Word: christiane
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...second weekend of performances, and the two directors had only three days to find and rehearse a new actor for the role.On the directors’ behalf, Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) board liaison Simon J. Williams ’09 sent an emergency e-mail to Christian C. Strong ’09, co-president of Black Community and Student Theater (BlackCAST), asking “if BlackCAST would be able to help out a Loeb show in crisis.”“It is a walk-on role,” Williams wrote...
...arrest during a voter-registration drive--it set in motion the protests and marches that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. An aide and friend to Martin Luther King Jr., Orange was with him the day that King was assassinated. Orange worked for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the AFL-CIO and, most recently, the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee...
...Part of what makes Ankawa a target-rich environment for Cupid's arrows is the relative openness and sophistication of the Christian town, compared to conservative Erbil, the nearby capital of the Kurdish region. Alcohol, mixed company and marriages of choice are all much more socially acceptable among Christians than their Kurdish neighbors, most of whom are Muslims. And Ankawans have strong ties to Lebanon, which has a large Christian population and a reputation as the fashion capital of the Middle East, so they think they know how to throw a wedding in style. ("Our dresses show a little skin...
...Another reason for the town's wedding boom is that matchmaking is a serious business for a minority group trying to preserves its identity in an overwhelmingly Muslim region. Christians have lived in Iraq almost since the beginning of Christianity itself, and though they presumably fell in love and married just like everyone else for centuries, love became something of a cottage industry in Ankawa after the first Gulf war. When the Kurdistan broke away from Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the town became a hub for single Christian men living abroad who could now return in search of a mate...
...Besides distributing aid and building homes, local leaders and priests have tried to help find husbands and wives for young newcomers, among other ways by turning the town Internet home page into a dating forum. Many are concerned the very existence of Christians in Iraq is at risk. "There's no light at the end of the tunnel," said a spokesman for the Assyrian Democratic Party, a Christian group. But not all single young exiles appreciate the local efforts at hospitality. "Ankawa is such a small town," said one young woman from Baghdad sitting at the local amusement park with...