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...Argentine antiaircraft gunner in Port Stanley described how he shot down a British Harrier: " 'Holy Mother of God'-and bang, bang, I knocked it down from heaven." A wounded 18-year-old Argentine conscript lay dying this week, but confided to the medic treating him, "I pray to God that I get better soon and go back to fight...
...Rios Montt has brought two elders of his church into the government: Bianci as public relations director and Alvaro Contreras as his private secretary. He frequently seeks the counsel of other elders. Adds James DeGolyer, an elder who has come from the U.S. to help the Guatemalan congregation: "We pray for Efrain and the brothers. Thousands of people are praying for them in the U.S. too. We have 24-hour prayer chains in the church for them. We believe that prayer coverage is very important...
...final scene is one of stinging pathos. Prostrated by his failure, Livingstone lies on his bed, near mental collapse. With self-imposed fortitude, Sechele shout-sings the hymnal verses, "Give me joy in my heart, keep me praising/ Give me joy in my heart, I pray," as if he were the trumpet of perdurable faith...
...Speak the speech, I pray you, trippingly from the tongue," Hamlet advised actors. But that was in the days before body mikes, when a performer would be hooted off the stage if the groundlings could not hear what he was saying. Now, thanks to what is euphemistically known as "sound reinforcement," a whisper can carry as far as a shout, and a clear, powerful voice, once mandatory equipment for a stage actor, is almost superfluous. Sound technicians receive prominent billing in Broadway shows, right next to set and costume designers, and the theater, which got along quite well...
...have, the sponsorship or support of the government." Voluntary and nonsectarian in name only, codes allowing group prayer inevitably supported entrenched religions at the expense of less widespread ones. And because of the peer pressure that's probably unavoidable in school settings, students who had no desire to pray often found themselves compelled to join in--effectively denying their right not to exercise their religious preferences...