Word: religion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chris Nielsen, who dies in a car accident and must travel from heaven to hell to save his wife (Annabella Sciorra) after she commits suicide in her despair over his death. Although the plot is the standard quest situation, it demands that the film deal with the question of religion, God and the afterlife. Somehow they drop God from the plot. They're good. How's God just going to be absent from heaven? A better question is how Robin Williams can become sullen and morose in a place decorated in grand color-by-number style where a person...
...event, which drew a crowd of about 150 people to Harvard Hall, was sponsored by the Harvard chapter of the World Conference on Religion and Peace and the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students...
...response to Liebert's discussion of religion, I should say that I am a Catholic. I was baptized and married in the Catholic church, and that cannot be taken away from me. I love my God, and I believe He loves me--and every person that He has allowed to be created on His earth. How could I think that He could not love my daughter when her father and I created her in love? I believe that God, too, gives her unconditional love...
...though some Harvard professors--like Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom--call affirmative action the "official religion of...college and university presidents," many say it should no longer exist...
...Thomas M. Scanlon, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civic Policy, takes just as strong a stance on the opposite side. "I'm a supporter of [affirmative action]," Scanlon said. "I don't think it's unfair...