Word: wakes
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Sporting a green tie last night, Pataki spoke about his efforts at political compromise in New York, his experience in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, and the lessons to be drawn from the recent midterm elections. A moderate Republican, Pataki attributed the G.O.P.’s loss of the House and Senate last week to his party’s failure to appeal to the center...
...being drawn to Iraq and it’s not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don’t want the Eye to come back here to the United States.” But in the wake of last week’s elections it seems that the worst fears of the Santorum prophecy have been realized: the Eye of Mordor has come home to roost...
...necessarily a university rather than a small college, either as a Dean or as a President.” “This is no place—and this is certainly not the time—for on-the-job training,” Kloppenberg said.And in the wake of Summers’ controversial comments about women in science, professors have suggested that the committee must make a more serious effort to consider female candidates.“There is sensitivity to the fact that that would be a good thing for this university,” Verba said...
...religious life is about more than earthly bliss. For Johnson, 21, it is the ultimate commitment. As a nun, "you are very public about your beliefs," she says. "Every day you wake up and put on your habit and say to the world, 'I am standing for Christ...
...with their life, but there's still something missing," says Sister Laurie Brink, 45, a professor of biblical studies at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago who has lectured on the subject and who took her vows at 37. Her generation, she adds, growing up in the wake of Vatican II, was not as schooled in catechism as were baby boomers and millennials. Many also broke from the church when their parents divorced. "My generation," says Brink, "is not good with commitment because we haven't seen...