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BRING IT ON 2 hours until showtime The FM dance team sat in a tight circle. Around them, teams danced and hummed, exploding out of twirls and high kicking across the church’s make-shift stage. “Shut your eyes, and visualize,” said Fee. Holding hands with eyes closed, the FM team imagined themselves dancing through their entire routine. Their bodies remained perfectly still; only their large smiles and rapidly moving eyeballs revealed their concentration. Everyone opened their eyes at the same time, smiling...
Surrounded by 53 computer screens, more than 15 telephones, and dozens of notebooks stuffed with protocols, shift supervisor Kirk A. Wornum, 43, sits behind his desk at the City of Cambridge Emergency Communications Department, ready to handle any emergency...
...survive - through his years as an agitator for independence from Britain, from his time spent talking to the Americans during the Vietnam years to his role as a confidant of China's leadership, Lee has seen it all. He has been a participant observer of the most significant historical shift of our times - the steady ascent of Asia, home to 60% of the world's population, from the twin shames of Western colonialism and poverty to its coming economic and political dominance. Everyone who lives in Asia today thinks they are watching history being made; Lee Kuan...
...focus on the relationship between Joseph and Jesus. The attendance in most U.S. churches skews female, provoking a search for strong masculine Biblical role models and ways to create church-based male bonding, especially between younger men and mentors. Joseph is the original Promise Keeper. Also, Jenkins sees a shift in even conservative Evangelical preaching from stringent exegesis, or analysis of text, to more free-ranging storytelling. "There are guys who can spend an hour just talking about one verse, and that happens to be my favorite form of preaching," he says. "But there is a marketplace of ideas. People...
...impact on undergraduate life, however, is less certain.The Allston planners’ interim report, which was released in June, suggests several potential sites for up to four new undergraduate Residential Houses (ostensibly to replace Quad and DeWolfe housing sometime in the next 10 to 20 years). If the shift into Allston is to benefit all parties, including the College, the new undergraduate Houses must be located directly across the river (on the other side of Weeks Footbridge) from existing river Houses; locating these houses west of North Harvard Street would disrupt the contiguity and community of the College.In order...