Word: washings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard students love raising awareness because it makes us feel as though we are accomplishing things. But we have to be careful not to wash our hands of our causes after the week is over. Islam does not stop on campus once March rolls around, nor do students’ psychiatric issues. One study break to raise awareness of mental health is valuable, but not as valuable as the students who spend many nights and weekends manning crisis hotlines...
...Islam and animism, and Lusi has drawn mystics from Bali and Borneo, who have sacrificed chickens, monkeys and even a cow to mollify the upset spirit. The government's engineering team has tried similar tactics; a spokesman says the group has hired diviners to pray for rain to wash the mud away...
...Sake is also purchased as an offering at Koganji Temple. There, a statue of Kannon, the Buddhist deity of mercy, is said to bring good health to those who wash it. In the area surrounding the statue are two signs: one directs line formation, the other trumpets a nearby defibrillator device. Both signs are there to put Sugamo's visitors at ease...
...mistake it would be to vote for her. It also shows us the desperation of the Clintons, who have planned so long to extend their dynasty but now face a real threat in Obama. Let's hope this is one shrew that Obama can tame. Alan Moen, entiat, Wash...
...Distortion,” however, pushes those levels beyond the absurd and into the downright Freudian, with characters that indulge admittedly confused desires for sex and death in equal (and sometimes identical) measure. “California Girls,” an infectious pop guitar-wash featuring vocals from Shirley Simms, turns from antipathy for synthetic O.C. ditzes to an axe-wielding thirst for bimbo blood. “The Nun’s Litany,” a bouncing bit of angelic gloss, elaborates on the various (and explicit) ways a woman of the cloth wishes to violate...