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...come from Harvard for the weekend, on the coattails of Adams House Senior Tutor Janet A. Viggiani, whose brother is ordained as a Dai Bosatsu monk. Most were Religion concentrators, but a few of us were just trying to find Enlightenment for a weekend before midterms. We came fairly close...
...wouldn't adore a guy whose most devoted fans don purple robes and dub themselves Monk's Monks? For the Redskins' Art Monk, who has become the N.F.L.'s all-time leading receiver, pass catching has for 13 seasons been a Sunday sacrament of sorts, signifying his grace and steady devotion to his craft. Usually cloistered within his thoughts, Monk, 35, opened up a bit after reeling in the record-setting 820th against the Broncos. "I feel blessed," he admitted " -- and glad it's over." So was his quarterback, Mark Rypien, who tossed his pal Monk three straight passes...
...millennial date is an arbitrary mark on the calendar, decreed around the ^ year 525 by the calculations of an obscure monk. The celebrated 2000, a triple tumbling of naughts, gets some of its status from humanity's fascination with zeroes -- the so-called tyranny of tens that makes a neat, right-angle architecture of accumulating years, time sawed into stackable solidities, like children's blocks. And it is true, of course, that the moment may signify little to non-Christians...
...year 2000 on their civil calendars, despite the number's Christian basis. Paradoxically, although Jesus' actual birth date is unknown, it is almost certain that he was born several years "before Christ." This anomaly occurred because of an error in the calculations of Denis the Little, the 6th century monk who decided that history should be split into...
...Tibetan monk (on hand for Buddhist duties in the Olympic Village) noted, "More will lose than win." And the losers were already finding reasons for reassurance, ways of measuring themselves against the insuperable, sources of delight. The Angolans, for example, seemed almost flattered when American Charles Barkley jabbed an elbow into one skinny Angolan. It suggested to them that Barkley was taking them seriously, treating them as roughly as he would his professional opponents...