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Gromyko's arrival, though it had the trappings of diplomatic ritual, was anything but routine. A little more than a year ago, in the midst of the worldwide outrage over the Soviet Union's shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, the Governors of New York and New Jersey ordered the Port Authority to deny landing rights to Gromyko's jetliner at any of its airport facilities, including J.F.K. The Foreign Minister was sufficiently incensed by their action to cancel abruptly and angrily his appearance at the U.N. Not even an offer by Washington to allow...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art. The ceremony began at the unaccustomed hour of 6:32 a.m. on the vast expanse of steps fronting New York City's most venerable art institution. There, five Maori women lifted their voices in unison with the rising sun and intoned the karanga, a ritual call of welcome. Instantly, a booming responsive chant was heard to echo from a block up Fifth Avenue, where a group of Maori tribesmen had forgathered. Then up the steps they came: 90 Maori dignitaries, some I with albatross feathers in their hair and tasseled white cloaks draped over their...
...ritual was not a photo opportunity staged for the occasion. It was required, said Maori leaders, to lift the tapu, or religious restrictions, from the exhibit's 174 pieces, which the New Zealanders believe are imbued with the living spirits of their ancestors. After the Metropolitan show closes Jan. 6, Maori leaders will travel abroad once more to conduct tapu-lifting rites when the exhibit opens at the St. Louis Art Museum in February and the M.H, de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco in July...
Ever since Locke, a general rule of liberal democracy has been to exclude matters of religious ritual, belief and practice from the jurisdiction of the state. But is any law that derives from religious beliefs an imposition of religion on others? It is true that many who want the state to restrict (in some cases ban) abortion or pornography or homosexuality derive then-views from religious teaching; but many who believe that the state should ban, say, racial discrimination derive their views from religious teaching too. Are they illegitimately imposing their religious views on others? Should they, as opposed...
...same time, however, athletes will be free to chose between athletics, academics, or both. And colleges will not face the common ritual of bending rules and lowering academic standards to field the top 22 football players...