Word: clergymen
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...cartoons. A town hall meeting had to be called to save face. No such action, or demand, for that matter, has occurred in the case of the Christians. Apparently, Harvard’s Christians are used to being slighted.Harvard was founded by Puritans as a place of study for clergymen. As it grew into a more modern and progressive institution, the University shed its Christian roots and began admitting a wide range of religious backgrounds. Today, the University is rolling in religious diversity. Dharma, the campus Hindu organization, is booming: the Harvard Islamic Society recently organized an entire week...
Local community members, including various clergymen, faculty members, and students, have supported the strike, with over 500 of them marching with the workers last Friday...
...nation’s largest number of faculty members with academic interests in Buddhism, practicing Buddhists still remain elusive, according to Wagner. “Constantly, people are coming [to Harvard] representing the religious side of other religions,” stated Lobel. He said that clergymen from all different faiths speak at Harvard on religion, but few Buddhist speakers talk to undergraduates. Because of this, Wagner wants Buddhism at Harvard to go beyond education. “The academic side of Buddhism is well taken care of,” he said. “HBC allows...
...Assassins, had built a simulacrum here of the sensual delights of Paradise to quicken his men's taste for martyrdom. The Assassins - a kind of al Qaeda of its time - operated by stealth, and armed only with daggers, they killed hundreds of princes, viziers, generals, and rival clergymen. According to legend, before being dispatched on a mission, an operative would be drugged into a deep sleep. He would wake in a lush garden filled with fountains, music and beautiful maidens. After cavorting briefly, he would be drugged back to sleep, and upon waking again would be told that...
Among professionals, malpractice insurance problems have plagued lawyers, engineers, members of corporate boards and even clergymen. A growing number of clerics are buying, or having their churches buy, policies to protect them against suits like the one brought by a California couple who attributed the suicide of their 24-year-old son largely to inept counseling by his pastors. (That particular suit, filed in 1980, was dismissed for a second time last year; the case is still being appealed.) Suits against doctors, particularly specialists such as obstetricians and neurosurgeons, have been more successful and have led to some...