Word: crossing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This was a blow. The prosecution gloated and inquired whether, if such affidavits were read, it would have the right to cross-examine the experts. His Honor said yes. Another blow. The defense decided to withhold its experts and prepare instead a 12,000-word outline of Evolution in the record...
...arrives in this confirmed bachelor’s mailbox and tells him he has a son by an anonymous woman who claims to have dated him 20 years earlier. Urged on by his neighbor Winston, a detective enthusiast played with appealing earnestness by Jeffrey Wright, Don embarks on a cross-country journey to visit his old flames and find out whether there’s any truth to the letter...
...blocks away, at Humboldt Park Elementary School, which serves kindergarten through eighth grade, a charming scene unfolds in Karen Hennessy's classroom. Her kindergartners are enjoying a visit from their eighth-grade "buddies." All around the room, big kids sit knees to chest in miniature chairs or cross-legged on the alphabet carpet. Each little kid has chosen a picture book to share with a big buddy. Some lean on eighth-grade laps as they listen. Logan Wells, a strapping 14-year-old, reads The Little Engine That Could to Alec Matias and Jacob Hill. Jacob, 5, seems mesmerized equally...
...Paolo!" tradition. (In subsequent weeks, he even shushed them.) "John Paul built a rapport based on [such] enthusiasm," says a Rome-based Cardinal. "This Holy Father tends to diminish the importance of enthusiasm." While preaching, Karol Wojtyla would wave, gesticulate and repeatedly make the sign of the Cross. Benedict's pulpit style is austere by contrast, which more and more seems a philosophical choice rather than a personal reticence. During his Bari homily, which lauded observation of the Sabbath as an antidote to modern life's "unbridled consumerism" and "secularism closed to transcendence," Benedict allowed himself only a small circling...
...competition start to hurt the Henderson team's scores from the National Cheerleaders Association instructors. So late one night, the 14 girls hold a "Come to Jesus" meeting in their S.M.U. dorm room to air grievances and try to put their problems behind them. Krystin, caught in the cross fire of parental sniping, is sage enough at 13 to know that teamwork matters above all--more than the moves and certainly more than the makeup. "It's not just about one person," she says on the last day of camp. "You want to encourage other people to do good...