Word: civilizations
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Dedicated to those areas of public policy which most affect the daily life of the community, Wolf has been involved in issues ranging from affordable housing, civil rights, the environment and affirmative action the latter by guaranteeing equal health benefits for all city employees...
There are dozens of other innovations and debates, some small and some quite radical. A civil but ferociously felt argument has raged for the past few months around a book called Buddhism Without Beliefs, in which Stephen Batchelor, a former monk in both Zen and Tibetan traditions, suggests that Buddhism jettison reincarnation and karma, thereby making possible what he calls an "existential, therapeutic and liberating agnosticism." In fact, many American practitioners have already Batchelorized themselves by default. A good example is Ann Buck, 67, a retired businesswoman and teacher of Theravadan meditation. Although she does not reject karma, it plays...
Ruth M. Batson, a celebrated community and civil rights activists, has donated the papers documenting her social contributions to the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College...
Promise Keepers founder McCartney, 57, is without doubt deeply conservative. As head football coach for the University of Colorado, McCartney had mandatory pre-game prayer, for which he was attacked by the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1989 he caused an uproar at the university when he addressed a pro-life rally. The college was infuriated again in 1992 when McCartney announced support for Amendment 2, which barred certain gay-rights laws in Colorado. He has also said, "The only way God can be worshipped is through Jesus Christ. There is no other...
...THIS HAPPENING? In 1991 the Islamic Salvation Front won the country's first free elections. The military voided the results, and ever since, the secular government and Islamic militants have been locked in a civil war that has so far claimed an estimated 60,000 lives...