Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson, who easily could have givenup, responded with what Locker would later call "avery gutsy performance." Harvard stormed back toscore two quick goals, the second coming with onlyeight minutes left, to take a 4-3 lead. The goalswere scored on line drive blasts, first byPetruccelli--his second of the game--and then bysenior Lee Williams...
...Call it a color conspiracy...
...large doses of centuries-old rituals, complete with priests, confessionals, and polyester uniforms, it also included an urgent sense of social justice. One would not know it to hear the "Christian right" (who often could not be less Christian nor more wrong), but Christianity represents at its core a call to love one another. It may seem overly sentimental to a community so jaded as Harvard, but that is really the CRUX of the Christian doctrine...
...that was created in the image of God. It means compassion for children, the poor, the suffering, the sick and the imprisoned. Those who invoke the name of Jesus Christ in this country today often forget that he was the child of a working class family, what we would call a "minority" in the Roman Empire, and something of a rebellious teenager. They forget that this traveling rabbi had no riches to speak of, counted prostitutes, beggars and criminals among his principal acquaintances and was ultimately killed for undermining the prevailing institutions of his day. Our Christian model...
...Hewlett-Packard had the best rating in the survey; its computers worked on startup 92 percent of the time. By contrast, 17 percent of AST users had a bad out-of-box experience. Interestingly enough, AST users, while reporting the most initial problems, were also the least likely to call tech support -- a level of diminished expectations that may explain how PC makers can ship nonfunctional products and still make the big bucks...