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...studying the learning curve of Billy Graham. In his 1950 Boston revival, a young Graham was ebulliently specific about the world to come. Heaven, he said, was a place "as real as Los Angeles, London, Algiers or Boston." It was "1,600 miles long, 1,600 miles wide and 1,600 miles high." Once there, "we are going to sit around the fireplace and have parties, and the angels will wait on us, and we'll drive down the golden streets in a yellow Cadillac convertible." Graham went on to a magnificent career, but he dropped the Cadillac, which nonetheless...
...third-trimester exceptions permitted by the court for the "health of mother" are wide enough to allow a healthy teenager, eight months pregnant and carrying a healthy baby, to squeeze through the clinic door. Most times, the reasons for a late-term abortion are as tragic as those endured by the women Clinton introduced at his press conference when he vetoed the ban last spring. But, in addition to physical health, courts have allowed "emotional, psychological, familial" factors to be considered, as well as "the woman's age." We fool ourselves if we don't acknowledge that these exceptions have...
...this sense, the substitution undercuts the basic philosophy and purpose of the Core," it concludes, predicting that a wide-open departmental bypass system would offer no incentive for professors to submit to Core scrutiny...
Where French comic-making often truly shines, though, is in the realm of the ordinary--the strips about "everyday life." From a slightly slatternly, stay-at-home bourgeois family (Christian Binet's "Les Bidochon"), to a grumpy, jaded modern student (Claire Bretecher's adventures of "Agrippine"), to a wide-eyed, pompadoured, out-of-place teenage suburban rocker (Frank Mergerin's "Lucien"), Francophone strips manage to make the banal intriguing, a worthy topic...
Campolattaro said that one of her goals in organizing Dance Day was to provide the opportunity for various dance groups to develop a closer relationship and strengthen dance campus-wide...