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...born and Catholic you died, or Methodist, or Jew... Today, a quiet revolution is taking place that is changing not only the religious habits of millions of Americans but the way churches go about recruiting members to keep their doors open. Increasing numbers of baby boomers who left the fold years ago are turning religious again, but many are traveling from church to church or faith to faith, sampling creeds, shopping for a custom-made God...Analysts say mainliners are suffering because they have failed to transmit a compelling Christian message to their own children or to anybody else...
...produce when term bills are mailed out this summer. In 1982, tuition was $6,930, which comes out to $12,720 in inflation-adjusted 2002 dollars. Next year, we will pay $25,954 in tuition alone. During this same period, the inflation-adjusted endowment climbed more than six-fold, from just under $3 billion in 1982 ($1.6 billion before inflation) to $18.3 billion today. Although Harvard is certainly not alone in tuition hikes far outpacing inflation—many top private Universities have similar tuition histories—this fact is less an excuse for Harvard than evidence...
Stepping into a room hung with Sulca’s tapestries, you’ll first notice your eyes being pulled in all sorts of directions: backward, forward, in spirals and in steps. Sulca emphasizes depth and movement, and every tapestry has its unique geometry. In “Folding the Past,” a panel of colorful cloth cuts through the top half of the black background and then starts to fold like an accordion at the bottom. The series “Past and Future in ‘S’” consists...
According to Stephen M. Smith ’02, one of the group’s co-founders, the Progressive Alliance has a three-fold mission that includes “coordination and cooperation, education and training, and action and advocacy...
...Food and Drug Administration eased rules for advertising prescription drugs on television. And between 1996 and 2000 spending on television commercials jumped seven-fold, according to the study, which was published in last week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine...