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...recently as Thursday, sophomore Caitlin Cahow was a defender on the women’s hockey team, enjoying her offseason in peace and quiet. Saturday, however, she was forced to undergo a baptism by fire, stepping in between the pipes for the Harvard women’s lacrosse team and essentially learning...

Author: By Paul R. Fenstermaker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Lacrosse Edged By No. 15 Quakers | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...Sulpician priest, observed that the idea of divine conception in the womb appeared to be part of a theological progression. The very first Christians thought that Jesus had become God's Son at his Resurrection; Mark, the first Gospel written, seemed to locate the moment at his baptism in the Jordan; and it is only by the time that Matthew and Luke were writing that believers had dated his Sonship to before his birth. Thus, if Mary was the eyewitness source for the Holy Spirit's direct involvement in Jesus' birth (and who else could it be?), her testimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Behind The First Noel | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Like Jews at a baptism, Gadfly had to ask the person next to us what exactly was going down in the water. Turns out the Northeast’s best and brightest prefer to settle their collegiate rivalries by imitating the slave galley on a Roman warship...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, Sarah M. Seltzer, and Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gadfly; The Week in Buzz | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

...third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson ordered a naval and military expedition to North Africa, without the authorization of Congress, to put down regimes involved in slavery and piracy. The war was the first in which the U.S. flag was carried and planted overseas; it saw the baptism by fire of the U.S. Marine Corps--whose anthem boasts of action on "the shores of Tripoli"--and it prefigured later struggles with both terrorism and jihad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Jefferson: The Pirate War: To The Shores Of Tripoli | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

Fourtou's experience may be extreme, but it's emblematic of the baptism by fire that new European CEOs often face these days. Fourtou is practically the anti-Messier. A sturdily built rugby fan from southwestern France, he is as low-key as Messier was flashy. Unlike Messier, whose acquisition spree was propelled by a subsequently discredited vision of the future, Fourtou has taken an approach to Vivendi that is basic. Rather than embracing a grandiose strategy, he started by selling what was easiest to sell while asking shareholders to be patient. After some strategic twisting and turning, he decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eurobosses: The Fix-It Man | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

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