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...Travis R. Kavulla ’06, also editor of conservative campus newspaper the Harvard Salient and a Crimson editor, Republicans are seen as blind followers who don’t understand the ideals behind the group.They are seen as “largely uneducated, brainwashed people living in rural communities or in the South,” says this practicing Catholic. Kavulla says that Republicans “endure the caricature because they, to a certain extent, keep up to its image.” “Religion doesn’t have to be the opiate...
...burned churches, pastors still don?t understand it. Says Walter Hawkins, pastor of Dancy First Baptist in in rural Bibb County, "They burned the building but they can?t burn the church because...
...recent years, church burnings in Alabama have become a disturbing, all too common event, viewed primarily as hate crimes of one kind or another. In 1996 it was a volunteer fireman, Chris Deer, who was arrested for and ultimately pleaded guilty to setting rural Alabama churches on fire. Three years later, self-professed Satanist Jay Ballinger was arrested for setting churches on fire in Alabama and other states. He?s serving a federal life sentence. So it came as quite a shock to law enforcement and residents alike Wednesday when three Birmingham, Alabama-area college students, all from upscale families...
...slow streams and defunct mills, a relic of distant New England days.It’s called Alstead, population 1,944. On one late summer day in 2005, Robert Brown, a former Dartmouth football star, was hard at work building a new barn on his family’s rural property.His son, Morgan, the Harvard baseball player, busied himself hammering nails. Hopped up on iron supplements—to get the blood count up, of course—Morgan, Alstead’s favorite son, was vulnerable, restless, and down. He had been an endurance guy: a high school champion...
...effective way of increasing access to higher education, and the increasing number of college graduates will be an overall boon to the U.S. economy and to society as a whole. The practicality of an online education makes it a sensible vehicle for providing continuing education. Its accessibility to rural and working students, as well its lower cost, will provide a far greater reach than a traditional college education. With increased federal funding, more students with no previous possibility of postsecondary education will now have access. We recognize, however, that the academic experience of most distance education programs does not compare...