Word: safely
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...often a disparity between these stories and the subsequent Judeo-Christian ethic that has been derived from them throughout the centuries." Genesis chapter 12, as Visotzky was disagreeably reminded, seems to find Abraham allowing his wife to be taken into Pharaoh's harem both to ensure the couple safe passage through Egypt and "so that all may go well with me." Sarah, barren, offers her slave, Hagar, to Abraham as a kind of surrogate mother but when Hagar gets pregnant, Sarah becomes jealous and beats her (16). Lot sleeps with his daughters (19). Jacob embezzles from his brother...
...children against viral disease. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has regularly aided as many as 18 million displaced persons a year. UNICEF has campaigned for child welfare and education, other UN bodies have set up projects to champion women's rights in over 100 countries and brought safe drinking water to 1.3 billion people--the list goes on. In short, the UN has been instrumental in averting a great deal of human suffering in the past 51 years--a continuing achievement which should not go unrecognized...
...should we at Harvard, safe in our homes or dorm rooms in October 1996, care about what happened 40 years ago in a faraway country, where they speak a language that's not even Indo-European? For some of us, the answer is obvious: We know people--or are ourselves people--who have a link to Hungary or Hungarians. (Did you ever wonder how to really pronounce the last name of Professor Gregory Nagy, the popular teacher of "Heroes"? My own name doesn't show it, but like Greg Nagy, I was born in Hungary. Both our families left before...
...Public safety and works officials will continue to work around the clock to keep our roads and neighborhoods as dry and safe as possible," Cellucci said in a statement...
...come from the principal's own pocket) to a girl who had endured months of sexual taunts from a sixth-grade classmate. The school had argued that fear of a lawsuit by the boy's parents prevented it from taking disciplinary action. Next time, it's safe to say, the school will err on the side of strict enforcement, even if it means being pilloried on the Today show. Says Anne Bryant, executive director of the National School Boards Association: "We live in a very litigious world, and school districts have to protect their schools. A $500,000 award...