Word: womens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WORCESTER--The outcome wasn't what the Harvard women's basketball team or Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith wanted, but it also wasn't unexpected...
...ideology--a dab of conservatism here, a touch of moderation there--remains difficult to pin down, that is precisely the idea. His self-styled New Republican approach continues to draw supporters from across his party's ideological spectrum. By emphasizing issues like education, for example, Bush is attracting women voters at levels other Republicans can only envy. He is even winning favorable reviews from a majority of moderate and conservative Democrats, according to data collected by the Pew Research Center. And while he has lost ground in New Hampshire, Bush is still the favorite of conservative Republicans in national polls...
...Meet the Press interview, Bush broke with his party by endorsing the right of patients to sue their HMOs, but he burnished his social-conservative credentials by declining to meet with the leading group of gay Republicans. He's against hate-crimes legislation aimed at protecting minorities, gays and women, but he's for set-aside programs that give 10% of government contracts--and maybe more--to firms owned by women and minorities as long as there are no "quotas...
...such passionate belief that the existence of Christianity and its success as a world religion has depended. Without some such conviction, how else might a core of terrified cowards and brave women be so emboldened to spread the news of their teacher's salvation to a hostile world? There was no real money in it for them, no great power or glamour, only centuries of persecution. The still astonishing fact is that they believed their teacher had died and then returned, not in a vision but in a credible body, to urge them outward. What more has any person ever...
...breathtaking stringency of his ethical demands and his simultaneous patience and compassion are crucial to the intimacy that so many establish with this long gone man. The promises he makes in the Gospel of John, in the resonant (and quite literal) King James translation, have strengthened endangered men and women from the terrors of Roman martyrdom till today--"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you...that where...