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...suffer, early on developed a way to preserve elements of their faith. Adopting a complex sham, they worshiped publicly at Buddhist temples, then slipped away at night to hold secret Christian prayer meetings. At home, they prayed overtly before Buddhist and Shinto altars, but their real altar became the nan do garni (closet god), innocuous-looking bundles of cloth in which revered Christian statues and medallions were hidden. For 2½ centuries, their fierce faith endured, but it inevitably also turned inward. Because their prayers and rituals had to be transmitted secretly among illiterate peasants, they slowly became garbled. Over...
According to Nan Vogt, Co-Master of Kirkland House, the Secret Santa tradition was an invention of Linda Riordan '79, who proposed the idea to the Kirkland House Committee during her sophomore year. Riordan's idea spread quickly to the other Houses and the Yard as a means of expressing holiday spirit...
...that, National Wildlife Federation Toxicologist George Manring retorted: "People may not drop dead from eating one bird. But endrin accumulates over several seasons and from different sources."It also remains in the soil for months and sometimes for years, a fact that led state Health Director John Dry-nan to wonder: "Will endrin end up in our ground water supplies...
...this is particularly odd because, unlike many writers who make the talk-show circuit, Talese is an old pro. He earned his reputation with cleanly written magazine articles and The Kingdom and the Power, a bestselling dissection of the New York Times. His wife Nan Talese, a highly respected senior editor...
Coupled with the recent addition of Nan F. Nixon, director of government relations, the University now has a staff of four full-time employees devoted to Harvard's lobbying efforts in Washington...