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...South will ever support a mixed-race liberal Democrat for President. There are still a lot of people down here who believe that miscegenation (which, like abortion, used to be a crime) remains immoral and sinful. Add to that Obama's al-Qaeda-sounding name, and it's plain that he has no chance of being elected President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 13, 2006 | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...person is free to think about any religion as he will and to communicate his thoughts freely. Golding reasons that a person may communicate his feelings about a religion by voting against an adherent of a religion which the voter holds to be erroneous or unhealthy or just plain wrong. Yet Golding’s argument jars common sense. The wise voter must consider the candidate as an individual and with specific regard to public issues. Secondly, there are immense differences in individual beliefs among adherents of any religion, and to exclude any person on the general basis...

Author: By William J. Ferrari | Title: Embracing All Religions Is Critical For Tolerant Society | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

...year now, the Du Bois Institute has explored black history and culture in new digs at 104 Mt. Auburn St.—a plain office building a few doors down from Peet’s Coffee—occupying floors...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Du Bois Art Set Apart | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...fervently attacks the claim that morality is rooted in religious scripture: “To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird…the legend of the animals going into the ark two by two is charming, but the moral of the story of Noah is appalling. God took a dim view of humans, so he (with the exception of one family) drowned the lot of them including children?...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dawkins Says God Is Not Dead, But He Should Be | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

...have caught the problem in the pre-election test runs. "It was human error both on their end and my end," she notes. Not every county will have an auditor as sharp-eyed as Drake--or an outcome as transparently false as the one she uncovered. "We were just plain lucky," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Voting Machines Work? | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

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