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Schkolnick says the University still awards the Burton Memorial Scholarship, which requires its recipients to be either a member of the sect of Saint John the Evangelist or the Fly Club. Since the scholarship's trustees are dead, the money is now given out by the College itself...
Iran is Persian, not Arab. It shares the Moslem religion with the Arabs, but it adheres to the minority Shiite sect that has been at odds with the predominant Sunni branch of Islam for 1300 years...
...Triple Sect: The closer you are to the basket, the easier it is to score, right...
...serving a life term in the killing of a state trooper, Black Revolutionary JoAnne Chesimard surfaced in Cuba last week to plug her upcoming book, Assata: An Autobiography (Lawrence Hill & Co.; $18.95). Chesimard, 40, was once dubbed by police the "mother hen" of the Black Liberation Army, a radical sect that staged bank robberies in the New York area. In Havana, she told the Long Island newspaper Newsday that the Castro government supports her and her 13- year-old daughter Kakuya while Chesimard studies for a master's degree in social science...
Persia, now Iran, embraced Islam in 652. In subsequent decades the Persians joined the Shiite sect and became rivals of the dominant Sunnis...