convoy ofU.S.
fi on hun
ou 'd
from
Watson. said h to 100
forward to reading The Ram
bler.
"Paolini is a talented guy,
and his paper filled a bizarre
niche, letting prison emplo '
sound off," Watson id. "But
he went over the line. •
"The Rambler was a lively
piece, but the racism had to be
curbed," he said. .
P OL Ie terof
pology to Correction Commis
ioner Ro rt J. Watson for
my alleged racial insensitiv-
ity," but he deni any racial
bi and ays the only people
offended by the paper's irrever
ent stories re prison admin
istrators.
"I hate racism, " Paolini said.
"I would never deliberately of
fend anyone, and as far as I
know, I didn't.
"Th Bla guards weren't
offended. Some of them even
wrote for the paper," said
Paolini, a W t Dover ident
who has worked at vera} tem
porary jobs ince his suspen
sion Dec. 1.
D • (AP) -An un
d rground ne sletter for
guard at t Delaw re Correc
tional Center has n banned
because of llegedly raci t
tatemen .
The Midnight Rambler,
which was printed about once a
month, was published by cor
rect io nal officer Karl W.
Paolini with contributions from
other guards.
T publication lasted 16 is
u before it � d lared con
traband and banned from the
prison last month.
Paolini has been uspended
without pay and fa dismiss-
al.
CORRECTIO official
said they sought advice from
the state Attorney General's of
fice and ere told they could do
nothing 88 long as the ne let
ter wasn't produced or distrib
uted on state time. Paolini . d
he used a Dover printing shot
and mailed the ne etter to
about 200 ubscribers.
But officials decided to act
after a mock prof; ional
tling program filled with ethnic
and racial urs was printed in
the n Jetter.
Chief Stanley W. Taylor Jr.
of the Priso Bureau, who bas
final say on a recommendation
. to fire Paolini, said the ne let
ter's journalistic practices also
left much to be desired.
"Some of his information
was flat wrong," Taylor said. "I
used to tell Karl to check out his
information before printing it.
He made no attempt to get
management input."
John H. Bryan, ( econd from le�) chairman and chief executive officer of Sara Lee Corpora
tion, recently received The King Center's • Salute to Greatness· ward during n annual
c�lebration held by the Mal1ln Luther King Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change. the
tribute by former Amba ador and noted civil rights activist Andrew Young (far right)
recognized Mr. Bryan' long- tanding commitment to Dr. King dream and the advancement
of women and minoritie throughout the world. - Citing acts of moral courage - from hi
dr matic tand to eliminate • eparate but equal- facilitie in Westpoint, Mi issippi, in the
. '60 toSara Lee Corporation' global diver ity program ofthe '90 -the King Center heralded
Bryan a cataly t for nonviolent ocial change. Also pictured (l-r) Je e Hill, chairman, The
King Ce er; Bryan; Mr . John Bryan, Sr.; Mr . Neville Bryan; Coretta Scott King, founding
pre8k1e� and C.E.O., The King Center; and Young.
c
WASHINGTON- According to
David E. Anderson of Religious
N Set-vic , the Sup
Court agree4 td eaT, a-caae'
tee mg. h 'tUi' ity ()f
creating a special-public school
district to accommodate a relig
ious group.
The court's acceptance of the
case, Kiryas Joel v. Grumet, pro
vides the justices with another
opportunity to revisit the so
called Lemon test which estab
lished the ground rules
government must follow injudg
ing how far it can go in support
ing religion without violating
the Constitution.
The principal of church-state
separation has given Americans
more religious f�om than any
people in history said Barry
Lynn,' executive director of
Americans United for Separa
tion of Church and State.
An immediate issue in the
case is the 1989 action of the
New York state legislature cre
ating a specia[ public school dis
trict that followed the
boundaries of the village of
il
Like all mandalas, the design of the
"Wheel of Healing" never changes. It be
gins as aline dra wing. Then the monks use
elongated metal funnels to put the painted
sand in place.
"They have this memorized," Bryant
,said. 'They have that sand mandala in
their mind just like you have your job 01' a
pianist has the entire score of what they
are going to sit down and play. They not
only have that visual picture memorized,
they have th teachings behind it, the 500-
page manuscript that it comes from. These
monks, even before they learn how to draw
the sand mandal ,have already spent
10-15 years being educated.
"It actually is a quite extraordinary
thing. We are quite bl ed to have th m
come to our cities. The monks love to an
swer questions. People, when they go to
the museum, I encourage them to ask
questions, • Bryant said.
Once it has fulfilled its purposed, which
is to house th deiti for the empower
ment of the initiated, it is dismantled.
Next Monday, the Denver mandala will
wept up, and the nd will be poured
into an urn and then taken to Confluence,
Park and placed in the South Platte River.
plan of the deity's palace, including deco
rative details, It can be constructed of col
ored sand, wheat, rice or flowers, or dust of
stones, and jewels. Also, meditation man
dalas are visualized in the mind.
Mandalas are used in the initiation of
students into the teachings of a particular
deity. The viewing of the mandala comes
at the end of the initiation, but its creation"
is not seen.
However, the monks' work this week at
the museum is not part of an initiation, but
a demonstration of the ritual art form.
Patrons may view the process duringregu
lar museum hours through Sunday.
"They start each d y with prayer and 0
forth," Bryant sid. "The prayers are
meant to purify the space, the materials
they are wor . ng with and the minds of all
of us 'involved in th pro
DENVER (AP) - In an effort to combat
violence in Denver, Ti tan monks from
the Ganden Jangtse monastery in India
will enlist 2,600 years of spiritual tradition
in constructi ng a mandala - or sacred
sand painting - this w k t the Denver
Art Museum.
, Barry Bryant, author of "The Wheel of
Time Sand Mandala, " said there are thou
sands 0,· diff rent mandal which repre
sent and embody a, particular teaching of
the Buddha. '
The sand mandala being constructed in
Denver is the "Wheel of H ling.". '
'"The mandala also mbodies the deity
the teaching r p en ," aid Bryant, who
is artistic director of the ew York City
based Samaya Foundation, which brings
to the West the art, culture and spiritual
wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism.
"The deiti are not n as something
external to us, rather they are n as
aspects of ur own mind. By focusing on a
particulary deity, you are focusing on a
particular aspect of your own mind. For
example, the deity of compassion, wisdom
or immaterial power." '
14 TE T PUR CA T 0
prayers, they r cite prayers to create com-
ion. It is with-that mind of compassion
that they actually work in the p of
constructing the sand mandala. That is a
lot of what people are responding to in the
museums, not only the beauty of the sand
mandala but the pro of the monks hav-
ing cr ted this mind of com ion."
THE 0 0
two-dimensional rep
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ntation or floor
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Kennedy has sought to offer a .
revised version of Lemon br4t,
has ,not let found a majority.on
t1o:'e' , .1"1 ........ f.n •
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alternate test. Bryon White who
retired from the court at the end
of last term, had also favored
easing the Lemon Standards but
his replacement, Justice; Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, generally en
dorsed Lemon while also ac
knowledging it was during her
confirmation hearings while
also acknowledging it was "am
biguous".
Blacks, Hispanics
question Clinton's
crime proposals
WASHINGTON, DC - While
generally backing most of Pres i
dent Clinton's recent "State of
the Union" address, members of
the Congressional Black and
Hispanic Caucuses are question
ing the president's ",get tough W
on crime proposals.
Black Caucus head Rep.
Kweisi Mfume of Maryland sug
gested there was too much em
phasis on police and prisons and
not enough on jobs ana social
programs. He explained, W Job
creation, while it seemingly has
fallen off the national agenda, is
still at the top of our agenda. W
The vice-chair of the Hispanic
'Caucus Rep. Lucille Royal-Al
lard of California added, ·We
can't be successful without hav
ing prevention as part of it.
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'Mogadi hu, here militi are
reportedly rming and roving
b ndits are robbing many peo
ple. So most of the children, ho
range from ne horns to IS-year
old, don't understand what
happened during Somalia' civil
war and famine, and the U.S.
led rescue effort that followed.
Many of them don't even know
where the United States is, and
they often assume that the white
people who come to visit them
must be Italians because Ital
ians were once their colonial
masters.
But their fears for Somalia's
..
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Kiryas Joel, a small village
about 40 miles outside New
York City, 1 DnlilDl1teCl
m t entirely by memqars of the
Satmarer. flaisidic . t r
school district was created to
serve about 200 learning dis
abled children from the sect.
IN 1985, the Supreme Court
in Aguilar v. Felton ruled that
tax funded teachers could not
teach in parochial or religious
schools.
The lawsuit began when two
state school officials, acting as
private citizens, sought to have
the special religious district
voice on the grounds that the
arrangement violated the con
stitutional clause forbidding the
establishment of religion.
The Lemon test, based on the
1971 Supreme Court ruling in
Lemon v .. Kurtzman, sets forth a
. three part standard that govern
ment actions must meet to pass
constitutional muster in the
church-state area arena: the ac
tion must have a secular pur
pose. In recent years, the Lemon
test has been under increasing
attack both inside and outside
the court, done principally by
Justices Antonin Scalia and An
thony Kennedy, who argue that
it is both too stringent and too
ambiguous.
Scalia has been particularly
cathing in his attack on the
three-part test, describing it last
year as like "some ghoul in a late
night horror movie that repeat
edly sits up in its grave and
schuffies abroad after being re-