Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of Arizona's future Western Civ courses, James Baldwin may stand with the seventh-century B.C. poet Sappho, while the Homeric Hymn to Demeter shares center stage with Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway...
...many points of contact between his faith and "psychology, cosmology, neurobiology, the social sciences and physics. There are many things we Buddhists should learn from the latest scientific findings. And scientists can learn from Buddhist explanations. We must conduct research, and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation," he says, beaming subversively, "Buddha's own words must be rejected...
...first time in U. S. history, a major political party grapples with one of the biggest what- ifs of all: What if voters actually nominate a black man for President? What, exactly, does Jackson stand for? Taking Jesse seriously means seriously scrutinizing his ideas and holding him accountable for his past. -- Voices of white voters who like Action Jackson. See NATION...
...attorney represent a person he knows is guilty? Can you put a defendant on the stand when you know he's lying? It may be obligatory within cur system," he said...
...Stern, in her day on the witness stand last week, showed that a woman's best defense is a promise not to work for a living. The line of argument pursued not only by Mrs. Whitehead-Gould's lawyer, but also by the Stern's attorney, showed that the men in this case have made one measure of good motherhood a willingness to give up a career and stay home with the baby...