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cover story
Ellery Schempp, A62, was just 16 when he challenged Bible readings and prayer in his high school. The Supreme Court case that ensued, a landmark in First Amendment law, banished organized religious activities from public schools. Officially, anyway. BY
STEPHEN D. SOLOMON
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In fourteen hundred and ninety-nine, Vespucci sailed across the brine. Who’d have thought this Johnny-come-lately with the inflated résumé—rather than his pal Columbus—would have an entire
hemisphere named after him? Yet somehow the name fits, says his biographer. BY
FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO, PRINCE OF ASTURIAS PROFESSOR OF HISTORY |
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Additional Features Oceans
of Light, The Best
Things Since Sliced Bread
Columns Connoisseur: Learn
from the Label, Kids These Days: Spare
the Rod?, Animal
Instincts: When Dogs Are Driven, Negotiating
Life: Building Relationships
Departments Jumbolaya, Newswire, Planet
Tufts, Letters, Bookshelf,
The Big Day, Afterimage |
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