Word: rites
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This is not some Dionysian rite. It's Harvard House Crew...
...graduate students in a cognitive-psychology class at Carnegie-Mellon University are actually enrolled at the nearby University of Pittsburgh. Many experts believe that much more can be done to eliminate overlap. "Worcester County in Massachusetts has at least five colleges," says Arnold Hiatt, chairman of the Stride Rite Corp. and a member of that state's Higher Education Coordinating Council. "If one has an outstanding physics department, it would make sense for the other four to phase out physics and build their own strengths...
...Instead, Catholics and "certain Protestant Fundamentalists" have been poaching souls on what the Orthodox Church considers its own turf. The primates are especially upset that Pope John Paul II named five bishops in the former Soviet Union without consulting Russian Orthodox leaders. Bitter disputes have also erupted with Eastern Rite Catholics, notably in Ukraine and Romania...
America has always had a gun culture. Now gun violence has metastasized in a new way among the young. The gun becomes neighborhood logic, rite of passage, administrator, avenger, instrument of impulse and rough justice. When guns reach critical mass, they take on a malignant life of their...
...academy. There are six immobile figures: one standing with her chemise hiked up as though getting ready for a medical inspection; the other five sitting in postures of frozen relaxation on the big plum-colored sofas. Madame presides in her lilac dress, like a weary priestess at a rite. The self-conscious geometry of the poses, dominated by the black angular legs of the girl in the foreground, reinforces the plush silence...