Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Believers have sought the saint's help in household matters for centuries. St. Joseph, a carpenter, was handy around the house, after all. The Catholic Church has no objection to such appeals for intercession, but brokers, complained Father James Coen, head of the Catholic Information Center, to the New York Daily News, "are turning this into a first-class sales gimmick." Successful sellers are advised to exhume the statue and enshrine it in their new home. Co-op owners who have no yards may have to pray to someone else: St. Jude, patron of lost causes...
...What is really needed is a major interdisciplinary effort," Rosovsky said, adding that graduate schools of education should be called on to help set priorities for such an undertaking...
...several student leaders said they were still concerned that Harvard admitted Asian Americans at an unusually low rate because legacy and athletic recruting admissions policies tended to help other ethnic and racial groups disproportionately...
...were gung-ho about getting pro bono inevery law school," Adkins said. "We see thewriting on the walls and we wanted to help thereform move along...
...grew up with Thernstrom in the small town of Lexington, Mass. Both literarily inclined children of professors, the two maintained a deeply personal and prolific correspondence when Lee went to college in northern California. In her first year at UC Berkeley, Lee suddenly disappeared. Thernstrom immediately went west to help in the search, to discover, weeks later, that Lee's sexually violated corpse was found buried in a shallow grave. Lee's boyfriend, Bradley Page, who had diligently helped in the search, confessed to the crime...