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...people. "In Falls Church, of all places, a landslide!" Kilgore said delightedly before heading inside. He is Baptist, but joined fellow parishioners in kneeling for prayers. The service ran long and so he sneaked out the side after receiving Communion and headed to McLean Bible Church, a non-denominational mega-church where he was greeted with applause at the Welcome Center...
...When you get down to it, the majority of us are coming from comfortable backgrounds and taking comfortable routes through our four years here on the way to even more comfortable post-college lifestyles.When I say comfortable backgrounds, I don’t mean we all grew up in mega-mansions with pimped-out Mercedes in our driveways. I simply mean that the overwhelming majority of us didn’t really have to grow up worrying about the basics—food, water, shelter, etc. If we did, we probably wouldn’t have made it to Harvard...
...newest effort to shine history's harsh light on the Great Helmsman is Mao: The Unknown Story (Knopf; 814 pages) by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. Chang is the author of Wild Swans, the gripping and mega-selling 1991 memoir of how three generations of her family survived modern China's upheavals. (She was a Maoist Red Guard in the Cultural Revolution's early stages.) Halliday, Chang's husband, is an author and Russia historian...
...indeed, were of Indian origin. In addition to the lecture series, McCormick said he has other plans to bolster medieval studies over the next few years. “This lecture is only a part of the unfolding three-year program sponsored by the Mellon Foundation’s mega award,” McCormick said. “The other things the grant will fund include launching a program to study isotopes and DNA of my Roman and medieval skeletons....I’m also trying to convince the University to help me create an undergraduate internship in medieval...
...clout. His stated goal is for Italian banks to be at the service of Italian businesses. In practice, this has meant keeping foreign firms out. It's a shortsighted view and dangerous: some blame the insulated Italian banking industry for the $9.6 billion Parmalat scandal of 2003, as the mega-leveraged dairy giant was able to create new debt wherever it turned...