Word: elders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vellucci's father, Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, officially endorsed his son at the dinner. The elder Vellucci said the distillery party was the first and only political fundraiser he had attended in which alcohol was not available...
...Baird, an elder in the church, says the membership of the Harvard congregation, and those at all area schools, is growing. He attributes this increasing number of converts to "the excitement the individuals have about their faith in Jesus and their eagerness to share...
This sudden visibility on Nixon's part suggests that, 14 years after his resignation in disgrace due to the sweeping Watergate scandals, he is finally assuming the elder statesman status he has sought for so long. And people are letting him--they seem to forget why he resigned and the incredible significance of his actions...
...will never be any way of knowing the full truth because he will never tell us. Nixon is a man who wants to vindicate his place in history. Escaping prosecution, however, has allowed him to be in the improved position he is now. If Nixon is accepted as an elder statesman, the lessons on the corruption of power that Watergate supposedly taught us will be lost...
...outsider, the life of a living Buddha can seem a profoundly lonely one. In recent years, moreover, nearly all the people closest to the Tibetan ruler -- his senior tutor, his junior tutor, his mother and the elder brother who in youth was his only playmate -- have died. Yet this, like everything else, the Dalai Lama takes, in the deepest sense, philosophically. "Old friends pass away, new friends appear," he says with cheerful matter-of- factness. "It's just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend...