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Morris: A baptismal certificate from your church in rural Nebraska, a copy of a birth certificate issued by a hospital in California, a student ID card issued by a local college...
...unquantifiable achievements of Clinton's presidency: he brought whites and blacks together, after years of racial tension, even within the Democratic Party. He was the first President to talk easily with blacks, as equals, without condescension. He was the best white politician I have ever seen in a black church. The bond he built with that community seemed unbreakable. And so it was shocking-heartbreaking-to see it shattered in South Carolina, shattered by a thoughtless, solipsistic need for victory at any cost...
While many Harvard attendees said they were expecting a dismal turnout due to the fact that the holiday fell during exam-period, the Middlesex crowd helped fill nearly every pew in Memorial Church as members of Harvard’s black community and the Kuumba Singers read selections of King’s work and sang traditional spirituals during an hour-long service...
...wing. "It's likely that the group of people that might move away from Huckabee because he's not really campaigning there would probably move to John McCain" - whose views on the environment and human rights align more closely to their own. Still, Romney's membership in the LDS church, once thought to exclude the prospect of evangelicals' support, says Green, has been largely neutralized by the endorsements of such religious leaders as Bob Jones...
...only a small population of Iraqi immigrants-- about 2,800, out of more than 90,000 in the U.S.--Faeza was able to turn to them for help. A few days after she arrived in the U.S., she ran into two Iraqi Americans from the local Chaldean Catholic Church, who were in the IRC office to meet Iraqi Christian refugees. When they saw Faeza, who is Muslim, they immediately offered to help. They found her a comfortable apartment in a safer neighborhood and brought her some furniture, food and a cell phone. The church also helped...