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After six years serving as masters of Winthrop House, Stephen P. Rosen and Mandana Sassanfar announced plans to step down at the end of this academic year. They informed the House community in an e-mail Wednesday, citing personal reasons for the decision. Though Winthrop residents said the announcement didn't come unexpectedly—Rosen and Sassanfar have children, some of whom will soon be attending college—they said the Masters would be missed for their warmth and welcoming nature. "To me, the most important thing about them: They're just kind, normal people that you want...
...business ties on both sides of the river, and conservationists who fear their 30-year effort to string parcels of land into a necklace of treasured preserves for native fauna and flora will be destroyed as the acreage ends up in a riverside no-man's-land. On Wednesday, Obama's first day in office, advocates of immigration reform are holding a rally in Washington in which a multisectarian group of religious leaders will give the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Building a ritualistic cleansing to highlight the call to end workplace immigration raids and the construction of the border fence...
...Inauguration will follow the recent pattern of being Protestant-only. In addition, the Inauguration team chose Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson to offer the prayer at Sunday's opening-ceremony concert, and it selected Sharon Watkins, head of the Protestant denomination Disciples of Christ, to deliver the sermon at Wednesday's national prayer service. Which brings the tally of marquee religious figures to: Protestant ministers, 4; rabbis and Catholic priests, 0. (See pictures of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America...
...most inclusive," says transition spokeswoman Linda Douglass. "Whether at the swearing-in ceremony or the national prayer service or the prayer on the Mall, there are several places where you will hear from all walks of the faith community." The national prayer service that will be held on Wednesday does indeed offer a potpourri of religious diversity, including three rabbis - one each from the reform, conservative and orthodox traditions - as well as Muslim, Greek Orthodox, Hindu and Catholic clergy...
...visits to mural paintings to attendance at a vigil protesting China's role in the Darfur genocide. Groups as diverse as the National Center for Transgender Equality and James Dobson's Focus on the Family are taking part, with 8,500 events nationwide listed on the site as of Wednesday. "It's an effort to emphasize the fact that people have to take responsibility for their own government," explains Marshall Ganz, a Harvard professor and community organizer who has worked with the Obama campaign...