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...this is eroding; he thinks we watch too much TV and fears that American secularization is proceeding at an "accelerated pace." But he insists that there is a "much clearer and implicit sense" in the U.S. than in Europe of a morality "bequeathed by Christianity." He has also given earnest thought to the mechanics of this civil religion, specifying that to affect the moral consensus, it is not enough for Catholics to rub shoulders with other Christians; they must translate their concerns from doctrinal language into a "public theology" accessible...
...Tigers a two-goal cushion with just over three minutes remaining. Kalemba stopped the other 10 shots that came his way in the third period. By the time Magnowski slid the puck into the empty Harvard net at 18:22, Princeton’s celebrations had begun in earnest “They played very well and made some plays from the net on out,” Donato said. “We were not able to penetrate and get enough dangerous shots.” After the second-place finish, the Crimson’s senior class will...
...booming, pre-Crash 1920s, flapper hemlines bounced giddily to the knee before falling down to the ankles in the depressed 1930s. The 1960s' youthquake, complete with postage-stamp-size miniskirts, heralded a similar stylistic ebullience before the oil crisis of the 1970s plunged fashion back into an earnest, hippie frame of mind...
Yesterday was Housing Day at Harvard, a day in which earnest freshmen feel either doom or delight. Delight is what you feel when you’ve been lotteried into Adams. Doom is what you feel when you’ve been exiled to the Quad. For the most part, where you are delivered is out of your control. Housing is a crapshoot at Harvard, and all you can do is block wisely and hold on tight...
...helping to resolve the mess they too helped create by going along with the DNC. Clinton accepted the DNC ruling last year when she was the front-runner; but now, because she won the Florida and Michigan primaries but trails Obama in the delegate count, she's the earnest champion of voters like Bander. She backed the idea of revotes in Florida and Michigan; but this week rejected a compromise solution offered by Democratic state Senators in Florida that would take the GOP tack and reinstate half the delegates (giving Clinton 63 and Obama 42) and perhaps divide the other...