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...this esprit des corps that will carry women's lacrosse to the top along with its dynamic coaching staff...
...esprit are usually the first words one hears in conjunction with Oscar Wilde's plays, as if anything beyond that strains his talents. Naturally Wilde's frivolity is not devoid of substance, even though his lazy work habits allegedly kept his best work from ever being recorded. Victorian England's Rococo fop was not loathe to entertain a single meaningful thought--only, perhaps, to express it as such...
...short, members take themselves along for the ride. ``People who have troubles with their friends in the real world think they'll come online and have lots of friends, and it's not true,'' says Horn. ``They have equal trouble establishing friendships in cyberspace.'' In most online communities, the esprit is fiercely democratic. When crises arise, they are resolved by members thrashing out the dos and don'ts of cyberspace etiquette. Still, there are plenty of elites and hierarchies. Veteran settlers, who look askance at the hordes of newcomers, often form exclusive conferences where they can avoid endless beginner bellyaching...
...fact, according to a survey by Ohio's University of Akron, Evangelicals now surpass even Roman Catholics as the largest sector of active churchgoers, though Catholicism has a vast official membership that counts all baptized infants. The Catholic Church remains powerful, but its esprit is being sapped by theological discord, not to mention declines in attendance at Mass, in parochial-school enrollment and in women's religious orders. The priesthood is attracting fewer and fewer new recruits, so that by the 21st century, many church functions will most likely be performed by laymen--and women. Meanwhile, Evangelicals are making inroads...
...situation. One of Canada's best-known soldiers, retired Major General Lewis Mackenzie, who served as chief of U.N. peacekeeping forces in the former Yugoslavia in 1992, claimed that the Airborne had been reformed. ``The hazing video,'' he maintained, ``is a historical document.'' But Scott Taylor, publisher of Esprit de Corps, the monthly magazine that uncovered the Somalia videotape, is not so sure. ``The level of depravity can't even be described,'' he says. ``This was not just a few misguided individuals...