Word: calling
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...NOTEBOOK: Harvard faces defending GBL champion Brandeis today in Waltham, and it should be either Timmy Clifford (2-1) or Steve Baloff (3-1) getting the call...
Though the outcome of any general election is impossible to call right now, some savvy politicians are making a prediction: another hung Parliament, with neither party gaining a majority on its own. Once again the betting is that the splinter groups-the Liberals, the Ulster Unionists, the Scottish Nationalists-will hold the power to set the course of government...
Major religious thinkers have yet to give serious attention to the issues posed by what some call "exotheology" (the theology of outer space). Perhaps they are waiting for the first UFOs to land, but more likely they suppose that ultimately the discovery of other beings makes no difference. Even if the visitors turned out to look like bug-eyed monsters or gelatinous blobs, such species might serve to enlarge the vision of the Creator's creativity. To theologians the "image of God," after all, does not refer to the type of body that characterizes Homo sapiens...
Mike Blumenthal was finishing his regular weekly breakfast in the Federal Reserve Board dining room with Chairman G. William Miller when the phone call came: the President urgently wanted to see him at the White House Only four hours remained until Jimmy Carter was to deliver his televised speech on inflation, and as Blumenthal was driven across town, he wondered if the President had any additional changes in mind. For months Blumenthal, the Administration's bridge to the business community and chief inflation fighter had advocated a tougher program to hold down prices and wages. So he had been...
...melancholy introduction to the third vignette). If Lou Reed gives no quarter in his music, neither does he yield to sensationalism or condescension. "You know," he sings in Street Hassle, "some people got no choice/ And they can never find a voice/ To talk with/ That they can even call their...