Word: beset
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There is hardly a religious group in America that is not beset by the issue that rent the Methodist meeting in May: the place of gay people in its pews. In March the organization of Reform Jewish rabbis agreed that its members could perform gay-holy-union ceremonies if they chose. The group was then castigated for it by other Jewish branches. Last month the Vatican, which had earlier ordered an American nun and priest to end a ministry to gays and their families because it did not stress the "intrinsically disordered" nature of homosexuality, further prohibited...
...storied Edwards dribbling in obscurity in Atlanta instead of getting ready for Sydney with her sister Olympians? Short answer: the money woes and uneven support that still beset women's basketball. As a co-founder and star of the American Basketball League, Edwards found herself out of work last year when the league was buried by the rival WNBA--which is backed by the NBA The WNBA clearly coveted Edwards' star power, but it refused to pay her more than the $65,000-a-season rookie rate--about half Edwards' ABL pay and far less than...
Bill Richardson was ready for his close-up. Until he was beset by the double woes of Wen Ho Lee and rising gas prices, the energy secretary was a political and media darling. He was the consummate politico, working the press to his advantage and apparently headed on a one-way trip to the top of the Democratic party. That was then, of course. Thanks to a series of security lapses at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory - capped by this week's revelation that vital hard drives are missing from the lab's inner sanctum - and his struggle to stabilize...
...play stood, and Yale had a 24-21 home victory to clinch a share of the Ivy title. Harvard (5-5, 3-4 Ivy) ended a season beset with disappointments with yet another one. Harvard's five losses came on a combined 18 points...
...Harvard (16-10, 9-5 Ivy) wound up the year in a tie for second place in the Ivy League with Penn. Dartmouth won the crown with a 12-2 record, one of its losses coming at the hands of the Crimson. Beset with injuries and fatigue, Harvard, which started off a perfect 5-0 in the Ivy, ended the year on a 1-3 slide...