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...preceded Yale's escape from defeat in Providence. The Bulldogs scraped out a 27-24 win against Brown, staying undefeated and maintaining a one-game lead on Harvard and Princeton. Princeton, meanwhile, overcame visiting Penn in an overtime thriller 31-30, a game the Quakers lost after failing to convert a do-or-die two-point conversion. Harvard can still ensure itself a share of the conference crown with a win in The Game on Nov. 18. Until then, it will have to beat Penn when it travels to Philadelphia...
...exodus has increased, churches are trying to reverse the flow by focusing less on amusement and more on Scripture. When Chris Reed failed to convert a single youngster during one 12-month period soon after taking over as youth minister at Calvary in 1995, he decided to restructure his young people's program by adding both larger doses of doctrine and closer adult mentoring. Now, religious instruction, based on a model developed by youth pastors at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church, centers on five Christian principles--evangelism, fellowship, discipleship, ministry and worship...
...still possible to knock back a stiff gin-and-tonic for a buck? Though Drake concedes that Face is "certainly a high-risk project," the initial response from the glitterati has been positive, and plans are afoot to add a Middle Eastern restaurant, as well as to convert the building's upper floors into a spa and boutique hotel. The new venues are also eyeing the tantalizing possibility of recouping their substantial investment from just a handful of well-heeled customers, given that Nike, Reebok and other sporting-goods manufacturers are rumored to be scouting Beijing for corporate-hospitality venues...
...Hinkle says the session was a modest success. “As always there’s great new ideas and ideas that we’ve already thought about and worked on,” he says. But he says it will be challenging for the Brattle to convert the abstract suggestions into a concrete plan of action. He mentions a discussion of “how to present a program that seems of value to donors.” When asked what that means, specifically, he laughs. “What does that mean? I don?...
...latest version of the Nokia PC Suite comes in very handy. For starters, it synchs with Outlook painlessly, copying your calendar and contacts right over. It let me browse all of the music on my PC and copy over any MP3 I wanted. It offered to convert the MP3s to a more streamlined format, but when I said OK, it failed. Whatever the case, I was able to choose any MP3 as my incoming call ringtone...