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Harvard men's captain Andrew Rueb advanced to the round of 32 in singles competition in the NCAA Tournament on Wednesday. The unseeded senior defeated Alfred Hanser of Southern Methodist in straight sets, 6-3 6-3. Rueb played Chris Pressley of Duke yesterday morning...
Even as the doctors and rescuers went about their work, the rest of the city searched for ways to help. People waited in line for six hours to donate blood at the Red Cross. At one relief center housed in St. Luke's United Methodist Church, the McDonald's hamburgers, Domino's pizzas and sandwiches from Ruby's were piling up faster than they could be eaten. The international relief group Feed the Children has its headquarters five miles west of downtown. After the organization's boss, Larry Jones, went on local TV to ask for volunteers and donations...
Among Christians, the most remarkable development of the past generation has been the shifting balance of power between the shrinking mainline Protestant denominations (e.g., Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian) and the growing Evangelical congregations (including Fundamentalists, Pentecostals and Charismatics). Besides being in synch with conservative political trends, convert-minded Evangelicals are quick to shed traditions, holding Saturday- night worship, say, or replacing hymnals with song sheets and soft-rock bands. In many cities, they have built huge local congregations, offering every imaginable social service from counseling to fitness centers. John Vaughan, who tracks these Protestant Wal-Marts in Megachurches & America's Cities...
...than five years, the Rev. Norman Handy has been watching the Harlem Park Community School in Baltimore, Maryland. The fortress-like building, set amid the open-air drug markets and boarded-up houses of one of the city's worst neighborhoods, is right across the street from his Unity Methodist Church. The view has not been pretty...
...African-Americans we are aware of the fact that when we take office, the rules change," said Rev. Leroy Attles, a protester and the minister of St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Reeves is a member...