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...Another way to make sure every citizen counts? Count them. Literally. Yet some countries don't collect ethnic data in their census and those that do are often behind the curve. Britain introduced a mixed-race category to its census in 2001, only to discover that it was already the country's fastest-growing ethnic minority group. It's illegal to collect data on ethnicity or religion in France, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and Spain, mainly on the grounds that identifying people by their race or faith is, in itself, a form of discrimination. But a move to make all people...
...example, Skehan and Guinan had immediate access to offertory cash--and according to the police report had staff hide purloined stacks of bills in parish-office ceilings. Ryan and other experts emphasize that church ushers should put that money into tamperproof bags with numbered seals; that rotating teams should count it; and that separation-of-duties standards, such as ensuring that bookkeepers logging the funds aren't the ones counting and depositing it, should be adhered to. Professor West says that parish-finance councils--which are required by canon law but are too often as ornamental as stained glass--"have...
...pregnancy-center clinic, with its new ultrasound machine, has been open only since December, but already the staff can count the women who came in considering an abortion and changed their minds: five women converted, six lives saved, they declare, since one was carrying twins. "They connected," nurse Joyce Wilson says, recalling the reaction of the women who saw the filmy image of their fetus onscreen. "They bonded. You could just see it. One girl got off the table and said, 'That's my baby...
...report forms the foundation for a two-tiered system of general education, one which marries the limited system of special “general education” courses laid out by the Task Force with a second tier made up of a broad variety of departmental classes that will count for general education credit. Such a system would provide top-notch and applicable courses that would serve as a portal to disciplines a student is unfamiliar with but would also allow students who want to explore an area in depth to do so without excessive handholding or demeaning and overly...
...disappointing,” West said. Without Suchde, those matches—the kind that oftentimes end up going the way of the Crimson—fell in Princeton’s favor. “Sidd is usually a guaranteed win for us, and we can count on him every time,” West said. “Without him, it really put the pressure on all the other guys.” The loss all but concludes the final Ivy season for the team’s seniors, serving as the second straight bitter...