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...Christ. “These worlds [of academia and ministry] interact with one another in much more integral ways than once thought.”Katherine A. Shaner, who earned her MDiv at Harvard in 2002, has learned this from experience.After completing her MDiv at Harvard, Shaner headed to Detroit to gain pastoral experience in the Lutheran Church. While the Iowa native enjoyed feeling a part of an urban community, she found that she didn’t feel as—excuse the pun—spirited as she’d expected. One year later, Shaner moved...
...there are those awards that carry an almost onerous importance. Their weight engraves a permanent appositive for their winner, no matter what happens to him thereafter.In the Ivy League, Lance Salsgiver—“Number one high school baseball player in the state of Michigan” (Detroit Free Press), “first-team high school All-American” (Baseball America)—might be the only one good enough to be familiar with all three types.These days, Salsgiver is a Harvard senior with roughly three months of college left.The appositives, needless to say, still...
...credits it mines because of tax-law limitations. As of Dec. 31, 2004, it was sitting on $745 million in deferred credits that it can write off against future earnings for years to come. And Progress Energy is not alone. Plants run by DTE Energy Co. of Detroit generated $1.2 billion in tax credits during the same years...
...Eliot House dining hall. They met because Reeves was assigned to eat in Eliot House while construction on his own house, Mather, was being completed.Reeves spent a year on a fellowship in Africa and attended the University of Michigan Law School and eventually returned to Cambridge with Johnson.Reeves, a Detroit native, says that going to law school made him miss his college city. “There’s no comparison between Ann Arbor and Cambridge,” he says.After working as a lawyer for several years, Reeves mounted his first City Council campaign in 1985. He lost?...
...ceremony kicked off 17 days of competition, running Feb. 10 through 26, in 15 sports. About 2,500 athletes from a record 80 countries will compete in Torino, which is the headquarters for Fiat and is sometimes called the Detroit of Italy. From the air, the city looks almost competely brown, although the surrounding Alps make for picturesque snapshots and television coverage. Torino, best known for the mysterious linen shroud that remains locked away in a cathedral here, has turned into one big street festival and in the afternoon, police motorcades with sirens blazing accompanied the arriving torch runners. After...