Word: graces
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...years, transformed his tiny, nearly bankrupt principalitya longtime gambling playground for Europe's wealthy éliteinto a tourist-friendly international business center; after a month-long hospitalization for heart, lung and kidney ailments; in Monaco. With the help of his 1956 fairy-tale marriage to Hollywood royal Grace Kelly, Rainier modernized a community once called a "sunny place for shady people," building affordable hotels to draw middle-class visitors to its famed Monte Carlo casino and popularizing the mini-state, which has no income tax, as a tax haven for foreign businesses. After Kelly's death in a car crash...
...cerebral, surly young man awaiting induction into the Army loiters through his days and keeps a journal filled with gnomic entries: "We are all drawn toward the same craters of the spirit--to know what we are and what we are for, to know our purpose, to seek grace." There was an originality to this insight; it was possible to live a meaningful life on one's own terms, to secularize spirituality...
...considered radical is just one more reason why we believe it’s so important to offer them. The goal of the BGLTSA isn’t merely to change our definition of “normal” to include a few new Will-&-Grace-esque, white male sexual identities. We think everyone, regardless of sexual or gender identity, should be respected and treated like an individual, and this will never happen unless we challenge conventional standards of sexuality and gender. Safe, consensual sexual practices should not be something unmentionable, shame-inspiring, or controversial...
Elliot S. Tarloff ’05 is being hailed on the policy debate list-serv as an exemplary loser—an admirable competitor whose grace underscores the importance of dignity and good sportsmanship...
...Poland who became the bishop of Rome” rest in peace among the angels and saints whose company he now keeps, and may we be so lucky as to exhibit even a small measure of the humility, determination, conviction, and grace with which he lived his life on this Earth...