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...weeks before the 2001 Boston Marathon, my friend’s mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and my heart broke in that same way. Instead of punching walls, I found myself on the phone with people from the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge (DFMC), a group of about 400 people who run Boston every year and collect pledges for a research program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The combination of blind anger, frustration and college can-do-it-ism convinced me that I could finally do something about this disease that kept invading people’s lives...
First-years, for example, first broke the seven-year boycott on the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities in 1977, which was established as a student-faculty disciplinary body after the 1969 takeover of University Hall...
Eventually, a police sting broke up the operation and Alson says he was arrested and spent 36 hours in jail...
...that manages its flock and money from the top down. But the church's fiefs operate as independently as fast-food franchises--and with less legal liability. Each diocese and the parishes within it are separately responsible for their financial affairs. Any one of these institutions could conceivably go broke in the face of big court judgments but almost certainly would not drag down the others...
Parents and students from the Haggerty waved signs reading “Hands Off Our School” and “If It Ain’t Broke, Don?...