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Suzzy's two hours of joy a week come on Sunday at the Global Evangelical Church, a large building filled with simple wooden benches a 10-minute bus ride from her home. Gershon goes to a more traditional Presbyterian church--a certificate of honor on the wall of the family's tiny living room commends him for being "a reliable choirmaster"--but Suzzy and the kids prefer the excitement and entertainment of evangelical preachers. Christianity, especially Evangelicalism, is growing faster in Africa than anywhere else on the planet. Promising riches not just in death but here on earth, the churches...
...moves forward with its digitization process, it must not neglect its print holdings. Traditional books and periodicals offer distinct advantages, including durability and permanency, that do not rely on the whims of a server. Printed books, moreover, are a more pleasurable reading experience for many readers, and the joy of stumbling upon a useful but theretofore unknown book while searching for its neighbor in the stacks cannot easily be replicated online. HUL has also become much more student-friendly in the past several years; we hope this trend will continue. Lamont’s 24/5 operating schedule has been tremendously...
...child. Favorite childhood toy: Hot Wheels. Sexiest physical trait: The Juggernut. Favorite part about Harvard: Teeming hordes of hot chicks. Describe yourself in three words: Elvis meets Shaft. In 15 minutes you are: Crasturbating. In 15 years you are: Crasturbating, but they won’t be tears of joy...
...American undergraduates. They are going to need to understand how others from other cultures think and behave and they need to be able to adapt to those differences. The marked differences between, say, Harvard and Oxford, usually prove to be a source of extraordinary benefit and considerable joy, but not for everyone, especially if one matriculates at Oxford with false expectations or for the wrong reasons...
...having a transcript, should you need it. Multiply these four opinions by the number of other writers in the book and you can sense the difficulty—or, rather, the charming frustration—of this collaborative “guide” to writing. But the true joy of the collection is the strength of the writing included in it. The famed heroes and rock stars of the book do not fail to present interesting theories of nonfiction and nuggets of advice. Tom Wolfe details four technical devices of a novel that can assist narrative journalists...