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...Advocates for the deaf expressed anger that the season finale of NYPD Blue featured a deaf actor signing a prayer that deaf viewers claim made no logical sense...
...with news reports but with music--as if a mellifluous melody could somehow soothe the anxieties of a leaderless populace, a commanderless army and a watching world. And so it was when Hafez Assad died last week. Syrian state media trumpeted classical music and koranic verses--a TV prayer vigil for the 69-year-old dictator. The cameras captured weeping members of the Syrian parliament mourning the onetime air force pilot who had taken a poor nation of 17 million and made it, well, still poor but nevertheless a pivotal player in the Middle East...
...Evangelicals. Shaken yet inspired by what they see as the martyrdom of Christian students--and encouraged by a decade-old Supreme Court decision affirming student-led, after-school Christian clubs--they have shown a new assertiveness. The movement's political arm, meanwhile, insists that reinstatement of adult-led class prayer is the best way to prevent new carnage...
...deep for a microphone with which to praise God and confess sins ranging from attempted suicide to premarital sex to simple bad manners. Lee, rising to explain why her administration legally could not participate, found herself professing her own Christianity. "One atheist [Madeline Murray O'Hair] took prayer out of the schools," Lee said, but she prayed it would return. "When she said that," notes Judy Mitchell, one of the Christian athletes' faculty advisers, "it broke the ice. Everyone said, 'I can do that, 'cause I'm not going to get in trouble.'" At least 450 of Pearl River...
...Percentage of adults in general who favor allowing daily prayer to be spoken in the classroom...