Word: americanizing
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Schoolwerth was the team's second-leading scorer in 1998, behind Judy Collins, who was a First-Team Regional All-American and tied the Ivy League career scoring record with 102 points...
Perhaps you were thinking about concentrating in Women's Studies or Afro-American Studies...
...churches out. They say children cannot wear the Star of David to school because of regulations meant to ban gang symbols. They say coroners perform autopsies on those whose faith holds that the corpse is sacred. In short, without the Religious Liberty Protection Act, says Marc Stern of the American Jewish Congress, "you send a message to the state [authorities] that they have carte blanche to interfere with religious practices...
What about other reasons cited for the law? Stern of the American Jewish Congress, who helped write the bill, says Orthodox Jewish and Native American families should not have to beg officials not to perform autopsies on their relatives. He cited a case in Eagle Pass, Texas, in which a federal judge ruled in favor of an autopsy on a member of the Kickapoo tribe who justice of the peace Martha Chacon believed might have been murdered. The judge said the state's interest in finding the truth trumped the tribe's religious concerns. In the end, though, Chacon decided...
This odd grouping, however, is having trouble staying united. The American Civil Liberties Union, which helped draft the current bill, as well as the 1993 law, now opposes it unless an amendment makes clear that religious claims cannot be used to defeat civil rights laws. Civil rights advocates are concerned about such groups as the World Church of the Creator, for example, which claims a religious belief in promoting the white race. Gay lawyers say the bill would allow conservative Christian landlords to refuse to rent to gay people even in states with laws protecting lesbians and gays from housing...