Word: leste
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...University of Illinois and went to work. But "the call" persisted. Since his ordination in 1992--during Chicago's pedophile-priest scandal--he has had to do things differently from the way Pelton did as a new priest. Shanahan has never met with a child behind closed doors, lest he open himself to false accusations. If he has to drive a group of kids home, the last one out will be the one closest to the church or the one whose family he knows best...
...Almost since it opened in 1864, the Galle Face has been a Sri Lankan institution. It was a center of British colonial life and later the playground of the rich and famous passing through the island. Lest you forget its illustrious clientele, the hotel has a bronze plaque listing its celebrity guests, with names ranging from famous to infamous: John D. Rockefeller, Emperor Hirohito, Indira Gandhi, Imran Khan, Bo Derek, Carrie Fisher and Kurt Waldheim...
...against interracial marriages. Never mind that shortly thereafter, in the early 1960s, he prosecuted a popular Ku Klux Klan leader and lost re-election because of it. Apparently all that matters is the few hundred words he wrote over 40 years ago. (Advice for Harvard law students: avoid writing, lest someone clobber you over the head with your juvenescent opinions a generation from...
...9/11 when an agent reported that terrorists were planning to smuggle a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon into New York City. Over the next few days, I and other members of the Washington bureau worked the tip, discovering that the threat had indeed been taken seriously but was kept secret lest it cause panic. This week I returned to diplomacy to report on America's sudden decision to re-engage in the Middle East, its expanded efforts against al-Qaeda around the world and the slow-moving U.S. push to oust Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq...
...Lest anyone make the mistake of thinking that this behavior is merely a reflection of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ abrasive style, it might be well to recall that more than a decade ago, when a group of alumni managed to elect Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the Board of Overseers as part of a campaign to persuade Harvard to divest its South African holdings, the response of then-President Derek C. Bok was to change the rules for electing Overseers so that no one like Tutu would be elected in the future. Once Nelson Mandela was released...