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...year we had all of these bills for [April’s Busta Rhymes concert], Springfest and grants and the lag time just killed us,” Mahan said...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Bounces Checks To Students | 8/20/2004 | See Source »

...request a check, we usually ask for $20,000, and then there is a two-week lag period where it is being processed by University Hall,” Mahan said. “We basically wrote checks on money we didn’t have...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Bounces Checks To Students | 8/20/2004 | See Source »

...MAINLINE PROTESTANTISM SHRINKING? Three explanations, proposed over decades, may each have some validity: Mainline churches did not require enough commitment, theologically or evangelistically, from congregants, whose enthusiasm waned accordingly; denominations that started out aggressively courting members turned to other tasks, such as social activism; and mainline birthrates lag behind the national average. Most mainline leaders claim their plight may hold hidden opportunities. The Rev. Dr. Bob Edgar, a methodist minister and general secretary of the National Council of Churches USA (whose membership historically has had a strong Protestant presence), notes, "the [Hebrew] prophets never had a majority, and yet they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roll Over, Martin Luther | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...saying, “You like to get slapped and fucked at the same time, don’t you?”—and then going to dinner with my boyfriend’s family at a lovely Italian restaurant was like having emotional jet-lag. My life was now divided in two, one half normal and bourgeois, the other entirely invested in the drama unfolding in court: Ariane on one end, Saul on the other, along with the smooth-talking defense lawyer and the solemn district attorney...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, | Title: I Fought (for) the Law | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...Beyond segregation, blacks continue to lag behind educationally. More than 70% of white students graduate from high school on time; just over half of black and Hispanic students do. Blacks make up 8.5% of all students in U.S. graduate programs, well short of their percentage of the young adult population. That can lead to economic disparity: the black unemployment rate is almost double the rate of whites. In 2002, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that the poverty rate for whites was 7.8% whereas for African Americans it reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What "Brown" Means Today | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

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