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...skateboards to the New Breed class. A boy with tattoos asked for the courage to stay in school. A girl requested help with her alcoholic father. "This is what Jesus did. He reached people at all levels, not just those who were dressed well," says Buck Waters, the pastor, who also runs a surfing ministry. "We are calling our entire membership to a new level of faith commitment." How better to test that commitment than to leave the classroom door wide open? Waters' class is held at the back of the church grounds--so that anyone can easily...
...bottom of a few high profile cases. It concluded that eight men convicted of belonging to a communist party in 1975 and executed less than a day later had been framed by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA). In another case, the commission found that Pastor Im Gi Yun, called in for questioning by military intelligence in 1980 because he was involved in a pro-democracy group, died from beatings and torture, not high blood pressure, as the military maintained. Another tragedy involved Choi Jong Gil, a law professor at the prestigious Seoul University. According to the KCIA, Choi jumped...
...Pastor doesn’t bemoan his lack of humanities-oriented roommates. “I went to Harvard really wanting diversity in people, but now I don’t. Diversity is a word for people who are different than me,” he says. Pastor modifies his statement: “I’m talking about diversity of interests here, not race or ethnicity...
...blockmates are intensely focused on their science. “I work, sleep and watch animé,” says Albert Wang ’05. “Eating is optional.” Pastor says he is glad his blockmates don’t go out much, relieved to be free of the constant parties his first-year roommates threw. “One time at a party, I thought that these guys were friends of my roommates, but they were actually thieves,” he remembers. “We didn’t realize...
...largest number you’ve ever heard of?” for a Science A Core exam. “It’s the equivalent of a Lit A exam question that asks ‘What is your favorite letter?’” Pastor laments. “If you’re a science concentrator you can’t get away with a fourth-grade literacy level, but you can get away with a fourth-grade mathematical ability if you’re a humanities major...