Word: bowles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miles away, in the dimly lighted sanctuary of the First Assembly of God church on a humid Thursday night, dozens of men are weeping openly in the pews, men who have come from the base, men who ain't supposed to cry unless their team has won the Super Bowl, if at all. But here they are, a more than slightly disconcerting sight, middle-age guys sobbing and hugging and professing love for one another. They admit to having broken promises, they beg forgiveness--for insensitivity, for infidelity, for abandoning their children, for racial hatred, for sins as petty...
...normal brain, cauterizing severed blood vessels as he goes. He cuts all the way around the edge of the tumor, gradually detaching its mass. Fifteen minutes later, he lifts the bulk of Schuler's cancer out of the hole he has made and places it in a stainless-steel bowl. "Call the tumor guys to come down and get a specimen," he orders. Another piece of the tumor will be sent to Black's own lab while he goes back in to clean up the cavity...
...before this can be done, Salome explains, there is another crucial part of the cure. Holding a coconut-shell bowl containing ashes, she flicks them in the direction of Cox, who is playing the patient. When he soberly asks why the ashes are necessary, she replies that they enhance "spiritual transmission" between healer and patient. "We Westerners have to suspend judgment at these times," says Cox. "Look at our own belief in doctors wearing white coats. In Western culture that uniform is comparable to the 'spiritual transmission' she sees...
...Notables, Co-Production Manager; College Bowl, Executive Board; Radcliffe Phonathon Caller; H.A.N.D. Homework Center Tutor; JEOPARDY! College Championship, 2nd place...
...These new super-rich won't loosen up their wads because they're afraid they'll reduce their net worth and go down on the list," he told Dowd. "That's their Super Bowl...