Word: baptism
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...have something that other kids there didn’t have in that some kids had been incredible financial analysts on Wall Street, but they had never had to manage anyone,” she says. “So, I actually had a little baptism by fire.” After working in consulting and having four children, she joined HBR in 1996 and worked her way up to becoming editor. Today, she is proud of having increased the journal’s frequency of publication from six to 12 times a year. CONFLICT OF (LOVE) INTERESTAnd then...
...than any Expos paper: take over the positions of two of the most skilled Crimson defensemen in recent memory, and make the transition smoothly and quickly enough to keep the team competitive down the stretch. This was not going to be a rebuilding year. Facing a sink-or-swim baptism into the world of college hockey, Christian and McCafferty learned instantly. “Everything’s a little faster [in college play], and you have to make decisions quicker,” McCafferty says. “But then as you play in the first couple of games...
...unison, like fingering the rosary, taking a shot of whiskey, or serving up justice with an ass-kicking. 2. Every time someone drops the F-Bomb. Take two shots if someone drops it more than 8 times in one sentence. Go ahead, count. 3. When you hear the baptism reference while the brothers are in prison. Actually, take six shots, you dirty heathen. 4. Every time Willem Dafoe, playing a cop, reminds you of a J. Crew model that’s been run through a trash compactor. 5. Every time Dafoe mocks someone by assuming a false accent...
...Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “[We’re trying to] get him to relax, which is hard to do—he’s been pressing way too much, he’s trying to do way too much stuff.” BAPTISM BY FIREFreshman guard Drew Housman will receive his initiation into the intensity of Princeton-Penn weekend tonight. True to his first-year experience running Harvard’s offense, Housman won’t have much margin for error. His defensive assignment tonight will be to bottle up Tigers senior guard...
Together, these developments invite an investigation of baptism's importance beyond simply preventing the worst, and make a statement about the liberality of grace. Both the commission's work, which speaks for unbaptized infants, and the Vatican II language, which speaks for unbaptized adults, remind believers that, as Ratzinger wrote in a paraphrase of his predecessor John Paul II, Christians may hope that "God is powerful enough to draw to himself all those who were unable to receive the sacrament." Limbo was a vestige of an overfastidious exclusivity. Eliminating it affords a better view of God's many mansions, their...