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They also specify that "a student consortium may refer to itself as 'the Student Consortium on X at Harvard', but may not use the Harvard name or insignia in any other way, especially in ways that suggest it is a permanent student organization...
...happens, I've always taken great pride in keeping my checkbook reconciled with my bank statement. I must have once heard my father refer to someone who was so financially inept that he "couldn't keep his checkbook balanced," and I've endeavored not to fall beneath even that modest standard. But this requires working on the outer edges of my financial and mathematical competence, and it would take less than the destruction of a few checks to throw everything out of kilter...
Gathered around the floodlit enclosure at midnight, they sing that he will make peace: ya'ase shalom. The words refer to God, but as 300 worshippers thump tambourines and clap their hands in the warm night, they have someone else in mind. It is the rabbi. He shuffles through the crowd, small and bowed. They touch him for his blessing. He is a tzaddik, a holy man, a saint. "I will clean the people," he mutters. His arm winging like a metronome, Rabbi Yaakov Ifargan slings candles into a brazier until the flame rises 20 ft. and wax sizzles onto...
...While it had become commonplace over the past four decades for Catholic clergy to refer to other denominations as "Sister Churches," Ratzinger insists that Catholicism should be recognized as the "mother" church without peer. And by extension, that others are her errant children. Indeed, Ratzinger's document insists that when the Catholic Church engages in interfaith dialogue, it only does so as "part of her evangelizing mission" in which Catholic clergy are obliged to preach to believers of other faiths that Christ is "the sole redeemer." That sentiment may be consistent with Catholic doctrine, but it's hardly surprising that...
...Another carefully phrased reference, perhaps designed to mollify Midwestern readers: "In an aside to his running mate before a rally outside Naperville North High School, Bush used an expletive to refer to a newspaper reporter in the crowd. Former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney agreed, and both comments were picked up by a live microphone...