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...dozen people have gathered inside the Industrial Evangelistic Fellowship's modest community center in Macau, where the Rev. Jimmy Tan strums his guitar and belts out Christian songs with the small group before him. Latecomers trickle in well past the meeting's 9:30 p.m. start time, but no one seems to mind - many of them work multiple jobs and are used to odd hours. Seated in a semicircle of plastic chairs, the engineers, police officers, health-care workers and casino dealers have something in common: they are all addicted to gambling. The group meets once a week to hear...
...January that he was concerned about the President - and worried about the progress of the war in Iraq, where his grandson was fighting as an Army Ranger. The President called the preacher after Ruth's death, and last week finally managed to meet with him. "They shared fellowship and prayer and encouragement," said one well-placed source...
...situation in America is still dire. Last May, I told a roomful of fellowship-recipients that I was most excited about a summer in England because of their excellent beer. Everyone laughed—but I wasn’t joking. Here in the U.S., yellow piss like Coors is either chugged or doled out as punishment in games designed to minimize exposure to the taste buds. American microbreweries make the world’s best beers, and yet most of us never venture far beyond Natty...
...grumblings from outside, but this all didn’t register until too late.”PERSONAL EXPOSITIONAlthough she must await reviews of her latest endeavor, Evans is no stranger to success.She has been honored with a Fulbright Award in Visual and Performing Arts, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Rella Lossy Playwriting Award, and the Weston Award in Dramatic Writing.Currently, Evans teaches introductory courses in playwriting and screenwriting at Harvard, and will teach advanced courses in each this spring.Although she did not begin writing plays until after receiving her bachelor’s degree in English, Evans felt pulled...
...enough of it on campus. I feel deeply that the world has to start engaging the public in research—my own agenda is to bring in the visual, which is a common language that goes beyond background and education. Frankel sports a long list of grants and fellowships from groups such as the National Science Foundation and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Upon seeing her work, this variety is understandable: She captures science in such an aesthetically moving way that it is difficult, if even possible, to distinguish her scientific photographs from works of art. I feel that...