Word: prays
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...should all be concerned with the plight of Tibet. We must protest the oppression of Tibet and its people at the hands of the Chinese. The U.S. government should impose sanctions on China. Gere's description of the Dalai Lama warmed my heart and calmed my spirit. I pray his exile will soon end. Mary M. Revis Dayton, Ohio, U.S. One hundred of anything is way too much - 100 caviar canapés, 100 chocolate sundaes, even 100 dazzling human beings. Don't you realize that TV has shrunk our attention span to 10 nanoseconds? Couldn't you space...
Faith matters to students as they head off to college, but then it tends to lapse. In a national study issued last month by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute, 79% of 112,000 freshmen surveyed profess a belief in God; 69% say they pray. Still, only 40% think it is very important to follow religious teachings in everyday life. Spiritually, "college is a time of flux," says Alexander Astin, the study's co--principal investigator. That leads to "a dramatic falling-off of religious participation during the undergraduate years." But a significant minority are holding fast to their faith...
...Star Trek: Enterprise finishes its four-season run May 13; the next TV season will be the first in 18 years without new Trek episodes. My boyfriend, who hates sci-fi, is thrilled. As for me, I have finally fallen out of love with Han Solo, and when I pray, it's for God to whisk me away to the Pinot-drenched Santa Ynez Valley of Sideways. But I am also relishing my old Star Wars anticipation. True, Lucas' beautiful but turgid prequel trilogy has disappointed--but then again I am no longer an awestruck boy secluded in a theater...
...April 4]. Shame on Bush, Representative Tom DeLay and all those others who wasted their time and our money on this right-to-life charade. Those same politicians are too cowardly to attack at the federal level the real right-to-life issues?abortion and the death penalty. I pray for Schiavo's parents and husband. We all have a right to a dignified death without government meddling. Bernard Joseph Wilson Jr. Lincoln, Nebraska...
Kirkland Masters Tom and Verena Conley walk their Bernese Mountain dogs, Jesse and Brandi, about five times a week. During construction, the Conleys will be forced to pray that Jesse and Brandi, also the House mascots, successfully dodge traffic on afternoon strolls by the river...