Word: costas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...churches that are booming -- Willow Creek Community Church near Chicago, for example, or the 429 congregations cloned from Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, California -- do not resemble buttoned-down temples of Wasp propriety. Ministers themselves talk of being "customer oriented" and attend seminars to become "church growth" experts. Jeans are as welcome as suits and ties; theater seats replace pews. Instead of using hymnbooks, congregations sing lively, if saccharine, choruses with words projected on a screen. Worship may include skits, audience participation or applause...
Harvard has a strict film policy, according to News Director Peter Costa. No filming of feature films in the Yard (Love Story, long ago, was a notable exception). Accordingly, With Honors, the latest from Truth or Dare director Alex P. Keshishian '86, was filmed only on the public streets around Harvard. The cops who blocked students from their destinations were Cambridge police, not Harvard police. And according to Traffic Department spokesperson David Bryant, Cambridge received only the fares for a few bagged meters in compensation for movie inconvenience...
Harvard, on the other hand, didn't get any money for this. University officials did negotiate with the film crews, Costa said. They agreed that students would only be denied access to streets for 30 seconds at a time. Film liasons promised to work closely with house masters so students would inconvenienced as little as possible. It didn't quite work out that way--but then, reality is always hazy in Hollywood...
...attention to the Rangoon regime's miserable human-rights record and to call for the release of a colleague. Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, is in her fourth year of house arrest in Rangoon. "She continues to inspire the people of Burma," said Costa Rica's former President Oscar Arias Sanchez, flanked by Tibet's Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa (standing). Mikhail Gorbachev and Mother Teresa, also Peace Prize recipients, sent messages of support...
University spokesperson Peter Costa said Friday there was no reason to suspect foul play...