Word: bahai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights requires all public school systems to submit racial data on their students. Mahin, who had attended private schools since moving to Greensboro in 1985, just as politely declined. She and her parents, both born in the U.S., follow the Bahai religious faith. Explained her mother Brenda Mahin: "Our family believes very strongly in the oneness of mankind. There is but one race -- the human race...
Then there was Islamic Iran, a bastion of the Middle Ages in the twentieth century. Among its more notable achievements to date has been the virtual destruction of the Bahai community, by shooting its members and destroying their temples...
...recalls. "I had to run like hell to catch up with what I thought of myself-if someone went six, I'd go twelve, you know? I had to move, not to get frustrated; and I was frustrated enough. In 1920 I went into everything you could imagine-Bahai, Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, vegetarianism ... well, that didn't last long. I have to eat meat." She studied art, acting and dance; she also took singing lessons ($50 a shot, at a time when a quarter bought a meal) from Metropolitan Opera Coach Estelle Liebling. The remnants of the drama...
...previously announced that "the plotters are facing the death penalty." There seemed little doubt that his grim threat would be carried out with the same judicial severity that sent 42 other Iranians to their death last week on charges that ranged from sex offenses to organizing centers for the Bahai faith, a 19th century offshoot of Islam that is anathema to Iran's Shi'ite majority...