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...Granny He's experience was a textbook piece of evangelism. The sect's most trusted members receive a 67-page missionary manual explaining the dos and don'ts of conversion. Do start slowly, lend money, convince converts that God's work is incomplete and, finally, that doomsday is coming and Jesus has arrived to complete that work. Don't tell them until they are firm believers that the new Jesus will destroy the Great Red Dragon, which in the Bible represents Satan but to Lightning represents China. And if anybody asks why the "all-powerful" new Jesus must hide from...
...second half, Harvard, with textbook execution, broke through the defense that both Brown and the Gaels employed as Masterson scored, giving the Crimson the emotional lift it needed to cruise to a dominating 12-6 victory...
...textbook case of cockblock-by-a-political-scion when Walter B. Kubisch ’03 had his hopes for getting with righteous babe Virginia C. Macleod ’04 dashed after she confessed to a crush on Al Gore III ’05. Said Kubisch bitterly, “This is worse than the time I was cockblocked by Jeb Bush...
...took over, the Grolier has a large following of readers. It offers one of the highest-quality poetry series in the area, which last year cost $17,000 to orchestrate. A steady stream of customers flows in, many of them students looking for a Norton Anthology or for the textbook for Helen Vendler’s class. The store also arranges an annual poetry festival and the annual Grolier Poetry Prize; the latter has been co-sponsored for the last three years by the Ellen La Forge Memorial Poetry Foundation...
Harvard encourages us to study philosophy, history and religion. But no “unpacking” of texts can prepare us for brutal, real experience. HIPJ claims to stand for and defend justice. Unfortunately, their understanding of the concept comes from a textbook or, more specifically, from the sourcebook of Professor Michael Sandel’s core class. Their attempt to apply their intangible version of justice to real, perilous threats warrants mockery. And their presumption of omniscience reflects the most criminal consequences of a university community as sheltered as ours...