Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long list of aspirants, including a movie star, a ballerina, a poet, an Orthodox priest, a dress designer, a 55-year-old grandmother and a former Olympic weight-lifting champ. Not to mention a participant in the aborted coup of 1991 who spent nine months in prison for treason. Russians have no experience in democracy, so it is hardly surprising to see the ballot studded with celebrities who believe their charisma is more important than their political know...
...Israeli-born freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, sparked one of the more bizarre incidents in the annals of political correctness. Jacobowitz was reacting to the noise being made by five black sorority sisters outside his dorm room. The women summoned the campus police. And though Jacobowitz, an Orthodox Jew, explained the epithet as a translation for the Hebrew behemah, slang for "fool" or "dummy," he was charged with racial harassment under Penn's hate-speech policy and threatened with suspension. The case became a symbol of correctness run amuck, and Sheldon Hackney, outgoing president of the university (and current...
...ground was shaking last Tuesday night on Jerusalem's Pierre Koenig Street as scores of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in long black coats and black hats stamped their feet, shouted "Messiah!" and sprayed champagne in the direction of Ehud Olmert, the city's new mayor. Five minutes away, shudders of a different sort reverberated through the campaign headquarters of Teddy Kollek as television announcers declared that a "political earthquake" had ended a remarkable career in public service. It is difficult to imagine Jerusalem without the rotund, irascible Kollek, who presided for nearly three decades over a transformation of the Holy...
...themselves: he kept silent on how a conservative Likud government would run the city. While Kollek tried to deflect the inevitable snooze jokes and sought unsuccessfully to woo Palestinians in East Jerusalem, who have traditionally boycotted elections and felt ignored by the mayor, the Likud candidate promised ultra-Orthodox Jews more power and money, and won handily with 59% of the vote...
...insult to the black clergy," said the Rev. Rawle W. Garner, dean of the African Orthodox Churches. "Black ministers are not going to be pawns...for [Republicans or Democrats] to benefit politically...