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...would have loved to give a speech, but I wasn't asked to do that. I was asked to pray. The argument against that from of speech seems to run something like this: If no prayer is appropriate, then any prayer is offensive. On that score, there then is no way in which I or anyone else could satisfy the writer's concern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gomes: Prayer at Harvard Is a 'Valid Expression' | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...launch demonstrations on abortion clinics, Operation Rescue members generally meet at a church, pray for an hour and then take the T to a clinic, Yellin said. But Wasinger said procedures vary from time to time...

Author: By Ton-ming BAY Fang, | Title: Students Gird for Abortion Battle | 11/2/1991 | See Source »

...fact, it is not qualified, neither in theory nor in actual practice. Even the less specifically Christian sections of the prayer revealed Christian assumptions about how to pray on behalf of other religions...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: A Prayer for Christians... | 10/26/1991 | See Source »

...first thing we say is we are with you in your shock, anger and sorrow. With you we ask how long must anyone endure abuse of any kind simply because God made them different in any way whatsoever from others or from a majority? We pray for the day when we can all live in peace and justice with one another. We pledge ourselves to working together constructively to make that common prayer a collective reality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vandalism of the Sukkah Was Hateful | 10/12/1991 | See Source »

...morning, however, Colonel Rida and thousands of other Iraqi troops pulled out of the city. Over the next 24 hours, many of the retreating soldiers (and an undetermined number of Kuwaiti hostages accompanying them) died as allied aircraft bombed the highway that led back to Iraq. "We can only pray that Rida was one of them," says Khalid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait: Back to the Past | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

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