Word: prays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baseball winds down to the last third of the season, and fans all over Boston are bemoaning the Sox' sagging prospects. But before we get wrapped up in self-indulgence, let's pray for Houston fireballer J. Rodney Richard. Anyone who ever saw Richard hurl his whistling fastball into the dead of a summer night (actually, it was often difficult to see) knows that he provided one of the great thrills in sports anywhere, only to be obscured nationally by the small amount of attention the Astros received. It is a sobering throught that an athlete so talented...
...call "the second Long Walk." For many caught on the wrong side of the meandering new line, life is about to turn into a latter-day Palestinian partition story. Some traditionalists have refused to go, despite a substantial offer of resettlement money. "I live inside four mountains, and I pray to them," says Navajo Katherine Smith, 60, who spent a night in jail after firing over the heads of workers erecting a partition fence near her home at Big Mountain. "We're old folks. We live on our land. We don't know about white...
...natural death; they will do nothing to hurry it along. Nonetheless, Khelyam Khudaiberdiyev, an official of Uzbekistan's radio and television station in Tashkent, insists that "only one in 100 of us is a practicing believer.* In a big family, there might be an old aunt who will still pray. My mother prays, for instance. She's 80." Salyk Zimanov, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, sums up the official view, with its overtones of condescension: "Religion seems to exercise its strongest influence at funerals. That's when these people who call themselves mullahs turn...
...status quo and the aspirations of our minorities. Our tools are limited to reasoned elaboration, the collective wisdom of our founding fathers and the voice of an aroused conscience. We must strain our hearts and minds to apply the most enlightened human spirit we can muster, and pray that our choices prove to be the just ones...
...that's why the weekend was such a blow. "I feel reasonably certain Cornell will lose one along the way," Santos-Buch said. "Every night, I pray that they do, 'cause if they don't, whatever we do doesn't matter...