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Abbott is hardly a rabble-rouser. Says she: "I'm real Suzy Homemaker--Cub Scouts, baseball, sewing." In the living room a pair of Cabbage Patch dolls sit in a rocker, and a crucifix is on the mantle. The big, office-style water cooler is the one unorthodox fixture. Nodding in the direction of her daughter, she jokes, "When she's bad, she gets tap water...
...CRUCIFIXES AND ROSARIES. I think I have always carried around a few rosaries with me. There was the turquoise-colored one that my grandmother had given to me a long time ago. One day I decided to wear it as a necklace. I thought, "This is kind of offbeat and interesting." I mean, everything I do is sort of tongue in cheek. It's a strange blend -- a beautiful sort of symbolism, the idea of someone suffering, which is what Jesus Christ on a crucifix stands for, and then not taking it seriously at all. Seeing it as an icon...
This occurred recently at India's St. Stephen's college Male students had staged a panty raid by prying open lockers in a women's bathroom. They displayed their trophies by hanging the underwear from a crucifix on a school tower...
...guerrillas' political arm, the Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), the government's main adversaries in the Salvadoran conflict.* The rebel group followed Duarte's contingent inside the church, and the doors closed behind them. The two sides sat down at a plain wooden table beneath a crucifix and a quotation painted on the blue wall that admonished COME TO ME, THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WEARY. Thus began the first formal meeting between the two opposing forces in the bloody war that has taken more than 50,000 lives...
...police cruised outside, the crowd dispersed peacefully. The following day, however, the principal of a nearby school reportedly tried to resign rather than enforce the crucifix ban. Dominski met with parents at the Mietno school and tried to have them sign pledges that their children would obey school rules; the parents refused. Though local church officials were firmly on their side, Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Poland's Primate, offered only tepid comfort. Stopping over in Rome after a three-week trip to Argentina and Brazil last week, Glemp said, "Since the end of the war, we have always had problems...