Word: mother
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...still hasn’t come to a final decision. When she heard from Harvard, she had already been accepted to Yale through its early action program.But her uncertainty did not take away from the excitement of hearing from Harvard early. Still on the phone, Link told her mother she had been accepted.“She lied down, banged on the floor, and tried not to scream,” Link said.—Staff writer Lingbo Li can be reached at lingboli@fas.harvard.edu...
...vainglorious effort to reach heaven - and God strikes it down, angered by man's overweening pride. By the time of the New Testament, Babylon's image is even more sinister: the Book of Revelation personifies it as a whore seated on a dragon, condemning the city as "the Mother of Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth...
This time last week, I got into the most vicious fight I’ve ever had with my mother. We were screaming over the phone so loudly my roommate hid in her room, traumatized by that special exchange of profanities that only a mother and daughter can share...
...Brown joins this motley crew - and chances are he will (Tussaud's has been rebuffed only once in its history by a would-be subject, and that was Mother Teresa) - he can expect to be poked, prodded, kissed and possibly abused. In a world where fame is valued more highly than respect and pop stars take precedence over playwrights, it's an opportunity not to be missed...
...major U.N. conference after Pope John Paul II appointed her head of the Vatican delegation to the 1995 U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing. The Church's stance on reproductive policy has been criticized for its absolute ban on condoms, even in its missionary work with AIDS victims. The mother of three insists that she's a committed feminist, "If you let me define the term." She says she is focused on issues that are "of particular interest to women and that wouldn't be heard if women didn't draw attention to them." She says that...