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Last week in Brownsville, Texas, Mennonite Lay Worker Stacey Lynn Merkt, 29, became the first member of the sanctuary movement to be prosecuted by the Federal Government for aiding illegal immigrants. Others await trial, and despite fears that the Merkt case signals a wave of prosecutions, sanctuary leaders plan to continue their work. Says the Rev. Gregory Dell, whose Wheadon United Methodist Church in Evanston, Ill, is sheltering two Salvadorans: "The basic style of churches is not to break any more laws than necessary. But we're not going to abandon refugees who are the subject of injustice, regardless...
Most of us gravitated to the challening courses and majors. We were part of a fabulous era of lecturers (I treasure my memories of lectures by Bate, Demos, Handlin, Hugo, Lynn, Perry Miller, Mark deWolfe Howe and Kenneth Murdock) but mostly of weary section men. I found the curriculum in the humanities and social sciences well designed but many of my science and math oriented friends seemed to have endless struggles with pre-requisites and conflicts. We were thrilled to be at Harvard, but underneath our pride I think we were disappointed at the lack of contact with the faculty...
Prospects pop up all over town. At Mr. Ed's drive-in, where Yasenak fills up his coffee jug late in the morning and then sits down for a warm, sweet butterhorn pastry, one of the waitresses, Julie Lynn Ratliff, makes an appointment to talk later...
Captain Landya Boyer came away with similar impressions. "It was definitely a learning experience. I'm certainly glad we saw a pitcher such as [Lynn] Stockley. She was really throwing bullets...
...murder for complying with a family's request to remove feeding tubes from a hopelessly brain-damaged patient. The charge was dismissed upon appeal last fall. But, together with similar cases around the country, it has "sent a chill into the medical community," according to Washington Gerontologist Joanne Lynn, principal author of a 1983 Presidential Commission report on medical ethics...