Word: catholicism
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On Sunday, Silent Witness ran his last race at the Sha Tin course, the arena for all but one of his triumphs. There was to be no fairy-tale finish. After more than a year of assorted ailments and injuries during which he had gone winless, Silent Witness limped in...
With independence, America threw off the carapace of regulations and treaties that applied to British colonies. This meant we would have to deal on our own with the Barbary States. The Barbary States--Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli--were four North African countries whose revenues came from a naval protection...
In just a few years of blogging, Amanda Marcotte, 29, has established herself as an outspoken voice of the left, filling her Pandagon blog with posts on everything from conservative "wingnuts" to Catholic "anti-choicers" and the cabal she simply calls BushCo. In late January, more ethics charges were heaped...
Nine days later, Marcotte announced that she was leaving Pandagon. The reason? She had joined the John Edwards campaign as blogmaster to manage and help write the official blog and advise the campaign on sharpening its Internet outreach. Within hours of her announcement, right-wing bloggers were giddily digging up...
Forty-seven years ago, John F. Kennedy ’40 faced similar religious targeting as the first Roman Catholic President of the United States. To combat unabashed anti-Catholic prejudice, Kennedy chose to address the issue in a 1960 speech to the Houston Ministerial Association, in which he highlighted...