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USAgain often lets money do the talking. The four-year-old company, which plans to enter Philadelphia this fall, partners with dozens of schools and churches, that are paid $20 to $40 per ton of clothing collected, which USAgain sells for a few hundred bucks. "We don't have to sell wrapping paper anymore," says Jane Ruidl, principal of Seattle's Perkins School, which raked in five tons of clothes last summer alone. "We just have the box out there...
...guarded by "two sturdy porters named Riches and Poverty," and only those who met the approval of the former could get in. Most of the students are content to dally with the figures called Idleness and Ignorance. "They learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely, and enter a room genteelly (which might as well be acquired at a dancing school), and from thence they return, after abundance of trouble and charge, as great blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited...
...pair hope to follow in the footsteps of current Miss America Erika Harold, who will enter Harvard Law School in the fall...
...Others, from a distance, flood whole populations with Christian TV and radio, tracts by the tens of thousands and offers of correspondence courses, hoping that a few seeds will take root. In the dozens of Muslim countries that deny "religious worker" visas, ever more Evangelicals take secular jobs to enter less obtrusively. Many show exquisite sensitivity, sharing their Lord only with people whose intimate friendships they have earned...
...months the globetrotting evangelist had kept a low profile, waiting for his latest chosen mission field, Iraq, to open up. He had lived quietly in a nearby capital, referring to Iraq by a code name. But after Baghdad's liberation, Robert was ready to roll. He planned to enter Iraq with a secular humanitarian team--a kind of traveling tentmaker--but assumed that his workers could come in later on their own, printing up Arabic-language tracts in anticipation. Not all missionaries supported the Iraq war, but Robert identified personally with George W. Bush. "Something you must understand," Robert...