Word: petra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stood with my parents in Jericho and looked out at the Allenby Bridge crossing, wondering if I could ever go see the wonders on the other side of the unassuming Jordan river: the Roman city at Jaresh, the Biblical Har Nevo in the Gilad Mountains, the unspeakable wonders of Petra. Now, I know dozens of friends who have traveled this now-trendy tourist route from Israel to Jordan and hope to spend my spring break sleeping nights on the East Bank...
Besides, the American civil rights movement wasn't just Martin Luther King Jr.; it was also Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks. As for nonviolent social activists and leaders--What about Jane Addams, Petra Kelly, Dorothy Day, Aung San Suu Kyi? And why flatter Lenin by leaving out two of his staunchest ideological opponents, the Polish-German socialist Rosa Luxemburg and the American anarchist Emma Goldman...
...women were slackards," says Towle. She notes that cadets reported that the two would often stay up past lights-out, then check into the infirmary to take a nap under the pretense of feeling ill. Some cadets note the Citadel's two other female cadets, Nancy Mace and Petra Lovetinska, whom peers ranked as "some of the best cadets this school has ever seen, have reported no incidents while at the school. Still, whether they were slackers or not doesn't mean you should have to endure having fingernail polish smeared on and ignited, as Messer and Mentavlos claim they...
Some students on campus also question Messer's and Mentavlos' accounts, pointing out that Nancy Mace and Petra Lovetinska, the two other female knobs, are doing well. These people argue that the hazing was not about gender but about perceived weakness, especially as two males were being hazed at the same time; and of the 581 entering freshmen, 81 so far have dropped out. "Because it happened to others doesn't make it right," responds Mentavlos' lawyer, Timothy Kulp, who says his current bedside reading includes both The Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy's famous novel about hazing...
This weakness is probably a fault of the script, as Pascale Bussieres's performance is otherwise marvelous. Her portrayal of Camille reveals both the character's strong sexual feelings and her reluctance to violate her religious principles. As Petra, Rachel Crawford is a convincing lesbian, without making that the character's defining feature. She is so appealingly whimsical that we can see exactly why Camille is attracted...