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...completed rather quietly until it was noticed recently by the local papers. Not surprisingly, it has elicited a storm of outrage, so much so that the grand opening set for June 25 was canceled on Thursday after police warned that Junker, and his shrine, could be targeted. Sugar Creek Township Chairman Loren Waite calls Junker ?a mixed-up old man ... I hope he?s just confused.? Jewish and anti-hate groups warn that Nazi sympathizers have been known to populate the heavily German areas of southern and southeastern Wisconsin, and decry Junker for rewriting history and teaching evil...
...window of an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Participants in the 4.2-mile race were invited to make contributions to the Paul F. Gilligan III Foundation, which awards a $2,500 scholarship to a graduating senior at Gilligan’s alma mater, Haddon Township High School in New Jersey. The foundation will also annually award a fellowship in his honor of $2,500 for purposeful summer study or travel to a resident of Eliot, where Gilligan lived during his time at the College. Vikram Viswanathan ’06 was selected by the Eliot House...
...Down in central Florida, developers have broken ground on a new township called Ave Maria, which they hope will be populated with conservative Catholics. The town will surround a colossal church, shaped like a pontiff's hat, with a 65-foot crucifix at the front door. They're also moving a university from Michigan to Florida, so the students and faculty can seed the town. If you're a parent who does not want your child to attend the Catholic elementary school, you will have to put your child on a school bus to be educated elsewhere in the county...
...think he would really like this,” Smith said. Those turning out were invited to provide a voluntary contribution to the Paul F. Gilligan III Foundation, an organization that funds both a fellowship in Eliot House and a scholarship program in his Haddon Township, N.J. high school. More than $2,000 in donations were collected on Saturday. Vikram Viswanathan ’06, the first winner of the fellowship, spoke of Gilligan’s importance to both the House and his friends. “I think it’s just amazing to see how many...
...second half of Schama's powerful book follows the former slaves in their wretched exile after the war, when thousands joined an exodus of white loyalists to Nova Scotia. Others shipped out to Africa to establish a struggling township in Sierra Leone. Although the African settlers suffered years of illness and near starvation, they were the first largely self-governing community of African Americans. If it wasn't quite "British freedom," it was still a taste of the liberty the U.S. would not offer blacks for many years to come...