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...pressure on each other, but to be the best we can be, to get what we know we deserve.” Pressure or no pressure, sky’s the limit for this group of talented classmates. And someone who’s made a habit of hoisting Ivy championship trophies realizes what this group can accomplish.“It’s unbelievable what this class can do this year and as they get progressively better,” Delaney-Smith says. “From the way they look right now, it’s scary...
...religious life is about more than earthly bliss. For Johnson, 21, it is the ultimate commitment. As a nun, "you are very public about your beliefs," she says. "Every day you wake up and put on your habit and say to the world, 'I am standing for Christ...
...there was just an emptiness inside that doing the volunteer work and the pharmacy work didn't fill in me," she says. When a pastor again suggested sisterhood, Schreifels reconsidered. In 2003 she joined the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Mankato, Minn., who do not mandate a habit or discourage her from continuing to work as a pharmacist for Target. Schreifels gave up her Subaru Forester and apartment and moved into a house with the sisters, but her work is considered part of the order's mission to serve the community; her salary goes to support the sisterhood...
...idea is to for the government to take charge and create a system of monitoring misinformation, punishing companies who make a habit of it, and informing the public when such violations have occurred. Unfortunately, not only would it be impossible to implement this idea amidst anti-government control screams of conservatives and liberals alike, it would also leave censorship in the hands of those who would benefit from it the most: politicians...
...humanities concentrators—or “philistines” as I like to slander them—have a galling habit of demanding students of literature to justify their scholarly metier. My blockmate nicely encapsulated the problem: “Why study Shakespeare?” In response, some of us choose to storm off in a pique of rage; others offer lofty bromides, fully aware of their inanity. All of us, however, are confounded, and perhaps vaguely offended. How dare this bourgeois challenge me to justify the humanities by vulgar utilitarian criteria? We pursue beauty...