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...fires were set by white hate groups. Instead, the ministers charge, they, their families and their congregations have been subjected to harsh interrogation, lie-detector tests and harassment at their homes and jobs. In one instance, a 17-year-old female member of the Rev. Algie Jarrett's Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Bolivar, Tennessee, was taken out of a classroom by an FBI agent and questioned so roughly that she broke down in tears. Says Jarrett: "He tried to make her say something that wasn't true...
When Lowell became president in 1909, wealthier students chose to live in private dormitories along the so-called "Gold Coast" of Mount Auburn Street. Rooms cost around $300 for a single and $500 for a double, while College housing cost less than $100, essentially dividing the student population along socioeconomic lines...
...cannot, frustrations will mount and exhaustion will return. And with it perhaps the search for Harvard's 27th president...
...heart of all religion lies a sacred geography, the place where God reaches down to connect the human and the divine. From the time nearly 4,000 years ago when men first settled Mount Zion, a hill that stood out dramatically from its surroundings to betoken the "holy," all successive conquerors have found there an unshakable primal attachment, however different their rites and rituals. But instead of living up to their sacred ideals, the religious conquerors always fell into warfare for sole possession of the place, a battle that goes on unabated as the city enters its fifth millennium...
...storms at any time at extremes of altitude, but this one, it sounds like it was a real humdinger." --Mountaineer Greg Mortimer, of the blizzard that killed eight people on Mount Everest...