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...begin the seated brothers of Vermont's Weston Priory, singing one of the simple contemporary hymns written by their own Brother Gregory. "All the stars are laughing at our wonder." They continue antiphonally, "Christ yesterday and today/ The beginning and the end/ The alpha and the omega." And then they sing, "Glorify the Lord with me/ Let us praise his name/ Those whose spirit is crushed/ He will save." After John Denver's recording of Annie's Song is played, two brothers strum a simple accompaniment on guitars as monks sing, "When we come to the table...
...feel inestimably uncomfortable writing about religion in these pages: it is as close to a taboo subject as there is in this community. But Boff describes Jesus at one place as the "omega point" of evolution--a goal to be aimed at, though not achieved. I don't know; my journey is only recently begun in earnest and may yet be sidetracked or derailed. But if Graham's eloquent example proves nothing else, it is that such a goal must at least be considered...
Some of the members are relatively well known. They include Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Co., for example, and Betty Ruth Hollander, holder of five patents in temperature measurement and president and founder of Omega Engineering in Connecticut. Also among the new members: Christie Hefner, 29, a corporate vice president and widely considered the hare apparent of Playboy Enterprises; Investment Adviser Julia Walsh of Julia M Walsh & Sons of Washington, D.C.; Sherry Lansing, president of Twentieth Century-Fox Productions; and Florence Skelly, president of pollsters Yankelovich, Skelly& White...
...three men had been returning from a trip to gather signatures of fraternity alumni as one requirement for joining Alpha Omega Lambda, a local group that was recently forbidden to use campus facilities after the university had received complaints about alleged hazing by its members...
...computers will tell them how to copy programs. One on New York's Long Island calls itself Pirate's Cove, while another in Boston is Pirate's Newbor. Other computer users are buying code-cracking programs like Locksmith, which sells for $99.95 from Chicago's Omega MicroWare. Locksmith cracks the coding schemes for most Apple Computer programs and permits them to be copied. Hardcore Computing, a small magazine in Tacoma, Wash., warns pirates about the latest technology that companies are using against them...