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...results--two 4-4 deadlocks--were disappointing for all concerned. In one, the village of Scarsdale, N.Y., was appealing a lower federal court ruling that invalidated the town's ban on the display of a creche in a public park. In the other case, a federal court had thrown out an Oklahoma law that authorized the dismissal of public school teachers who advocate homosexual activity. The tie votes mean that the lower-court rulings stand, but the high bench's action has no value as a precedent. The difference between a decision and no decision in both cases...
Hester says that he has made enemies in the neighborhood because of the patrol's vigilance and has even had rocks thrown into his car. "But I have two daughters," he says, "and I feel that I'm making my neighborhood safe for my family...
...worse than the mark of Cain, or even the mark of the Beast, is the stigma I carry. It gets me laughed at in class, thrown out of bars, and brings me constant shame. What...
Voters who go through the routine procedure of changing their party registrations do not ordinarily get gala receptions thrown in their honor or receive the personal congratulations of just about every bigwig in their new political tribe. But then Jeane Kirkpatrick is no ordinary voter. When the departing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations confided that she was severing a lifelong affiliation with the Democratic Party and planning to register as a Republican, G.O.P. officials gleefully scheduled a celebration bash for April 3 and sent out invitations decorated with a drawing of a dancing elephant. Just about every ranking Republican...
...Short Hills, N.J., home waiting for word that he could go back to work. A grand jury in New York had indicted him last October on charges of fraud and larceny in a scheme involving his New Jersey construction company, but Donovan was confident that the case would be thrown out of court. Not so. Last week a New York State Supreme Court justice phoned to tell Donovan, who happened to be in Washington at the time, that he would not dismiss the indictment; Donovan would have to stand trial. Hours later, the Labor Secretary became the first sitting Cabinet...