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...religious belief is based on our understanding of the dialectical materialistic theory," says Ye Xiaowen, director of the State Council's Religious Affairs Bureau. "It is our concept of God." God, therefore, is subject to "sensible, cautious and scientific choice." As Ye wrote in 1996, "We must definitely adopt Lenin's attitude on such questions: 'Be especially cautious,' 'Be most rigorous,' and 'Think things over...
...Students just love Jim, and many adopt him as their guardian angel in the office," said Matthew J. DeGreeff '89, a senior admissions and financial aid officer. Both students and parents "connect with him because of his humor and openness and intelligence...
...addition to taking individual cases, Scheck and Neufeld are lobbying for more systemic change. They want other states to adopt laws like New York's, creating a right to post-conviction DNA testing and requiring the state to pay if the inmate can't afford the $3,000 to $5,000 cost. They also want laws requiring prosecutors to keep DNA evidence at least as long as a defendant remains in jail. Now prosecutors are generally free to throw away biological evidence when they want...
...Carolina, gave the Greenville civic activist $200,000 of private money left over from his inaugural and asked her to help make the state's new work requirements for welfare recipients stick. Van Riper's mission: to persuade every church, synagogue and private civic group in the state to adopt one welfare family and guide it toward independence...
...volunteers are also watching other preconceptions crumble. As white churches work with black families and black churches adopt whites, suspicions float away. "I've been in government for 25 years," says Leon Love, deputy director of community services for the state, "and no program I've seen has done as much for race relations as this one has. We didn't go into this with that goal--but these relationships develop based on people, not color. People get to know people, and then it's hard to hate a friend...