Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crucifixes from state-run school-rooms.* Internally, the church was in considerable turmoil over Glemp's decision last month to silence, with a transfer out of the Warsaw area, a priest in an industrial parish who had been outspoken in support of the Solidarity labor union during its brief life. In the eyes of many Polish Catholics, the transfer indicated that the cautious Glemp was about to placate the Jaruzelski government...
...Poland, despite its overwhelming Catholic population, has no tradition of school prayers But, except for a brief Stalinist antireligious period following World War II, crucifixes supplied by various sources have been classroom fixtures...
...contrary to self-interest." She requires that the policy was perceived as folly in its own time, that a sensible alternative was available, and that the policy nonetheless was carried out by a group over more than one political lifetime. She makes one exception to that last criterion, the brief episode of the wooden horse at Troy...
...talks of the "brief brilliant reign" of reason in the 18th century, but it did not enlighten those resolutely wrong colonial experts in England. To see reason at its worst, she might have examined at more length the self-destructive phenomenon that she only touches on in her introduction: the French Revolution...
After his brief talk, Thompson opened the floor to questions. When asked about a story he wrote for Rolling Stone several months ago, Thompson said "It's hard for me to talk about that without massive amounts of drugs," and added, "my body hates massive ingestions of drugs this early in the morning...