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...quick look in any phone book under churches should be enough to figure this out. If every Christian--or even most Christians--could agree on a depiction of the religion or even it's main themes, there would not be so many radically different denominations. The Church of Latter-Day Saints (also called the Mormon church), is classified as Christian. So are the Roman Catholics, the Coptic Christians and the Christian Scientists, not to mention the Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Baptists, Nazarenes, Lutherans...the list could take the rest of this column. Even within denominations, there are ongoing struggles about some...
...years ago today, and for a few dramatic weeks thereafter, it occupied center stage in world affairs. On the night of October 23, 1956, a crowd led by students and workers, soon to be known as freedom fighters, toppled the colossal statue of Stalin that had dominated the main boulevard of Budapest for close to a decade. That act became the symbol of the 1956 uprising, a quasi spontaneous revolt against Soviet occupation (the Red Army had liberated Hungary from the Nazis in 1945, then refused to go home) and against the dictatorial rule of the Hungarian Communist Party...
Although the three main lecturers hail from the Law School, the Kennedy School of Government and the Anthropology Department, guest speakers range from Literature chair Barbara Johnson to local Native American leaders...
...three main professors deal specifically with government, law and anthropology, but guest speakers often tackle other approaches...
During the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, I was employed by the DNC as part of the student security team. The main security for the event consisted of examining the credentials the guests were required to wear around their necks at all times. Before entering the door to the floor, we had to stop everyone and examine their credentials by sight and by touch. Of course, this system held up the traffic flow, but most guests were generally sympathetic and understanding of the reasons for the precautions...