Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fuzzy-headed amnesiac? This is the man revered even by the geniuses who roam Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., campus for his awesome "bandwidth" (geekspeak for intelligence). Gates' memory is so capacious that at age 11, he astounded friends and family by memorizing all 107 verses of the Sermon on the Mount. He's so driven and detail oriented that he favors baths over showers so he can study while he soaks. Besides, it's hard to imagine the lackadaisical Gates of the video taking Microsoft from three employees and $16,005 in revenues in 1975 to a market...
Behind the absorbing plot and images, Saramago crafts a profoundly cynical allegory for the condition of humanityand the fragility of the comforts we take forgranted. At the root of the story is not anexplanation for humanity's existence or diagrammeddirections on how to live virtuously: Saramago isnot constructing a sermon on the merits ofobservant, moral living and rational governments.Rather, at the heart of the novel lies a deeplydisturbing hunch that perhaps, in the end, life isblind. We depend on life having a purpose, adirection. The truly disturbing question Saramagoposes is, what if life really means nothing? Thisquestion...
...liked the suggestions for personal reflection," said Fiona S. Graff '02. The sermon "was open so you could interpret...
Campolo told TIME that he thought their counsel would be kept confidential and he would have "preferred" it that way; MacDonald said the same through a spokesman. But that did not stop MacDonald from announcing his expanded role in his Sunday sermon and Campolo from posting a statement on the Internet after a reporter called with questions. Nor did it deter the White House from confirming the information, although communications director Ann Lewis insists "my direction was that the pastoral counseling was private and personal and that we were not to release information." Wogaman gave only a short statement extolling...
...John Podesta claims? It's a tidbit that betrays the siege mentality at the White House, where the leader of the free world is increasingly becoming the loneliest man in it. Clinton skipped even his regular church service Sunday (where his transgressions were the subject of the day's sermon), while his attorney David Kendall hit the talk shows to defend his client's indefensible semantic contortion -- that he may have lied under oath about sex, but he didn't commit perjury...