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...have access to mass transit actually use it regularly. "There's a stigma to not owning a car," says Kim, the Seattle architect. "People say, 'Hey, you're wearing a nice jacket--can't you afford a car?'" Now car-sharing firms are out to prove that their communal approach offers its own attractions: freedom--and even convenience. As a Zipcar ad put it, "350 hours/year having sex. 420 looking for parking. What's wrong with this picture?" In Boston, New York and Washington, almost all of Zipcar's 32,000 customers are within a seven-minute walk...
That was easier in New Quincy, where bathrooms were inside suites, but in the Quad, men and women used communal bathrooms and walked the halls in bathrobes and slippers. Some of the Quad girls, excited by the proximity of so many eligible bachelors, chased after their male neighbors. In order to escape from the buzz of girls in their rooms, some men sought refuge in the rooms of more quiet and studious Cliffies.first at some uncivilized hour and rate them based on how obnoxious they were: whether their underwear showed, would they ever be able to enter the civilized world...
Such evangelical Catholicism, as Newman calls it, also lends itself to Southern-fried flavors like more exuberant hymn singing, intense Bible study, spirited preaching and what Evangelicals call witnessing--personal and public professions of faith usually foreign to the more philosophical, communal and inward Catholic style. Some church observers say this trend, while ecumenical, could undermine the "intellectual heritage" of the faith, says the Rev. Kevin Wildes, president of Loyola University New Orleans, which in 2002 opened the Center for the Study of Catholics in the South. "The question is whether Catholicism in the South simply becomes another form...
...president of the BSA, dubbed the event a success, saying, “The audience was very engaged.” He praised the high turnout but added that the small setting, at the Barker Center’s Thompson Room, remained “communal and intimate . . . exactly what we wanted...
Khan was born in 1936, in Bhopal, India, 11 years before the founding of Pakistan. His youth was shaped by the communal violence that plagued India after the end of colonization. He has told his biographer of witnessing the massacre of Muslims by Hindus that followed the partition of the old British colony in 1947. By the time he immigrated to Pakistan in 1952, Khan had developed an interest in science and a loathing for India...