Word: applauding
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...given Karol Wojtyla's job description and his trip's locus, little else about it is personal or simple. A billion Roman Catholics and innumerable other Christians will follow his every encounter in the footsteps of their Saviour. Many Jews will cautiously applaud what Aharon Lopez, Israel's ambassador to the Holy See, calls "with all due respect...the climax" of recent Catholic-Jewish amity. That's the upside. The downside? It will be a security nightmare and a diplomatic high-wire act. Says Israeli police official David Tsur: "It touches all the nerves we can think...
Along the same lines as schedule cards, I applaud the efforts of groups that aim to bring more undergrads to the stands. The Harvard-Radcliffe Foundation for Women's Athletics (HRFWA) and the Varsity Club, being two such organizations with which I am affiliated, have added spice to many basketball games, as well as attracted fans to smaller sports...
...applaud the effort we gave tonight," Mazzoleni said. "Laing was exceptional...
...When he won his five grand, the table gave him a rousing ovation. Some players even stood to applaud him for doing little more than putting $16 on some green felt in the middle of nowhere in Connecticut. As he leaves the table, he tips Tony heavily and also gives $25 to everyone playing at the table, including me. This sort of camaraderie is one of the other moderately decent things about the Connecticut gaming experience. Everyone feels bad for everyone else. The dealers who owe their lot in life to the casinos clearly feel bad for the players...
...Perhaps one should embrace Foxwoods as an agent for the reestablishment of a cultural identity and applaud it as such. It would be easy to do this if this cultural renaissance didn't come at a price. There is a price, though, and it's paid by the Asian immigrants from Massachusetts, the working class Portuguese from Connecticut and the retirees from all over New England who come out on weekends and drop a few hundred dollars at a time into the casino. For them, it does not seem to be such a winning proposition...