Word: godly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...needed to have the answers. God was smiling on me when they put me on the banking committee," he says...
...Thank God the American dream protects us from the status of incompetency before we have had the opportunity to be adequately evaluated (take note, professor who gave me that 69 percent). Labelling someone as fundamentally unfit suggests an inherent flaw--a permanent and incorrectable state rather than a temporary condition...
Kneeling before a 400-lb. concrete obelisk in the hills northwest of Los Angeles, Maureen Clemmons mutters a prayer to the ancient Egyptian god of wind. An hour passes. Then a strong gust straightens the lines that attach the obelisk to two nylon kites, shaped like the ones used in parasailing. Soon the kites flip the obelisk and drag it across a grassy field. Clemmons and her 12 assistants erupt in cheers...
Churches in the Holy Land closed for two days last week to protest a decision by the Israeli government to allow the construction of a mosque beside the Basilica of the Annunciation, where Christians believe the Virgin Mary received word that she would bear the Son of God. The Vatican criticized the Israeli decision and in a strongly worded statement accused the "political authorities [of] fomenting division." The Israeli government reacted angrily, condemning the Vatican statement and saying it was only trying to "lower tensions" between Christians and Muslims. The controversy has strained relations between Israel and the Vatican...
DIED. DAISY TAN, 83, mother of author Amy Tan and the inspiration for The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife; in San Francisco. Tan left an abusive husband in Shanghai to come to America...