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The award, given to a select group of students nominated by faculty members based on the quality of their senior theses or other academic projects, was founded in 1982 and includes a $3,500 prize. The prize’s stated goal is “promoting, improving and enhancing...
Perhaps most the controversial (though not unexpected) appointment was naming Socialist Bernard Kouchner as Foreign Affairs minister, a move that may reveal the staunchly conservative Sarkozy's intent to give issues like human rights and democratic and financial accountability greater weight in France's international relations. A trained physician, Kouchner...
The son of an agnostic bootlegger, Jerry Falwell found Jesus at age 18 but didn't find politics until much later--and when he did, he was no fundamentalist. His great American invention was not the marriage of religion and politics, since they hadn't lived apart in the first...
Falwell founded the Moral Majority in 1979; at its peak it had 6 1/2 million members and a budget of $10 million. Falwell's power got him access all over Washington--but that didn't always lead to action. For all his public fire breathing, White House aides found him...
The ROCOR's American clergy insist that they retain administrative independence over their churches even as they recognize the Moscow Patriarch as their Head. Filatov says that the ROCOR has "about as much [independence] as Eastern Europe's 'people's democracies' had in the Soviet bloc." One of the first...