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...Shape up or ship out. The Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) will close its doors for renovations all of next spring, keeping gym enthusiasts out from February until September. “The [MAC] will undergo a much needed, thorough renovation of its infrastructure, including replacing plumbing, renovating bathrooms, installing sprinklers, and improving accessibility,” wrote Robert Mitchell, Faculty of Arts and Sciences director of communications, in an e-mail. According to Mitchell, the renovations to the MAC in 2004 provided program spaces but did not address infrastructure. Renovations are scheduled to be finished in September 2007. Jennifer...
...with Virginia plates. He gets the names of towns wrong when he visits them." Last April, Weldon seemed to go off the deep end when he attacked Sestak for having his daughter's cancer treated in Washington and not in Philadelphia or Delaware. "He's like an out-of-shape boxer," says one of Weldon's friends. "His timing is off. I know he deeply regrets that comment about Sestak's daughter." But Weldon is not the sort to make public concessions...
...would reach for the hand of Rabin at the crucial moment, turn next to shake the hand of Arafat, then step back half a pace and enfold the 1945-1955 The decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took place in London 1956-1966 New sounds in the air, protest in the streets and revolution in the hills 1966-1976 War in Vietnam, Nixon in China and Man on the Moon two in a wide and gentle extension of his arms with the expectation that...
John's and Mary's lives go down unintended paths. And when the 1960s hit, the era dances away one by one with their kids. War, pregnancy, aimless adventure and the appeal of doing not much at all shape the Keanes' various fates, although shape may be too strong a word. Through all of this they keep some attachment to their Catholic faith. If nothing else, it bears into the perplexing world two essential ideas, pity and compassion--essential for people making their way through times they will never master, even if they were more masterful types...
...garden she refers to is behind the arts center she created nine years ago as part of her effort to shape the public memory of her son--to "cleanse the stain," as she puts it, from his legacy. Every summer a throng of kids comes to the center, which sits off a busy road in Stone Mountain, Ga., to learn dance, creative writing and music...