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...many of whom still carry the keys to homes now housing Israelis or torn down by them, demand repatriation. The Israelis insist that the refugees should receive financial compensation instead--from anyone but Israel. Speaking amid the cinder-block misery, John Paul told a small crowd, "I hope and pray that my visit will bring some comfort in your difficult situation...
Alan Greenspan just got some great news, but Wall Street had better pray that he sees it that way. Although the U.S. economy posted a heady 7.3 percent annual growth rate in the fourth quarter of 1999 - almost half a percentage point above preliminary figures released a few weeks ago - the consumption frenzy didn't roust the beast of inflation from its slumber. On the contrary, the accompanying inflation indicator, the GDP price deflator, actually came in belowthe figure reported a month ago. And the good news didn't end there: U.S. exports rose by 10.1 percent (2.3 percent above...
...Sure," says John McCain. He explains that at the Hanoi Hilton "those of us who gained our spiritual help and strength through God seemed to do better physically than those who basically gave up." Then he describes his practice now. "I pray regularly, and I don't have to be getting ready for bed, to be getting up in the morning. I seize opportunities throughout the day." He often prays in thanks for a full life, he says. "I haven't always succeeded; I've failed many times. But because the foundation of your and my belief is redemption...
There has never been a Catholic chaplain. And the whole process offended O'Brien. He told the New York Times, "I...pray that the 1960 presidential election did do away with the idea of Catholics as not being fully American," but he thought that "if I were not a Catholic priest, I would be the House Chaplain." He was perturbed by Republican members' questions to him regarding, among other things, St. Paul's first letter to the disciple Timothy (which can be read to suggest that clerics should have children, a tricky point for celibate Catholics) and by a query...
...long ago, things weren't looking that good for the Crimson. A spectacular weekend against Yale and Princeton, along with a possible weekend sweep, has given Harvard the kind of momentum that Bill Bradley can only pray...