Word: prays
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...because Watt, as Simpson says, "is convinced that he has God on his side," he can hardly bring himself to make even a pretense of accommodation. "There are some people," Watt says about his huge mob of critics, "who will never be brought around to my philosophy. And I pray I never yield to their positions. They are wrong...
...stunned when I learned that in the Soviet Union people were not allowed to pray. But I never dreamed that I'd see the day when the U.S. forced its students to pray. Considering the social pressure on school-age children, there is no such thing as "voluntarily" reciting prayers in public school...
...colonel's bunkered command post, soldiers fill empty shell casings with water from tank trucks. The sound of outgoing Iraqi artillery is constant, there is little fire coming from the Iranian side. Some of the men sleep beneath slanting canvas hutches. Others spread carpets on the sand and pray toward Mecca. When one enemy round explodes several hundred yards away, they continue their prayers without flinching. "During the [last] battle," says the colonel, with undisguised pride, "they were in their tanks for 36 hours, buttoned down all the time, and fighting. That's why I'm certain...
...court threw out a Louisiana law allowing students or teachers to offer their own prayers. Eight months ago, the Justices also refused to review a decision forbidding students to form in-school prayer meetings on their own before classes. Some states allow a "moment of silence" for students to pray if they wish; the Supreme Court has not ruled on that...
...comedy that made him a national endearment, while clinging to acting and directing mannerisms that even his audience may have outgrown. Has he lost the knack? Or just misplaced it? An answer should come soon enough. His next film-not a period piece, we are advised-surfaces at Christmas. Pray it's not called Twelfth Night. -By Richard Corliss