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...Banana Republic Card!” I picked out a black leather bag and eagerly awaited my discount in the cashier line. But one glance at the application form for the card was enough to dash my hopes. It was a simple form asking for my name, date of birth, phone number, mailing address, and of course, Social Security Number (SSN). I explained to the cashier that I did not have a SSN because I am a foreign student, but she was absolutely clueless as to how to deal with this alien customer. Out of frustration and impatience, I paid...
...depths of Jones’s eyes are the secrets of his people, the people he is currently fighting for. Without him, they are voiceless. With him, they just may succeed. THE BIRTH OF A REVOLUTION
Each dispatcher, however, is also trained to handle situations in which help is needed while emergency personnel is en route to the scene. These situations include suicidal callers and those trying to assist women who are giving birth. If a caller is helping someone who is in labor, it is the dispatcher who leads the caller through delivering the child until the emergency responders arrive...
...Egyptian exile and Jesus' unknown life in Nazareth prior to his ministry. Jean Gerson, the chancellor of the University of Paris in the late 1300s, thought a 90-year-old Joseph ridiculous in light of the rigors of travel in Egypt and recalibrated his age at Jesus' birth to 36, the Aristotelian "prime of life." In contrast to earlier descriptions of a distant and alienated parent, Gerson portrayed (in a 2,957-line poem, among other vehicles) an adoring father to Jesus: "Joseph leads him," he wrote. "Joseph soothes him with kisses." Meanwhile, Bernardine of Siena, a powerhouse preacher whom...
...church in the U.S., says Robert Franklin, an expert on that topic at Atlanta's Emory University, has long felt a connection between Joseph as patriarch of an unexpectedly blended family and African-American slave history, in which men "found their own wives full with child and at the birth discovered the child was a mulatto." But for the most part, explains David Steinmetz, a religious historian at Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C., "Joseph plays a very small role in Protestantism, aside from cameo appearances in Advent and on Christmas...