Word: facto
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...Case for Separation” (Staff Ed, March 2) objects to “state funds paying for a dogmatic and colored religious education,” and fears that the free use of government-funded vouchers would produce “de facto state sponsorship of one religious mindset.” Does the staff also wish to prevent welfare recipients from donating to religious charities? Surely the flow of taxpayer dollars into the collection plate constitutes “de facto state sponsorship”—yet such sponsorship is hardly terrifying when it comes...
...from a pickup, accosted TIME journalists at gunpoint, shouting "Not even the rats move here without our permission!" Because Haiti's police force is a threadbare farce--and because Aristide dismantled Haiti's brutal military during his first presidency a decade ago--the chimeres are the nation's de facto security force. Mostly poor, seething young men, they are prone to chants like "We will turn their skulls into inkwells...
...Drew Erdmann, three years out of graduate school with a doctorate in history from Harvard, land the job of de facto minister of higher education in Iraq...
...necessarily being applied to the training of ministers. What their arguments fail to take into account is the systematically biased approach religious colleges take to teaching theology. States should only support the study of theology when it acknowledges religious choice and pluralism, or else they risk de facto state sponsorship of one religious mindset...
...institution-building in Haiti than they did a decade ago. When Prime Minister Yvon Neptune (a staunch Aristide ally) presented Alexandre to the press hours after Aristide?s farewell, they were both accompanied by Foley-a strong indication that the ambassador may now be America?s de facto pro consul now in Haiti. ?I think it?s very clear that the efforts made 10 years ago did not yield the intended results,? said Foley. ?There are a lot of lessons to be learned from that experience.? And a dire need to apply them right this time...