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...manipulated and controlled by white editors and publishers." And: "Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color." The claim that ancient Egypt, one of the cradles of Western civilization, was a black culture is a central tenet of Afrocentrism. Corroborating evidence is flimsy, but that is apparently not important. Writes John Henrik Clarke, professor emeritus of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at City University, New York: "African scholars are the final authority on Africa...
...tenet that sex should be confined to marriage is an age-old one inherited from Judaism. It is under assault because of the pressures of modern reality: the sexual precocity of young Americans, the large number of divorced or unmarried adults who have active sex lives, and the growing strength of the gay-rights movement. The issues are hitting hardest at the moderate and liberal "mainline" Protestant denominations that stress toleration and follow social currents. These groups, which have been steadily losing membership, could face further attrition, even outright schism, over...
THERE ARE TWO basic ways to analyze what is or is not a tenet of Judaism or a Jewish value. One is to study traditional Jewish texts. The other is to see Judaism as the culture of a people, the Jews, and see what their values actually are. Either way, the idea that Webb and DeGiorgio could over-rule Hillel's Coordinating Council is ludicrous...
...mastheads and in the bylines of such periodicals as Commentary, National Review, the American Spectator, the Wall Street Journal, the New Criterion and NY: The City Journal, a new quarterly of urban affairs. "We're not a unified sect," insists Teachout, adding that they do have one tenet in common: "The political and intellectual legacies of our older brothers and sisters, the baby boomers of the '60s, were a flop, a failure, a disaster." He sums up those legacies as "stale '60s romanticism, wan '70s disillusion, tedious '80s whining...
...your coffee, sell your paper and appreciate more important things instead." The song is bouyant in its message that we choose the lives we lead, that our happiness is completely within our control. The decisions The Barley Boys have made with their own lives embody their faith in the tenet...