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What Sister Joan and other nuns recall is being lesser members of the church in the most male-dominated institution in the Western world, a lack of standing that would eventually drive thousands of nuns away and keep new ones from joining. Priests were kings. While nuns lived communally, the priests lived privately in a large house with no one to answer to, unless you count the usually elderly housekeeper. Nuns rarely saw the priests other than at Mass or on a ceremonial visit to the classroom to hand out report cards. The priests always had a roll of bills...
...more elemental crystals from innocent mages. Given a few-well chosen cues, your mind supplied the rest. The fact is, I wouldn’t trade the text boxes, even for stellar acting. Playing was a perfect combination of reading a book, watching a movie, and, to a lesser extent, playing an actual video game...
...light of the success of films such as Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!, flamboyance, debauchery and decadence have characterized our concept of late nineteenth-century Paris—an impression epitomized by Lautrec’s vibrant prints of that period. Examining Toulouse Lautrec’s lesser-known portraits, however, sheds new light on the essence of the individuals who constitute that world...
...Baldwins are almost too careful not to miss a single base in their meandering debut, but the good news is that they’re just funky and oddball enough to make it hang together. Wish we could say the same about their lesser relatives Steven, Alec...
...risk imbalance between communities of different economic character. The law, by targeting individuals convicted of drug offenses, is more likely to affect poor drug users than rich ones. Furthermore, even when wealthier students are convicted of drug offenses, the loss of financial aid is likely to present a lesser burden. Therefore, the law not only unfairly targets low-income communities, but also punishes most severely individuals from those very communities...