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...raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, produced haunting images: 416 children, the girls in calico dresses, removed from log cabin homes, looking questioningly into nowhere as they were led from their polygamist enclave into a secular world they have always been taught to fear. They sang hymns as they were driven away along with 139 adult women from Eldorado's Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a renegade branch of the Mormon faith...
...some ways, Perry said, the children have "wonderful qualities - understanding of others, respect for their elders, kindness." But they have also been taught the outside world is filled with Satanic forces - movies, music, games - and as they are exposed to them in foster care, Perry says, they may well believe "My parents were right!" In some ways, Perry said, this situation highlights "fracture lines in our culture" about lifestyles and parental control. "But the state is not saying 'Don't wear those dresses," Perry says, referring to the legal basis of the Eldorado raid. "It's saying you cannot have...
...praised Professor William Schneider, who taught Penn polling and now works as a CNN senior political analyst, and also said he greatly enjoyed his introductory economics class...
...course, “Understanding Darwinism,” will be taught by History of Science professor Janet Browne and Biology lecturer Andrew Berry and will count toward the Science of Living Systems requirement...
...just sort of drew up this outline of the show.”“It was basically just me picking out my favorite songs and finding a way to put those together and give those to people in a way that gave them a context and taught them a little bit about Yiddish and Yiddish theater, but it was more about just sharing the songs with them.”Though Togut has never written or directed any other plays, she imagines that the writing process for “A Little Night Yiddish” was truly...