Word: rite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hashim Thaci is on unfamiliar ground. The Albanian guerrilla leader, once the bane of Serbian forces in Kosovo's hinterlands, has arrived triumphant in Pristina and is undergoing his first rite of passage as an aspiring politician: dinner with TIME. Looking out across a table laden with the best postwar cuisine available--three platters of chicken franks, canned tuna and tomatoes--the 30-year-old rebel answers questions with a voice at once shy and calculating. Trying his best to toe the Western line, he assures us repeatedly, "We will live up to the obligations given...
...ceremony is a "moon ritual," and the 20 people who gathered two weeks ago in this meadow in the middle of Texas believe it will change the world, if ever so slightly. That is because they are witches, and what they are doing in this incantatory rite is casting spells, in this case for "tolerance and understanding." And while card-carrying witches might seem remarkable enough, these are more exotic still. They are Army witches: colonels and sergeants and captains and privates. They belong to a group of 50 or so kindred spirits who assemble regularly at Fort Hood...
Instead of following the swarms of investment bankers and the hordes headed to law school, four seniors will participate in community service projects next year with the help of Stride Rite Foundation Post-Graduate Public Service grants...
...Stride Rite Community Service Program Director Mimi L. Lindsey said the shoe manufacturer donates funds to Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) to sponsor three work-study programs--one during the academic terms, one during the summer and the post-graduate program...
...Stride Rite foundation has supported students' post-graduate service projects since 1983. This year, between 20 and 25 students applied for the grants, Lindsey said...