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...Quaker defense held Holy Cross to just 151 total yards as Penn (3-0, 1-0) picked up its seventh consecutive win in a 43-7 blowout at Franklin Field on Saturday...
...huge Wilshire Boulevard Temple that since the terror "the intensity of the [religious] experience has heightened." On Sept. 22, as Attorney General John Ashcroft warned that Boston might be attacked next, 15,000 Christians knelt on the asphalt of City Hall Plaza in a display of Christian repentance. Evangelist Franklin Graham thinks the mood will hold. "There is a conflict in front of us," he says. "And that is going to keep the focus on the spiritual...
...task he now faces. At first blush, there is little in the President's background that equips him for his new mission. He is not a young man--10 years older than John F. Kennedy was at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, only four years younger than Franklin D. Roosevelt, on the original day of infamy. But for someone age 55, he has often seemed to have absorbed few of the annealing lessons of maturity...
...room on Sept. 20, I had to ask myself, “Am I unpatriotic?” President George W. Bush was delivering what many have called an inspiring speech to a joint session of Congress. After it was over, pundits compared it to the epochal performance of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904 and a former Crimson executive, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. For me, however, it felt shallow...
...Right after Pearl Harbor one of Franklin Roosevelt's officials saw the White House glowing in the bright moonlight and suggested it be painted black. The Army wanted it done in camouflage colors. FDR, who understood the power of great symbolism, ignored such nonsense and insisted the White House stay white and put up the Christmas lights for the world...