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...secret ballot over Chimaobi O. Amutah ’07, who was director of the 2005 Mission Hill Summer Program. The hour of deliberation was filled with several parliamentary components, including roll call, candidate statements, individual questioning, group questioning, and the actual balloting. Rodriguez, who was born in the Dominican Republic, said she moved to South Boston seven years ago, where she has done much of her PBHA community service work. Her candidate statement listed her as director of the South Boston Outreach Big Sibling and Summer Programs and as a former mentor and caucus leader of the Strong Women...
...living wage depends on each geographic area.“Different cities and different universities have come up with different numbers,” he says. “A living wage in Boston is going to be much higher than a living wage in New Hampshire or the Dominican Republic, where costs of living are lower.”But Freeman—who authored a 2001 article in Harvard Magazine entitled “Why Not a Living Wage at Harvard?”—also notes that unions such as the SEIU are still...
...captain wasted no time getting settled, knocking three hits in his nine at-bats before the season concluded in August. In the process, he made new baseball contacts and even used his Harvard-honed Spanish to “goof around” with the team’s Dominican and Venezuelan players...
...part of Pope John Paul II's determined campaign to enforce orthodoxy, the Vatican has taken action against a number of nonconformist theologians. First it ruled that Hans Kng of West Germany could no longer call himself a Catholic theologian; next Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx of the Netherlands was summoned to Rome for an inquiry into his theological writings; and Brazilian Franciscan Leonardo Boff is undergoing enforced silence for advocating Marxist-tinged liberation theology...
There are the inner-city kids of Rize, who raise local spirits by dressing up in clown costumes and performing an impossibly energetic, strenuously graceful "ghetto ballet." Or the Dominican preteens in New York City who take up ballroom dancing in Mad Hot Ballroom, or the music students in Rock School. And though the quadriplegics who play a brutal form of wheelchair rugby in Murderball are gruff, grown men, they too are capable of uplift. "I'm alive," says one. "I use everything I have, to get through life. That's what we're all here to do. Use everything...