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Youth ministers have been on a long and frustrating quest of their own over the past two decades or so. Believing that a message wrapped in pop-culture packaging was the way to attract teens to their flocks, pastors watered down the religious content and boosted the entertainment. But in recent years churches have begun offering their young people a style of religious instruction grounded in Bible study and teachings about the doctrines of their denomination. Their conversion has been sparked by the recognition that sugarcoated Christianity, popular in the 1980s and early '90s, has caused growing numbers of kids...
...unscripted film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Baron Cohen takes his interactions with real people and strings them into a plot: a mockumentary about American culture gets sidetracked by a cross-country quest to meet and "make sexy time" with Pamela Anderson. Along the way, the hidden cameras capture a Southern dinner party's dismay with Borat's bathroom habits, and the guests' reaction on the arrival of his date--a black hooker. All the marks are unaware they're being fooled, which is hard to believe, especially when a gun dealer responds...
While Waddah languished in captivity, his family embarked on an agonizing quest to try to find him. His mother Haseeba, 65, took charge of the situation, as befits a traditional Arab matriarch. Realizing that the search for Waddah would require manpower, she dispatched two of her sons to Fallujah and Ramadi to summon as many cousins and uncles as they could muster. Her oldest son Mohammed's job was to canvass the neighborhood to identify the "sheiks"--older men, heads of important families that had lived there a long time and could be tapped for local knowledge and advice. Their...
...college applications and racing on the junior level. Four seniors, however, raced to gold as freshmen in 2004, beginning a run at Camden that has suffered two consecutive blows in their years with the varsity. This fall, this winter, and this spring—all are part of their quest for the winners’ dock they claimed as freshmen three years ago, when everything was just beginning.Now they want to end it the right way. ***Perhaps at the start line, they were unimpressive.Skinny. Short. Maybe a little out of place.There is no lightweight freshman eight event...
...running backs are still reeling after their debacle earlier in the season, producing only 41 yards on the ground on 21 attempts.Despite a tumultuous season when off-field issues threatened to derail Harvard’s linebacking corps, the Crimson has kept pushing forward in its quest for an Ivy League championship through the excellent play of veteran upperclassmen and unheralded first-year starters. The linebacking corps’ depth was tested, but one wouldn’t know that based on its recent play.“I would not have thought that we would be able to weather...