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Starting in November 1994, two weeks after his bitter defeat, he attended classes under the Roman Catholic Church's Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. He went once a week for five months to Columba's church, the Epiphany Catholic Church in Miami, and was received into the faith at Easter 1995. "I had just got my butt whupped in the election, and these were real people, and it was so much fun to talk about normal things and to be treated as just a normal, ordinary person." He also invested time in restoring his relationships. "For a two-year...
...fastest takeoff of a new drug that I've ever seen, and I've been in this business for 27 years," says Michael Podgurski, director of pharmacy at the 4,000-outlet Rite Aid drugstore chain. After a brief lag, the drug is now being prescribed at the rate of at least 10,000 scripts a day, outpacing such famous quick starters as the antidepressant Prozac (which went on to become one of the biggest-selling drugs in America) and the baldness remedy Rogaine (which has been something of a disappointment after its initial blaze of popularity...
Elisabeth A. Tomlinson '99, president of PBHA pointed out her organization's track-record in advancing the cause of diversity through programs such as Stride-Rite and its Summer Urban Program--both programs which attempt to match the diversity PBHA encounters in the outside world with their own diversity...
Most Harvard students are pros at handling stress. However, thanks to randomization, each spring a first-year rite of passage often becomes one of the most stressful experience of students' lives, one that cannot be overcome by good organization or even a few all-nighters...
...Castro's Cuba. Catholic Church attendance, baptisms, confirmations, religious weddings and funerals are all on the rise. In this traditionally Catholic nation, almost equal numbers attend Catholic Mass or evangelical services, and the religion with the most adherents of all--perhaps half the population--is the Afro-Cuban rite of Santeria. Its babalaos (spiritual guides) far exceed the Catholic priests in influence, but its home-based, loose network of competing sects poses no political threat. Economic hardship is a powerful motivator: many of those new congregants of all faiths are searching for material sustenance in the food and medical...