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...must not take positions on religious questions, then the Ninth Circuit opinion is quite persuasive," he says. "There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country." That desire was strengthened by the terrorist attacks, as schools across the nation turned more openly to prayer for solace...
...affront. Naibo, a middle-aged mother with cropped black hair, hands and feet scored from years of labor, says troops used plastic handcuffs to tie her hands and a torn turban to gag her. "I felt certain they were going to kill me," she says. "I was whispering the prayer before dying from the Koran." Other women made similar claims. A villager produces his daughter Maba, 7, to act out how she says she was bound. "If they touch our women again we must ask ourselves why are we alive," says Shir Mohammed Stad. "We will have no choice...
...September morning rushed through the trees surrounding University Hall. The sun began to fill the Yard with the glimmer of a new semester. This morning was the quiet beginning to the day of upper class registration, a day that became filled with worry and pain, reflection and prayer. The morning of Tuesday September the eleventh will no doubt be the formative experience of our college lives—before the year had officially begun, we had already learned more about our country and ourselves than we could have learned from the year’s coursework. The events of September...
...your people okay?” rang through the Yard like the bells of Memorial Church, which rang later that afternoon as 3,000 members of the Harvard community gathered for a vigil and silent prayer in honor of our lost American brothers and sisters. Over a thousand Harvard students flocked to give blood—many were asked to postpone their donations. Some Harvard students drove down to New York City—multiple times—to help the victims of the attacks in person. An outpouring of support for relief efforts by college students came from across...
After urging the law school class to remember the importance of family, Gonzales closed his speech with a prayer...