Word: wing
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...regular worshipers constitute a paltry 2.4% of the population. Only 29% of England's babies are baptized as Anglicans. The decline had set in long before Runcie's reign, but he proved powerless to stop it. With England becoming a mission field, the future may lie with the Evangelical wing, which runs some thriving parishes and is gaining the majority among priests...
Last month, The Crimson reported the appearance of a new right-wing magazine, Peninsula, the editors of which declare that they are in pursuit of "the truth." To this end, two of the six articles in their first issue offered a long and winding "history" of Catholics at Harvard...
...hustings the name of Otto von Bismarck, who first achieved a united Germany in 1871, and closing with the call, "God bless our German fatherland." But it has also dawned on him that his politically motivated equivocation over Poland's borders -- a play to German right-wing sentiment -- has been damaging. Kohl last week emphasized that a unified Germany would have "good relations with all countries in East and West, and I name Poland in first place." No one need fear the unification of 61 million West Germans and 17 million East Germans, he said. "We take the fears...
...Peres succeeds, his government is expected to give a short-term boost to the peace process by swiftly approving Baker's plan. But when it comes time to deal, his narrow coalition is likely to face intense opposition from a newly unified right-wing. Should Peres fail to form a government, Shamir will try to cobble together his own majority. If he succeeds, the path to peace will be thoroughly mined by a Cabinet laden with extremists. Should both leaders be unsuccessful and Israelis have to return to the polls, another parliamentary deadlock is expected. The fourth option, which...
Peninsula, by asserting that society must have some grounding in morality, is attempting to restrain Harvard from a slide into nihilism, and this should give its left-wing critics pause. No one today advocates the policy that homosexuals (to pick the current pet cause of campus liberals) be exterminated. Society agrees that such a policy would be evil. If the left gets what it wants, i.e. the moral vacuum of relativism, in another twenty years anything will be morally possible. Mike Reynolds '91 President, Harvard Conservative Club