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...Citizen Schools participants have higher in attendance rates, lower rates of suspension, and higher promotion rates compared with a matched group of peers at Boston public schools, according to the program’s Web site.The study also showed that 72 percent of eighth graders who completed the program chose to attend top-tier high schools, versus 32 percent of eighth graders who did not.Akiyah B. Francis-John, a high school junior and 8GA alum, says she believes in the impact of Citizen Schools. Francis-John has returned to the program as a mentor and serves as a deputy team...
...Istanbul is where Pope Benedict XVI chose to make his first visit to the head of a church. He was driven, observers say, by a desire to further the healing process begun in 1964 between the churches of East and West, and, more controversially, to highlight concerns over Christian minorities in the Muslim world...
...less applicable to the running of a worldwide religion. Critics say that by trying to placate all constituencies, Williams has actually deepened the fault lines in the feud that erupted after the American branch of the faith - the Episcopalians - approved the ordination of gay bishops and chose a woman as its primate. There have in fact been moments when the tall and bearded Williams has been dwarfed by others in his own church, including Nigerian Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola, who has led the revolt of evangelical Anglicans - many from the third world - against the ordination of gays and women. Some...
...million, cast Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz in the main roles, and made the damn movie. The whole trip, with all its frustrating detours, took six years. Then the Cannes Film Festival rejected The Fountain for its Competition selection. (You'd have to have seen the films the Festival chose to understand what an insult that was to Aronofsky.) The picture finally received its world premiere in September at the Venice Film Festival...
...form the team’s score for the division. Team Captain Debbie B. Chang ’08 led Harvard to second place in the Team Match American Style Multi-Dance Competition and third in the international multi-dance. According to the USA DanceSport Web site, contestants chose from a list of nine dance styles in the American multi-dance competition, which is divided into five rhythm dances and four smooth dances. Teams had to choose from both the rhythm category, with dances like the mambo, and the smooth division, which included the waltz and the tango. Contestants chose...