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...when it came to religious matters, Muslims were instructed to put aside their political differences for the sake of Islamic unity. While politics was not a taboo subject for a sermon, it should always be subservient to religion inside the mosque. And any religious factionalization on account of individual political beliefs was condemned in the final sermon of the prophet...
Steven V. Mazie '93 and Philip M. Rubin '93, founders of Jerk magazine, beat a metal keg while chanting, "Jerk magazine, Neil Rudenstine." For the sake of the rhyme, they mispronounced the name of Harvard's 26th president...
...first this seems unbelievable. Duke is an avowed racist. He talks about white power. He's a neo-Nazi, for God's sake. So how did he persuade 44 percent of Louisiana's voting population (and, according to The Post, 60 percent of the white electorate) to vote for him last year in a failed bid for the U.S. Senate...
...they Christians at all? Many radicals argue that the way to religious empowerment was pioneered by Jesus as if he were a kind of Kit Carson of the soul. But who needs pioneers once the frontier is opened? It often seems that the radicals cling to Jesus for the sake of the name ID and some pretty 19th century buildings erected in his name...
...Gorbachev are not signing the START treaty just for old times' sake. As long as there is even the slimmest danger that these two nations could fire their weapons at each other, it behooves their governments to keep fine-tuning the balance of terror to make it a bit more balanced and thus a bit less terrifying...