Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprised to discover that five times a day his 14-year-old son joins a group of friends at a mosque for prayer. In Tunisia, whose President Habib Bourguiba has promoted equal rights for women, including divorce and abortion, students belonging to the militant Muslim Brothers wage war on "sin and evil" by painting over sexually suggestive cinema billboards and chalking quotations from the Koran on city walls. At Cairo University (enrollment: 130,000), hundreds of female Egyptian students have donned the veil and demanded classes separate from male students...
DRINKING AND GAMBLING. They ask thee concerning wine and gambling. Say: "In them is great sin, and some profit, for men: but the sin is greater than the profit...
...that's for sure, and most fraternity boys and sorority girls, myself included, like to go wild on the big Winter Carnival weekend, but you made it sound as though every male on campus is out to "score" and every Dartmouth female is obese, boring and uglier than sin. Not so. Dartmouth College has a lot more to offer than drunk men and homely women...
...Hana as faithfully as Maui's whales. Charles Lindbergh, who lived for seven years with his wife Anne in Hana, is now buried there. Near by are the Seven Pools, two of which are favored by skinny-dippers: Poohahoahoa (meaning getting heads together) and Nakalaloa (complete forgiveness of sin...
...Warriors' sin may lie not in its content so much as in the way it attracts crowds like a lightning rod. It is not particularly violent, and what violence there is is curiously abstract and unemotional. More gore can often be seen on the television screen, and any number of films-Marathon Man, Death Wish, just about any Peckinpah film and certainly A Clockwork Orange-have contained far more stomach-churning brutality. Indeed, The Warriors' director, Walter Hill, goes out of his way to expunge any feeling of genuine menace or racial animosity. The gang called the Warriors...