Word: faithfully
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...Wales and later as Edward VII -- a remarkable womanizer and rakehell by the standards of any era. But George V and George VI, Elizabeth's father, who assumed the crown after Edward VIII's abdication, were devoted family men who publicly upheld their roles as Defender of the Faith. The present Queen, in the 45th year of her marriage to Prince Philip, has never personally attracted a breath of scandal...
...adopt the continent as a whole as a place of origin. But that indiscriminate embrace poses problems of its own: Which of the hundreds of languages and cultures that flourish in Africa are we to call our own? What, for example are African Americans raised in the Christian faith to make of religious and cultural traditions such as female circumcision, which is still widely practiced in Africa? I once met a Kikuyu physician in Kenya, who had been educated in London. He deplored the health hazards posed by performing the ritualistic mutilation with unsterilized knives on dusty ceremonial grounds...
George Bush should know better than to encourage the theocratic ambitions of the Christian right. He has claimed -- to much snide derision -- that when he was shot down during World War II and lay floating in the Pacific for four hours, he meditated on "God and faith and the separation of church and state." But there could be no better themes for a patriot to address in his final moments. The "wall of separation" the Founding Fathers built between church and state is one of the best defenses freedom has ever had. Or have we already forgotten why the Founding...
...afflicted with the same sense of drift and passivity as his domestic agenda. Clinton's & problem is that he is a tabula rasa on which a foreign agenda has yet to be written: Much is promised, but what will he deliver? Choosing between them looks like an act of faith. If there ever is a real debate over national security issues in this campaign, it might help the voters decide which man to believe...
...have faith that they'll come to anagreement," says Lynn Wing DeLacey, a libraryassistant in Lamont Library. "I think we're allbeing patient, but it's difficult because we allneed to have the contract in place...