Supreme Court bans student led prayer at public school games
The court by 6 3 rules public school officials cannot allow student led prayers before football games. The decision preserves private religious expression but bars state sponsored observances in schools. Justice Stevens cites the First Amendment in reaffirming the 1962 ruling against organized school prayers.
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Texas
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American Jewish Committee
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Family Research Council
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Volun
Stevens
Sandra Day O'Connor
Anthony M. Kennedy
David H. Souter
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen G. Breyer
William H. Rehnquist
Antonin Scalia
Clarence Thomas
Marian Ward
Santa Fe
Community reacts to Supreme Court school prayer ruling
Area officials say the Supreme Court decision on school prayer best serves communities. Clergy express disappointment, while a Cedar Rapids church leader Jenkins notes it protects students freedom to practice religion without state promotion. Community leaders cite separation of church and state in public schools.
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Jim Taylor
Jefferson High School
Jefferson Games
Darran Whiting
Calvary Baptist Church
Coggan
Whiting
Kerry Brown
First Assembly of God
Cedar Rapids
Bob Dean
First United Methodist Church
Iowa City
Child farmworkers face dangerous conditions in US agriculture
Human Rights Watch charges hundreds of thousands of children ages 13 to 16 labor 70 to 80 hours weekly under dangerous conditions including pesticide exposure and heat illness. The report urges reforms to the Fair Labor Standards Act, stronger labor inspections, and field sanitation enforcement.
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New York
U.S
Human Rights Watch
United States
Lois Whitman
Children’s Rights Division
Lee Tucker
U.S. Department of Labor
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Congress OKs no interest farm loans amid election year tensions
Congress approved 35 million dollars in no interest loans for about 14 000 farmers tied to AgriBioTech creditors and other targeted aid. The measure funds 18 months of loans repaid from bankruptcy settlements with no public hearings or amendments allowed.
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Florida
House
Senate
Don Nickles
R-Okla
Senate Gop
Plete
Southern Illinois University
Larry Craig
Idaho
AgriBioTech
Henderson
Nev
Craig
Department of Agriculture
USDA
Oregon
Clinton
Marchand of Sopranos and Lou Grant dies at 71
Nancy Marchand, Emmy winning actress known for Livia Soprano on The Sopranos and Mrs. Pynchon on Lou Grant, dies of lung cancer a day before her 72nd birthday in Stratford Connecticut. She won four Emmys for Lou Grant from 1979 to 1982 and continued to work on The Sopranos after her diagnosis. Her husband Paul Sparer died in November of cancer.
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Pynchon
Lou Grant
HBO
Tobe Becker
Marchand
Livia Soprano
Sopranos
Paul Sparer
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