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...time with her tight-knit family was heavily restricted. When visiting relatives, she had to stay at the local Opus Dei center instead of at home. In 2000 Lucy was told she could not attend her sister's wedding because the ceremony would not be Catholic. "My sister didn't talk to me for two years," Lucy says. It took five more years, however, before she decided to leave Opus Dei last April. (The group's U.S. vicar has said such dissatisfaction and complaints, while unfortunate, are unavoidable in large organizations. "You can't keep [directors] from making mistakes...
Johannessen echoes the sentiment. “Leverett was very special,” she says. “We were a small unit, 26 employees. It was a close-knit group. We ate meals together...
...view the specimens in their natural coating.In general, the women and men of Amherst seem to dress somewhat alike. They revel in jeans, t-shirts with political messages, and sweatshirts with the names of other colleges besides Amherst on them.The men sometimes change up this uniform by wearing knit hats with earflaps, in order to guard them from the cold. People sported all varieties of clogs, sandals and fleece vests.I took out my bag of chocolate-covered espresso beans and popped them into my mouth, while playing “I Spy a Patagonia Jacket.”The show...
...between the situations, there is hope that Harvard will continue to avoid such troubling issues. Harvard’s athletics atmosphere, while very competitive on the field, is less intense and isolated than that of other colleges. While athletes at other institutions live in special housing or in tight-knit groups off campus, Harvard athletes are spread throughout the college, whether they block together or not. The rape in question at Duke occurred at an off-campus party in a house rented by some lacrosse players, but high rents and police presence in Cambridge help make such situations, which...
...seems like there’s an invisible barrier between the freshmen and the upperclassmen at Harvard.” UC President John S. Haddock ’07 said he believes that universal key-card access in the Yard could make the campus safer and more tightly-knit. “I think that there’s been very, very solid justification made both in terms of safety and in community,” Haddock said. “I think safety is going to be significantly improved in the Yard with universal key card access...