Word: shepherd
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...Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is coming to Cambridge to supplement your education with a fact you are not likely to learn in your classes: God hates fags. Westboro Baptist—the Topeka, Kans. church infamous for its anti-gay demonstration at the funeral of hate crime victim Matthew Shepherd and for maintaining the website www.godhatesfags.com—announced last month that it will be picketing the commencement ceremony of Harvard Law School to protest the school’s proposed ban on offensive speech...
...hospitable to long life? Orroli's young and old alike debate the local secret that keeps people kicking. "It's the air!" insists the cousin of a 97-year-old woman who still makes pasta by hand. It's the homegrown vegetables, says a 96-year-old retired shepherd. Others contend it's the pure groundwater, the close familial bonds that ensure the elderly are cared for, the local penchant for an almost obsessive moderation in all things. Most seem to agree that a daily glass or two of red wine is indispensable. Frau, who turns...
...regale you with tales of bobsledding buses in the Himalayas, great, late trains and the thrill of being in a rickshaw driven by the blind and carefree. "It's all part of the fun," he'll chuckle as he starts in on the night he once shared with a shepherd, two nuns and a flatulent elephant on the Calcutta Express. But while the romance of the Indian road undoubtedly endures, even seasoned voyagers find the charms of New Delhi's choking, lawless traffic fairly thin. There is simply a limit to how many times stray cows or small children...
...declining small town, the badly parented teenagers and the sad, unfulfilled adults. Polly (production designer) and I and the cast assembled in Texas to shoot. Before I myself realized that it was happening, my wife accused me of falling in love with 20-year-old actress Cybill Shepherd. Polly was right. As I was swept into an affair with Cybill, my mother called to tell me my father had had a stroke and was in a coma...
...heart of hearts, I admire Lewis’ good-natured attempts at pedagogy. His efforts to shepherd his young flock to safer pastures, while I disagree with them, do have a certain endearing quality. But after weeks of monotonous give and take on the keg ban, with both sides recycling the same arguments, it’s time someone let him in on our little secret...