Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...failure could imperil the fate of other pacts. Says William Walker, professor of international relations at St. Andrews University: "If the central world power begins to question the validity of [such] treaties, everything shakes up." It also undermines U.S. credibility in diplomatic circles, leaving nations wondering how much faith they can put in the pledges of a President who pushed for--but couldn't get--treaty approval...
Everyone has a story from high school, sketched out of memory and myth. The myth reflects the faith that we all have a chance to invent ourselves, and high school is the lab. We enter, still children, for this sweaty, four-year experiment, and if we are brave and lucky, we race out the big double doors that graduation flings open onto the rest of our life. Sometimes we don't even think to look back at the ones who got lost along...
...high school requires a certain degree of tradecraft. Photographers Bob Sacha and Andre Lambertson, both veterans of the Duke campaign, showed their expertise at maneuvering in a complex social group. Religion writer David Van Biema, as he had at Duke, concentrated on the sensitive issues of death and faith. Photographers Joe McNally, Lauren Greenfield and Steve Liss managed to place themselves in the midst of teenage action most outsiders never...
DIED. MORRIS WEST, 83, novelist whose characers struggled with faith and outlandish plots; in Sydney, Australia. Critics were unimpressed with his books--The Devil's Advocate and The Shoes of the Fisherman among them--but West sold 60 million books worldwide...
Becca has considered the appropriateness of this. "I wanted him to be in heaven so much," she says. "But I didn't know for sure. But I was reading the Bible--Romans 10. And it explained that God asks the Jews to come live with him based on faith. He chooses who he wants to be in heaven. So you just think Mr. Averbuch is in heaven." And the girls play with him in mind...