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...also about to respond to a recommendation by Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility that may lead to the sale of stock of firms selling substantial quantities of goods used in the administration of apartheid. But selling selected stocks in particular cases is one thing and blanket divestment is quite another...
...three years. But the price was my intimate relationship with the couch. I really didn't mind sleeping on the couch two or three times a week, but many times I would come back to my room late only to wake up the couple while dragging my pillow and blanket out into the common room...
...oddities, cruelties and bizarre twists that occurred began to pour forth after the return to the U.S. of the last 39 hostages. Some stories were horrific, some implausible, others surreal. There were accounts of the hijackers turning away from stark brutality to administer kindnesses to passengers: fetching a blanket for a young girl with bronchitis, providing cough drops for a passenger with cold symptoms. One terrorist, it was recalled, proposed marriage to the flight's purser; at another point, a hijacker beat a passenger, threatened to shoot him, then apologized and wept with his victim. Passengers became targets in many...
Another explanation for Protestant gains among Hispanics is effort. Spanish- language preachers blanket the radio dial in the Southwest. Researchers in conservative Protestant seminaries analyze evangelistic strategies. Personal contacts are stressed. Says Catholic Archbishop Robert Sanchez of Santa Fe, N. Mex.: "They're out there ringing doorbells and going into people's homes. That's hard to beat." The Rev. Tony Arango, pastor of Florida's growing East Hialeah Baptist Church, whose membership is heavily Cuban, says, "Our witnessing is done by all our members. We believe in the aggressive approach...
...editorial last month, the Reporter asserted that local bishops and the national hierarchy have been grievously ill prepared to deal with complaints about sexual abuse of children. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops press spokesman, Bill Ryan, rejects such "blanket accusations." But two weeks ago the U.S. bishops' conference, meeting in Minnesota, discussed the problem behind closed doors and asked a committee to study sexual abuse by priests...