Word: marginalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a chance to be a good team this year," Harvard Captain Tyler Rullman said. "[Holy Cross] will be a good test for us, though, because we have very little margin for error...
...Saturday, Harvard slammed Columbia, 198-99, at home and then traveled down to Rhode Island on Sunday to beat Brown by a similar margin...
...desk, there is a dearth of guidance on truly crucial matters -- like whether dressing as if you're going to church is necessary for the photo op boarding Marine One for the hop to Camp David. Statecraft may define a presidency, but so will small acts at the margin. Who knows? If Richard Nixon hadn't dressed the White House guards like Prussian police, he might have survived Watergate. There would have been no need for the fashion-obsessed Nancy Reagan to debase herself at a Gridiron Club dinner dressed up like a bag lady in hand-me-downs...
...THEIR PART, THE BISHOPS AND PRIESTS GAVE strong approval. But among lay delegates at the Church of England's synod in London, the historic ballot that approved women as priests reached the required two-thirds by a margin of just two votes. That close decision broke 19 centuries of tradition, and it brings pressure to bear on men-only branches in the worldwide Anglican Communion (70 million members) to imitate the English mother church, U.S. Episcopalians and others. (Australia's Anglicans are expected to authorize women this week.) In England one-fourth of the bishops and priests remain strongly opposed...
...since King Henry VIII broke with the papacy 458 years ago has the normally decorous Church of England known such passion as it did last week, when it swept away by a margin of two votes the rule that only men may serve as Anglican priests. Despite pleas for prayer and calm, the controversy will echo throughout the Anglican Communion, and reverberate through all of Christianity, for years to come. On one side are those who believe that the mission of Christ's church is damaged when half its members are denied the chance to use their God-given gifts...