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...paragraph of his article, Nordhaus insinuates that PBHA is full of uncontrolled college students that need the constant supervision of University officials to prevent them from wreaking havoc on the Greater Boston area. In fact, PBHA has over 30 responsibly run committees, each independently operated, that range from World Teach, which places individual from all over the world in Kenya to teach school children, to committees which shelter the homeless. I do not consider myself a "20-year-old with noble intentions," but someone who has spent a great deal of time at PBH during the last three years working...
Also appointed was John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York, who outspokenly defends his church's teaching that homosexual acts are sinful. Dr. W. Eugene Mayberry, chairman of the Mayo Clinic's board of governors, was named to head the commission's inquiry. Mayberry has confessed that he is "no AIDS expert." Indeed, the makeup of the commission struck many as a recipe for inaction rather than progress. Fumed AIDS Activist Ann McFarren: "President Reagan's appointments are unconscionable." Reagan, however, defended his choices during a hospital tour and even held an AIDS-afflicted baby. "When it comes...
...fail to see how going to classes or partying with, say, someone from the Middle East or South America, whose father is a rich international banker or a powerful government official, is going to help me understand a foreign culture. The only thing mingling with such foreign nobles may teach me is that the priveleged few have it easy no matter what country they are from...
What does Muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger like to do when he isn't terminating bad guys or zapping aliens? He goes to prison. To teach body- building classes to inmates, that is. The star of the sci-fi summer hit Predator caused more than the usual buzz of excitement during a recent visit to the high-security California Institute for Women in Frontera. "There was a large number of women who wanted to see him," reports Associate Superintendent Don Rasmussen. "Number one, because he's a man, and number two, because he's someone famous." Schwarzenegger spent two hours demonstrating various...
With the Supreme Court's creationism decision, Louisiana teachers will no longer be forced to present biblical literalism as science. However, the ruling says only that the Louisiana law violates the constitutional separation of church and state; it does not say that no one can teach scientific creationism -- and unfortunately many individual teachers...