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...seventh grade, I decided that I was a Republican. When my social studies teacher asked the class with which political party each of us identified, I was the lone Republican in that private school classroom of twenty-five wealthy students. Despite my northeastern address, my female gender and my marked lack of family fortune, I knew that the Republican party was my home...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: The Last Oppressed Minority | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...Prophet's miraculous night journey to heaven. Rising into the skies on the Buraq, a fantastic creature often described as part woman, part horse, part peacock, Muhammad meets Adam, who resides in the lowest heaven, and Jesus, who is only in the fourth level. Abraham welcomes him in the seventh heaven before the Prophet is ushered into paradise for his encounter with God. It was in heaven, according to one traditional tale, that Muhammad, on Moses' advice, bargained down God's original demand of 50 prayers a day to five, the number of times a day each devout Muslim must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OTHER FAITHS, OTHER VISIONS | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

Under the proposal, students would be required to fill six areas designated by concentration, and would choose their seventh Core course from two remaining catagories. The current system of exemptions from the remaining areas would be preserved...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Proposal to Alter Core Curriculum Draws Fire, Praise | 3/21/1997 | See Source »

...instance, a Biology concentrator would be required to take a class from the Foreign Cultures, History, Literature, Art/Music, Moral Reasoning and Social Analysis selections. The seventh Core course could be taken in either History or Literature. Biology concentrators would be exempt from the Physical Science, Life Science and Quantitative Reasoning requirements...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Proposal to Alter Core Curriculum Draws Fire, Praise | 3/21/1997 | See Source »

...Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the U.S., is born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 17, 1997 | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

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