Word: absents
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David Weikel is certainly thankful that the Patriot Guard spoke up. He was warned that Phelps' supporters might show up at his son Ian's funeral in Colorado Springs. "What a hateful group of people," says Weikel, a former pastor. In the end, Phelps' people were absent, but the bikers showed up. "I love them deeply," Weikel says, adding a sentiment not often applied to the hog-and-leathers set: "I appreciate their ministry in my life...
...many of my teacher colleagues don't believe in compulsory education. We'd much rather spend our precious time and resources on students who want to be in the classroom. We cannot afford to be surrogate parents to the wayward. I observed that the parent factor was noticeably absent from your article. When parents start acting like grownups and force their children to be accountable, perhaps then things will change...
However, the petition was defeated in a roll-call vote with five councillors in favor, one absent, and three opposed. A supermajority of seven votes was required to pass the resolution...
...might take note of who have become its most visible advocates: Fred Phelps, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Ralph Reed. None are known for promoting Christ’s messages of love, tolerance, and generosity. Care for the poor, the sick, the sinner, and the prisoner is absent from today’s Christianity. The Catholic Church in which I was baptized has spent the past decade equivocating on accepting financial or ethical responsibility for becoming a haven of child predators. Instead, it isolates gay people, suppresses women, prevents contraception from freeing its desperately poor faithful, and thwarts...
...rare” for a non-tenured professor to win an award of this caliber. Geraldine Brooks, currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “March,” a novel that imagines a year in the life of the absent father from Louisa May Alcott’s classic, “Little Women.”Nicholas D. Kristof ’81 and Joseph F. Kahn ’87, both former Crimson editors and current writers for The New York Times, won prizes for Commentary and International...