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Over the course of the Cleveland native’s career, Shalala has stood at the helm of New York’s Hunter College as its president and the University of Wisconsin-Madison as its chancellor...
Officials at the United Church of Christ's national headquarters in Cleveland are aware of the leadership tension at Trinity. However, they say, individual U.C.C. churches are autonomous and the national body can do little to intervene. Barbara Powell, a U.C.C. headquarters spokeswoman, noted that "Trinity didn't follow the normal U.C.C. guidelines for the [pastoral] search" (Wright handpicked Moss, apparently without a formal search committee), but said it was hard to imagine that Moss wouldn't successfully complete the ordination process...
...rift between Wright and Moss was unexpected. In early 2006, Wright announced that Moss would be his successor. It was an interesting choice, considering Moss's pedigree: His parents were civil rights movement activists married by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his father is a prominent Cleveland minister. Educated at Morehouse and Yale, Moss had since 1997 led an Augusta, Ga., congregation, boosting its membership from 125 to some 2,100. In a January 2007 interview with Trumpet, a Trinity-affiliated magazine, Wright recalled introducing Moss to the congregation. "I had prayed to God to send someone...
...abroad. Once in the U.S., Lee explains, many Chinese restaurant workers pass through New York City's Chinatown, where employment agencies field calls from Chinese restaurants around the country and send workers onto buses with scraps of paper bearing three numbers like this: "$2,400, 440 near Cleveland, 10 hours." That's a monthly salary, the telephone area code of the city where the restaurant is located and the length of the journey from New York City...
...adds.Coming to Harvard hasn’t been the only challenge that Yu has faced in her pursuit of music. Having started to learn the piano at age four and the cello at age nine, Yu traveled from Taiwan to the United States at 14 to study at the Cleveland Institute of Music under the tutelage of celebrated cello pedagogue Dr. Richard Aaron.“It meant leaving my family and traveling all the way here to be by myself to pursue music at a much higher level with him,” Yu says...