Word: lake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five weeks of withering radiation for a 10-in.-long cancer inside my spinal cord, I found myself--an outlaw Christian who had, and has, no active tie with a church--transported, thoroughly awake, to another entirely credible time and place. I was lying on the shore of the Lake of Galilee with Jesus' disciples asleep around...
Then Jesus came forward and silently indicated that I should follow him into the lake. Waist deep in the water, I felt him pour handfuls down the long fresh scar on my back--the relic of unsuccessful surgery a month before. Jesus suddenly told me, "Your sins are forgiven." Appalled by my dire physical outlook, I thought ungratefully, "That's the last thing I need"; so I asked him, "Am I also cured?" He said, "That too." Then, as though I'd forced his hand, he turned and climbed ashore with me well behind...
...they sat around him on the hilltop, they looked toward the lake and the boats in which their fathers and brothers were hauling up the fish the students had abandoned when they ran off with Jesus...
...collective consciousness. In other words, it is pop culture. Just take a virtual journey down the Strip--the pirate-themed Treasure Island, the luxurious tropical visions at the Mirage, the canals (with gondola rides!) and warm cannolis at The Venetian, the Arthurian legend at Excalibur, the cobblestone streets surrounding Lake Como at the $1.3 billion Bellagio, etc. etc. Where else in the world can you wake up and look out one window and see the Eiffel Tower (a half-size recreation stands over the Paris hotel); or look out another and see Egyptian pyramids at the Luxor or the Chrysler...
Team U.S.A. Coach Ben Smith '68 did not bring his collegiate players to Montreal. A.J. Mleczko '99 and her teammates are spending the season in residence at Lake Placid, gearing up for 2002. That means sophomore defenseman Angela Ruggiero of Harvard, goaltender Sara DeCosta of Providence, defenseman Tara Mounsey of Brown and center Jenny Schmidgall of UMD are not missing their college games...