Word: gracefulness
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...continent that had been the theater for mankind's darkest hour, we witnessed a very human miracle. The people of Europe found that their capacity for destruction was mirrored by an equally immense capacity for forgiveness, grace and hope. Looking to the U.S., Europeans could see how cherry-picked European ideas from minds like Locke, Rousseau and Tom Paine could flourish in a society not polluted by blood and aristocracy. And so, in 1957, six nations signed the Treaty of Rome and, with that one crucial act, built a showcase of multilateralism, prosperity and international solidarity...
...League to accomplish our goal of making the NCAA tournament.”That will be a tough task, considering that the nation’s number one team, Cornell, as well as also undefeated Yale—not to mention perennial powers Dartmouth and Princeton—all grace the second half of Harvard’s schedule.The challenge they’ll present, however, has not deterred the Crimson. Cohen called the game a “must-win,” while others have been equally direct in stressing the importance of the coming games...
...Dyke Ball, 11 students were hospitalized for alcohol poisoning. The media used these hospitalizations as an excuse to publish scores of eroticized, disapproving reports of Wellesley life. The Boston Herald went so far as to grace its front page with the headline, “Wellesley Girls Gone Wild: college students end night in ER after lesbian bash.” By contrast, only pitiable coverage was provided by local media when, months earlier, more than 25 students were hospitalized for alcohol poisoning at the Harvard-Yale football game...
...Brownback of Kansas and former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, and both spend far more time talking about good works than about sin, although each has the requisite positions on abortion and gay marriage. Indeed, it was Huckabee who reminded me of Chesterton's lament. "I'm a 'grace' Christian," Huckabee told me over lunch recently, "not a 'law' Christian. The Second Commandment--do unto others--is the basic tenet of my faith. And so I believe that life begins at conception, but I don't believe it ends at birth. I believe we have a responsibility to feed...
...film’s only saving grace is its soundtrack, a compendium of Delta blues both new and old, running the gamut from Son House to the North Mississippi Allstars. The trailer itself features “When The Lights Go Out,” a great track from The Black Keys’ 2004 album “Rubber Factory...