own tragedies as well...
...I hope and pray that I will be able to see this happen in my lifetime...
...As we were pulling out of the driveway, the chief walked toward the car and motioned to us to wait...
...In looking at the ecumenical movement, Ryan pointed out real possibilities and opportunities to come together and share our faith without our traditions inhibiting our worship and dialogue...
...But here today—caught between the devastation in Gujerat and the police station in Dehra Doon—I can only say like Peter: "Lord I believe...
...In Transylvania, churches built in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by Saxon settlers are largely deserted or turned into monuments because Ceau§escu allowed the parishioners, still largely German-speaking after more than eight centuries in the region, to emigrate when the German government paid large exit fees...
...Indeed, the promised cut of $1.6 trillion was the first order of business in the Senate the Monday after inauguration day...
...An absolutizing of the establishment clause at the expense of the free-exercise clause seems to have occurred...
...Building on its 1947 decision and other precedents, the Court in 1971 (Lemon v. Kurtzman) established a threefold test for the constitutionaliI I ty of public funding of religious institutions: Such monies must serve "a secular legislative purpose," have "a primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion," and entail "no excessive government entanglement with religion...
...Knowing that my Hindi would never rise to this occasion, to say nothing of needing more courage than I possessed alone, I ran home to get Ravi and we dashed back in our car...
...their building collapsed and all but four died...
...That was rich indeed...
...If not yet, when might they...
...Low-income families are constrained to accept the public education system with its state-mandated system of values...
...According to Dennis Halliday, the UN's former coordinator of aid to Iraq, the UN embargo has "pushed the Iraqi people back toward Saddam," undermining the sanctions' stated goal...
...Postmodern people know that there is not just one truth, and consequently must embrace what she called the "challenge of de-evangelization" (few people in the room evidently caught the reference to John Paul II...
...The court quickly rejected Tudor's appeal only three days after votes were cast...
...Lewis's Mere Christianity and his comparison of contemporary sexuality and gluttony...
...The important role of private choice is thus affirmed...
...It was his duty...
...What secular benefits may government provide to students in parochial schools...
...In our nation, the U.S...
...John Paul II's behavior in relation to the Jews is "simply an outrage," she said...
...The situation is different in all of Western Europe and Canada, where substantial government subsidies ensure the freedom of parents to choose a religious school...
...For the Exposition Center, the builders dug a large circular hole and put a dome over it, but the symmetry is much more pleasing than the Stalinist block nearby...
...Many of the details for cuts are still to be worked out and they may prove to be more prudent and equitable than they sounded during the campaign...
...They shrug at the Exposition Center to the north and sneer at the National Theater at the center, but they seem compelled by a perverse form of pride to first take visitors to see the enormous House of the People, second largest building in the world after the Pentagon...
...Since then there have been an additional sixty thousand sanction-related deaths—more than the number of U.S...
...My husband Ravi is one of India's experts on disaster relief and earthquakesafe housing...
...REV...
...Could someone explain that to me...
...The article by Luke Timothy Johnson attempts to take Pope John Paul II to task, thereby defining his deficiency, for not showing some "appreciation for the goodness of sexual pleasure...
...O'Connor dryly noted, "Even a publicly financed lunch would apparently be unconstitutional under a divertibility rationale because religious school officials conceivably could use the lunch to lead students in a blessing over the bread...
...the deficit could reemerge if surpluses fail to materialize) was taken by Republicans as an order to move full speed ahead...
...Romanian Orthodox churches, the older ones aged into individuality and distinction...
...By midafternoon on the second day I could no longer take it, but Ravi, desperate for more information, couldn't bear to turn it off...
...Gordon was oblivious to the absence of humility and the unwarranted certainty with which she caricatured the pope's actions as well as the beliefs of those she deems "fundamentalists...
...One member lists among her hobbies "drinking/getting drunk," "wrestling," and "building sand castles...
...Robert j. comiskey Springfield, Va...
...and John Conyers (D-Mich...
...And I believe it is a greater insult to the murder of the Jews than if he had simply been silent...
...No longer, it appears, will previous barriers to aid—the danger of political divisiveness, an undue proportion of aid going to Catholic schools, or a school's "pervasively sectarian" nature—taint the constitutionality of an aid program...
...Aside from electing a former Communist to lead a country into capitalist democracy, the most obvious contradictions in Romania, as in every post-Communist country, are evident on the drive into Bucharest from the airport...
Vol. 128 • February 2001 • No. 3
