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Ironically, the first of those teachers, and the founder of a faith now known for its warlike strength, was a gentle sage who preached a code of pacifism. Declaring "There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim," Guru Nanak forged a path between the two warring religions, drawing followers from both, when he created Sikhism in Punjab at the end of the 15th century. Two centuries later, however, Guru Nanak's teaching of religious tolerance was radically redirected by the tenth and last of the Sikh gurus, a skilled horseman and dauntless fighter named Gobind Singh. With his people...
...such, this recovery is doomed to fall through the trap door of 200-plus billion dollar budget deficits extending as far as the economic forecaster's eye can see. The runaway deficit is, in the words of Democratic economic guru Felix Rohatyn, "a prescription for national bankruptcy," the threat of which to our well-being is matched in direness only by the myopia with which Reagan is approaching the problem...
...Oregon county grows restless over a guru's recruits...
...University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School last March 20, Nobel-Prize winning economist Lawrence Klein was giving an introductory economics lecture when three followers of political guru Lyndon LaRouche burst in, accusing Klein of Nazism and genocide. Klein responded, "I insist that you are a bunch of screwballs, and would you please get out," and university police arrived and evicted the LaRouchites. Two weeks later, the South African ambassador to the United States was scheduled to come to Penn to speak on apartheid, but opted out when members of the eight-group United Minorities Council threatened a mass demonstration...
...seen a growth of generous spirit toward the least privileged among us, and that has the risk of turning into an 'Everything's O.K., we don't have to worry about anybody else' kind of attitude." Editor Charles Peters of the Washington Monthly, guru...