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Technically, Cash is right. In Nevada, California and in fact most of the U.S., doing nothing about a crime is no crime at all. Only a handful of states--including Vermont, Wisconsin and Minnesota--have "duty to assist" laws requiring those who witness a crime to offer aid and report it. Cash's callousness, though, has sparked a movement in both California and Nevada to pass something called "Sherrice's law" to require witnesses to intervene and report cases of sexual assault against children. If necessary, says Najee Ali, spokesman for Sherrice's mother Yolanda Manuel, advocates of the proposed...
...couldn't be any happier," says Knight, a former snow shoveler from Vermont who has cash to spare from his monthly $200 Social Security check. Yeah, summer is miserable. "But I got 18 coats of paint on [the shrine] now, and you should see it shine when it really heats up. It's beautiful...
Nolan is on a path increasingly well traveled. Across the country, Catholic monasteries and convents, usually regarded as strange or the stuff of medieval myth, are besieged with would-be retreatants and booked months in advance. "Please don't mention our name," begs an abbot at a Vermont monastery where the wait for one of its 29 spaces stretches a year. "We're overwhelmed." There is even a popular guidebook, Sanctuaries, that helps readers choose a great monastery or convent. While organized church retreats are not new, what is startling is that much of the increase is in individual retreatants...
Before coming to Harvard in 1990, Green served as chief of the Pulmonary Unit of Boston City Hospital. He also held faculty positions at the University of Vermont and Johns Hopkins University...
Past Bunting Fellows have included playwright Anna Deavere Smith and former Vermont governor and ambassador Madeleine Kunin. The fellowships were first offered...