Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steve Flomenhoft (camped out in front of net) who slipped the puck through. Three minutes later, Harvard continued to dazzle Yale with its interior passing, as Mallgrave completed a Drury-to-Baird sequence, dumping the puck into the right side of the net. With Eli Jamie Lavish in the sin-bin for hitting from behind, Harvard finished its second period scoring when Baird succeeded in deflecting a Farrell shot from the point into the net to put the Crimson...
...many young men think that having another man show sexual interest implies something unwelcome about their own sexuality; often they feel obliged to answer with violence rather than polite refusal. Sexuality also has profound religious implications. Expressing it outside heterosexual marriage is, for millions of Americans, a flat-out sin; many believers feel they should carry those values into the workplace, especially a workplace that is itself a life-style, like the military...
...population think the Queen should pay something. She is listening, and some sort of plans are on the drawing board. It is more likely that the next monarch will be faced with paying the bill. Even such pro-monarchy stalwarts as constitutional scholar Lord St. John (pronounced Sin-gin) of Fawlsey say that "in this day and age, the income-tax exemption is pretty hard to defend." But he deplores any further changes. "The monarchy is the symbol of our national unity...
...says theologian Rausch with a shrug. On the left, Ruth Fitzpatrick, leader of Women's Ordination Conference, finds it "pitiful that after nine years of work, this shoddy piece of paper is the best they can come up with." Feminist Schneiders argues that "you cannot say, 'Sexism is a sin except when we practice it.' Sexual apartheid is not acceptable, and it's not going to get acceptable by explaining it or claiming that it was God's idea...
...Vatican is officially silent on the latest disputes, which it considers a peculiarly Western phenomenon. But a prelate explains that Rome does not want to "blanket everything in the course of everyday life with the charge of sexism." As another Vatican official sees it, sin is concrete, premeditated action, not an ideology: "Americans, under the influence of the feminist community, wanted a broader definition, that merely thinking of women as different from men is sinful." Catholicism, the prelate maintains, "is defining and protecting the value of the feminine -- not the feminist -- in an age when it is under assault...