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...Hospital in downtown New Orleans, where a team of specialists could quickly evaluate patients who were a potential danger to themselves or others, stabilize those that could be medicated and referred to one of the city's outpatient clinics and admit the hardest cases to the hospital's psychiatric ward, where the 96 beds were fully occupied most of the time. All you had to do was mention the third floor at Charity, and most everyone knew what you were talking about...
...level, the church is sustained by Mormon men volunteering as lay leaders. Romney was bishop of a ward, or congregation, and eventually president of a stake in Boston, meaning he was responsible for 14 wards with a total of some 3,000 members. Women cannot serve in priestly roles, nor could African Americans until a new revelation brought a change of policy in 1978. Should Romney have to account for such church practices? When he married Ann, a Mormon convert, in 1969 in the temple in Salt Lake City, her family could not attend the ceremony since only Mormons...
...Palleroni and his student team will head back to New Orleans to begin work on the Katrina Furniture Project's first neighborhood workshop at the edge of the Ninth Ward, just six blocks from the faulty levees. For now the project is funded by universities and private foundations. But eventually, Palleroni hopes to create a viable business in which locally built furniture - all made from recycled wood - would be sold nationwide, providing jobs for local residents who will make each piece by hand and pocket the profits. He's also teaming up this summer with Brad Guy, a researcher...
...says Jackson.“I think I analyze situations from a different perspective than I did before, and I think that coming from a school that gets your mental juices flowing really will help me get that edge,” she adds.Karina A. Mangu-Ward ’05, who is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in theater management and production at the Columbia School of the Arts, draws a more direct connection between Harvard and her career in performing arts.“I think part of the reason Harvard has such a vibrant theater culture is because...
...months later, Big Lin says he received a Czech residence permit. The Czech document enabled him to get a tourist visa to England, which he overstayed. Six years ago, Big Lin cut his final link to home by "losing" his passport. Many other Chinese do the same to ward off deportation - it's hard to send someone home if their nationality is not clear - despite a British law mandating up to two years' imprisonment for illegals who destroy their...