Word: pilgrim
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...ARRESTED. JAYENDRA SARASWATHI, 70, one of Hindu India's highest religious leaders; on charges of abetting, conspiracy and suppressing evidence in the contract killing of temple official Sankararaman in September; in Mahbubnager, India. Saraswathi is the leader of a Hindu monastery in the pilgrim town of Kanchipuram and a mediator in the Hindu-Muslim dispute over northern India's holy site of Ayodhya. His lawyer calls the charges baseless...
...double-album—which bookends the Pixies’ career Phase I—is destined to be a revelation. Disc One contains fifteen demos recorded by Mr. Francis (perhaps apocryphally) the day before the Pixies went into the studio to record their debut Come On Pilgrim; Disc Two offers almost as many remakes of Pixies songs recorded by Mr. Black just before the since-much-talked-about reunion. Disc One is, at most levels, what one might expect almost any demo tape to sound like: the pleasure here comes almost exclusively from the post-hoc knowledge...
...student body used to Harvard-Yale T-shirts with bulldogs fellating a pilgrim, the outrage BGLTSA expressed over this particular shirt came to us as a surprise. While saying “Yale Sucks” does seem to stigmatize the actions of homosexual males and heterosexual females, the graphic and anthropomorphic representation thereof would seem to be even more offensive. Yet there has been no outrage over Harvard-Yale T-shirts until now. Why? Perhaps because in the past students recognized that these shirts are made without malicious intent (the shirt in question was sold by a humor magazine...
Harvard’s medical affiliates also ranked high with business leaders. Children’s Hospital received the number two spot—up from 16 last year—while Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care all placed...
...Would any historian wish to exchange the worst traits of the Twentieth Century for the scandalous doings of the Eighteenth century? Bradford's history of the Pilgrim Fathers shows us within ten years after the Mayflower cast anchor at Plymouth such vices as are unknown to civilization today...