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These organizations and many others, including informal weekly Bible studies and formalized Friday worship in Lowell Hall, boast heavy student involvement and large memberships. The vastly secular education Harvard offers its flocks seems not to have circumscribed them, but to have freed them...
...eight of Harvard's 10points over a stretch of 3:15 midway through thesecond on a variety of shots--transition lay-up,dribble-drive move from the foul line, rebound andput back. Harvard narrowed the deficit onlyslightly during Janowski's scoring binge, butthe need to focus on the blocks freed up Harvard'sshooters and presented the Quakers with a classichigh-low dilemma that ultimately sealed Penn'sfate...
...packed 14-passenger van as it sets out with its cargo of broken hearts across the frozen streams of New Jersey and the ghostly, moonlit fields of Pennsylvania snow country. She is going to see a son who did 14 years for a horrific sexual assault, was freed in 1994, then committed a string of crimes even more ghastly...
Through three wars and almost four centuries, the English-speaking peoples organized, across the alienating-yet-binding space of the Atlantic, a dynamic of entanglement and change that both invigorated and, by stages, freed them. Phillips writes, "Each conflict--and all three of them combined revolution and civil war--rescripted society, economics, and government on both sides of the ocean." Thus, for example, the American Civil War resolved--the hard way--the problem of slavery. Put the three wars together, as Phillips does, and you see that they "constitute the central staircase of modern English-speaking history, not least...
...when he first started going to Sierra Leone in 1989, nearly all the violence was across the border in Liberia, which was then in the midst of a civil war. Freetown, which sits amid lush rice paddies and rolling green hills, was established in 1787 as a home for freed slaves. The British cut off the slaves' shackles on a block in front of a cottonwood tree that still stands today. But the country is no paradise: the U.N. ranked it the least-developed nation on earth in 1997. The average life expectancy is 34 years...