Word: revs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday morning. As the bus heads uptown, a guide sketches a history of the district. A walk through Hamilton Grange and Sugar Hill precedes a stop at the Schomburg Center. And then . . . nirvana. At the Manhattan Christian Reformed Church, a storefront mission run by and for recovering addicts, the Rev. Reggie Williams spins a stirring homily: "You have the power to pray when you wanna party! The power to close your veins to dope and open your brains to hope!" An old hymn like Amazing Grace percolates with urgent rhythms. Secular songs like Higher and Higher gain turbo power...
...vindication of the goals of the '69 strike. However, Harvard has become nationally and internationally known for its refusal to divest its holdings in companies doing business in South Africa. Long after many other universities, city and state governments, pension funds and other institutions have fully divested, long after Rev. Sullivan and other advocates of gradual change in South Africa have come to support full divestment, Harvard still holds $250 million in South Africa-related stocks. More than 10 thousand Harvard and Radcliffe alumni/ae have supported prodivestment candidates for the Board of Overseers, electing three. Why does our University still...
...Rev. Peter J. Gomes and Rev. Preston B. Hannibal, ministers at the church, could not be reached for comment...
Moscow Beginners was started in 1987 by the Rev. J.W. Canty, an Episcopal priest from New York City who came to Moscow in 1985 to help lay the groundwork for the group. Meanwhile, Volodya, 36, a machinist, had heard about A.A. on a Canadian radio broadcast and had written to A.A. headquarters in New York, which in turn informed Canty that he had a taker in Moscow. The group's first session, held in a hotel room across from the Kremlin, was attended by Volodya and two visiting American members of A.A. Membership grew slowly, largely because the group...
Summers, a doctoral candidate at Yale, served as Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's chief speechwriter in his 1984 presidential campaign...