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...natural death; they will do nothing to hurry it along. Nonetheless, Khelyam Khudaiberdiyev, an official of Uzbekistan's radio and television station in Tashkent, insists that "only one in 100 of us is a practicing believer.* In a big family, there might be an old aunt who will still pray. My mother prays, for instance. She's 80." Salyk Zimanov, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, sums up the official view, with its overtones of condescension: "Religion seems to exercise its strongest influence at funerals. That's when these people who call themselves mullahs turn...
...status quo and the aspirations of our minorities. Our tools are limited to reasoned elaboration, the collective wisdom of our founding fathers and the voice of an aroused conscience. We must strain our hearts and minds to apply the most enlightened human spirit we can muster, and pray that our choices prove to be the just ones...
...that's why the weekend was such a blow. "I feel reasonably certain Cornell will lose one along the way," Santos-Buch said. "Every night, I pray that they do, 'cause if they don't, whatever we do doesn't matter...
...Massachusetts law that went into effect in February, requiring teachers to invite students to say prayers if they wanted to. Last week the state's highest court declared the law unconstitutional. During its brief life, students seemed confused or embarrassed, and results were mixed. A Plymouth sixth-grader prayed for release of the hostages in Iran. A Scituate pupil prayed for a volleyball victory. A Jewish girl said she could not lead because "all our prayers are in Hebrew, and I don't know Hebrew." Most children chose the Lord's Prayer, an occasional Hail Mary...
...conceived by Paul Pierce, a Watertown Baptist minister. Says he: "My intent was to allow prayer in the public school, but not force it on anyone who does not want to pray." The law passed the Massachusetts legislature by a wide margin and had popular support. But many state religious leaders were against it. Some critics saw it as another example of parents foisting off on schools what they should be doing at home...