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...dozen people have gathered inside the Industrial Evangelistic Fellowship's modest community center in Macau, where the Rev. Jimmy Tan strums his guitar and belts out Christian songs with the small group before him. Latecomers trickle in well past the meeting's 9:30 p.m. start time, but no one seems to mind - many of them work multiple jobs and are used to odd hours. Seated in a semicircle of plastic chairs, the engineers, police officers, health-care workers and casino dealers have something in common: they are all addicted to gambling. The group meets once a week to hear...
Indeed, Stoppard has always stood apart from many other British playwrights of his generation, like David Hare, for avoiding an overtly political (usually left-wing) point of view. He describes his politics as "timid libertarian." Yet he can rev up a pretty bold rant on Britain's "highly regulated society," which he thinks is "betraying the principle of parliamentary democracy." There was the garden party he threw recently, for example, where because there was a pond on the property, he was required to hire two lifeguards. "The whole notion that we're all responsible for ourselves...
...effective in pointing out the “schoolhouse to jailhouse pipeline.” Cohen also testified before the committee. To address these racial disparities, Ogletree suggested the creation of a system that earmarks schools which suspend black students at a disproportionate rate. Ogletree testified alongside Cohen, Rev. Al Sharpton, local U.S. District Attorney Donald W. Washington, and others. Ogletree, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1978, said in an interview that he is often asked for advice on legal issues by committee chairman Rep. John Conyers, Jr. At Harvard, Ogletree is the director of the Houston Institute...
...used out of context. “There’s nothing that gay people do that heterosexuals cannot mimic,” he concluded. The workshop was organized by the Boston-Cambridge Ministry in Higher Education, a Protestant group that sponsors the chaplaincy of Harvard’s Rev. Carolyn Dittes. “I’m excited that we are affirming that it can be good to be both gay and Christian,” said Dittes, who attended yesterday’s event. The series will continue over the next four Tuesdays, covering issues such...
...Rev. Peter J. Gomes, like Commencement, never gets rained...