Word: vowing
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Dong Dang. Lang Son. Blunt yet musical Vietnamese place names, redolent of history, blood and death. At the railhead city of Dong Dang, a 30-ft. yellow gate marks Japan's invasion of Indochina in 1940, which prompted President Franklin Roosevelt's perhaps apocryphal vow that "we will not go to war over any damn Ding Dong." At Lang Son, a crowded market town nine miles to the southeast, a nipple-crested mountain that colonial troops named the "baroness's breast" overlooks the ruins of a fort demolished even before the Viet Minh's war against the French...
...part, Bush has latched on to Gore?s pledge to debate "anytime, anywhere," and has publicly challenged the Vice President to "keep his commitments." And while Bush may get some mileage out of flogging Gore?s vow, the Governor, even as he advertises his alternative proposal, risks drawing even more attention to his own apparent distaste for old-fashioned, response-and-rebuttal, "You?re no Dan Quayle" -style debates...
...SSJE is comparatively young, it is related to an ancient monastic tradition. Like Benedictine monks of a thousand years ago, members of the Community live in poverty, chastity, and obedience. The Cambridge monastery operates with the proceeds of a large endowment; its style of life is not uncomfortable. The vow of poverty is now interpreted to mean that community members possess no personal goods, except camera equipment...
Although Benedictine monks were celibate, they took no vow of chastity. Rather, the remoteness of the typical monastery, and the vow the monks took never to leave it, settled the issue. However the monastery in Cambridge is surrounded by a sea of women, some of whom visit the monastery frequently for services and other religious purposes. The permanent vow of chastity that SSJE members take is thus their most serious commitment to their faith and their fellows...
...monks usually say their celibacy strengthens their capacity to love the other members of the community. The kindly Father Superior, Paul Wessinger '36, explains "the vow of celibacy is a sign that shows there can be real human fulfillment and genuine relationships of love and friendship in which there isn't a genital relationship." He continues, "You know, there is so much misuse of sex--so often two people manipulate each other for their common gratification, that there is a need for a community such as ours which is a witness to a healthy manifestation of sexuality...