Word: christianized
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...teachers. In Catholic schools faculty salaries are sometimes 20% below those in surrounding public schools. Voucher opponents also argue that in a nation worried about the fraying of its common ties, public money for private instruction would bring on a patchwork of taxpayer-supported ideological enclaves--not just Christian, Jewish, Muslim or Buddhist, but schools arranged by black and white separatists and one-of-a-kind cults, all producing students who could be strangers (and worse) to one another. "There will be Farrakhan schools and probably Ku Klux Klan schools," says Albert Shanker, father figure of the American Federation...
...Kawa street in Erbil, just beyond the green arch bearing the inscription FREE KURDISTAN, there stands a gray house, No. 23-7. Everyone in this Christian suburb whispers about the six "unknown Americans" in their fancy white Landcruiser who used to visit No. 23-7 regularly. They were CIA case officers, and until they fled on Aug. 31, just as the Iraqi army was rolling into the Kurdish city, this was their base in Erbil. When they departed--driving fast, well before dawn-- they left three things behind. The first was the rent, four months' worth paid in advance. Second...
...onetime Miss America runner-up launched a successful crusade to repeal a gay-rights ordinance in Dade County, Florida. Though the Christian right held her up as its poster girl, her Bible beating turned off the public at large. Along with her popularity, she eventually lost a $100,000-a-year contract with the Florida Citrus Commission. Her 20-year marriage to manager Bob Green also ended. Bryant had once denounced divorce as a sin; today, it seems, she's been reborn. In 1990 she married former NASA test crewman Charlie Dry, a childhood sweetheart from Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Last year...
...scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries and the transformation of agrarian into industrial societies have not only demolished the credibility of the Christian book-religion. They have transformed our conception of knowledge more fundamentally. An absolutely certain knowledge is no longer the presence of a select few high priests; rather, all of our claims about the world (and I include even ethical ones) are fundamentally open to criticism and, if need be, to revision. Plato and Aristotle may have written great books (I would not dispute it), but, like everyone, they too are not above or immune...
MICHAEL ENZI Republican--Wyoming An antiabortion conservative, Enzi used his close ties with the Christian Coalition in defeating 1994 gubernatorial candidate Kathy Karpan...