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...establish, through its Government, a religious character for the country? In most cases no harm is intended. Read the tepid nonsectarian prayer that led to the 1962 decision, and you wonder what all the breast beating was about: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country." Similarly, how could plaster-of-paris figures in Pawtucket, R.I., have alarmed anybody but the A.C.L.U., which brought the suit...
...Turks, whose legacy is still strong today, built Sarajevo into a flourishing provincial capital. Its very name derives from saraj, the Turkish word for palace. The Turks built the cobblestoned medieval marketplace and the surrounding old town now known as the bascarsija, and the handsome mosque of Gazi Husref Beg, the finest in the Balkans...
Meyer opened worship with an invocation written by Martin Luther, who nearly five centuries ago had burned Pope Leo X's excommunication bull: "We pray you, Lord, and we beg you that with the aid of your Spirit, you will return to unity what was fragmented . . ." In his homily, spoken in German, the Pope declared, "This meeting moves me to the bottom of my heart." He added, "We ardently desire unity and we make every effort to achieve it without being discouraged by the difficulties we may meet on our road." The words echoed a papal letter honoring...
...appealing for donations. At the same time, Fisk officials were negotiating with the Internal Revenue Service about how the university could pay $500,000 in back taxes. Two weeks ago came another blow: President Walter Leonard, who was recruited from Harvard in 1977, announced his resignation. "I simply cannot beg any longer," he said...
...yell, 'There's a nut on the line,' and hang up." In the past few years, many newspapers have created a standing format for corrections. The Louisville Courier-Journal runs its admissions of error on the front page of the local news section under the headline "Beg Your Pardon"; its sister paper, the Louisville Times, uses the blunt designation "We Were Wrong." Some newspapers, including the Seattle Times, Charlotte (N.C.) News and Observer and Miami Herald, mail out questionnaires to the subjects of certain news stories to ask whether they feel they were treated accurately and fairly...