Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broke down defensively down the stretch," Harvard Coach Katey Stone said. "We just missed are assignments...
Among the 150 programs broadcast on the station's three channels (9, 10 and 22) each week, there are shows ranging from "Raise the Roof" (which deals with issues of housing and homelessness) to the "Portuguese Entertainment Network" to "Haitian American Teens TV" to "BeLive: Stone Soup...
...Gospels. A few others are so striking as to be perhaps genuine. For instance, in Thomas, Jesus says, "He who is near me is near fire, but he who is far from me is far from the kingdom" and "Split the wood and I am there; lift up the stone and you will find me there." Both have that fresh air of authority that rises from his better-known sayings...
...said. So Clemmons did some research and conferred with Mory Gharib, an aeronautics engineer at the California Institute of Technology, who surprised everyone by endorsing her concept. According to Gharib, two 6-ft. by 15-ft. kites, used in conjunction with three pulleys, will easily lift the average pyramid stone in a 25-m.p.h. wind. "It needs more study," Gharib says, "but all of the math works." Others were persuaded by what they witnessed. "I thought it was bull," admits Lynn Velazquez, an administrator at Pepperdine University who assists with the field tests. "Then I saw Maureen use a kite...
...should surprise no one that, as Dunn notes, Lenin had a statue of Robespierre erected in Moscow in 1918. (Made of cheap stone, it soon crumbled, as the Soviet Union would some 70 years later.) Sister Revolutions shows not only how the French and American experiments developed, but also why their differing examples have continued to beguile ambitious leaders...