Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lloyd Wells, serving as a volunteer in Ross Perot's advocacy group United We Stand America "was one of the most euphoric experiences of my life." Wells, 72, had been an activist for decades, agitating against orthodox politics. It was the fulfillment of his dreams when Perot arrived on the scene and organized a popular rebellion against the major parties. But this month the Maine chapter of Perot's organization ejected Wells and two others for alleged insubordination. Last week Wells was helping to organize a competing group in Maine and began coordinating with disaffected Perotistas elsewhere. "We're going...
Finestone said the plan is the result of a year of discussion with Engel, Nathans, orthodox Rabbi Harry Sinoff, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, other officials and all religiously observant first-years
...must contend with three major problems. First, he will have to sell his plan to Britain, France and Canada, all of which oppose military intervention because they have troops on the ground who could be endangered, and to Russia, which has rediscovered its nationalistic ties of brotherhood with the Orthodox, Slavic Serbs. Second, all the peacekeepers convoying humanitarian aid in the former Yugoslavia will have to be withdrawn, beefed up or safe-guarded against retaliation. And third, he must define the goal he intends to achieve...
...ever been (see Madonna, or Gore Vidal's elaborately blasphemous novel called LIVE from Golgotha). At the same time, both religious observance and the press of religious issues (questions of uncertainty, faith, anguish) are rising. Church leaders repeatedly condemn violence done in the name of religious tribalism -- as Orthodox churchmen speak against "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia and as some Muslim leaders criticize the bombing of the World Trade Center. But the zealots press on, shattering the silence, blasting the foundations...
...Serbs have shown exquisite calibration in cranking up the carnage to just below the point where the West will react. The war is about religious differences as well as territory and politics; it involves Serbian Orthodox, Bosnian Muslims and Croat Catholics. Serb militias now occupy 70% of Bosnia and Herzegovina, leaving only Sarajevo and isolated pockets in the hands of Bosnia's mainly Muslim government. Among the most desperate are the besieged Muslim towns in eastern Bosnia, near the frontier with Serbia. It was their plight that prompted Clinton to order the airdrops over the snow-covered town of Cerska...