Word: nuns
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Murray grew up in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, Ill., the fifth of nine children. Three of his brothers are actors, and a sister Nancy, a Dominican nun, tours the world in a one-woman show as St. Catherine of Sienna. "Bill had to learn how to get attention just to survive," says Murray's older brother, veteran character actor Brian Doyle-Murray. (Doyle-Murray took their grandmother's maiden name because there was already a Brian Murray in Actors' Equity.) "Obviously, he survived...
...universe, that does not always translate into religious beliefs. I tend to get caught up in an experience, have fleeting revelations and insights and feel connected to the world outside me, all of which, according to your article, are indications of spirituality. Having those traits should make me a nun. But I am an atheist. A spiritual gene alone does not cause people to spread their arms, look up at the sky and declare, "Hallelujah! There...
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...textile shop immediately contradicts all my selections, simply saying “No” to each fabric I point to. Finally I just completely surrender to her judgment. Kiras come in a vast array of colors and prints, though I carefully avoid red, which only monks and nuns wear—a fact I learned after I had arrived wearing a red button-down shirt. “You’d make a great nun, Merritt,” my roommate Linda writes jokingly when I tell her of my fashion faux...
...declines to give her full name. "I don't let my kids go to school alone anymore. I feel I have to take them." Like many who watched events unfold in Beslan, Svetlana has a changed perception of reality. "I was in the metro yesterday, and an Orthodox nun came through the carriage collecting money for a church. She was dressed in black, and she was carrying a box. I was scared." For a moment, Svetlana wondered whether the nun was a shakhidka, a female terrorist who typically dresses in black...