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...covering a battle in Cambodia. Before she and her five colleagues were released from their 23-day ordeal, a media report suggested that her body may have been found. The resulting attention --including a family memorial service and an obit in the New York Times--was awkward for the modest Webb, who recently referred to the trauma as causing "a bit of a stir at home." She was 64 and had cancer...
...remain open. The Lowell gaming room required players to bring their own gaming systems, and according to Lowell House Administrator Beth Terry, the space was simply too small to hold large groups of students. For all the gaming power the Leverett center houses, the space itself is rather modest. The small room contains only three chairs, and the paint brushes and other art supplies lining the shelves are relics of the room’s previous use as the Leverett Arts Space. Current plans call for the room to be used as the Gamespace’s interim host...
...some parents feel Redwood has gone too far. Donnell Scott, T.K.'s mom, sits with three other mothers at the kitchen table of her modest ranch-style house five blocks from the school. Their kids have all been "dress-coded"--punished for wearing an American Cancer Society pin or a T shirt with JESUS FREAK written on it--and, after three years fighting the policy, they're fed up. Free speech is one issue ("What a kid wears says, This is what I'm into," Scott explains), but the dispute also seems to be about control...
...Whereas La Diosa was something of an ascetic, however, scholars say that De Jesus's message is more typical of the branch of Pentecostal Christianity called Prosperity Gospel, which enjoys modest success here but is vastly popular in the developing world. De Jesus' literature is studded with recurrent use of the phrases "prosperidad," (prosperity), "felicidad" (happiness), and his movement's name, which means "Growing in Grace" in English. Such catchwords are reminiscent of Prosperity's assertion that God wants to showers gifts upon his followers - provided that they tithe liberally to their church. So is De Jesus' unabashed enjoyment...
...year, and it is in the process of conducting another audit. But regardless of who is right, the devil is in the details, and the AlliedBarton contract deserves Harvard’s highest scrutiny.We also agree with Stand For Security that Harvard should make a public statement supporting their modest demands. The University should issue an explicit statement that itwill stand by its official policy—without allowing for loopholes that allow outsourced jobs to live up to the letter of Harvard’s policy but not its spirit of fairness.That being said, we cannot support Stand...