Word: writes
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...Vatican, Pope John Paul II asked an audience of thousands to pray for the American astronauts. He said that the tragedy had "provoked deep sorrow in my soul." In Buenos Aires, Cartoonist Dobal used his space in the Clarin to write, "I can't give you a joke because, dear reader, all my space is filled with infinite pain." Japan's public TV extended its popular 45- minute evening news program to an hour and devoted it all to the space accident. The Jerusalem Post noted editorially that "Americans take their risks in front of grandstands and television cameras...
When Rudy Giuliani was graduating from Bishop Loughlin high school in Brooklyn, many of his classmates inscribed "Good luck in the seminary" in his yearbook. It was the natural thing to write; the high-spirited, high- minded senior, who started the school's first opera club and idolized the New York Yankees, was planning to begin studies for the priesthood in the fall. But that summer he changed his mind and decided instead to go to Manhattan College. Although he chose not to become a man of the cloth, Giuliani found his particular calling anyway. After college he entered...
...more pages of "tasteful pictures" and less swimsuit. Though it may not be the issue here, Sports Illustrated's loyal subscribers are as much to blame as are the magazine's editors for the fact that the magazine's little touch of Hustler has continued for 23 years. Readers write in to say that the swimsuit issue brings them warmth in the midst of winter. More likely, it saves them a trip out to the drugstore...
...Celts were the first non-RomansChristianized and the first people to becomeliterate and write in their own language, theprofessor said. He added that some of the world'soldest written records, documents from the seventhcentury, have been found in Ireland, and thatCeltic scholarship can "offer a tremendous view ofthe past...
...draft pages came to him by the dozens in a blue folder, and he would take them out, unclip his ballpoint pen and write down his own ideas on a yellow legal pad. When the moment of truth approached, the speech was just a dozen double-spaced regular pages...