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...President Thomas Jefferson wrote a short letter to a group of Baptist clergymen in Danbury, Conn. The clergymen, who wanted the President to proclaim a national day of Christian thanksgiving, had expressed their frustration with Jefferson’s refusal to do so in a prior letter. In his famous reply, Jefferson explained his refusal; he wrote that “religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God,” and furthermore, that the United States “‘legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting...
...Catholic Church after having seen the movie, but neither effect was probably on the movie’s agenda anyway. Maybe, just this once, a very average movie will be taken for just that, and neither an outraged religious radicalism nor a dazzling success at the box office will proclaim the latest sign of the Apocalypse...
...press conference after the roast, Cambridge Mayor Michael A. Sullivan made a surprise appearance to bestow a key to the city on Robbins. Sullivan also took the opportunity, after 8:30 p.m., to formally proclaim February 17, 2005 “Tim Robbins...
High schools, meanwhile, find themselves fending off parents who expect instant responses to every e-mail; who request a change of teacher because of "poor chemistry" when the real issue is that the child is getting a poor grade; who seek out a doctor who will proclaim their child "exceptionally bright but with a learning difference" that requires extra time for testing; who insist that their child take five Advanced Placement classes, play three varsity sports, perform in the school orchestra and be in student government--and then complain that kids are stressed out because the school doesn...
...much an opportunity to claim their stake in a new Iraq as to affirm their reluctance to be part of Iraq at all. In tents outside official polling stations, a movement demanding a referendum on Kurdish independence collected signatures with permission of the main Kurdish political parties, whose voters proclaim their desire for independence even as party leaders look to arrange the next best thing in the form of maximum autonomy from Baghdad. The flashpoint, of course, comes in cities where Kurds and Arabs (and in some cases Turkmen) compete for control, none more so than Kirkuk - the mainstream Kurdish...