Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tutu's remarks at the prayer service capped off a day in Boston, which also saw him receive a key to the city from Mayor Raymond L. Flynn attend a luncheon with students and faculty at the Faculty Club, and give a brief press conference in Robinson Hall. He was brought to Cambridge by the Harvard Foundation, and organization designed to foster interracial harmony on campus...
...movie theaters even as it fuels presidential elections. Who is Indiana Jones if not the movie-serial avatar of White House Reagan, leaping up from near fatal assaults with a wave and a joke? Who is Superman if not the Krypton Gipper, fighting for truth, justice and voluntary school prayer? At the end of a campaign year that played like one long half-time pageant, two entertaining movies arrive with a complementary pair of star figures for the next generation. Supergirl: the girl next door as feminist champion. The Terminator: a killing machine from the year 2029 and rotten...
During the campaign, Reagan promised to fight for the social agenda of the religious right: permitting prayer in schools, outlawing abortion, and allowing tuition tax credits for private schools. But with the deficit and arms control occupying his attention, he may do what he did in the first term: pay lip service to the Moral Majority and its allies while keeping its legislative proposals on the back burner. Reagan could have a larger and more lasting impact on social issues if there are vacancies on the Supreme Court. With two or three Reagan appointees, court conservatives might have the votes...
...subjects that ranged from tax cuts to guidelines for vendors of false teeth. California fielded the most, with 17, followed by Arizona, 15. Originally pioneered by progressives early in the century, the proposals this year were often employed by conservatives seeking to ban state funding of abortions or permit prayer in public schools. Said Sue Thomas, executive director of the Denver-based National Center for Initiative Review: "The ballot measures represent the hope of people that they can solve their problems more quickly...
...physical life as well." Because Adventists see man as "the ultimate level of our value concerns," says Provonsha, "then the sacrifice of an animal for the sake of the life of a baby is acceptable, even though we value animal life as well." (Read "On a Pig and a Prayer...