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...your peers. A woman of Adams House--Adams House!--has resolved to come here to New Haven to pray for victory. She doesn't even have a ticket; she is barred from the Yale Bowl. Her plan? To enter one of Yale's crumbling libraries and hold a Satanic ritual--a ritual calling upon all the powers of darkness...
Since the Law School ritual began several years ago, by 10 p.m. on Thursday nights there is standing room only in Harkness Commons. "I used to get here at nine and you couldn't get a seat," says second-year student Eric S. Goldberg...
...have this little ritual before each game," Landau says. "We like to slap our sticks together and give each other high fives. It motivates us for the game...
...done about the Muslim shrines that now occupy the holy ground. They point out that animal sacrifices and other aspects of Temple worship are so ingrained in Judaism that they take up a third of the 613 biblical commandments, plus major portions of the Talmud and the daily ritual. Temple restoration is also a fixation for literal-minded Protestants, who deem a new Temple the precondition for Christ's Second Coming...
During six years of research, the institute has reconstructed 38 of the ritual implements that will be required when Temple sacrifices are restored; it will complete the other 65 items as funds permit. A museum of the completed pieces has drawn 10,000 visitors during the current holy days. In addition to such items as trumpets, lyres and lots, the institute is preparing vestments for the priests-in-waiting. According to Scripture, the clothing must be painstakingly made with flax spun by hand into six-stranded threads...