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The power that made Rosa Parks
Diane Winston is Knight chair in media and religion at USC. She can be reached at dhwinston@gmail.com.EARLIER THIS month, every transit bus in New York City displayed this slogan: "It All Started on a Bus." The signs asked riders to leave the seat behind the bus driver vacant, as a tribute to the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' refusal to relinquish her...Tags: Civil Rights, University of Southern California, Crime, Law and Justice, Judaism, Sociology
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Conor Cruise O'Brien dies at 91; Irish author became a prominent diplomat
Conor Cruise O'Brien, a leading Irish author, politician and diplomat who rose to international prominence while leading a United Nations mission in the troubled Congo and remained an independent, often contrarian thinker amid religious strife of his...Tags: Family, Republic of Ireland, James Joyce, Diplomacy, Albert Schweitzer
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Conservatives also irked by IRS probe of churches
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe IRS threat to revoke the tax-exempt status of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena because of an antiwar sermon there during the 2004 presidential election is part of a larger, controversial federal investigation of political activity at churches...Tags: Elections, Baptist, Wars and Interventions, Civil Rights, Robert Edgar
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Army Sgt. David J. Hart, 22, Lake View Terrace; among 3 killed in Iraq firefight
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHe was known as the guy with the random stories. "When I was in Tahiti . . ." or "When I was in Sydney . . .," he would tell his Army buddies, who listened intently, if just the slightest bit skeptically. They needn't have been. As a young man, Sgt....Tags: Family, Armed Forces, Defense, Death, Clubs and Associations
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It's about voters' faith in Romney
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWith a massive marketing effort, Mitt Romney has tried to introduce himself as a family man with a solid marriage, five wholesome sons and the moral values desired by the Republican Party's most conservative voters. But now that voters have met him, many...Tags: Bible, Religious Texts, Elections, Abortion Issue, Political Candidates
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Fresh starts for Clinton, McCain in New Hampshire primary
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPowered by women voters and the Democratic faithful, Hillary Rodham Clinton rallied to a surprise victory Tuesday in the New Hampshire presidential primary, echoing the 1992 comeback that launched her husband to the White House. Barack Obama, the...Tags: Fred Thompson, Manchester (Hillsborough, New Hampshire), Death, Mitt Romney, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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From the archives: Germany making room for Muslim educators
Times Staff WriterThe son of an immigrant coal miner, Musa Bagrac was raised in a city of steam and smoke, a place where men walked with crumpled lunch bags in calloused hands and Muslims felt adrift in makeshift mosques shadowed by church steeples. Bagrac moved like an...Tags: Mining, Religious Texts, Religious Festivals, Hanukkah, Arts and Culture
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Florida becomes showdown state for GOP
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJohn McCain's victory in South Carolina puts the Arizona senator in a strong position to win the Republican presidential nomination -- but only if he can follow up with another win in Florida nine days from now. "This is a huge win for McCain," said...Tags: Fred Thompson, Elections, Death, Mitt Romney, U.S. Presidential Election Exit Polls (2008)
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From the archives: Arab, African and Muslim roots will be part of France's next generation
Times Staff WriterAbd al Malik rolled back into the projects with his crew on a sunny day, his voice blaring from the car speakers. It was a track from his latest CD about how the Sept. 11 attacks made him feel ashamed to be Muslim. "Neither fundamentalism nor extremism,...Tags: Family, Theft, Wars and Interventions, Arts and Culture, Pakistan
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It's a campaign, not a crusade
GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has done it again -- he said "Merry Christmas." On television. In a campaign ad that first aired in Iowa on Dec. 18, he conspicuously declined to say "Happy Holidays," the sappy all-purpose greeting favored by the...Tags: Religious Festivals, Elections, Sinclair Lewis, Baptist, Arts and Culture
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RAP GETS RELIGION:
Special to The Times"The gangs have the right idea!" A-Man shouts from the flatbed of a semi-truck trailer serving as the stage for Hip Hop Church America outside the Crystal Cathedral on a hot fall afternoon. "But instead of killing each other they should be out there...Tags: Movies, Bible, Religious Texts, Baptist, Documentary (genre)
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'The Holy City: A Novel' by Patrick McCabe
At some point, there's a large and interesting essay to be written on why so much of the most interesting new English-language fiction comes to us from Indian and Irish writers.
When it is, there ought to be a substantial section devoted to Patrick...Tags: Republic of Ireland, James Joyce, Roman Catholicism, Peter Stuyvesant, Longford Corporation
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