Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little less than 50 years since its creation, Israelis are endorsing either the secular state or the Jewish state, but not both. The majority of secular Israelis, notwithstanding the Hebrew language they speak, have lost any substantive connection to Jewish culture and history. Religious rightists, on the other hand, have ceased to see the value of the secular state...
...recounted in Buell's book, behind the simple change in Harvard's motto from "Veritas" to "Christo et Ecclesiae?" President Increase Mather sponsored this amendment as an expression of Harvard's commitment to Orthodox Congregationalism in the face of the onslaught of Unitarianism--a struggle which led to the creation of another college in 1701, one Yale University by name...
According to HBLSA's letter, there may also be legal problems involving the agreement about the donation of Memorial Hall to the University, which "contains restrictions related to the creation of a memorial honoring the Confederate war dead...
...interest of fashioning a peace. By the time they left last Tuesday, all of them had accepted much they had sworn they never would, and had agreed to end a war that has killed untold thousands and left nearly 3 million homeless. Not least, they had agreed on the creation of a new Bosnia and Herzegovina. Whether their formula can work will be tested in the weeks ahead, but they all came to agree with Secretary of State Warren Christopher when he told them it was the best deal they were going...
...last communist Polish government, defeated the old Solidarity war-horse in a runoff presidential election. Kwasniewski's Social Democratic Party, created from the remnants of communism in 1990, already leads a governing coalition in the parliament, and the President-elect will play a vital role in the creation of a constitution to guide Poland into the next century. "He is the Moses of the Polish left," declared Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, Kwasniewski's campaign spokesman. "He guided it over the stormy seas of politics to a new reality...