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...ARTS Books: Leaving Mother Lake Movies: Blind Shaft digs deep...
...about her in the traditional way, as a sinner." But eight years ago, the 56-year-old technical writer tapped into a network of neo-Magdalenites through her connection with the liberal Catholic groups Call to Action and Futurechurch. The discovery that, as Turner puts it, Magdalene "got the shaft" started her thinking about how to change the situation. She was happy to find that the two organizations, which see Magdalene's recovered image as an argument for their goal of a priesthood open to all those who feel called, coordinate celebrations around the world on her feast...
...first, I was simply embarrassed for my hopelessly uncool race, as the doughy administrative duo had actually succeeded in making the usually square Director of the Harvard Foundation S. Allen Counter look like John Shaft. But then I had another thought: the fact that these two men, hopelessly disheveled as they were, had ascended to the leadership of Harvard College and Harvard University was a wonderful testament to the genuine meritocracy of this place. These two men, the grandchildren of immigrants, had risen to the top of the greasy pole without the benefit of grace or style, but merely...
After the play, a frustrated Woodson threw his broken stick on to the field, and did not seem to appreciate Stenmark’s kind gesture when he handed Woodson his broken shaft, who ripped it out of the Crimson long-pole’s hand...
...apartment block's sewage system through faulty plumbing. Because the virus seems to survive longer in organic matter than in the open air, investigators theorize that rats, cockroaches and other vermin may have come into contact with the sewage and spread the virus by traveling up the vertical shaft that runs along the side of Block E, the high-rise most affected by SARS. The vermin could have contaminated common objects in the block, which could have then infected residents. Investigators are also exploring the possibility that the virus could be spread by household pets, either through infection...