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...prayer. As a result, the American Bar Association threatened to deny the school its coveted accreditation, a condition for admission to the bar in many states. Reason: the requirements seemed to violate A.B.A. standards forbidding religious discrimination in admissions. But in Chicago last week, U.S. District Court Judge James Moran suggested that the A.B.A. code itself might be unconstitutional. Said Moran: "I have very serious doubts whether a compelling state interest in a diverse student body overbears the free exercise of religious rights of the First Amendment." The A.B.A. then hastened to put the finishing touches on a liberalized version...
...Patrick Moran...
...whiff of home while they reside back East; that brought a deluge of contemporary works, most of them bad. They have been stored away in a closet. What the President had in mind was great paintings of an earlier West, scenes by the likes of Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and Charles Russell. Reagan wants the Western feel with class. Curiously, Reagan balances this new formality with his own habit of doing things himself. The sight of Lyndon Johnson sticking out his hand and a hovering steward thrusting in a fresh drink is still remembered around the White House. Reagan gets...
...privileged members of a bourgeois democracy where certain political freedoms are ostensibly tolerated--by law. The SYL fought and won a similar case of administration harassment at the University of Chicago, Circle Campus in 1977. The case against an "outside agitator" went to court and Federal Judge James B. Moran ruled that "the present regulations contain the implicit notion that university students must be nurtured in a controlled and protected environment if they are to blossom. The notion is incompatible with the First Amendment." As a socialist youth group, the SYL has the right to express its views and students...
...avowed purpose of issuing the don't-hit list was to redeem Reagan's pledge that his spending cuts would not hurt the "truly needy." But many veterans and Social Security pensioners scarcely meet the stern definition of truly needy people offered by OMB Associate Director Donald Moran: "People who in the absence of Government benefits could not survive...