Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mary from the company of disciples. "Females are not worthy of life," says Peter. Jesus replies, "Look, I shall guide her to make her a male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter heaven's kingdom." Three sentences in Thomas survive the seminar's judgment as likely statements of Jesus'. (The members of the seminar voted down the Mary passage...
...tactic of delay and its complicity in political assassinations and terrorist violence. South Africans would do well to remember African-American struggles in the period after the 1965 Voting Rights Act and to understand the ways in which barriers to economic change remained even after access to the political kingdom had been obtained. The extension of the franchise must not obscure the intolerable poverty in which the vast majority of South Africans continue to live. Sadly, this could be the outcome of negotiations with an enemy that continues to wield a critical mass of economic and military power...
...precondition to formal talks, Republican operatives continued their bombing and assassination campaign. Even if the I.R.A. calls off its gunmen -- and they obey -- there is no guarantee that the extremists on the other side will stop fighting. Protestant paramilitary units, dedicated to keeping Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom, have become increasingly active. In the past two years, they killed more people in Northern Ireland than did the I.R.A. Says Peter Robinson, a hard-line Unionist politician: "If they believe that the British are about to abandon them, you can expect more violence...
...stand in the way of a united Ireland should the majority of the people in the north one day agree to a shift in sovereignty. Dublin has pledged that it will respect the desires of the Protestant majority in the north to maintain its links with the United Kingdom as long as the aspiration for ultimate Irish unity is recognized. The devil will be in the details, and those have yet to be addressed...
...especially urge all seniors to go see this production. As we approach graduation, we face Prince Hal's challenge. Do we take the throne of this diseased kingdom? Do we even want it? And if we do, will we hold tight our childhood dreams, those dreams formerly untainted by considerations of salary, power and self advancement? Or will we slip mindlessly into the grips of the status quo? Can we rise to the occasion of these plagued years? Should we have...