Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Evans, attending Harvard is both a personaland a collective achievement. He makes no bonesabout the fact that in South View his friends andneighbors had faith that Evans, of all people,would be the one to succeed...
...faith that we would put it together," Franzese said. "I was just hoping it would come sooner rather than later...
BUCKING THE ODDS "If it were proved fake tomorrow, it wouldn't shake my faith," says Ian Wilson from his home near Brisbane, Australia. "The fact that it might have touched the body of Christ doesn't move me at all. It's just knowing that the image exists. I would be as interested in a 14th century cloth if I could find the artist who made...
There is no question that Quarantine is a serious and skillfully crafted novel about folly, faith and a radically new relationship between a people and its god. But it is not a solemn book. Crace's characters are animated by timeless urges. His prose is startlingly specific about ancient life and Judea's harsh, terrible beauty. Unlike many authors of biblical fiction, he blends his research smoothly into his narrative and adds a leavening pinch of humor. Musa is like a preincarnation of Zero Mostel, especially when he orders flunkies to push a dead donkey over a cliff. Awaiting...
...MUCH FAITH Research on sick kids who died after parents spurned doctors for faith healers finds traditional medical care could easily have saved...