Word: gathering
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...watching films by directors like Stanley Kubrick and Spike Lee long before anyone knew who they were. But the real draw is what might be the world's most beautiful screening room: the Piazza Grande. Every evening, a massive screen is set up in the Renaissance square and thousands gather to watch a premiere under the stars...
...Sunday, the Pope will say a lovely prayer, which has already been made public, at the site of the 9/11 attack on New York City. It begins, "O God of love, compassion, and healing, look on us, people of many different faiths and traditions, who gather together at this site, the scene of incredible violence and pain." He asks that God give "eternal light and peace" to all who died there, in the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa. The prayer ends: "Comfort and console us, strengthen us in hope, and give us the wisdom and courage to work tirelessly...
...team will travel south to New Jersey for the Ivy League Championship, the focal point of the men’s season. Penn will return to defend the title and the Crimson will look to improve on last year’s fifth-place finish. The Ancient Eight will gather to play the Ballyowen Golf Course in Hamburg, N.J., a links-style golf course known for its few trees and fast, undulating greens. In this weekend’s tournament, Dartmouth and Brown, finished behind Harvard in fifth and sixth place, respectively. Yale, however, remains the team to beat...
...further proof, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) provided it last Tuesday when it failed to achieve quorum at its most recent meeting. Over the past four years, votes at a third of FAS’s meetings have been meaningless because our rotating deans could not gather a sixth of the Faculty’s 700-or-so members—the minimum threshold for votes to become University...
...Students are by no means immune to the same critique. Few House Committees (HoCo) gather more than a dozen or so students on a weekly basis, and only 15 students attended last Wednesday’s open forum organized by the Committee on the Roles and Responsibilities of the Undergraduate Council. Why all of this indifference...