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...hockey team went into their stretch run in the playoffs in the ECAC and NCAA tournaments, the baseball season started and Byrne had to honor his original baseball commitment...
...College—are challenging the very foundation of higher education in America. PHC’s benign-looking website displays a resolution adopted in September 2002 that begins with the unambiguous statement, “The College is, and shall always remain, a Christian institution dedicated to bringing honor and glory to the Lord Jesus Christ in all of its activities,” and is followed by 10 articles of faith to which all students, employees and officers of the college must swear. The trustees were even kind enough to apply their “Statement of Biblical...
...described the challenge to her country as trying to reconcile tradition with modernity. In Jordan, the issues she champions to bridge this gap include computer skills for schoolchildren, micro loans for women to start their own businesses, ending child abuse and trafficking and pushing for harsher penalties for honor killings. But I know her through her efforts on a larger world stage. Along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, Rania is working to spread the modern gospel of childhood vaccination. As she noted that evening in 2002, more than 30 million children a year get no immunizations...
...from the linoleum floor of her mother's walk-up flat in Milwaukee, she witnessed an event that connected to something deep inside of her. She was watching the live broadcast of the Academy Awards ceremony and saw a young African-American actor receiving the film industry's highest honor. Sharing in that moment and all it implied, she later told me, caused her to say softly to herself, "If he can do that, I wonder what I could...
...wrote the song Walk On to honor this amazing woman who put family second to country, who for her convictions made an unbearable choice--not to see her sons grow and not to be with her husband as he lost his life to a long and painful cancer. Suu Kyi, with an idea too big for any jail and a spirit too strong for any army, changes our view--as only real heroes can--of what we believe to be possible. The jury is still out on whether we deserve the faith...