Word: prays
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Like so many inner-city principals, Pannell seems forever on the verge of being overwhelmed, having inherited a school in turmoil. Says Pannell: "The only thing you can do is pray daily: 'Give me the wisdom to make the right decision.' " He is nothing if not pragmatic, accepting the largesse of corporate donors and government alike (he receives both Head Start and Chapter I funds), and espousing a mix of George Bush's "thousand points of light" and Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society." To encourage the children, he has set up an elaborate system of rewards for excellence in every...
...eternity. After decades of officially sponsored atheism, the Russians remain a profoundly spiritual people. To mark the 600th anniversary of the death of St. Sergius of Radonezh, an enormous banner recently appeared on the facade of the Historical Museum in Red Square. It bore the slogan REVEREND FATHER SERGIUS, PRAY TO GOD FOR US. An outsider would see the irony in a saint occupying the spot once reserved for larger-than-life portraits of Marx and Lenin. Not a Russian. During a recent missionary crusade by U.S. evangelist Billy Graham, large crowds stood by the speaker's platform to commit...
Cross your fingers and pray. The Harvard men's basketball team is hoping for a miracle this afternoon in its matchup against crosstown rival Boston College...
...about it on the air. The FCC, he charges, is "targeting me because I'm the most visible guy" and is "trying to put a dead stop to my career." When he learned that FCC chairman Alfred Sikes was being treated for prostate cancer, Stern's response was, "I pray for his death...
Clinton and Gore should pray that bloodbath lasts as long as the Democrats' internal warring did after the failure of Jimmy Carter...