Word: prays
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...anyone watching makes an “aww” noise. Two shots if it happens when a penguin freezes to death. 3. Whenever Morgan Freeman tells you what a penguin is thinking, or refers to penguins as “souls.” 4. Each time you pray that the penguins resort to cannibalism, just to spice up the storyline. 5 Whenever you mistake a penguin for Woody Allen. It happens more than you’d think. 6. Whenever you’re jealous of all the weight the penguins are losing. Then, seek help...
...like a tub of Neapolitan ice cream. She would visit Italy to explore pleasure, India to study devotion and Indonesia to look into whatever people do in Indonesia ("balance" is her word for it). Then she would write an engaging, intelligent and highly entertaining memoir about it called Eat Pray Love (Viking; 352 pages...
...maybe surprisingly, the Pray section turns out to be the most interesting part. Gilbert can overcharm at times--she suffers from an addiction to cleverness--but her account of her time in India is beautiful and honest and free of patchouli-scented obscurities. To read about her struggles with a 182-verse Sanskrit chant, or her (successful) attempt to meditate while being feasted on by mosquitoes, is to come about as close as you can to enlightenment-by-proxy. She even has an ecstatic brush with Nirvana, which leaves her with a comforting insight into heaven: "You may return here...
...Bitawi, the change is a sign that more Palestinians are adopting the fundamentalist values that Hamas espouses. "Of course we would love to see Shari'a [Islamic law] in every home," he says. "But the reality is that some women don't wear the hijab, some people don't pray at the mosque. We can't force people...
...months ago, 150 religious leaders gathered in the rotunda of the Capitol to pray for the failure of a budget bill that would cut $40 billion from education, health care, and child support for low-income families while giving tax cuts to the rich. The participants in this civil disobedience protest included Catholic bishops, Protestant ministers, rabbis, imams, and volunteers who work at faith-based charities—a diverse group, united by a conviction that this budget bill was against their deepest religious beliefs. The protestors knew that they would be arrested for blocking the entrance of the Capitol...