Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simply because of the colorful personalities it has touched. How many know of the circumstances, also recounted in Buell's book, behind the simple change in Harvard's motto from "Veritas" to "Christo et Ecclesiae?" President Increase Mather sponsored this amendment as an expression of Harvard's commitment to Orthodox Congregationalism in the face of the onslaught of Unitarianism--a struggle which led to the creation of another college in 1701, one Yale University by name...
Their friends expect that Katia will return to Simsbury after the traditional Russian Orthodox 40-day mourning period and resume her skating, probably as a solo performer--she could never find Sergei's equal. "The perfect pair," says commentator and two-time Olympic gold medalist Dick Button. "They had everything. He was the perfect husband; they had the perfect career, the perfect marriage...
...almost pathologically can-do salesman from Warren, Michigan, had sold more than 500 homes, priced on average at $115,000. He did it with the help of two car phones, a swarm of assistants to do the paperwork, and countless fridge magnets, flyers and referrals. Other techniques are less orthodox--and, alas, less tasteful. He sends out letters to people who are in foreclosure or going through a divorce. He lends buyers money. But most of all, he just loves to sell and sell and sell. His record: nine homes in a day. "I've had a passion for real...
That someone turned out to be Amir, a third-year law student at the religious Bar Ilan University. One of eight children raised in an Orthodox family in Herzliyya, a town north of Tel Aviv, Amir was quiet and unprepossessing, except when it came to the subject of peace with the Arabs. He fraternized with members of a right-wing group called Eyal, also known as the Fighting Jews. According to a friend, Amir once said he felt he had to do something to stop the peace process, but the friend dismissed Amir's words as an empty threat...
...stay with me to the grave - the pain and the fear about what can happen to a human being whom you have raised and ... given the very best basis possible." "This was amazing," says Barnes, "since that just doesn't happen in a Jewish family, let along a Yemenite Orthodox one like Amir...