Word: devout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McCartney and his family moved in 1982 to Boulder, where he transformed the hapless Buffaloes of the University of Colorado. First he had to struggle through some miserable losing seasons (including a 1-10 record in 1984) and criticism that he favored Christian players over less devout teammates. Gradually, though, McCartney put together a winning streak, leading to a spectacular 1989 season that earned him five national Coach of the Year honors and culminated in beating Notre Dame at the Orange Bowl in 1991. In that year he signed a dream 15-year contract with Colorado, worth...
Bitton explained that devout youth may join the Hesder, a program that sponsors a year of training in a Yeshiva in return for two years of military service...
...basis of their religion. In this case, the form of the discrimination seems to be...temptation, temptation everywhere! There's a precedent at a public school: last year, in a little-noticed local ruling, a judge said the University of Nebraska had to allow Douglas Rader, a devout Christian fretting over the dorms' laxity, to live off campus. The Nebraska case was the first of its kind...
...Yale Five, as they call themselves, do not claim to be passing a moral judgment on others; they simply want to exercise their religious freedom and abide by the rules that their interpretation of Judaism requires. How much respect should a private and secular institution have for devout, even fundamentalist students...
...hours before sundown, the wagon train made camp. I had walked only a few miles that day, but I was parched and exhausted. A meal was served. I sat in the dirt and devoured a plate of meat loaf, while around me devout believers watered horses, repaired bent wagon wheels, fed bottles to crying infants. In just a few days, to quote their ancestors, they would cross the mountains and be "safe in Zion." I could not help wishing them well. In their epic trek across Smith's American Eden, they have lost more paradises than they've found...