Word: focusing
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...Christians, those more interested in salvation than damnation, people like the California pastor Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life. Huckabee says, "Our church in Little Rock is very similar to Rick Warren's. We've gone from 25 members to about 5,000 in eight years. Our focus has been to minister to people who were otherwise neglected. We built a ministry center before we even had a sanctuary. We held our services in warehouses until a year or two ago." The center contains a range of faith-based initiatives: welfare to work, job training, programs for recovering...
...Idol is the biggest show on TV. Cable, that font of gore, offers more family and documentary shows than ever were available in the three-channel era. But if politicians simply respected the audience's choices, stopped posturing against theoretical violence and fictional bad guys, they would have to focus on, say, the thornier problems of stopping actual bloodshed in the real world...
...word such as “faggot” loses its sting if the person saying it is cuddly, left-of-center, and/or not despicable—so Jon Stewart makes the cut, while Ann Coulter does not. One need not look far to see the consequences of this focus on the speaker rather than the speech. For instance, a certain racial slur is okay for Jay-Z, but not for Michael Richards. Or, to use an example closer to home, if an individual is disliked or perceived as illiberal (and at Harvard, these two usually go hand in hand...
...losses, Harvard began to fade as halftime approached. Just 11 seconds after Curtis’ tally, Robyn Pastuch scored the first of five consecutive UConn goals to regained the lead. The Huskies went into halftime with a comfortable 7-2 lead. The Crimson’s inability to maintain focus throughout the first half has been a troubling early season trend. Harvard went into halftime down 14-3 against UMass and 12-6 against BC, despite at one point having been tied with both teams, 2-2. “In the first five minutes...we’ve been...
...campaign slogan was “Together we can,” a hopeful message that urged citizens to renew their confidence in a state government that had disenchanted many. We urge Patrick to prove that the slogan was more than just an alluring ditty that played well in focus groups. But it is certainly not time to lose faith in Patrick entirely. After all, a few missteps do not a scandal make...