21.   If teachers or administrators had been leading the prayer, the event would have violated church-state separation laws.

22.   In Argyle, students lead a prayer at the eighth-grade graduation.

23.   In Hendersonville, N.C., Terry Schultz, a member of Reformation Presbyterian Church, led a prayer at a Hendersonville High School football game.

24.   Instead, the football-player-turned-reverend commemorated the anniversary earlier this week by leading a prayer in front of the Ambassador Hotel.

25.   In the Texas case, the fact that pregame prayers are led by students rather than clergy does not lessen the pressure for religious conformity.

26.   It upheld the practice in the schools of DeKalb County, Ala., in which students led Christian prayers over the intercom and before graduations and other school events.

27.   It would allow public school teachers to lead prayer in their classrooms.

28.   Later, the group held hands as the Rev. T. Larry Kirkland, pastor of Brooklyn African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, led a prayer.

29.   Masalha, who had studied religion in East Jerusalem, had led prayers in a mosque in Mashhad and had been friendly with Krayim, an unemployed construction worker.

30.   McCartney denied the charges, but began letting players lead voluntary prayers.