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...legend. It is said that Prince Vladimir chose Orthodox Christianity over Islam as the religion of Russia simply because, unlike Islam, it permitted its adherents to drink alcohol. Another legend tells the story of an 18th-century tsar who was saved by a peasant. Although the tsar offered to bestow all sorts of riches upon him, the tsar's rescuer asked simply for a piece of paper that would allow him to drink free anywhere in the empire. When he lost the piece of paper, he was given in its place a more permanent mark of the tsar's decree...
Last week Feaster broke Harvard's all-time scoring record while averaging 29 points and 12.5 rebounds, yet the Ivy League did not name her its Player of the Week as it had done seven days earlier. Yesterday, however, the League had no choice but to bestow the honor on Feaster for the second time in three weeks...
Paper is something of an ostentation these days. All the information we need jumps off a screen and is abstracted back into electrons when we look away. "Books" are the gilded volumes that crown the achievements of the canonized. "Books" are placed strategically on a conspicuous shelf to bestow a semblance of weathered intellectualism. "Books" gather dust...
...have written letters to the three surviving Beatles to bestow upon us all their wit and greatness" says Jones, who wrote letters to the three musicians in the past summer. "That remains the ultimate, as-yet unfulfilled goal of the club members. That's our ultimate dream...
...only as "recognition that the poor are our brothers and sisters, that there are people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted." Especially in a season that celebrates God's goodwill toward man, Mother Teresa's own loving luminosity prompts many to bestow on her a title that she would surely reject. She is, they say, a living saint...