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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the Harvard Law School (HLS) announced last week that the Hemenway Gymnasium will undergo an extensive renovation this summer...
...they jokingly called it, was an apt symbol of the scarcity--and supple ingenuity--of Catholics in a region known as the buckle of the Protestant Bible Belt. Soon St. Mark was gaining a family a day. Now its almost 2,800 families hear Mass in a cavernous gymnasium as they await completion of a new church. Among the newcomers is Ben Liuzzo, 54, a financial-services manager who a few years ago moved his family from New York to North Carolina. He had thought Catholics in the area might be as outnumbered as Jews or Muslims--and that...
...adolescent need for identity sometimes expresses itself in persecution of those who stand out. Consider the case of Kathi Hürter, 14, a top student at Bonn's Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium. About two years ago, Hürter says, many of her schoolmates started looking askance at her short hairstyle and nondescript outfits. But last winter, the situation escalated. Two girls in her class began to ridicule and bad-mouth her, saying she looked like a boy and calling her a nerd. They tripped her up, took her pens, and eventually resorted to hiding and damaging her backpack...
...KYOTO: Butokuden Budo Centre and Butokuden Gymnasium When not echoing with the grunts and shouts of judo and kendo competitors, this grand 100-year-old wooden pavilion hosts classes in shodokan aikido. They are taught by the formidable Nariyama Shihan; tel: (81-6) 6622 2046. Enrolment fee is $55, plus monthly dues...
...HIROSHIMA: Hiroshima International Dojo Join housewives and school kids as they perfect their joint locks and breakfalls at evening classes held in a spacious high school gymnasium, tel: (81-82) 211 1271. Three foreign instructors, including International Aikido Federation chairman, Peter Goldsbury, provide individual attention. Membership is about $16 a month, but classes are free to prospective students...