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...word "Ascot," when associated with horses, evokes images of traditional English pomp: prestigious races held before large crowds of stylish, high-society spectators...
Mendelsohn does not say which, if any, of these beliefs the Court should have rejected as incoherent, or how, for example, he would evaluate Catholic beliefs on transubstantiation, Jewish beliefs on dietary restrictions, or the religious holidays of various groups. Without a word of explanation, however, he does tell us that Protestant fundamentalism flunks his coherence test. The arbitrariness of this pronouncement is compounded by his failure to offer any theological criteria that courts could use to determine the coherence of religious beliefs...
...village asked him to teach an adult English class she was organizing. He gladly agreed. The first day of the class, Sandburg recalls smiling, "everybody in the village came--the priest, the mayor and his three daughters, the feuding grocery store owners, the pharmacist and his girlfriend." Word of his class spread across the area, and gradually the local Italians began to trust him, talk to him, and even help him with his fieldwork...
...thousand dollars a word is a hefty price to pay for any document, but this one is special. Written in 1818 by the 75-year-old Thomas Jefferson to Mordecai Noah, one of America's first Zionists, the letter contains a stirring attack on anti-Semitism and all forms of religious bigotry...
...fragmentation," he says. "While a lot of it looks like democracy, to a large extent it tends to go toward confusion and chaos." Long had a few sacrosanct rules that he tried never to violate. "Aside from just being responsible and doing the job, Senators ought to keep their word to each other," he says. "If you make a commitment, you ought to keep...