Word: spirit
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Church was John’s teammate on the independent league Kalamazoo Kings, where he played the latter half of 2006 after being cut from the Bristol Sox. Between the Sox and the Kings, he enjoyed a brief stint with the North Shore Spirit of the independent Can-Am League...
Scherf’s presence, and the general competitive spirit of all the runners involved, gave the River Run a little more credibility than your average IM sporting event. The Run will soon be forgotten as the participants return to the daily grind of problem sets and midterms, and I doubt it changed that football manager’s stance on who he hands out cups of water to, but for part of that Saturday morning, the lowest rung of Harvard athletics had the spotlight all to itself, even if no one was there to watch...
...heart of the international flap are six French nationals working for child relief NGO Zoe's Ark, who were arrested last Thursday as they prepared to spirit 103 Darfur orphans away from the Chadian city of Abéché on a chartered plane. According to press comments by Zoe's Ark colleagues in France, the unauthorized attempt to hustle the children out of the region flouted administrative procedure to obtain permission. Such time-consuming steps, they say, clashed with the greater humanitarian urgency of getting the orphans to care and safety in France. But Chadian authorities swooped...
...whole affair is a sad denouement for one of the pioneers of televangelism, a man who, in the early 1980s, seemed poised to pull the then-declasse Pentecostal and Charismatic traditions, which emphasize gifts of the Holy Spirit such as healing and speaking in tongues, into the mainstream. Says Randall Balmer, chair of the religion department at Barnard College, who has written about Roberts, "I feel badly for him. This must be a blow...
...budget to that one job. That has caught the eye of Congress, which wants spending to be brought under control. The loss in recent years of several firefighters who died protecting homes has further caused Washington to rethink its policies. "So much development in California has followed the pioneering spirit," says Keeley of the USGS. "But we're reaching critical limits in growth, and people have to realize that they will lose certain freedoms if they want to be safe...