Word: convert
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...Movie88.com operatives use Real Producer software to convert DVDs into Real Player files, which are then loaded onto the site's servers in Taipei and elsewhere. He claims the movies are bought, borrowed or rented. The only guiding principle is popularity and his reading...
...virtue of being at Harvard, most Mormons here have taken a relatively more liberal or unconventional path than most college-age Mormons. Perhaps none so unconventional as that of Davidson, who did not convert to the religion until the summer after she graduated from high school. Davidson is from Butler, Pa., near Pittsburgh, and was raised in a Presbyterian home. She was crowned America’s Junior Miss in 1998 and, as a result, participated in a community service program in Hawaii. Davidson remembers that the leader of her program leader was a Mormon, and Davidson was intrigued...
...couldn’t help thinking how irritated I’d be if someone did the same thing to me.” But if his faith felt challenged by the confrontations he faced and the fact that, like most young missionaries, he was not able to convert more than a handful of his targets, the ultimate effect was only to reaffirm his beliefs as a Mormon...
Harvard was getting good chances both in the first and early in the second period, but it wasn’t able to convert on rebounds. In fact, the Crimson would not need a single rebound as all four of its goals were worthy of the highlight reels...
Bearing the brunt of the nasty, possibly racist whispers was the 52-year-old Pakistani-born Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, the son of a Muslim convert to Christianity and a man praised for his intellect. The slurs alleged he had bought his first bishopric, lied about his age, misrepresented his academic qualifications and - horrors - was even once involved with the Catholic Church. None turned out to be true except the last charge. Nazir-Ali has admitted to being a practicing Catholic while at St. Paul's School and during a year at St. Patrick's College in Karachi...