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...that on Friday evenings at Hillel, "although Conservative and Orthodox Jews pray separately, they join together in a Sabbath meal after the service." While this is true, there are in fact as many as five services geared toward undergraduates which meet at Hillel or around campus on the Sabbath eve...
...tell you about a show I saw on New Year's Eve. The band, playing at the Hynes Convention Center, was called Babaloo; it played Spanish hip-hop and salsa music. Oddly enough, the lead singer was Hispanic, but the lead guitarist was a white women, one of the drummers was black, and the bass player was this grungy blond dude wearing a beat-up Red Sox hat and chewing on a cigarette. And as the lead singer called out the choruses in Spanish, the mostly-white audience jumped, bounced, danced, waved their hands and responded as best they could...
...just as the men who have recently announced their presidential ambitions did so as quietly as possible--on the Internet (Bill Bradley) or late on New Year's Eve (Al Gore)--the official story of Elizabeth Dole's decision to join the fray is one of immaculate conception. One morning before Christmas, the tale goes, she woke up and began thinking seriously about running for President. After eight years as president of the American Red Cross, she had tied the place up into a neat little bundle, securing the blood supply and the fund-raising stream, coping with one disaster...
Then there's the popular series of novels by retired minister Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, a former sportswriter. Set in the immediate future, their four "Left Behind" novels chronicle life on the eve of the Second Coming. Genuine Christians disappear to heaven. Everyone else is abandoned to suffer a terrible earthquake, wars and the whims of the Antichrist, a.k.a. U.N. Secretary-General Nicolae Carpathia of Romania. Collectively the books have sold more than 3 million copies. LaHaye also offers maximalist warnings about Y2K. It "very well could trigger a financial meltdown," he warned recently in an online- chat event...
...know our neighbors." And not by stealing their larders at gunpoint, either. Emerging from the pamphlet's lofty talk of "intui-technology," "core heart values" and the "inner-information highway" is a message of love and spirituality that makes one wish it were New Year's Eve tomorrow...