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...Warsaw's Victory Square. This floral tribute to Polish Primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died last year, has become the most potent political symbol in Poland today. Three times the government has swept it away, and three times it has been rebuilt by the crowds who come to pray and intone hymns. The cross is tended by a group of women who patiently replace wilted flowers every day under the watchful eyes of militiamen. Late each night the police move in, picking up candles, garlands and any symbols of opposition to the regime...
...delicious home-baked whole wheat bread, they can look through the refectory's east window and see a tracery of pink clouds on the horizon and wisps of mist flitting across the priory pond. Six times each day the brothers come together to read the Gospel, meditate, pray and share insights into the Scriptures. Recurring themes such as God's infinite love for his creatures and people returning God's love by serving others are explored and re-explored, plumbed but never exhausted...
Jimmy Romano's world is with ten minutes of the doorstep of his two-story house. Until his recent retirement, he worked at the Middlesex County Courthouse a few blocks away on Thorndike St. To buy groceries, to get a haircut, to pray at his parish church, to socialize evenings, all Jimmy Romano does is take a short stroll to Cambridge...
...choose a foreman, the jurors put their names into a hat. Since he was the only one with a hat, Roy Jackson, 64, a retired janitor, did the drawing. His random choice: himself. He smiled warily. Evelyn Washington, 27, suggested that they pray. "Lord, please guide us," she began. And then out of her Bible she read from the 24th Psalm: "Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his holy place? He that has clean hands and a pure heart...
Even some allied with the movement are unhappy about the obsession with a simple freeze. "We can't just say, 'We want a freeze,' and pray that we get one," explains Ezekiel Emanuel, a second-year student at Harvard Medical School. "We have to articulate a position on what the next step is in the long process of ending the arms race." Roger Molander, the former White House strategic analyst who heads Ground Zero, a scrupulously non-partisan antinuclear educational campaign, understands that it is hard for an impassioned mass movement to accommodate either slow practical progress...