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...community with Judaism-oriented classes, activities, and, more recently, HUDS dinners a cut above standard fare since 1944. Its extra perks include the $8 million Hillel building’s prime Mt. Auburn Street location and flashy modern design. According to head Rabbi Avi Poupko, Hillel’s mission centers around the ideal of an open university community.Chabad, on the other hand, is relatively new to Harvard, arriving here in 1997. Its somewhat less glass-tacular base of operation—also the home of Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi and his wife, Elkie—is past Mather House...
...Church. But student leaders on both sides say their organizations aren’t really that different. Both HRCF and the CSA host regular Bible study groups, for instance, and they both offer weekly religious services. They even seem to use the same words when describing their collective mission: think “growing faith” and “love of God”—challenging one’s spirituality in the name of Christianity. By all counts, CSA and HRCF are of the same mind, but for some reason, these two bastions of Christianity...
...London's Swiss Re building. Hearst Tower, his debut large U.S. project, is the first office building in New York City to garner a gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design scheme, the recognized U.S. standard for building sustainability. "My mission is to create a structure that is sensitive to the culture and climate of its place," says Foster. The structure will practice what the architect preaches: enter the building and you'll be greeted by Ice Falls, a three-story waterfall that uses, yes, collected rainwater to cool and humidify...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) awarded a $2,000 grant to the Mission Hill After School Program last night in a controversial meeting that lasted almost four hours and prompted charges that the move would set a precedent of fiscal irresponsibility. The UC overruled a recommendation from the council’s Finance Committee (FiCom), which had voted not to award Mission Hill any of the $2,500 that the group had requested for vans. Mission Hill sends volunteers to housing developments in Roxbury four afternoons a week to tutor and mentor children ages five to 13. More than 80 Mission Hill...
...Proportion who say the main mission in Iraq is to retaliate for Saddam's role in 9/11...