Word: ponderings
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...know is not why Katherine Power robbed a bank in 1970 -- we know: she wanted to save the world -- but why she finally gave it up in 1993. It is her account of the return that yields the one truly memorable line in this text, the one historians will ponder to their benefit: "I know that I must answer this accusation from the past, in order to live with full authenticity in the present...
Catholic theologian Avery Dulles grumbles that just about everything in America, religion included, "succeeds to the extent that it can arouse interest and provide entertainment." Even voices within the prospering conservative Protestant camp are beginning to ponder the wages of success. A stinging indictment of Evangelicalism's theological corruption will appear in the forthcoming book No Place for Truth (Eerdmans) by theologian David F. Wells of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. Even among conservatives, warns Wells, biblical truth "is being edged out by the small and tawdry interest of the self in itself." The Christian Gospel, he says...
...direction on such issues as abortion and church-state relations. His retirement will give Clinton an opportunity to appoint a Justice (New York Governor Mario Cuomo? Legal scholar Laurence Tribe?) who might help turn the court in a far more liberal direction. And the President has some time to ponder his choice and line up support. He need not have an appointee confirmed until the court's next term begins in October...
...first-year, the clock is ticking. Monday marks the first day of the notorious housing lottery. And while you desperately debate architecture vs. location, ponder relative room sizes and compare dining hall decor, you still might not have any idea what life outside the Yard is really like. You know how the houses look, but you don't know their souls. We're here to help...
...years the United States seemed immune to attack. After a blast strikes New York City's World Trade Center, Americans ponder their vulnerability...