Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twelve fountains, one for each apostle, and an 11-ft. by 15-ft. Jumbotron video screen, so the back pews can catch the preacher's every gesture. Schuller's sermons, taxing to neither spirit nor intellect, owe as much to psychology as to Scripture. They are peppered with greeting-card aphorisms for seekers of happiness and self-esteem. "Coping and hoping." "Turn your scars into stars." The cross is "a minus turned into a plus." Beyond that, his crystalline Gospel aims at a historic shift, purging Christendom of what Schuller sees as centuries of ensnarement in negative thinking. By preaching...
Police said they had no suspects and discounted a letter which claimed responsibility for the poisoning, demanded $2 million and threatened to poison other products. The man who admitted writing the note was charged only with an unrelated credit card fraud...
...favour of his people by convincing them that he possesses bizarre mystical and religious powers. (Precisely why he wishes to establish himself as a figure of such supreme adulation is left unclear, but let's just assume that life, liberty, and the pursuit of an American Express Platinum Card have something to do with it.) Because he, of course, is not endowed with any such powers, sneaky Omar is forced to hire a cockney magician to entrance the unenlightened masses with an haute-rock-concert laser light show which will somehow convince them that he is none other than their...
...register that the group reserving the table was the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Students Association, and that they might not be pleased to see a hulking football player walk over and remove their sign. They immediately protested; one guy grabbed him, and a senior adviser demanded his bursar's card. Sam just stood there, bewildered and amazed at all the fuss. He didn't fight back, he didn't raise his voice, he didn't say anything obscene. He was just a small town kid reacting to what he perceived was an injustice in the seating system. His purpose...
...play was nearly identical to two previous touchdowns scored by the Pats. One, in Miami, tied the game that New England finally lost --and with it the AFC title. And in last week's wild-card game against the Jets, they scored 10 points in 15 seconds to break open what turned out to be a 26-14 victory...