Word: presbyterian
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...After a few years of wandering in Asia, Lee's family settled in Pennsylvania in 1964, and his father became a Presbyterian minister. Behind My Eyes is steeped in Lee's religious upbringing. "I doodled in the church bulletin on Sundays/ while my father offered the twenty-minute Pastor's Prayer," he recalls in "Cuckoo on the Witness Stand." Elsewhere in the poem, he recounts that "I sang in a church choir during one war/ American TV made famous." Lee also likens his own poetry to "a mission," but he's no firebrand proselytizer. His tone throughout this collection...
...citizenship for undocumented aliens, he recommended hospitality in the short term, but said the long-term solution to the problem was to help raise the quality of life in the countries they are fleeing. Apparently, even that was too much for Representative Tom Tancredo, a Catholic-turned-evangelical Presbyterian and illegal-immigration foe, who engaged what might be called a bit of old-school Catholic-baiting by sniping that Benedict's comments "may have had less to do with spreading the gospel than... recruiting new members to his church...
...addition, many patients still have qualms about such procedures. "Speaking with my wife," says Talamani, "the concept of operating through the vagina, was, well, quite foreign to her. That would be a kind way to put it." Dr. Marc Bessler, director of laparoscopic surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, who is conducting a study on transvaginal gallbladder removal, says knee-jerk discomfort with the idea may be keeping patients away. "I was hoping after doing the first few that patients would come looking for this," he says, but they have been slow to arrive. Bessler has thus far removed three...
...Sarah E. Bancroft ’09, one of AIA’s leaders, was brought up as an Episcopalian in Baltimore, but says she joined a friend’s Presbyterian youth group during high school. She says she was looking for the same type of religious community when she came to Harvard...
...Harvard attackers fought to answer the score, taking five shots on goal as the clock ran down, outshooting the Saints, 9-3, in the final frame.Harvard’s stifling defense kept Siena’s streaky offense—which racked up 19 goals against Presbyterian in its season opener—in check with notable performances from junior Sean Whitsitt at short-stick defender and classmate Sam Slaughter.On a brisk afternoon, Siena snatched an early, but slim, lead by claiming the only goal of the first quarter. Harvard answered with three goals to take...