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Chirac: France has important advantages: it is the world's fourth economic and commercial power, a permanent member of the Security Council, a nuclear power and the main contributor of troops to the U.N. We are not an average nation. France also has an old humanist and universalist tradition, strongly attached to human rights and democracy...Our weaknesses are mainly the result of 14 years of lax management, which consisted of spending more than was reasonable and led to the accumulation of deficits and debts. [Another weakness] is a certain resistance to change...The labor unions and professional organizations have...
Barnum also persuaded a Universalist ministerto preach a sermon about man's arrogance inassuming that he knows all about the laws ofnature. The preacher delivered his sermon andspoke of the shallow philosophy of man whobelieves that he knows all about the earth and itscreation...
...Nameless is located in the parlor of the First Parish Universalist Church in Harvard Square...
However, unlike most other major universities, Harvard does not have a department of religion. The concentration shares all of its professors with other fields. Dr. Herbert F. Vettar, chaplain at the Unitarian Universalist church for the past 25 years, calls this a serious lack...
GORBY, THE NEW AGE GURU? Fans of harmonic convergences and the like have been noting Mikhail Gorbachev's frequent use of phrases associated with the new age movement, that mystical, universalist philosophy that preaches, as the Soviet President does, of the need for "a new world order." As he said in California: "All mankind is entering a new age, and world trends are beginning to obey new laws and logic." More strikingly, he held a private meeting in Canada earlier in the week with one of the leading gurus of the new age movement, Sri Chinmoy, who read...