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...leitmotif of Brown's political life. In 1994 he stepped aside to let Blair lead the party, persuaded that his media-savvy friend would appeal more widely to voters. Brown's supporters claim the Prime Minister reneged on a deal to stand aside after two terms to give Brown a turn at the wheel. Blair showed no inclination to budge until restive M.P.s, worried that his post-Iraq unpopularity was damaging the party, finally pressured him into announcing last September that he would go within a year...
...parents thought the dress code more than just ridiculous: they considered it unconstitutional. In March they and a dozen other Redwood parents and students sued the school and the Napa Valley Unified School District in state court. They claim the students have a fundamental right to express themselves through their attire--to speak, in effect, through the kind of clothes that Scott insisted on wearing that first day of school: a denim skirt and socks depicting Tigger, a character from Winnie-the-Pooh...
...were almost unheard of, and they usually involved weighty issues such as racial equality and the right to political protest. But since 1998, students have sued schools in astounding numbers, with as many as 94 disciplinary cases reaching appellate courts in one year. And while lots of these suits claim First Amendment violations, the speech involved can feel trivial: inappropriate clothes, online insults or, as in a current Supreme Court case, BONG HITS 4 JESUS written on a banner...
...polypill in a 2003 report in the British Medical Journal, they argued that if taken daily by people with vascular disease and those aged over 55, it would cut the incidence of heart attack and stroke by more than 80%. While advocates have retreated marginally from that claim, their enthusiasm is palpable. "In terms of delivering care at the community level," says Anushka Patel, director of the cardiovascular division of Sydney's The George Institute for International Health, "I think it's potentially one of the most exciting advances we've seen for a long time...
...Still, his claim that his followers are incapable of sin because of a verse in Paul's biblical letter to the Roman church would stretch even Prosperity's sometimes liberal scriptural readings to the breaking point. And any prosperity church, indeed any Christian church, would regard de Jesus's claim to be THE Jesus as heretical. Almost as suspicious, says Miguel De La Torre, a professor at Denver's Iliff school of Theology and co-author of the introduction to the primer Latino Theology, is the way Creciendo's leader has run through self-descriptions over the decades: from...