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...sign on the squat brick schoolhouse in the midst of crime-ridden public-housing projects in Norfolk, Virginia, reads BOWLING PARK ELEMENTARY: A CARING COMMUNITY. Principal Herman Clark is one of those who does the caring, which is why every year he takes the parents of his pupils on a field trip to local attractions. One year it was to Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. "We got the chance to see the electric chair," he says. There have been visits to a prison in Chesapeake and a women's penal institution in Goochland. Two months ago, it was a walk...
Turning off Garden Street onto Shepard Street, the Quad comes into view suddenly and startlingly: a wide-open space framed by classically Harvardian red-brick buildings, a mirage in the dense residential area that surrounds it. Bertram Hall is on the corner; it is older than most of the River Houses and originally held 12 Radcliffe women in grand style. The curved staircase rising from the front door, the stained glass windows and the fire-escape balconies on each landing still make it one of the best places to live on campus...
...Yellow Brick Road...
...some students stress the benefits of working, and say they view term-time work as an opportunity to keep in touch with the world outside of Harvard's brick and stone buildings or an escape from the ethereal world of academia...
Additional bones of contention were the $40 million of B.G.E.A. money that Franklin, as a board committee chairman, directed toward the Cove, a beautifully appointed Bible-study center in Montreat that is the only brick-and-mortar institution Billy built to outlast him; and Franklin's insistence that the B.G.E.A. must stay in revivals rather than becoming just another religious foundation. But most likely what put off Franklin's opponents was simple culture clash. "You're dealing with people who have been in this organization a long time and remember the day I was born and might still view...