Word: affirmation
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ANGELS ACROSS THE AGES. If there is such a thing as a universal idea, common across cultures and through the centuries, the belief in angels comes close to it. Jews, Christians and Muslims have postulated endlessly about angels' nature and roles, but all three religions affirm their existence. There are angels in Buddhism, Hinduism and Zoroastrianism; winged figures appear in ancient Sumerian carvings, Egyptian tombs and Assyrian reliefs. Visible or invisible, in disguise or in full glory, angels appear in more than half the books of the Bible: it was an angel who told Abraham to spare his son from...
This theme is hardly new, as Jesse Jackson and other black leaders in communities nationwide will affirm. But no one else has the president's power to draw public attention to an issue. Local concerns develop national importance when the president takes a serious interest in them, and Clinton's interest in ending urban violence appears serious indeed...
When Morrison's Pulitzer was viewed by some as a token bestowed to appease a racial minority, a grave injustice was done a great writer. That attempt to discredit Morrison's accomplishment, though she was vindicated by being awarded the Nobel, should remind discerning readers how such concepts as affirmative action have victimized the very people they were originally intended to affirm. It is time to let go of an outdated system and give people credit based solely on merit, blind to race, by eliminating special admissions standards and token vacancies...
...really reflects ignorance and bigotry,"Outcault said. "We decided to meet with PresidentRudenstine to have him publicly affirm theUniversity's anti-discrimination policy and tomake clear that Mansfield speaks for Mansfield...
...Coalition of Harvard Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Groups decided at a meeting last night to ask President Neil L. Rudenstine to publicly affirm the University's commitment to nondiscrimination in wake of controversial testimony by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield...