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...carriages nudges passengers into an irresistible slumber, air-conditioner mechanic T.J. Mathai takes a break from checking that his machinery is working properly and that the vents are open just so. During a recent three-day trip from New Delhi, in India's north, to Kerala, at its southern tip, he hoisted himself up into his tiny nook opposite the toilets in the second-class carriage to rest and read a few pages of Tales from Shakespeare in his native Malayalam. "Wonderful stories," he told me, his body rocking with the movement of the train. A passenger appeared, nodded hello...
...Neal Stephens ’09, an AIA leader who identifies as Southern Baptist, says he worshipped at Memorial Church a few times during his freshman year as he was deciding what church to attend. He eventually settled on Park Street...
...University of Southern California, Johns Hopkins University, and Columbia University rounded out the top five institutions. In total, American institutions of higher education received nearly $30 billion in donations, an increase of 6.3 percent over the previous year...
...report shows that of all those raised Catholic, a third have left the church. (That means that roughly one out of every 10 people in America is a former Catholic, and that ex-Catholics are almost as numerous as the America's second biggest religious group, Southern Baptists.) But Catholicism has made up for the losses by adding converts (2.6% of the population) and, more significantly, enjoying an influx of new immigrants, mostly Hispanic...
...Sadr learned in 2004, at great cost to his organization, that open confrontation with U.S. forces is a bad idea. The Mahdi Army fared poorly against U.S. troops in two separate uprisings in southern Iraq that year. In the years that followed, Sadr's militia fighters kept up a kind of shadow war against U.S. troops, staging sporadic guerrilla attacks. But the Mahdi Army has largely avoided confronting U.S. forces for years, and the cease-fire Sadr announced unexpectedly six months ago was not directed at the Americans as much as it was aimed at halting fighting between Sadr...