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...world, he knows, cannot and will not turn around a troubled child's heart. But God can, and his workers are eager. Bush does not fear faith as an opposing power center to the state. He likes it as an opposing power center to the state. After all, faith freed Poland; perhaps it can free a tough 16-year-old in inner-city Detroit...
...example, when Elizabeth S. Mahler '01 was recently caught in a Holmes elevator, a Harvard University Police Department officer freed her in 10 minutes...
Mahler said shortly after pressing the button for her floor, the elevator went down "half a floor, stopped and jarred." She pressed the emergency telephone button, which she believed would connect her to Harvard's maintenance personnel, but the line was not working. Finally, the police officer freed her by using the elevator's exterior call button to return the elevator to the fourth floor...
Will the coyotes survive, the farm be freed from its toxic crop, the insects be allowed to regulate their own population balances? Did God make little green organic apples? Kingsolver doesn't bother much with suspense in unfolding these matters; right thinking may seldom triumph in the real world, but it's her novel and she'll run it the way she sees fit. Her heroines are genuinely interesting, however, even when they're patiently teaching lessons to the benighted, and the author sometimes pokes a little gentle fun at their high-mindedness. When Deanna laboriously captures a moth...
Hogg Robinson's decision is part of a surprising trend at a time when start-up companies still dream of going public. Even so, a growing number of European firms--mostly from old-economy sectors--are delisting from stock exchanges. Freed from having to please investors every quarter, many smaller companies find it easier to grow--or reinvent themselves--when they are financed by private-equity funds and banks instead. The buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Robert recently created a $3 billion European fund and started scouting the Old World for new privatization deals. "There are lots of opportunities here," explains...