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...with one another in much more integral ways than once thought.”Katherine A. Shaner, who earned her MDiv at Harvard in 2002, has learned this from experience.After completing her MDiv at Harvard, Shaner headed to Detroit to gain pastoral experience in the Lutheran Church. While the Iowa native enjoyed feeling a part of an urban community, she found that she didn’t feel as—excuse the pun—spirited as she’d expected. One year later, Shaner moved to Chicago to attend seminary and has learned that she missed preaching...
...credit. The stealth amendment would roll back the calendar. (Sort of like your missing the deadline for your mortgage payment, then backdating your check to avoid a late charge. But much more lucrative.) The backdating clause was in a larger bill introduced in the Senate by Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who heads the Senate Finance Committee. It was inserted in the Tax Relief Act, which provides aid for Hurricane Katrina victims and sets new policies for tax-exempt groups. With so many higher profile issues at stake, the clause on synfuels sailed right through with no discussion. Many lawmakers...
...boil down her selling points—the play’s visceral appeal and its universal applicability—into one concise sentence: “It happens to take place 100 years ago and it happens to take place in Ireland, but it could take place in Iowa and it could take place on the stage of Jerry Springer.”Spillane-Hinks’s knowledge of the play was on full display. Multiple times, she was asked about language that gave actors difficulty. But after answering their questions about things like poteen—which...
...professionalism throughout the process. By the final night of Common Casting, she manages to boil down her play’s selling points into one concise sentence: "It happens to take place 100 years ago and it happens to take place in Ireland, but it could take place in Iowa and it could take place on the stage of Jerry Springer...
...report Li's blasphemies saved her from serious trouble. Once out of the army, she heeded her mother's advice and stayed silent. In college, Li worked singlemindedly with the hope of escaping to America, and she finally left China in 1996 to study immunology at the University of Iowa. There, in the American Midwest, Li regained her voice?and discovered it was in English. Despite her initially limited command of the written language, she eventually dropped her plans to become a scientist and earned writing degrees from Iowa's prestigious graduate program. She soon began publishing astonishingly mature short...