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...Harvard women's basketball team extended its winning streak to three games Saturday afternoon in Emmitsburg, Maryland with a dominant 78-62 victory over Northeast Conference power Mount St. Mary's, who had been riding a three-game win streak...

Author: By David R. De remer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women's Basketball Tops Mount St. Mary's | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...many, the basic sanctity of human life seemed to be under attack, and it made them angry. "The people doing this ought to contemplate splitting themselves in half and see how they like it," said Germain Grisez, a professor of Christian ethics at Mount Saint Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloning: Where Do We Draw the Line? | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...Emmitsburg, Md., attendance has doubled in the past year, to 500,000, at one of the oldest of 43 major Marian sites in the U.S., the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary: Handmaid Or Feminist? | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

Callahan, 36, has been covering athletes since 1967, when he was offered a job on the sports staff of the Baltimore Evening Sun. A graduate of Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md., he had no previous experience as a sportswriter, but he became so proficient that by 1971 he was writing a sports column for the Cincinnati Enquirer. After seven years there, he switched to the Washington Star, then joined TIME last summer. He likes writing about sports precisely because it doesn't deal with the monumental: "It isn't nuclear physics. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 25, 1982 | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

Ostracized in New York, she moved to Baltimore where the Catholic community welcomed her. A few years later, Elizabeth Seton took religious vows and founded the American Sisters of Charity in Emmitsburg, Md. Before she died of tuberculosis in 1821, she had set up a free parish school in Emmitsburg from which the American Catholic parochial school system evolved, established the first American Catholic hospital and watched her tiny order expand to ten houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Saints | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

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