Word: orthodox
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...black, the other a Korean-American shot down outside a church. The chain: shots fired at three black men Saturday afternoon in Springfield (one was wounded); a Saturday night shooting of an Asian student in Urbana; a spree in Chicago.on Friday night that left Byrdsong dead and six Orthodox Jews wounded: and a shooting in the university town of Bloomington Sunday morning that killed the Korean-American, a graduate student. Survivors of all the incidents described a white man, aged 20 to 30, in a light blue Ford Taurus. At first, police offered careful demurrals as to whether the shootings...
...return of the KLA underlines the fears that have thousands of Serb civilians fleeing Kosovo, and provides yet another political headache for President Milosevic. In addition to the refugee problem, the Serbian Orthodox Church called Tuesday for his resignation, a demand echoed by opposition parties. "Milosevic and the church have been on bad terms for the last three or four years," says Anastasijevic. "Partly it?s because he?s a disaster for the country, but partly it?s because the Serbian church was the big loser in this war -? Kosovo was its birthplace, and now its access to some...
...this era of "ethnic cleansing," identity politics and dislocation of communities, it is heartening that one of the most marginalized people in recent history--a minority Albanian inside Slavic Macedonia, a minority Roman Catholic among Muslims and Orthodox Christians--should find a home, citizenship and acceptance in an Indian city of countless non-Christians. She blurred the line between insider and outsider that so many today are trying to deepen...
...interacting with these women, I can bridge the gap between dominant group and the minorities [ultra-orthodox Jew and Arabs]," she says...
...Russian grievances in his own campaign, quickly hinted that he'd give Sharansky the Interior portfolio. It took Netanyahu a week to match the offer. The trend had been set. More and more Russians concluded that their natural home was with the secularist Barak and not with the ultra-Orthodox-allied Netanyahu. Barak will almost certainly feel obliged to give Interior to Sharansky's party, which also demands the Housing Ministry as vital to new immigrants. Sharansky says he has no problems working with the "very bright and very intellectual" Barak, though they won't be playing chess again...