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...play minister. He would entertain people. He had a way of spinning words and a power to his voice. He drew people who were basically religious for the most part in the early years. They were hard-working people, and they were drawn initially to a rare thing in the Midwest, an integrated Christian congregation. When Jones brought his group to California, he started attracting a broader base of people, too. Not just people from the churches, especially the black churches, but also young, idealistic, many of them college-educated people, who wanted to belong to an organization that practiced...
...expect a federal bailout of boomers, because delayed retirement is seen as a good thing by many policy analysts. "If people continue to work between two and four years longer, they will be better off financially and as a country we will be better of fiscally," says Marc Freedman, CEO of Civic Ventures, a think tank focused on aging. A November study from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) titled "Why Baby Boomers Will Need to Work Longer" finds that having a workforce that continues a few years beyond the traditional retirement age is the only way for boomers to prevent...
...religious. Religions are based on complex ideologies, far more intricate than simplistic moral absolutes that tend to rear their heads in the political sphere. Ironically, this means that, even in a climate of opposition, the secular and religious camps really ought to be able to agree on one thing: to preserve their separation...
...then asked him to leave, but instead he sat on my bed and continued to ask questions about the problem set,” Wintha F. Kelati ’11, who is also on the Crimson business board, wrote in an e-mail. “The whole thing seemed so bizarre I was honestly convinced I was dreaming. I woke up a few hours later and realized my problem set was gone,” she added. Kelati’s Ec 10 problem set, which was due on that Friday, was repossessed from Garcia by HUPD after...
...athletic,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “We knew that really, as a young quarterback, running was going to be more his forte, so we were very aware of it, we practiced it. We didn’t tackle great, for one thing.”A sack, an incompletion, and a short completion spelled another three-and-out for the Crimson’s offense, which had an uncharacteristically weak day, gaining just 261 yards of total offense, significantly below the 412 yards per game Harvard averaged prior to the contest...