Word: vaines
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...conclusion of your excellent review of the historical Abraham and the three great religions seemed to be that belief in Abraham might help bring Muslims, Jews and Christians closer to one another [RELIGION, Sept. 30]. But hasn't this been tried in vain for centuries? My conclusion: ban all these religions, cults and man-made concepts of how to worship God. Bar the different religious leaders from spreading their views as the only absolute. Mankind can always use religion as a casus belli. Forbid religions, and there will be far fewer fights. JORMA KAJASTE Espoo, Finland...
...sport. And Harry's showdown with a monstrous serpent in the bowels of Hogwarts should equal the most excitable readers' expectations. Making their Potter debut in Chamber of Secrets are Dobby, a funny, forlorn, computer-animated elf, Miriam Margolyes as Professor Sprout and Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart, the vain Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher - a role that was much sought after by British actors last year. "It's rather winning," says Branagh of the character, "his combination of total confidence with an absolute absence of talent." Designing his wardrobe, costume designer Lindy Hemming departed from the book, which...
...victims were carrying out the banal tasks of everyday life, their last unremarkable moments juxtaposed with the killer's lightning brutality. Officials speculated thatthis could be a terrorist attack but searched in vain for any overt political message. The victims, if they were lined up side by side, would roughly resemble a random sampling of the Washington metropolitan area. They were white, black, Hispanic, Indian, male, female. There was a government analyst, a landscaper, a housekeeper, a nanny...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 agrees, having sent a letter urging incoming students to “slow down” for the past two summers in what he acknowledges is a fairly vain attempt to get Harvard students to change their habits of a lifetime. Unfortunately for Lewis, the second law of thermodynamics that everything gets colder (and thus slows down) does not seem to apply at Harvard—undergraduates whiz around, never properly pausing for breath, let alone stopping. He acknowledges as much in an e-mail message, explaining...
...music,” she explains. The Quincy scene at 10:30 is mellow at best, despite the incessant and spurned invitations from the classy hockey jocks of room 605 (“Laaaadiiiieees, come on in!”). Fortunately, the trip to Quincy is not in vain, as it yields the company of two older men, Michael B. Firestone ’05 and James W. McPhillips...