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...birthdays, Valentine's Day, Easter (he?d already written "Easter Parade"), Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The framing song was "Happy Holiday," which has since been appropriated as an all-purpose year-end carol. At first, few liked Berlin's tune about sunbelt nostalgia for a snowbelt youth (the verse places the singer in "Beverly Hills, L.A."). A journalist friend told the composer that "White Christmas" wouldn?t be a hit because it was "too schmaltzy," and Berlin himself thought the movie's big hit would be the Valentine ballad "Be Careful, It's My Heart...
...Hamas' popular appeal, especially strong among women, owes much to the payouts and services it brings to suffering Palestinians. The charitable side of Hamas is its greatest strength and its best cover. About 60% of the budget goes to dawah, the legitimate network of schools, mosques, orphanages, clinics, youth clubs, athletic teams and libraries that Hamas has spread into virtually every corner of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In Nablus before the new intifadeh, 3,700 families received financial help from Hamas; now 7,000 do. Among the services offered are lifetime annuities to sustain the families of suicide...
...children of Poso and the surrounding villages, both Christian and Muslim, bombs, guns and knives have been an almost daily presence for three long years. A drunken brawl between a Christian and a Muslim youth in 1998 sparked a spate of killings by vigilante groups. Since then, despite the frantic efforts of community leaders, the conflict has been characterized by periods of uneasy quiet, punctuated by explosions of mob violence. Hundreds, mostly Muslim, died in an outbreak in May 2000. But the arrival of the 750 Laskar fighters on July 19 this year decisively tilted the balance on the island...
Meanwhile, an interfaculty group, titled “Youth Development and Afterschool Time,” co-sponsored by PAER and the Harvard Children’s Initiative, is working to bring afterschool studies into the accepted realm of academic learning by engaging in active afterschool research...
Fortenberry will use the fellowship money to work on youth empowerment in the Caribbean...