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...positions. Even though much of the work involved slaughtering pigs, the Muslim Malians worked their long, early morning shifts with vigor and enthusiasm, gradually gaining speed and skill to become valued employees. Much of their earnings were sent home to families in Mali - among the poorest countries on earth - but Montfort's Malians kept enough to be able to fully participate in municipal life. They rented homes in town, played for the local soccer team and coached its youth squads; learned to read and write, and improved their French; participated in town activities and festivals, and hosted and accepted dinner...
...residents. “If there’s going to be one word for Pfoho, it’s got to be chill,” said Pforzheimer House Committee Co-Chair Noah A. Rosenblum ’08. “We’re down-to-earth people, we’re a little ridiculous...I think that’s the image we’ve tried to go for all through this.” True to this whimsical attitude, the PfoHo House Committee rented out an inflatable moonbounce—just for Pfohosers...
...residents. “If there’s going to be one word for Pfoho, it’s got to be chill,” said Pforzheimer House Committee Co-Chair Noah A. Rosenblum ’08. “We’re down-to-earth people, we’re a little ridiculous...I think that’s the image we’ve tried to go for all through this.” True to this whimsical attitude, the PfoHo House Committee rented out an inflatable moonbounce—just for Pfohosers...
...loosely based on its New Testament portion (the Council denies a connection). Its spokespeople claim it is refining itself as it goes and its most recent edition, which came out last month, eliminates much literalist bias--but still devotes 18 lines to the blatantly unscientific notion that the earth is only 6,000 years...
Actually, she is a conservative Protestant. But her students don't know that, and nothing in the class I saw suggested it. Kendrick aces the compulsories--notes John Locke's use of the Beatitudes and Frank Zappa's riffs on "the meek shall inherit the earth," and ponders why various politicians have found it more convenient to attribute the "city on a hill" to Winthrop rather than to Matthew. When a student asks how Jesus could say the meek shall inherit the earth, when Christianity inherited it only after attaining tremendous strength, she suggests, "When he was giving the sermon...