Word: clergymen
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...century, the club began holding mock debates, deciding cases such as “Dido vs. Aeneas: For Breach of Promise” and convicting administrators and students alike for crimes such as witchcraft (their pudding was too tasty to be true) and seriousness (perpetrated by countless professors and clergymen...
After The Crimson reported last week that the University had purchased 72,000 shares of PetroChina’s stock, several clergymen and actvists lambasted Harvard for holding onto its shares in a company that John Prendergast, the former African Affairs director at the National Secuirty Council during the Clinton admininstration, called a “blood-oil stock...
Gaffney said he sees a diverse political alliance coalescing around efforts to prod investors to cut their ties with Sudan. The coalition includes human rights activists, security hawks who highlight the Khartoum regime’s sponsorship of terrorism, and African American clergymen who are concerned by the regime’s targeting of Christians and dark-skinned Sudanese...
...expect a U.S.-style election in such a traditional society is wishful thinking, says Afghanistan's National Security Adviser, Dr. Zalmai Rassoul. In the countryside, only 36% of men and 8% of women can read, so most will follow the advice of village clergymen, tribal elders and family patriarchs. "What we don't want," says Rassoul, "are commanders who try to influence people by threats...
...project. The town council initially backed the hotel and mosque proposal, but then the protests began. Almost 5,000 residents signed a petition arguing that "at a time of strengthening Arab terrorism in the whole world, it would be extremely irresponsible" to permit construction of the mosque. Local clergymen signed an open letter calling Islam "a strongly orthodox and militant religion whose principles ... are totally incompatible with [our] traditional values." The town council reversed course and voted to fight the mosque. "The only thing that it contradicts," Kubera says, "is public opinion, which holds that the Arabs should not increasingly...