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...tourists and hunters than from ranching and farming. Writer Douglas Coffman, who helped Scott, saw even more: a chance to recapture a bit of the original American heart, something brave and wild. Coffman, who is writing a novel about the return of the buffalo -- the fulfillment of a prayer in an old Indian song -- even tracked down the site near Jordan, Mont., where the Smithsonian's William Hornaday in 1886 found the last of the wild bison. He killed 25 of them, took skins and skeletons back East to mount. Those shaggy monsters roamed the National Museum of Natural History...
...hiking, often alone. He has climbed all the White Mountains 4,000 ft. or higher, and in one day hiked the 25-mile-long trail that crosses over the Presidential Range. His habits include attending services at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Hopkinton, where he prefers the 1928 prayer book to the 1970s modernized version. His close friend from Oxford, Dr. Melvin Levine, who now teaches pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School at Chapel Hill, says of Souter, "You really feel as if you are with one of our Founding Fathers...
...Democrats have contributed to the deterioration of judicial appointments into political tests of strength. While the campaign against Bork was the most highly politicized in this century, it took place only after Ronald Reagan had loaded the lower federal courts with judges who met his own tests on abortion, prayer in school, affirmative action and the separation of powers. Both sides can also point to history to support their arguments about how Senators should interpret their constitutional mandate to "advise and consent" in the process of choosing Justices. Over the years 29 presidential nominees, about a fifth of the total...
...prayer that America in the '90s turn inward and address the problems that have always meant the real decline of empires. Doug Marren Summer School Student
...Massachusetts statute on child abuse and neglect, which creates a legal exemption for those who believe in spiritual healing. Some 44 states provide some sort of religious exemption. In the Twitchell case, the first to test the Massachusetts law, Hamlin ruled that "a subjective belief in healing by prayer" is no excuse for not obtaining medical help when a child is seriously...