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...Jesuit ideal can also be found in more recent graduates like Will Ahee and Tom Howe. Both grew up in tony communities - Grosse Pointe and Birmingham - that may be geographically close to Detroit but are worlds away culturally. Through U of D, they volunteered with Earthworks, an urban garden project that is reclaiming for sustainable agriculture some of the thousands of acres of abandoned lots in Detroit. When they graduated a few years ago, Ahee and Howe could have had their pick of universities. They chose to stay in Detroit and attend Wayne State University, where they study comprehensive food...
...Treasury Department ask Congress for $700 billion in bank-bailout funds? Because $500 billion felt too small and $1 trillion politically impossible; one staffer, charged with justifying the figure, laughed "at the absurdity of it all." Sorkin's meeting-by-meeting account reveals just how close we came to any number of alternate realities: Morgan Stanley going bankrupt, AIG refusing government money, Goldman Sachs buying Wachovia. The detail is comprehensive and chilling, but the big picture is incomplete. The story of how the financial system arrived at such a brink and of the social and political fallout will have...
...French branch of the Church of Scientology was fined close to $900,000 after being convicted of fraud for manipulating members to undergo expensive "purification courses" and thus swindling many out of thousands of dollars. Although Scientology was not banned as part of the verdict, the ruling marks the first time the controversial group has been found guilty of organized fraud in France...
...American) exploitation in the Americas. Chavez, in his personal world, has the right to put the American president on the spot like this. He also was justified, presumably, in writing, “For Obama, with warm regards,” inside the book, because though the two are close enough that Chavez might give him the book uninvited, Obama has not earned the right to address Chavez on a first name basis. Or so Chavez might rationalize—it is dangerous to look too closely into the mind of someone so erratic...
...stir up powerful reactions in even the most seasoned therapists. A Colorado sergeant who served as a dog handler in Iraq and was diagnosed with PTSD says his psychiatric counselor broke down sobbing after the sergeant described how he had been sent out to find the remains of his close friend, a helicopter pilot, who was shot down in southern Iraq. "I looked up, and there she was crying," the sergeant says. "I didn't want that from a shrink...