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...down Market Street toward the Delaware River, and tucked back on Third and Church streets is Christ Church, which Franklin attended. Parishioners bought their pews in those days, and Franklin chose Pew 70, a little more than halfway back from the altar. Not wanting to purchase a showy front-row seat, he maintained he could hear fine from his pew. Plus, having a pew in the middle meant he could arrive late and leave early, and his dozing was less visible...
MEANWHILE IN GREECE ... Unholy Row The Greek Orthodox Church came out against the Mayor of Athens' plan to regulate the city's sex trade in advance of next year's Olympic Games. The Church's Holy Synod accused city officials of wanting to license extra brothels to cope with an expected increase in demand during the Games. Prostitution is legal in Greece if practiced in a licensed brothel; each brothel can employ up to three people. City officials plan to register 230 establishments for a total of 960 approved sex workers. Not that ambitious, given that at the Sydney Olympics...
...John's appointment follows the election of a homosexual bishop by American Episcopalians in New Hampshire, and the defiance of a Vancouver church that conducted a blessing for a gay couple - despite a ban on such ceremonies that was unanimously reaffirmed by the Anglican leadership just days before. The row over John has meanwhile become so rancorous that Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, a liberal on the issue, warned that it was generating "real incomprehension in much of our society, in a way that does nothing for our credibility." It has done nothing, either, for the unity of a church...
...total number of magna cum laude honors awarded by Harvard College dropped for the second year in a row, with the Class of 2003 receiving 10 percent fewer degrees at that level than their predecessors. Administrators say the decline may have been prompted by faculty awareness of the new, more restrictive honors policy that will be in place next year...
...president, he will draw on that customer perspective--and on 17 years as an industry analyst, most recently at Morgan Stanley. Phillips has been more bullish on Oracle's stock than most, but he was heralded by Institutional Investor as the sector's top analyst nine years in a row. At Oracle, he will keep up his industry contacts (read: customers and competitors) and help shape strategy...