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Neil J. Donovan, the director of community programs at Jamaica Plain's Shattuck Shelter, said he feels that most panhandlers already avoid aggressive solicitation...
...mystery shrouds what this Pope is up to. His ambitions and his methods have been plain to see ever since his ascent to the throne of St. Peter. He is the quintessential missionary: this most traveled of Pontiffs believes absolutely in the personal laying on of hands, and if his message is often politically incendiary, it is invariably couched in the lofty language of Christian values...
...birthday as an opportunity for introspection. Around campus these days, people seem more concerned about where they're sitting at the Stadium gala than whether Harvard's succeeded in its educational mission. And maybe that's understandable. Why? Because what's happening this week is a party. Hardly plain and simple, but a party nonetheless...
...present, Bagneris is settled, making her home in Jamaica Plain with Andrea, Andrea's dog Mutleigh and their two cats, Lillith and Yehudah, (the latter an "orange ball of fur" named after the symbol for the tribe of Judah--the lion). Once again Bagneris's patented confident grin emerges as she discusses her mentor, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and her insistence that she attend graduate school, (she's a Women's Studies and Afro Am concentrator) and her own varied interests in the "3 A's"-- activism, art and academia...
That power is visible on nearly every page of Paradise. Morrison's prose remains the marvel that it was in her earlier novels, a melange of high literary rhetoric and plain talk. She can turn pecan shelling into poetry: "the tick of nut meat tossed in the bowl, cooking utensils in eternal adjustment, insect whisper, the argue of long grass, the faraway cough of cornstalks." She captures the stark geography surrounding Ruby: "This land is flat as a hoof, open as a baby's mouth." And she builds Ruby practically brick by brick: its streets (named after the four Gospels...