Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...column is not about separating religion from state recognition. That has already been accomplished. It is about silencing religious viewpoints in our political discourse because she disagrees with their stance on abortion, homosexuality and feminist liberation--even if it means a few more immoral executions of inmates on death row. In other words, I don't like some of the messenger's religious beliefs, so let's ignore the validity of the message. I can't imagine what this philosophy would have done for a religious leader named Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960's. CHRISTOPHER G. ROBERTS...
...Louis Trans World Dome scrolls WELCOME TO THE EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION WITH HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II. The Dome's 70,000 capacity is stretched to 100,000. Betty and Ed, after hours on a chartered yellow school bus and in line for metal detectors, have drawn spectacular second-row seats: they can almost touch the stream of priests flowing across the floor toward the great papal seal. A jumbo screen shows the approaching Popemobile, just half an hour away. She twists a silver ring again and again around her middle finger...
...Tibet. Last week Beastie Boys, along with the hip-hop-charged hard-rock band Rage Against the Machine and the progressive rap duo Black Star, staged a controversial concert in New Jersey to raise money for the legal fees of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black inmate on death row for killing a police officer. Says Beastie Boy Adam Yauch: "There's a tremendous amount of evidence that he didn't do it and he was a scapegoat...
When it was over, security guards kept fans in the student section from flooding the court. But freshman Teddy Dupay went to them, diving into the crowd, then prancing down press row sharing high-fives with the students...
...League's new team to beat. The Tigers are 5-0 in conference play for the first time since double round-robin play began in 1982. After a 2-7 start, Princeton is currently on an eight-game winning streak--its longest since it won nine in a row during the 1977-78 season...