Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pope's visit to Poland is a lesson to all, but especially to the politicians who try to delude their constituencies into believing that the greatest bulwark against tyranny is an arsenal of nuclear warheads. John Paul has no armies at his command. His strength is truth. John Paul has not a single armament at his disposal. Courage is his only defense. The military power of a Caesar, a Hitler or a Stalin is short-lived compared with the moral power of leaders like Jesus, Gandhi and John Paul...
...some Freshman Week reception at the Fogg, and at a dinner or two in your upperclass House. He'll also be at Commencement, four years down the road, to wish you his best and welcome you into "the company of learned men and women." While he theoretically has command over every detail of your lives, Bok, for the most part, keeps his hands out of the daily affairs of undergraduates, leaving such matters to the folks who manage the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, of which the College is a part...
...minutes. At one point Martina's dress came undone; everything else held together. "I was looking at the clock," Jaeger admitted. " 'I better take my time on the changes,' I thought. The match was going kind of fast." Maybe the simplest description of Navratilova's command now is that she can turn the No. 3 player in the world into a clock watcher. "I'm not unbeatable," Martina says, "but I'm pretty difficult to beat...
Germanos' absolution of the Phalangist high command came as no surprise. It was, after all, submitted to Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, who is himself a Phalangist and whose authority over the country remains tenuous at best. Noting that irony, an editorial in the Jerusalem Post dismissed the report as a "whitewash" and concluded tartly, "The report should be reason enough for Israelis to ponder the moral caliber of their newly found Lebanese friends...
...preacher's urging, people start to stand one by one. The momentum builds and soon about 400 of the audience of 1,500 are on their feet. "I speak to the spirit of infirmity. I command the arthritis to come out of your neck, in the name of Jesus!" Then the preacher demands that people begin moving their ailing limbs and joints: "I know it sounds crazy, but just...