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Locals describe Asheville as "half Christian, half New Age," a town where Baptists preach about Jesus' saving grace while mystics talk about the vortex entrance panels tucked in the mountains. There are a great many churches and Presbyterian summer camps here in Billy Graham's backyard, but there is also a lively population of retirees and artists and entrepreneurs opening craft shops and microbreweries. It thinks of itself as a tolerant town--to the point that the only facility in all of western North Carolina that publicly offers abortions is the city's Femcare clinic. It has a fence around...
...steer you through the most difficult situations and catch a movie when you want to relax on the weekends. “Those don’t go together very often,” Hall says. “She moves into all these realms with this grace, humor, and wisdom,” she continues. “You’re dealing with a real person...
...efforts to instill more theology into their lives. Tired of being treated like children, the students declared him unfit for presidency in August of 1780. Langdon, unable to hold imperial rule over the school, took the hint and stepped down. Langdon’s fall from grace marked a change in the power dynamics between Harvard and its president...
...approach to screenwriting with current Harvard students last Saturday during the six-hour workshop event “Harvardwood Presents...An Introduction to Screenplay Structure.” Screenplays and psychology converged under his auspices, as participants shared personal and deeply emotional tales of “falls from grace,” ranging from vomiting on a potential date to dashed National Spelling Bee dreams. Harvardwood, the eponymous organizer of the event, is a volunteer-run nonprofit organization founded in 1999 by Mia E. Riverton ’99, Stacy Cohen ’89 and Adam J. Fratto...
...mean Liu Shaoqi?'' I asked. ''I assure you I have never met him.'' ''Liu was one of them.'' It occurred to me that when a Communist leader fell from grace, all who had ever worked with him were disgraced. So there must exist in the No. 1 Detention House a number of men and women whose fate was linked to Liu's and who would be sympathetic to him. If my defending Liu would earn me better treatment, it was worth doing. Assuming an air of innocent stupidity, I said, ''Honestly, I still don't understand what Chairman Liu Shaoqi...