Word: readings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final commendation prayer was said by Rev. David Lindsay, Protestant chaplain of the Worcester Fire Department, and the firefighter prayer was read by Lt. Donald Courtney, vice-president of the local IAFF chapter...
...Well I'd have to say that it's nothing I feel I can force upon anybody. One of the best things I've ever read in like an advice column sort of thing. A guy wrote it and he said "Girls, when we do it, we don't have a choice, but when you do it..." that was sort of where he left it. I always thought that was kind of a decent take on things...
...good to myself. But um... I'm just going to avoid interpreting that as how many times a week do you masturbate. I try to do certain things at least every day to make myself happy. Things that are purely for me. There's a baseball columnist that I read every day. I often stop by and get smoothies. Friday and Saturday night I always try to do something fun, even just for a couple of hours...
...Last month, he became an American citizen. Brimming with pride and emotion, he explained the process. "Some people take a class to pass the test, but I just read a book, and then answered some questions. It was easy," he said. The test starts locally and ends nationally. Alberto revisited some of the questions he faced and then answered them, "Who is the governor of Massachussetts? Paul Celucci. Where is the White House? 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Who was Martin Luther King? A civil rights leader. Who freed the slaves? Abraham Lincoln. Easy questions like that." The most difficult part...
...some ways, it's the entire Harvard attitude. For example, on other campuses current events matter. People begin statements "when I was watching the news..." or "as I just read in the Globe...." Dinner conversations can be about reports on the increase in dual AIDS-hepatitis C cases or the assassination attempt on a member of the Palestinian National Council, to quote some of last week's news that has gone unnoticed and unmentioned. On other campuses, people leave plays, concerts and especially speeches charged up, ready to fight out their beliefs and talk about how they felt challenged...