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...seeking the traditional religious instruction of their faith may also do so in classes led by trained educators who share those students' beliefs. The school cafeteria is attentive to religious dietary rules and accommodates fasting during Ramadan or Lent. Students can take religious holidays, no matter how awkwardly they sit with the school calendar. Yet for all that, religion doesn't play a big role in school life, says Gregory Kimbembe, 15, who is of African origin. "You don't really notice religion at all except for the crucifixes in the classrooms...
...It’s an honor, to tell you the truth,” he said. “It’s a pleasure to serve. It’s challenging, getting up early in the morning, having to run several miles, do push-ups and sit-ups. At the same time, it gives me a lot of pride to know that I serve and it definitely unifies those who serve here at Harvard, because there’s so few of us. You’re learning a lot of leadership skills within the program that are unique...
...sight of a tourist taking a shot of the John Harvard statue. FIRST IMPRESSIONSLuke A. Langford ’06-’07 and Amy L. Langford walk side-by-side into the Science Center’s Greenhouse Café. He kisses her hand as they sit down. Affectionate and playful, the newlywed couple tease each other and complete one another’s sentences. “I actually had a crush on his roommate. In a ploy to get his roommate to go out with me, I invited all of his roommates...
When the New Orleans City Council chamber is packed with a standing room-only crowd of citizens who have taken an afternoon off to sit in on a four-hour session - in the middle of Mardi Gras season, no less - you know it's no ordinary meeting. And indeed, this week's hearing of the council's criminal justice committee was, as a Times-Picayune reporter aptly put it, more like a visit to the principal's office for the city's two leading crime fighters...
...talk-show host - especially for a network that often didn't pay his back salary. But he had been startled to learn that 21% of Americans got most of their news from talk radio, which at the time was overwhelmingly right-wing. "I didn't want to sit on the sidelines," he said today, "and I believed Air America could make a difference...