Word: crosses
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...group has arranged visits from violinist and composer Mark O’Connor, banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck, mandolinist Mark Thile, and recently, the world-renowned bassist Edgar Meyer. Not only are these guests masters of their respective instruments, they are also known for their extraordinary ability to cross genres and styles in a way that HCAMA seeks to emulate. “I don’t know how many more musicians of their caliber we can find. Musicians who not only embrace all styles, but have mastered all of them,” O’Connor...
...avid pro-life Catholic who teaches high school Calculus. She is overweight and in her food-diary she writes, “I ask You to remind me when I crave a snack such as a ‘3 Musketeers’ to remember You on The Cross & how You had nothing to eat or drink.” She cooks frozen baked ziti for her family three times a week and hates her husband. Grayson’s father, John, was in the Army and is now an alcoholic and addicted to Internet porn. He?...
...provides a relatively detached critical insight into the more volatile personalities at work; this distance offers some respite from the roiling, overheated emotion of the female protagonists. Tadashi, amusingly, does not neglect to insert his own opinions into the other narratives, in the form of slightly snide footnotes and cross-references to previously mentioned information.Boyle clearly has a gift for the compelling. As the self-appointed narrator of this tale, Tadashi illustrates the life of the so-called apprentices who sign up to learn from Wright at Taliesin (both his home and studio) and instead find themselves relegated to washing...
...tenth of a second,” Dan laughs. “We’ve even tied for 16th before and had to swim off.”As the Jones’ talent grew in their late teens, the twins abandoned their second sport—cross-country—and focused on the prospect of recruitment. Despite their childhood fixation with local aquatic powerhouse Michigan, the allure of Cambridge changed the brothers’ thinking.“I feel like swimming is a good balance with academics here,” Bill explains...
...actions of Yoo and two other OLC lawyers. Many Democrats would like to see Yoo and Cheney's own lawyer, David Addington, investigated for their role in creating the Bush Administration's so-called torture doctrine. And on the weekend of Cheney's CNN appearance, a leaked Red Cross report on the treatment of Gitmo prisoners used the T word, describing in graphic detail how terrorist suspects were, among other things, beaten, kept in coffin-like boxes, chained to their beds and starved for weeks at a time...