Word: stricken
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...accounting of John Paul's "entire life...all his deeds." There are a multitude of cases of supposed miracles attributed to the late pope, but officials are zeroing in on the healing of a French nun suffering from Parkinson's disease, the same progressive nervous system ailment that had stricken John Paul. Doctors will have to confirm that there is no medical explanation for the nun's recovery. "The miracle is the confirmation," explained Father Gumpel. "In all human undertakings there can be mistakes, so we need divine confirmation...
...agency through careful cultivation of patrons on the Hill as well as selected reporters and writers. He even let in the occasional TV crew. He also shifted the agency's mission from monitoring spies from the former Soviet bloc to tracking terrorists. Two days after 9/11, he told his stricken staff, "Right now, a quarter of a billion Americans wish they had your job, to go after the enemy." When John Negroponte was named the first director of national intelligence (DNI) in 2005, Hayden was a natural choice to become his principal deputy...
Then Polly’s sickly aunt dies of liver failure. Within days of the funeral, Polly announces her engagement to her newly widowed uncle, Boy Dougdale. The family is horror-stricken; Lady Montdore vows to cut Polly off without a cent. The repulsive Boy Dougdale—nicknamed the Lecherous Lecturer on account of the “things he does to little girls”—seems slightly shocked as well. Polly, though, is floating on a cloud of bliss...
...recruited new Netizens last week, sending a reporter with a laptop to the drought-stricken village of Moyale, Ethiopia, so that residents could take part in a daylong online chat with visitors to BBC.com Notes from a Teacher, a Canadian journalism instructor's blog, praised the BBC for "facilitating public, person-to-person conversation." The Concoction, an Africa-focused blog, saw a lesson for NGOs, which should "follow the BBC's example" and talk to locals "before they design their projects." Wonkette played the snarky cynic: "Live starving villagers waiting to talk to you!" it said. "That...
...about ethics through the Moral Reasoning core. There, students are asked to question their own beliefs. What is justice? If there is no God, is all permitted? And other such quandaries.Under the new General Education plan proposed by the Committee on General Education, however, moral reasoning classes may be stricken from the catalog. The proposal stresses the importance of moral and ethical education, but stops short of a requirement. Everyone agrees that ethics are a vital part of any education, but there is disagreement about where they belong in the new curriculum. “The committee seemed to drift...