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...debate over Christmas displays on public property has occupied civil libertarians for years and is often overshadowed by constitutional struggles waged on the national level, such as that over prayer in schools. But a Rhode Island Circuit Court of Appeals judge last month pushed the creche issue back into the spotlight by upholding a 1981 ruling forbidding the city of Pawtucket from mounting a manger scene. That city responded intelligently, selling its display to a private group which put it up on private property...
When Brooks was killed at the state prison in Huntsville. Texas, his legal appeal was still pending before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Unlike every other death-row prisoner in history, Brooks was denied a chance to go through the full appeals process called three tiered review." Brooks had, in fact, already gone through most of the procedure. His last appeal could have taken several more months, but the Fifth Circuit Court refused to grant a stay of execution...
...Government in recent years has been more a part of the problem than part of the solution in many ways. No, I haven't changed my mind in those ways. I think, yes, there are perceptions when you get in. I know that out on the mashed-potato circuit for many years, when I wasn't in office, I used to refuse to make certain criticisms-and I'm kind of grateful now-on the basis that only if you had access to all of the information that [a President] has are you qualified to come...
...practice the hoopsters concentrate on fundamentals, with emphasis on maintaining an intensity in drills that they will need for games. The last minutes of practice are spent on a conditioning circuit, which includes jumping rope, toe raises and push-ups. Before tryouts, Delaney Smith encouraged her athletes to work out on their own, in a Nautilus program, while alternating days with sprint work and skill drills...
...best amateur race drivers in the country. Newman, say the records, has been twice national champion in his class (and with this success has dropped the anonymous "P.L." and now feels comfortable racing under his full name). This year he drove one of the fastest cars on the circuit, a $70,000, 170-m.p.h., turbo-charged Datsun 280ZX...