Word: secularization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...market in Gaza City, said business was down 80% because, without international funding, the bankrupt government can't pay some 160,000 civil servants. "If they don't get salaries, they don't buy anything," he observes. And while Hamas continues to observe a cease-fire, gunmen of the secular al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - the military wing of the deposed Fatah party - vowed last week to continue cross-border attacks. A member of the equally militant Islamic Jihad, who called himself Abu Aziz, told Time his cadres will continue firing homemade Qassam rockets into Israel, even though the Israeli military...
...Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, president of the Harvard Secular Society, said she approved of this apparent trend...
...results that “traditional party identification labels of ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ are antiquated, and don’t fully represent students.” Instead, the conductors of the study argue that a new typology combining religious-secular identifications with conservative-liberal ones is more effective...
...clenched, still fighting. In the last version his head is hanging, his mother and friend embracing the cross and the body. There's no more need for beautifying: their humanity shines out. The overall effect is almost voyeuristic, which, for once, is appropriate; the mixture of religious passion and secular skill makes us all the more grateful that these drawings escaped the bonfire...
...home or in dame schools, where a benevolent woman taught several children for a few hours a day in her home. In 1880, when less than a third of New South Wales children received schooling, the state's Premier, Henry Parkes, pushed through the Public Instruction Act, establishing free, secular and compulsory education. School has been seen as the place for kids to learn ever since. But homeschoolers are now lobbing water bombs at that status...