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Naive political spectators will tell you that religion strongly influences policy and electoral politics. For evidence, they point to the fact that nearly every member of Congress professes some form of traditional faith and that no atheists ever run for public office because they would automatically lose. They call our attention to events like Congress' vote in the 1950s to put the word "God" onto our paper money, into our national motto and into our Pledge of Allegiance; the Congress and President Reagan's formal declaration that 1983 was the "Year of the Bible"; and the recent increase...

Author: By Derek C. Araujo, | Title: A Dire Threat to Religion? | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...always the skinniest guys who lose weight," he said...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fasting and Festive Prayers Mark Ramadan | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...Lose weight. It seems everyone resolves to become more physically fit every year, and why not? But for Harvard students who are not varsity athletes, the only means towards personal fulfillment is the overly-crowded and almost comical facility known as the Malkin Athletic Center. The athletic facility in the Quad is similarly inadequate. Last year the College tried to appease us by extending the MAC's hours for a few more hours a day. Please. Students have been clamoring for the construction of a new student athletic building for as long as we can remember. Will anyone finally listen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goals for 1999 | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...costing them plenty, but maybe they don't realize just how much. "They've read the polls that indicate the public is fed up and tuned out," says TIME senior reporter Bill Tynan. "While they believe it is their duty to cover a news event of this magnitude, they lose all sorts of income from the advertisers for regular programming whose spots are pre-empted by the live coverage of impeachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Impeachment Coverage: We Interrupt This Program... | 1/7/1999 | See Source »

...much that it kept him from taking to heart a message that Houghton had delivered from Bob Dole: that Clinton had no time to lose in lobbying the Senate against conviction. That afternoon the President started making calls to Senate friends such as Ted Kennedy and Connecticut's Chris Dodd. Clinton accepted that he was going to be impeached but insisted he wouldn't resign or even admit to perjury because he did not believe he had lied. What he wanted now was assurance that there were enough secure votes to fend off conviction in a Senate in which ouster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Burning | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

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