Word: pelle
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...What sustains the reader's interest is Ong's rich use of language, which at its best reflects "the pell-mell, absurd, bountiful, magical nature of the Philippines," in Ong's generous phrase. Yet if this gifted writer is to realize his potential as a novelist-bard for the Philippines, his vision needs to be tempered by a stringent course of narrative basics...
...president vowed to widen access to higher education, calling for greater funding of the federal government’s beleaguered student aid program. “By raising performance in our high schools and expanding Pell grants for low- and middle-income families, we will help more Americans start their career with a college diploma,” Bush said...
Roughly 9 percent of Harvard undergraduates qualify for Pell grants, according to the Office of Financial...
...John Paul II's 31 new cardinals, the Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, is visiting the monastery for the first time this afternoon. "It's a great blessing," says Sister Antoinette excitedly. Otherwise, the day has proceeded calmly for the sisters. For many of them, breakfast was "bread with honey straight from the hive," reports Sister Veronica. And fish for lunch, plus plenty of fruit "and because we don't have meat, we just throw in peanuts for the protein." But no alcohol. As Sister Veronica puts it, "We have a regular life, marked by a moderate austerity...
Sister Maria had been addressing that subject minutes before Cardinal Pell's arrival: "If you were interviewing a group of very happily married ladies, probably they'd give very different answers about why they were so happy," she says. For this bride of Christ, joy comes with each attendance at morning Mass: "We couldn't be more intimately united with Him every day." As for Sister Antoinette, her faith is cultivated daily along with the standard roses she tends in the central cloister. "As a botanist," she says, "I always allow for the grace of God." Needless to say, they...