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...grounded sense of morality. (Even in 2002, the Pew Center found that the corresponding number for Muslims was only 29 percent.) This prejudice lets politicians like Mitt Romney say, “We need a person of faith to run this country” and not receive even a mummer of criticism for establishing a theism litmus test. In fact, his statement is almost necessarily true, because, even though most voters wouldn’t disqualify a gay, black, or female presidential candidate, only 37 percent would vote for an atheist...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: A Post-Christian America | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

...else think Napster just might have a March surprise planned? The site has already announced plans to transform itself into a pay-for-play service in July. Yet in the months since it scored a big cash investment from erstwhile litigant BMG (courtesy of parent Bertelsmann) it's been mummer than mum about how the project is actually progressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Napster: A Surprise in the Works? | 3/1/2001 | See Source »

Darling-Hammond backed out of the post earlier this mummer, citing personal reasons that prevented her from leaving New York. The Education School returned to search mode. Rudenstine said that after reassessing candidate choices with faculty members and with a search committee, he found that "that recapitulation of the process turned out to be the same...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Murphy Named to Top Post At Grad School of Education | 8/14/1992 | See Source »

JULIA CHILD is a fabulous American cultural phenomenon in the tradition of Tiny Tim, Gypsy Rose Lee, and the Philadelphia Mummer's Band. Even a single episode of "The French Chef," her TV instruction show (Wednesdays, 8 p. m., WGBH), leaves one with the overpowering image of a very eccentric, very competent, and very unselfconscious lady. She wipes up the debris scattered on her carving board after ten minutes of mushroom fluting, and a moment later the same towel is declared "impeccably clean," and suitable for use as a lemon strainer. She casually plops a dropped chicken back into...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: The Raw and the Cooked Mastering Julia Child's Art | 2/18/1971 | See Source »

...Kitchen's like a mummer's show of menne from far countree...

Author: By William H. Smock, | Title: Ballade | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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