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...Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles, and seven satellite locations. Enrollment in the nation's 104 "intentionally Christ-centered colleges," as the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities calls them, has risen 27% since 1997. That's more than three times as fast as the growth at all four-year schools. A.P.U. is booming--its student population is up 53% over the same period--and it is becoming a model for how a Christian college can reinvent itself in a modern age. The U.S.'s galloping evangelical movement is fueling part of this growth, but so is a population...
SCHENECTADY, N.Y.—Nate Leaman either coached or recruited everyone on the current Harvard roster during his four-year stay as an assistant coach. Friday night, he watched those players from the other bench for the first time...
...municipal council of a city in which more than half the population is of non-Dutch origin. Two weeks ago its leaders said the city would start demanding that newcomers speak decent Dutch and have a job paying 20% more than the minimum wage. The council has requested a four-year moratorium on settling more political refugees in the city, and has vowed to stop building low-rent housing to restore "long-term balance" to the Netherlands' second city. The center-right Dutch government, while keen to decrease immigration, has signaled its opposition to Rotterdam's approach. And with good...
...atrocity of the Irish Troubles: three bombs exploding within 90 seconds during rush hour in Dublin in May 1974, killing 27 and maiming hundreds. Ninety minutes later, another bomb went off outside a pub in Monaghan, killing seven. No one was ever charged with the crimes. Last week a four-year judicial inquiry concluded that it was probable, though not proven, that the loyalist paramilitaries who planted the bombs had help from low-level members of the British security forces. Justice Henry Barron, the report's author, tried to probe whether senior British intelligence figures were involved in the attack...
Barth finds some of this purpose in baseball. A four-year member of Harvard’s JV baseball team, Barth has spent his college summers, traveling Nicaragua, Mexico, and around the United States as part of the “Athletes in Action” Christian missionary program, playing baseball and sharing his faith with fellow athletes...