Word: reverend
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...simply declaring it transcended would be folly - even now, in the year 2008. That was the reality Obama both confronted and embraced today. "Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now," he said. "We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality...
...right supporters; he is unabashedly trying to solidify his Republican base to win the presidency. Sacrificing principle for power is evidently a price Senator McCain is willing to pay. Indeed, torture isn’t the only issue on which McCain is willing to flip-flop. After criticizing Reverend Jerry Falwell for being an “agent of intolerance,” McCain delivered a commencement speech at the “Moral Majority” leader’s Liberty University, reaching out to religious conservatives. After claiming he “cannot in good conscience support?...
...cause of homophobia and misogyny—aids in the distribution of these attitudes. But Dash said that hip hop culture is changing. “The younger black men are a lot more evolved than people give them credit for,” said Dash. Reverend Eugene F. Rivers III ’83, a Boston-area pastor and co-founder of the National Ten-Point Coalition, agreed with Dash, saying that consumers are moving away from buying violent rap music. “There has been a shift in the consumer market that cannot be denied...
...exactly what happened to two seniors yesterday. Alexis C. Maule ’08 and Aisha J. Dennis ’08 received a call from law professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.’s aide, requesting they bring their laptops and come help the reverend. Jackson, the prominent civil rights activist and two-time presidential candidate, was slated to speak at the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in Central Square as part of an annual speech organized by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, an organization at the Law School founded by Ogletree. Maule and Dennis...
...once I arrived, I came to understand that Harvard’s pronounced lack of “collegiate gothic” architecture is far from a liability. Reverend Peter Gomes pointed out during my Freshman Week that Harvard’s river Houses and many of its classrooms, which emulate the Georgian architecture of its oldest buildings, seem not drab but elegant, because they are built in a style adherent to our institutional history and tradition, not an appropriated European model. And in the Yard where the first glance meets monotony, a close look reveals that the buildings have...