Word: retreatism
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...taking her with them. But more than a decade later, after the birth of her daughter, she made a slow creep back to religion, first as a Unitarian and then as a Methodist. But still her soul kept its distance. Then last year her church went on a retreat at the Abbey of the Genesee, a monastery in upstate New York. During a discussion, when a monk (and a recovering alcoholic), repeatedly said, "God loves you," Nolan started sobbing. In a message she later posted on the Internet, she explained that "the God I met as a child was judgmental...
...appropriate pass. When the many Appleistas with him offered him theirs, the security guard threatened to confiscate the passes and call state troopers. Despite the flurry of frantic cell-phone calls and cries of "Don't you know who this is?" the guard refused to budge. Jobs had to retreat and find a generic pass with which to enter his own convention. Maybe the guard was a Windows user. --Reported by Daniel Eisenberg...
...didn't even last the weekend. Starting with a nationally televised retreat from his pledge by Hashimoto on Sunday, Japanese officials have executed an impressive flip-flop. Hashimoto hadn't actually "used the words 'permanent tax cuts,'" said Deputy Chief Cabinet Minister Teijiro Furukawa, and Obuchi "didn't make a public promise." That rug-pulling sent both the yen and the Nikkei index tumbling in Monday's trading and left the rest of the world wondering whether any of Japan's promises to anxious U.S. officials over the past few months have been worth anything at all. It certainly doesn...
...touchingly, enlightened gesture, a medium-sized horde of Mameluke warriors stages a surprise attack on the French camp, and Currier orchestrates a battle scene that measures favorably against the fur-flying in Braveheart. As in that film, the fighting here is vicious, bloody, and decidedly unromantic. The Mamelukes eventually retreat, their scimitars proving rather ill-matched to rifles and artillery, but the French men are sufficiently rattled to move quickly on to another campsite. Jean-Michel, however, has not finished his drawings, and he and Augustin lag a bit behind. Inevitably, the two are separated from their unit, whom Augustin...
...that doesn't float your boat, take a trip to Walden Woods, where Henry David Thoreau, class of 1832, made his famous retreat...