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...funds and technical assistance. And the Louisiana Recovery Authority stresses the need to involve and support religious leaders and their organizations. But the city's faith-based organizations are now sagging. Unless Kramer's church gets $125,000 soon, its beg-and-borrow construction projects will grind to a halt. Scruggs too says that keeping the grass-roots rebuilding efforts going will require affirmative answers to fervent prayers for more money and volunteers. Catholic Charities and Habitat are short-staffed and stretched thin...
Weissbourd also thwarted the Chargers’ attempts to halt the Crimson in its tracks, slamming two more blocks during that run. With Nelson serving, Harvard managed to pull far ahead, building a lead of six points after being down by five. Hammering out a total of 10 kills on 11 swings overall—with just a single error—Nelson was “on fire,” Fitz said...
After all, if once you try and your long-winded diatribe spins out of control and crashes embarrassingly to a halt, then try, try again. It’s the Harvard thing...
...idea I was coming, and who could hardly be expected to see me at such short notice - with the weekend looming - but that was all the time I had, and did he have any suggestions? Danielo shrugged, made a slow U-turn and juddered to a halt at the side of a large pink building. "Presidential Palace," he yawned, hopping out, loping up to the low fence and hailing a man strolling on the other side. That turned out to be the head of the Sao Tome and Principe army. He smiled broadly when I explained my situation, gently chided...
...does Habiba deal with National Front policies demanding a halt to the same immigration that brought her parents here. "Until we have the means to offer every citizen a good life, we can't continue allowing foreigners in, where they, too, will live sub-standard lives," she explains. "Is it more humane to let them keep coming to live disadvantaged lives in segregated ghettoes, where they'll feel the hostility against immigrants every day? Or is it is better to tell them they're better off at home?" The answer may depend on which side of the immigration divide...