Word: expected
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...spring of 1995, Yale University did something extraordinary--something that most people would never expect a fund-hungry Ivy League college of the 1990s to do. They turned money down. Big money...
...Since our team wasn't rested, we didn't expect to swim as well...
...accept a tidy conclusion to this veritable Greek tragedy? Theories have already emerged on the Internet painting Maher as a Lee Harvey Oswald-like Russian mole. Another, probably closer to the truth, has Maher trying to ingratiate himself with the sickly billionaire, thus finding a place in his will. Expect a movie of the week at a cable station near...
Whatever Jesus' final expectation, that reign did not arrive in his lifetime or in the lives of his earliest companions. Yet a majority of his followers continue to expect it. In the face of so long an uncertainty, how has his following not only endured but grown so hugely through two millenniums? And what can be expected of his long potent holding power over human imagination and hope in the near and distant future? If benign Christian institutions and the capacity to believe in a God who loves his creation should weaken fatally, if the artistic inspiration of the figure...
...eighth book, a new movie and an adolescent rite of passage: next week he will be bar mitzvahed for the second time. "In Judaism you can be re-bar mitzvahed at 83," he says. "I've asked guests to donate to charity in lieu of gifts, but I do expect a lot of fountain pens...