Word: caste
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Many atheist students I know hide their beliefs from their parents and keep painful silence about them. Their concerns, I fear, are justified; a significant fraction of my atheist friends have been cast out and ostracized by their own parents and families because of their religious doubt...
...stop" participating in civic life for the purposes of academics. For our own education we should not, and in reality, we cannot: we are still participating in the economy every time we buy a textbook; we are still participating in democracy every time we do or do not cast a vote; we are still making a political statement every time we purchase a product made by Nabisco or Nike...
Harvard students, however, rarely vote in the district, preferring instead to cast ballots in their home states and localities...
Asia's economic crisis cast a shadow over the otherwise upbeat assessment of the U.S. economy Alan Greenspan presented to the House of Representatives today. ?The outlook for...the United States is less assured of late because of storm clouds massing over the Western Pacific and heading our way,? Greenspan warned, explaining the Fed?s decision to maintain interest rates...
...What a cast of characters: a White House intern suspected of having a relationship with the President and quoted as saying she has lied her entire life; an ex-White House secretary who makes a habit of "befriending" women who claim to have had intimate encounters with the President; a political spy turned tell-all literary agent who counsels the secretary; and a special prosecutor who arranges for undercover taping of the intern's private conversations about her sex life because they might have some bearing on his investigations. Is there anyone with integrity in Washington? JEANNIE WURZ Bern, Switzerland...