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Many legal experts and religious leaders feel that the Lemon test is at best confusing, at worst unfair, and in any event destined to change. The current challenge has come in the case of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet. Kiryas Joel is a municipality in upstate New York where virtually all citizens are in the Satmar sect of Hasidic Orthodox Jewry. Kiryas Joel adheres rigidly to Old World dress and ways and maintains a close-knit, Yiddish-speaking community that tries to shield itself from outside influences. TV, movies and even higher education are shunned...
...Kiryas Joel says its public school for the handicapped operates in a strictly nonsectarian fashion. Opponents, led by Louis Grumet, executive director of the New York State School Boards Association, do not argue that point. But they say Lemon forbids the very existence of a school set up by the & state legislature specifically to help a religious community and perpetuate its life-style. New York's highest court outlawed the school because it creates a "symbolic union" between religion and the state. The Supreme Court last week heard arguments in Kiryas Joel's appeal...
...think the big problem today was that we woke up at Yale and found out it wasn't Arizona," said sophomore Joel Radtke, alluding to the feelgood weather at the teams' spring-break trip to Phoenix...
...Harvard men's team, tallying a disappointing 424, placed third at the tournament, the oldest in inter-collegiate golf. Sophomore Darren Kilfara was Harvard's top performer, placing fourth overall with a 78. Freshman Ed Boyda cracked the top 10 finishers with an 82. Sophomore Joel Radtke (87), freshman Louis Sanchez (88) and junior Jack Wylie (89) rounded out the men's top five...
...more grotesque the deed, the greater the killer's appeal. In the panoply of murderers, Long Island landscaper Joel Rifkin, who goes on trial this month for the death of 17 young women, is just a garden-variety killer. The man- eating Dahmer is the pick of the crop. "People are getting very morbidly involved in violence, especially violent sexual behavior," says criminologist Robert Ressler, who says he first coined the term serial killer 20 years ago when he worked in the FBI's behavioral-research branch. Americans now wallow in the horror and gore and take a guilty delight...