Word: vowing
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After the Harvard football team's season-opening 9-6 dullathon with Columbia, Coach Joe Restic made a vow--Andy Lombara would no longer be an invisible...
...growing number of scandals and lawsuits is prompting the Catholic Church to take a new approach to clerics who break the vow of celibacy...
...interviews conducted over the past 25 years with 1,000 priests and 500 other men and women, many of them the sexual partners of clerics, Baltimore psychotherapist A.W. Richard Sipe, a former Benedictine monk, estimates that half the 53,000 Roman Catholic priests in the U.S. are breaking their vow of celibacy. According to Sipe, whose findings are being published this month in A Secret World: Sexuality and the Search for Celibacy (Brunner-Mazel; $29.95), about 28% of all priests are engaged in relationships, many of them enduring, with women. An additional 10% to 13% indulge in intimacies with adult...
...hulaballoo over the College's new alcohol rules this week, undergraduates vow and administrators concede that no policy will be able to keep underage students from drinking alcohol...
...Indecent Materials, a pair of one-act plays linking homophobia to right-wing criticism of the National Endowment for the Arts, an actor from North Carolina steps out of character to vow that this year his state will unseat the NEA's foremost critic, Senator Jesse Helms. Despite that bravado, many cultural leaders fear that what started out as a skirmish against would- be censors is turning into an unwinnable war. After years of debate about whether public funding for the arts was growing fast enough, cultural institutions now worry whether the NEA will survive at all, at least...