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...choices of the past, such as W.S. Merwin and Robert Pinsky, she is in fact a well-established poet. It took 10 years for her to get her poems published in "good literary magazines," she recalls, but she has since won nearly every prestigious poetry award, including a Guggenheim fellowship and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which carries a $100,000 purse, both in 2004. She has kept herself at a remove from the poetry community and has happily taught remedial English at the College of Marin in Kentfield, Calif., for nearly 30 years...
...Challenge." The program featured an extensive questionnaire, a Bible verse a day and the assumption that participants would engage in some kind of sex each night. Wirth says he has received calls from eight pastors asking about his program's guidelines. A megachurch in Texas, the Fellowship of the Woodlands, holds semiannual Sacred Sex Weekends ("Learn how you can experience a fulfilling sex life with God's blessing...
This all comes as a bit of surprise to the press, which - with ample encouragement from the Church's right - had been framing GAFcon as a decisive step toward schism in the Anglican Communion, the third biggest global religious fellowship. GAFcon seems to be falling apart on several fronts. First came the venue problems: the conference ping-ponged embarrassingly at the last minute from Jerusalem to Jordan and back to Jerusalem...
...grades. The importance of grades, GPAs, and the appearance of one’s transcript should not be dismissed as an unfortunate consequence of putting competitive students together. Grades matter—a lot—when it comes time to apply for law school, medical school, a fellowship, a job, or virtually any post-graduation endeavor. Choosing particular electives to avoid the risk of too many unnecessary Bs and Cs may not be idealistic, but it can hardly be criticized as unwise. The pass/fail grading option, however, could be better used as insurance to allow students to take appealing...
...have happened just a few years ago. After performing the “Parsons Etude” in the 2006 Loeb Mainstage production “American Grace,” Ho decided to further explore the dance repertoires of David Parsons and Taylor. An Artist Development Fellowship, offered for the first time last year by the Office for the Arts (OFA) and Office of Career Services, allowed her to do so through open dance classes and two dance intensives in New York. This spring, Ho continued studying both the theory and the practice of Taylor’s dance...