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...longer can Murphy hand the ball to Hu 20 times a game and pray for the best...
...longer can Murphy hand the ball to Hu 20 times a game and pray for the best...
Arrangements like Allen A.M.E.'s, in which government funds flow through nonreligious church-affiliated corporations, are relatively uncontroversial. But critics and civil libertarians say the new programs, in which churches become agents of the welfare system, are different. Welfare recipients may soon be forced to pray in order to receive benefits, they say, or to watch religious videos while they wait to talk to their caseworker. "I'm worried we will see tax dollars being used to evangelize as well as provide social services," says the Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State...
...concrete foundation, and all that remained was the stripped and battered hulk of one of Larry's collection of '57 Chevys. In the frantic search for survivors, someone tacked a note to the front door of Larry's antique-auto-parts store: "Larry, Joan and the boys, I pray to God you read this. I have a motor home and travel trailer... Call me and tell me you made it. I'll bring you a place to stay...
...close quarters with your potential killers is intensified in prose as precise and deadpan as a coroner's report. And as he has done so often, Garcia Marquez makes the fantastic seem ordinary. At one point Marina Montoya asks her cold-blooded keepers to kneel with her and pray. They do, each to the same God for the same reasons: to protect their lives and deliver them from evil. It is a classic Garcia Marquez instance--comic, tragic and all too human...