Word: religion
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Laurence Hurst, who received his undergraduate degree from Cambridge University in biology last year, is this year's winner of the Henry Scholarship, and he is currently studying the evolution of religion at Harvard. The Henry is awarded to one British subject each year who is allowed to choose to attend Harvard or Yale. The approximately $8000 award pays not only for tuition but is also designed to encourage recipients to socialize and travel. The winners are not allowed to work towards a degree, but apart from that, the only requirement is that the recipient write a paper decribing...
More recently Jackson called Zionism a "poisonous weed". In 1984, he labelled New York "hymietown", and pledged support for Louis Farrakhan, who calls Judaism a "gutter religion". No other white candidate could have gotten away with such words and actions and remained in the race. Are these the views the American people want in the presidency...
...Religion...
...past, government agencies have charged that Jackson's educational-motivation program, PUSH-EXCEL, misspent more than $1 million in federal grant money. In addition, Jackson has outraged Jews by calling New York City "Hymietown" and by preserving his links in 1984 to Louis Farrakhan, who called Judaism a "gutter religion." He has practiced diplomacy by wet kiss with some of the Third World's more controversial characters...
...Once 1967 came, we realized how much Jerusalem had become a religion," Fein said, remembering a meeting where three rabbis in a Holiday Inn in Tewksbury, Mass, decided to "excommunicate" any Jew who voiced an opinion against the state of Israel...