Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government finds Harvard in violation of Title VI of U.S. code, which prohibits federally funded institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, creed or religion, the University could lose all federal aid, which includes almost $2 million in financial aid and much more in research grants...
...most moving of these -- a Spanish equivalent, in its effort to embody intellect, of David's portrait of the Lavoisiers -- is his 1798 portrait of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, the outstanding thinker of the Spanish Enlightenment, a much-exiled man who briefly held state office as the Minister of Religion and Justice under Carlos IV. Goya shows him at an ornate desk in the Madrid palace, lost in melancholy thought amid props that seem out of scale with his modesty...
...years later, Brown is embroiled in a contest in which the racial clauses are unwritten but not unspoken -- the election of the chairman of the Democratic Party. "The Democratic Party is the last, best hope of this country to deal with issues of race, region, religion and ethnicity," he says as he hops around the country in a Gulfstream jet loaned by the United Food and Commercial Workers union. "This election has become a test of that...
...member read from the Bible, a representative of Harvard/Radcliffe Hillel read a passage in Hebrew and Professor of Comparative Religion Diana L. Eck offered prayers along with a secular exhortation to keep working for greater justice...
...Religion...