Word: faithfully
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...instinct to defend the school from these gross generalizations. Harvard couldn't be arrogant. Harvard doesn't have one face. It is a university of all walks of life with energy focused in every direction. Yet in the first few months of my Harvard career, my faith in Harvard's humility has been weakened...
...United Ministry denies recognition to groups which do not respect the faith of others in the Harvard community or whose practices include trying to convert members of other faiths...
Presidents also make choices. Candidate Alexander hasn't. He promises to "cut taxes on all Americans" and not cut defense. He won't cut spending in ways that "break faith with earlier promises made by government to its citizens," which sounds like a pass on such entitlements as farm subsidies and gold-plated civil service pensions. Then he claims he'll balance the budget; his aides promise details, someday...
During the spring outage, a valve was accidentally left open, spilling 12,000 gal. of reactor-coolant water--a blunder that further shook Galatis' faith. He began to see problems almost everywhere he looked and proposed the creation of a global-issues task force to find out whether Millstone was safe enough to go back online. His bosses agreed. But when the head of the task force left for a golf vacation a few weeks before the plant was scheduled to start up, Galatis says, he knew it wasn't a serious effort. So he made a call to Ernest...
...This faith in a new world order induced by art collapsed soon enough; today it looks like a fossil from the early Messianic era of modernism. In fact, none of the more exalted claims made for abstract art over the past century have worn well. In the first flush of optimism after the 1917 Revolution, artists like Vladimir Tatlin hoped that abstraction, if made of the common materials used by workers, could lift dialectical materialism to a new plane and so become the basis of a popular art. These dreams ended in indifference and, for some, the Gulag...