Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Szoka has written movingly about the church's past failures in ministering to blacks. But the Cardinal felt compelled to take drastic action, in part because of Detroit's ruinous population decline. The city's churches, however, are also dying because they have failed to enlist any significant numbers of blacks when white ethnics began moving out of their neighborhoods. Says the Rev. Norman Thomas, a white priest who opposes the closings: "The church has not done an adequate job of being a church in the city, and that includes attracting blacks...
Soon some of those sons may be telling their sons that they had better not imitate Rose's off-the-field behavior. For in the past few weeks Rose has become a very different kind of symbol -- still characteristic of American values, but this time of values hardly anyone likes to admit harboring. Charlie Hustle is well on his way to becoming Charlie Hustler, an emblem of the gambling fever that is sweeping America. This year Americans will spend an estimated $278 billion on everything from state-run lotteries to church-run bingo. The big question for millions of American...
...past week several national figures have drawn an analogy between the Supreme Court's ruling in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services and the Vietnam...
...most successful fall squad over the past few years has been the men's soccer team, which was ranked number one in the nation in the 1988 pre-season. Welcome to The Fall II. The Crimson failed even to challenge for the Ivy League title, missing out on its first NCAA appearance in three years...
...President Daniel Ortega and Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo sat down for a 90-minute chat last week, the two men, frequent antagonists in the past, were uncommonly genial. So when Ortega requested that Obando go to Washington and ask the Bush Administration for direct talks between the two countries, the Cardinal promised to think it over...