Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...church's efforts did not stop there. For months afterward, its social workers visited the family at least twice a week, eyeballing the kids for signs of neglect, offering counsel on parenting and managing the home and keeping the faith. "They helped me believe in myself," Mayes says, "to realize that anything was possible." John Jones, the children's father, had learned to smoke crack at the age of 16 from his own father and had spent years in jail after stealing to support his habit. Painfully withdrawn, he says, "I've been doing a little talking now." And planning...
...know how many people in our nation would confess such contemplations, which offend the elemental mandates of our cultural beliefs and our religions. No matter how severely some among us may condemn the parents of the poor, it has been an axiom of faith in the U.S. that once a child is born, all condemnations are to be set aside. If we now have chosen to betray this faith, what consequences will this have for our collective spirit, for our soul as a society...
...COUNTRY DOES NOT NEED A BOB Dole or a Bill Clinton. The nation does need candidates with faith and confidence in their own beliefs and the courage to campaign on them--regardless of the audience. ROBERT A. PARKES Laramie, Wyoming Via E-mail...
...OFFENDS ME THAT DOLE (AND CLINton too, for that matter) wants to be President so badly that he has placed more faith in the ''pros'' than in himself. It is my hope that voters will reject any candidate who chooses to abandon his or her past and trash core beliefs in the hope of winning an election. THOMAS CARSON Simsbury, Connecticut Via E-mail...
What it comes down to, it seems, is faith, a giving oneself up to the excitement and the possibilities of space exploration. If it's all a hoax--if the pictures aren't real, if the stories are manufactured--it doesn't matter all that much anyway. After all, most of us will never go into space anyway. So let's succumb to disbelief and enjoy the show...