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...volunteers to distribute food, blankets and Bibles to the dozens of women and girls selling sex within a 10-block radius of the stadium. They also preached to clients and traffickers. Fights were commonplace. Lombard allowed his volunteers to carry firearms, and several wound up in the intensive-care unit of the local hospital. Lombard acknowledges that most of the prostitutes were not enslaved. Still, in a controversial move, he purchased bus tickets home for more than two dozen women as a way to "escape the streets." With no comprehensive rehabilitation, however, several wound up back in prostitution. Mainstream antitrafficking...
...took Harvard just 29 seconds to double its lead. Raider Amanda Kirwan was whistled for tripping at 15:50 of the first, and the Crimson’s new-look power-play unit needed just seven seconds to find the back...
Although Harvard would continue to dominate play in the first, outshooting Cornell, 12-8, it couldn’t capitalize on its three power-play chances against the nation’s top penalty-kill unit...
Harvard got a chance on the power play late in the third, but again Cornell’s kill unit held it quiet...
...Harry and Mary were white: Willow attracted almost nobody of color. The gurus of the megachurch explosion were church-growth consultants, who endorsed the "homogeneous unit principle": people like to worship with people who are similar to them - in age, wealth and race. Hybels, while denying intentional exclusivity, says that "in the early days, we were all young, white, affluent, college-educated suburbanites, and we all understood each other. When we reached out to our friends, it became self-reinforcing...