Word: clergymen
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...Within the seminaries, clergymen of different schools did criticize Khomeini's views, but we had to postpone this battle until after the collapse of the Shah. On the eve of the post-Shah era, the Mujahedin wasted no time demanding a program of change that sharply contradicted Khomeini's avowed views and intentions. The monarchy was still in its death throes when the single most vital issue of the revolution surfaced: the battle between two Islams, the Islam of progress vs. the Islam of backwardness, the Islam of freedom and human dignity vs. the Islam of torture...
...fundamental force of the report rests not in its application of indirect responsibility, nor in the explosive political context in which it struck a match. Rather its value is that it makes use of a kind of truth that is ordinarily the preserve of psychologists and clergymen. More than that, it claims for this truth equal weight and status with objectively provable reality. The commissioners record that witnesses characterized the massacre as "a disaster which no one had imagined and which could not have been-or, at all events, need not have been-foreseen." They then make this extraordinary announcement...
...weekly scandal sheets sold at supermarket checkout counters, epitomized by the 56-year-old National Enquirer (circ. 5 million). The Enquirer and its imitators, including the Globe, Star and National Examiner, feverishly mine such exotic "news" as people biting snakes, unimaginably obese couples losing hundreds of pounds, clergymen having visions of aliens or ghosts, and almost any gossip involving the Kennedy family...
RAISE A TOAST to Grendel's! The earthy Harvard Square eaterie this week won the right to serve alcohol regardless of opposition from neighborhood clergymen. Pouncing on a failure to separate church from state, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a Massachusetts law which allows churches to veto liquor licenses for establishments within 500 feet of an altar...
...When the guards returned to camp, they informed curious army officers that they had suddenly found themselves behind enemy lines and could not have returned safely with the Iraqis. Said one Iranian army officer: "We usually can't stop the guards because they have the support of the clergymen at the front...