Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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October, 1998: The NBA cancels regular-season games for the first time in its history. Over 200 games have been canceled so far, and, barring a major break-through in today's negotiating session, the season cannot begin before mid-January...
...child who cannot sit still youbasically bind this child to a chair," Huang said...
...like Harvard's assumption that 18 and 19-year-olds cannot make their own choices," he said...
Stoles have a very particular meaning in Roman Catholicism: they signify ordination. But Ramerman is a woman and, according to church doctrine, cannot be ordained. It did not help that she stood next to the priest during Mass, read the preface to the Eucharistic prayer and raised the chalice of wine at the end of the prayer--activities that are the purview of the ordained. For years the Vatican peppered the Bishop of Rochester with complaints about Corpus Christi and probably made its feelings clear during his official visit to Rome this year. The message: Such heresies must...
...style ensures that her work is entirely free of sentimentality or melodrama. What she doesn't say becomes almost more important than what she does; readers are left to decipher the twisted relationships of the characters--the fact that Myrtle willingly bears George's children because his highborn wife cannot, for instance--as best they can. There may be love in this novel, but there is little that is sweet...