Word: powers
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Once the board of management has the power to change RCAA's name, Bundles said the group would change its name to the Radcliffe Association...
...said reading Marjorie K. Rawlings' The Yearling with her mother as a child made her "aware of the power of books to affect the human soul...
Perhaps it is not so much divergent stances on issues that divide them as conceptions of power. McCain feels that power should derive from principles, Bush from tradition and money. McCain wants to see disenfranchised voices brought back into the political fold, Bush wants to be elected. McCain wants to realign the Republican party along less provincial and more democratic lines, Bush wants to cut taxes. These differences, more than any one issue, have both energized liberals to support McCain and energized McCain to hate Bush. It will be interesting to see if McCain--like a defeated Reagan...
Duke University: This southern school's team is nicknamed the "Blue Devils" because it represents the evil of all college basketball. This deceitful institution consolidates its power by recruiting most of the best high-school players with promises of "an education and a free ticket to the worst NBA team." Duke is coached by Beelzebub himself, a.k.a. Mike Krzyzewski (strangely pronounced "Shu-shef-skee"). The Duke fans--dubbed Cameron Crazies--are nothing more than deluded Satanists that religiously worship Krzyzewski...
...specific apology for the actions of a predecessor currently in the process of beatification (Pius XII) may have been beyond his reach, given the complex and contested process by which the Vatican makes decisions. The absence of an apology for Pius XII didn't in any way diminish the power in the spectacle of the bishop of Rome making a heartfelt expression of solidarity with the victims of the Holocaust, before being embraced by a weeping survivor he'd known since his boyhood. This on a day when, in contrast to previous pontiffs who'd taught that the Jews' exile...