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...platform applauds President Bush for"leading an education revolution." Education goalsinclude a "GI Bill for Children" which wouldprovide $1000 scholarships to low and middleincome families so that they can choose schoolsfor their children. The platform also supportsvoluntary prayer in schools, along with therecitation of the Pledge of Allegiance
Hispano-Islamic culture was an extraordinary hybrid, built over the vestiges of Rome, mingling Western with Middle Eastern forms. This tension and merging shows itself everywhere in the remnants of Islamic Spain. The architects of ^ the prayer hall of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, for instance, designed its sublime forest of columns and horseshoe arches as a communal space without the hierarchical orientation of a Christian basilica, as befitted Islamic ritual -- but they also based its double-arch system on the design of Roman aqueducts. "You have taken something unique and turned it into something mundane," the Emperor Charles...
Early in the campaign, Clinton did not plan to stress abortion or other emotional issues such as school prayer. He wanted to avoid the appearance of catering to "special interests," including feminists. But now Clinton must scrape for every faction, large or small. As the only one of the three candidates favoring the pending bill and promising to appoint pro-choice judges to the Supreme Court, Clinton hopes to stand apart from his rivals...
...several earlier decisions the trio had emerged as a center-right coalition willing to throw its support to the court's two embattled liberals, Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens. They produced majorities in favor of sustaining the ban on school prayer and strengthening the power of federal courts to review the convictions or sentences of state prisoners. These rulings made conservatives question their assumption that 12 years of Reagan- Bush appointments had produced a right-wing lock on the court. But in order to join the 5-to-4 majority that reaffirmed abortion rights last week, Kennedy...
...Absent from prayer: four pence...