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School board wants prayer policy followed By:Fred Batiste, Daily Star Staff Writer October 22, 2003 AMITE - Tangipahoa Parish Superintendent Louis Joseph received instructions from School Board members Tuesday to make sure the school system's 35 schools are following its school prayer policy. The board reached that decision while an audience of nearly 200 waited to hear the board's stance on the third lawsuit filed in nine years by the American Civil Liberties Union against the board. The ACLU filed a complaint a week ago in federal court in New Orleans on behalf on a Loranger resident known as...

By Callie Clark ~ Southeast Missourian They come to Room 103 at Scott City Middle School every Wednesday morning -- about 25 students who, heads bowed, hands clasped and eyes closed, gather to pray. Over an early-morning snack of cookies and donuts, the enthusiastic sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders from various religious denominations also hold a quick Bible study before heading off to their first class. "This is a group I can rely on to share my thoughts with," said sixth-grader Amy Lawman. "I'm not a Christian by myself in school." The scene demonstrates the purpose behind new federal guidelines released...

Americans are becoming only too aware of the financial tricks and deceit in which some of the nation's largest and most respected corporations engaged during the Clinton administration to pump up stock prices with fraudulently inflated profits. When the huge bubble no longer could be sustained the men and women at the top would bail out of their stock and pocket millions, leaving pensioners and other investors holding an empty bag. To market insiders these are known as "pump and dumps." While federal investigators are looking into the corporate malfeasance at Enron, WorldCom, Qwest Communications, AOL Time Warner and...