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...Focused on having a big-city career, Griffiths headed to Manhattan with a degree from Connecticut College in New London in 1974. Allen, a Yale Divinity student, would have settled down with Griffiths in any place but New York City while he answered a spiritual calling to become a Methodist minister. And that presented another glitch: Griffiths, an avowed Unitarian, couldn't imagine forsaking her religion. End of story...
...exactly. This April the two celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary in New York, where Allen, 57, is pastor of a Methodist congregation and Griffiths, now Lynne Allen, 54, a career coach, regularly attends services at her husband's church. Before they reconnected, the two hadn't been in touch for more than 20 years when she tracked him down through the Yale alumni office...
Early in their careers, the Dixie Chicks did, and they were beloved for it. Maguire and Robison started the group in their teens (Maguire was then at Southern Methodist University; Robison never finished an application to the Air Force Academy) with two singers in their 30s before eventually replacing them in 1995 with Maines, a Berklee College of Music dropout who, at the time, was attending her third college in three years. After a lot of dues paying, the band took over the country charts. Maines has an immensely powerful voice, but she's also capable of barometric emotional adjustments...
...baby girl named Chloe was born prematurely, and when routine tests showed that she had been exposed to cocaine, a staff member at Rochester Methodist Hospital in Olmsted County, Minn., contacted local child-protection officials. In the past, Chloe would simply have been moved into the foster-care system, and her mother Oksana, 34, who immigrated to the U.S. from Belarus nine years ago, would have had a tough time getting her out. But Minnesota is taking a new approach toward parents who are deemed to be a threat to their children. Social workers met with Oksana, who has asked...
...people pushed out of Cambridge by Harvard’s expansion. Originally owned by HUD, the Section-8 housing is now owned by three churches and a synagogue: St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church, St. Gabriel’s Roman Catholic Church, the United Methodist Church of Allston, and Kadimah Toras-Moshe. According to State Representative Michael Moran, who says he has many friends who grew up in Charlesview, the apartments are “the perfect model for affordable housing networks.”At a meeting of the Tenant’s Association in March, evaluations...