Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more subtle level, many students have come to abhor and cherish the "R" of Radcliffe in creating acronyms for their groups. The hard-to-pronounce double constant combo HR has provided struggle and relief in creating acronyms. There are some clear winners and losers...
Perhaps we can help silence the laughter and instead hear the tears of sorrow transform into sighs of relief for the families of the murdered. And perhaps, in the background, we may hear the first faint footsteps on the long path to redemption, and recognize the travelers to be ourselves...
...President himself, arriving home from 11 days of huge crowds calling him His Excellency to a stock market toying with the 9000 mark, there was a moment of joy and relief. "I feel now that I'm freer to keep doing what I'm supposed to be doing," he told TIME on the flight home. "It removes whatever obstacle this case would have been to my giving everything to this job for the next two years...
Sacrifice: A component of both the pilgrimage to Mecca and the Eid celebration worldwide is the act of sacrifice. The meat of sacrificed animals is distributed, with portions allotted to the poor and needy. Global relief agencies now make it possible to sponsor a sacrifice in places where food supplies are desperately low. Sacrifice teaches a person to give to the greater community at a cost to the individual. It works to counter feelings of greed. At the same time, sacrifice takes us away from a materialistic "market-mentality" in which one only gives things away in exchange for other...
...that some intellectually curious Harvard folks turned down an exclusive party for the Elgin Marbles. (We dig.) Freshmen, juniors and seniors rubbed elbows in Harrod's and traded stories in the Tube. But with miserable weather, arduous museum-visits and third-rate eats, Ivy League breakers needed chemical relief and patronized the local "chemist" for great U.K. drugs (unavailable in the U.S. without prescription...