Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other students say they have more faith in technology to prevent security problems...
...first Prime Minister--are distant thunder in Kingsolver's tale. Her story, a symbolic parallel to the national upheaval, takes place in an isolated village. Nathan Price, an evangelical Baptist preacher, fanaticism in bitter parody, lugs his wife, daughters and rigid preconceptions to Kilanga, a small jungle settlement, where faith plays out as farce. To the hospitable but puzzled tribesmen, he rails against nakedness and multiple wives, and he insists on river baptisms though crocodiles lurk in the river. Fittingly, though he does not understand this, the Congolese word batiza means both baptism and, pronounced differently, terrify. Worse, "Tata Jesus...
...Sean ("Puffy") Combs makes music for Saturday nights, Faith Evans, a rising star on Combs' Bad Boy Records, sings songs for rainy Sunday afternoons. Evans, the widow of slain rapper the Notorious B.I.G., mostly steers clear of hip-hop on this album to focus on slow and mid-tempo R.-and-B. balladry. Some of Evans' sad-eyed love songs float away, like evaporated tears. But at her best, on such songs as No Way and Keep the Faith, she leaves us drained but curiously refreshed, as if we've had a good, well-deserved...
...could demonstrate your good faith to the teachers and future teachers of Massachusetts by removing Silber and replacing him with an articulate, impassioned proponent of rational education reform. Patricia McGovern's name springs to mind. An unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, McGovern nevertheless managed to establish herself as a knowledgeable advocate for the future of education in this state. The shining moment of her campaign came in the first week of September when she challenged Silber to a debate about the Board of Education. She took the usually aggressive and articulate Silber to task with her extensive preparation...
...Malaysians may feel uncomfortable with recent developments, but we still have faith in our judicial institutions and the electoral process. The silence of the people should not necessarily be interpreted as fear or lack of interest. We are capable of voting out any government that is unjust and draconian. NEIL KHOR JIN KEONG Kuala Lumpur...