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There are exceptions. The nine-year-old Metropolitan Assembly of God, located in a Do the Right Thing neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., goes all-out to recruit restless teenagers and has a 9,000-student Sunday school. While many of the fastest-growing congregations are young, First Baptist Church of Hammond, Ind., famous for its armada of Sunday-school buses, has been a Fundamentalist fixture for decades...
...latest batch of tapes, which languished for nearly two decades in the National Archives while Nixon lawyers and the government argued over how to release them, show just how coarse and ruthless a man he was. At one point he enthuses over a suggestion to recruit "eight thugs" from the Teamsters Union -- "murderers" -- to gang up on peace protesters. "They've got guys who will go in and knock their heads off," says Nixon. "Sure," adds Haldeman, "Beat the s--- out of some of these people...
This month FBI director William Sessions will ask Congress for legislation creating an FBI version of the time-honored ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps) program to recruit minority students who need financial aid to finish college. Sessions' aim is to bring ethnic and gender diversity to the bureau, whose 10,094 special agents include just 485 blacks, 557 Hispanics, 135 Asians, 39 Native Americans and 1,078 women...
...addition, Kennedy School student Jason Bromberg started an initiative that would require all organizations that recruit at the school's career service office to sign a non-discrimination statement. According to Bromberg, similar policies are used by other educational institutions, including the Harvard Law School, does not damage new democratic institutions...
...Brian Popeil (a Class of '90 defender) was the only player I missed," Tomassoni says. "He was a contact recruit...