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...member church is open seven days a week, its air-conditioned fellowship hall serving as a sort of neighborhood cooling center. Over the last month, the church hosted a "community ministers" program in which college students supervise youths on work assignments such as planting flowers and collecting trash. The recent Friday Movie Night and Variety Show drew some 200 kids. In the fall, the church sponsors ACT- and SAT-prep courses, and hires college students as role models. "You go one block, and you're smack dab in the middle of the negative pathologies," Hatch says. "Outside of here, academic...
...housed in one of the city's two remaining synagogues, the Ohel Moishe. The main building comprises the original worship area and displays of some fascinating memorabilia. The renovation - undertaken by the Hongkou district government at the cost of $1 million - has seen the addition of two new exhibition halls, however. The first is a permanent display that takes visitors through Jewish history in Shanghai. Photos show Jewish girls holding Chinese dolls and families celebrating Passover. The second hall opened in June with an exhibit dedicated to Ho Fengshan, a diplomat known as the "Chinese Schindler" for helping hundreds...
...Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Hugh Jackman, who made a surprise appearance to promote next year's X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He understands what Keanu Reeves, Benicio del Toro and other actors who ascended the stage of the San Diego Convention Center's cavernous Hall H do not: Comic-Con is itself a performance. Jackman leaped off the stage, ran across the floor to shake the hand of Wolverine's creator and thanked the crowd of 6,500, saying, "Without you guys, I wouldn't have a career." That's the special blend of humility...
...Most Enthusiastic Fans: The Twihards, devout readers of Stephenie Meyer's series of vampire books, Twilight, were the loudest and proudest in Hall H, starting a Twilight chant while they waited, shrieking anytime a cast member, Meyer or director Catherine Hardwicke said anything, and asking lots of questions about vampire hotness. After the panel was over, so many Twihards rushed the movie's booth that fire marshals briefly closed it down. Fanboys, don't look back. The fangirls are gaining on you fast...
...from the Conservatives, who under David Cameron's charismatic leadership are consistently polling at least 15 points ahead of Labour in national opinion surveys and have triumphed in three successive electoral contests this summer. They defeated Labour in the London mayoral elections in May, installing Boris Johnson in City Hall, and followed that victory with two by-election wins, first in Henley, an affluent constituency west of London, and then in Crewe and Nantwich, a traditional Labour stronghold in the north of England...