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Here's what the magazine quoted students as saying about Spence, who will became dean of the Faculty in July. "Young, brilliant, and handsome." "A dashing thirst for life. Makes economics almost exciting. Sexy in a vibrant, intellectual way." "Almost grotesquely sexy in a subtle fashion...
After reading your article on Soviet youth, I was disturbed and yet hopeful. It is upsetting to see bright young people prohibited from learning about the world in which they live. But I believe that man's natural thirst for the truth ultimately prevails, and this faith gives me hope...
...crises, was subject to hallucinations. My dreams were filled with demons, ghosts, devils, corpses." His fascination with the secular began with his brother's apostasy. Recalled Israel: "I could gather more from one person than from a thousand holy books. I fled from these books and slaked my thirst for life among ... the common people whose lives seemed so round and complete...
Steering clear of overtly political references, John Paul delivered a sermon on Christ's famous beatitude "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied." In a powerful and resonant voice, the Pope made a passionate plea for national reconciliation. Said he: "Inch by inch and day by day, it is necessary to build up trust-and to deepen trust." But the word solidarity kept cropping up. He told all those who worked that he brought his "solidarity and that of the church." A "hunger for righteousness," he explained, developed from "love...
...circuitry, however, can ward off the perils of the ocean. Experienced sailors ran aground several times. Second-Place Finisher Reed watched in helpless panic "when a whale tried mating with me," nearly smashing the boat. There is no panacea for thirst, chronic lack of sleep, perpetual cold and clammy discomfort. Why, then, knowing all this, do sailors set out alone, again and again? Not merely because it is there. Explains Philippe Jeantot: "Because it is difficult. I enjoy succeeding in difficult things...