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...Jean-Claude Duvalier. In return, Mother Teresa and her sisters delivered effusive encomiums in favor of the rich and infamous eager to buy international respectability. Teresa replied that she had no moral right to refuse donations given for the poor and miserable. Hitchens followed up with a scathing, book-length critique called The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, which noted that Mother Teresa once wrote to Judge Lance Ito requesting leniency for Charles Keating, whom he was about to sentence in the late-1980s savings-and-loan scandal. Keating had once contributed $1.25 million to the Missionaries...
...less obvious consideration is the length of your class week and the days of your classes. Most students have between 10 and 15 hours of classes per week. (If one is senior with enough time on one's hands to write an editorial about shopping period, one can get by with seven hours.) Friday is a horrible day for class: When you're in a bar late Thursday night, you don't want class on your mind. Monday is only slightly better for the same reason. So Tuesday-Thursday classes are best, with Monday-Wednesday classes a distant second. Whatever...
Requirements include a six-to-eight-page book report (30 percent), a second book report of the same length or a one-hour take-home midterm (30 percent), an oral report of work completed in an "Independent Work Group" (40 percent) and an ungraded final reflection paper or sermon...
Many of the citations were issued during periods of "selective enforcement" whereby "we pick a spot that is a problem area and sit there for a certain length of time," Sugrue said...
...palace also bowed on the issue of the Buckingham Palace flag, announcing that the Union Jack would fly at half-staff there on Saturday in place of the monarch's personal flag that the Queen would not lower. The length of the funeral parade route through London has been tripled to accommodate the anticipated huge crowd...