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...possession, and following the Crimson’s recent bout of bad luck, resulted in a not-so-lucky bounce off a Harvard defender directly to the stick of a Holy Cross player.Harvard did earn six of the 11 penalty corners in the half but was unable to convert. The Crimson narrowly missed an opportunity to cut the Crusaders’ lead in half when junior Jana Berglund knocked a close shot into the goalie’s pads. Harvard jumped on the rebound but overshot.The second half, while mutually quieter offensively, nonetheless continued to highlight the Crimson?...
...routinely shut down, and the government uses text messages as warnings against public demonstrations and has a history of using neighbors to spy on one another, can Chinese Christians really think that Big Brother isn't watching them pray as well? John Chi Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S. Converts to Islam Re "Allah's Recruits" [Aug. 28]: it was interesting to read about Westerners like Jamal Harwood who have converted to Islam. Western countries offer the freedom to convert. But in Saudi Arabia, the heart of Islam, with the sacred city of Mecca, it is against the law for Muslims...
...option that Chrisitianity granted to Islam when the roles were reversed in Southern Europe. The best-known forced conversion of Manuel?s century or any since was not executed by Muslims, but by the Spanish Christian monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, who served Spanish Moors (and Jews) a convert-or-leave edict in 1492 and then backed it up with the Spanish Inquisition...
Meanwhile in Moscow, Russian Orthodox clergy were jubilant that the bells were finally coming back to the 724-year-old Danilov Monastery, where they hung until an American industrialist rescued them from Josef Stalin’s campaign to convert religious artifacts into raw materials...
Meanwhile in Moscow, Russian Orthodox clergy were jubilant that the bells were finally coming back to the 724-year-old Danilov Monastery, where they hung until an American industrialist rescued them from Josef Stalin's campaign to convert religious artifacts into raw materials...