Word: rite
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Elisabeth A. Tomlinson '99, president of PBHA pointed out her organization's track-record in advancing the cause of diversity through programs such as Stride-Rite and its Summer Urban Program--both programs which attempt to match the diversity PBHA encounters in the outside world with their own diversity...
Most Harvard students are pros at handling stress. However, thanks to randomization, each spring a first-year rite of passage often becomes one of the most stressful experience of students' lives, one that cannot be overcome by good organization or even a few all-nighters...
...Castro's Cuba. Catholic Church attendance, baptisms, confirmations, religious weddings and funerals are all on the rise. In this traditionally Catholic nation, almost equal numbers attend Catholic Mass or evangelical services, and the religion with the most adherents of all--perhaps half the population--is the Afro-Cuban rite of Santeria. Its babalaos (spiritual guides) far exceed the Catholic priests in influence, but its home-based, loose network of competing sects poses no political threat. Economic hardship is a powerful motivator: many of those new congregants of all faiths are searching for material sustenance in the food and medical...
Being asked, "What are your politics?" has been a rite of passage for prospective editors of The Crimson since 1973. Over the last twenty-five years, however, the range of acceptable, and therefore most common, responses has changed--from "radical" in the '70s to "left" in the '80s to "Democrat," "centrist," and even the occasional "Republican...
...such tampering with a beloved classic--a play that won both the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony in 1956 and was turned into an Oscar-winning film in 1959. But The Diary of Anne Frank has never been an ordinary work of literature; more like a communal rite of grief. The journal has probably conveyed the horror of the Holocaust more personally to more people than any other document. Yet some scholars have objected that popularizers of the diary have sanitized its content and distorted its message...