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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...display of faithful dedication, the document is inspiring. It contains injunctions to pray continuously, exhortations to purify one’s soul and reminders that the rewards of paradise far surpass the trials and tribulations of this mortal coil...

Author: By Jason L. Steorts, IN THE RIGHT | Title: The Silence That Kills | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

...Britain during the Great Depression, Dad (Ian Hart) loses his job when the shipyard is closed. His youngest child, Liam, played by the utterly adorable Anthony Borrows, is, meantime, priest-ridden as he confronts near occasions of sins both mortal and venial. We, of course, settle in for another movie in which a hard-pressed family smiles cheerfully through tough times. But don't get too comfortable. In his misery the father embraces anti-Semitism and native fascism, the boy's torments become distinctly unfunny, and this little film, unsparing but never unsympathetic, emerges as one of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Liam | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...love Rudy. In this I'm not alone. He walks around the city as godlike as a mortal can be. The families of the fallen cling to him. Workers pulling grim double shifts at ground zero get a second wind when he visits. At opening night at the Metropolitan Opera, he gets an ovation Pavarotti would envy. He brings David Letterman to tears and a Saturday Night Live audience to life, telling people it's O.K. to laugh again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three More Months! Three More Months! | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

Penn destroyed Lafayette 37-0 last week, beating them so badly that Tavani was relatively pleased with his team’s performance against Harvard. The Quakers looked far more mortal Saturday, however, barely edging perennial Ivy doormat Dartmouth...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Masters Lafayette Playbook | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...love Rudy. In this I'm not alone. He walks around the city as godlike as a mortal can be. The families of the fallen cling to him. Workers pulling grim double shifts at ground zero get a second wind when he visits. At opening night at the Metropolitan Opera, he gets an ovation Pavarotti would envy. He brings David Letterman to tears and a Saturday Night Live audience to life, telling people it's O.K. to laugh again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Giuliani Three More Months | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

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