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The Church of the Saviour was never a conventional church. It has no pews, no Sunday school, not even a Christmas service. Instead, for 60 years this small, unusual group based in Northwest Washington has quietly fueled a revolution in faith-based activism.
Tue, Jan 6, 2009 (2 a.m.) UNLV reduced the number of classes it offered. Favorite faculty members lost their jobs. Others took buyouts. Budget cuts made the fall semester a painful one for the state’s public colleges.
South Africa is far off track from the real distribution of the country's wealth and resources, says Imraahn Mukaddam, the man popping into news pages with increasing regularity as a result of his social activism.
A guess at when and how big digital decisions will go down in 2009.
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union’s failure to mediate a Middle East truce and its reluctance to seek a compromise in the energy dispute between Russia and Ukraine highlight the bloc’s inability to gain clout in world affairs.
Not since Franklin D. Roosevelt turned the U.S. government into an aggressive agent of liberalism has the left felt such a deep attachment and invested such hopes in a head of state.
In an email circulated today, Jennie Dotts has publicly declared her interest in the appointment to the interim vacancy created by Delores McQuinn’s likely victory in the special election: Following todays special election, City Council will appoint a representative from our community to fill the 7th District Council seat to be vacated by Delores McQuinn. [...]
Unlike many of the Kennedy clan she chose activism and art over politics. A student at Radcliffe and Columbia Law School, she also trained in art at Sotheby's and went on to write books about civil rights and the right to privacy.
Northern Kentucky University announced that acclaimed Washington, D.C., radio host Joe Madison will keynote the university’s 2009 Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration program on Jan. 15, at 7 p.m. in NKU’s University Center Otto Budig Theater.
NEW YORK -- How to get to “Sesame Street” is child’s play, as the chirpy theme song has assured kids daily for 39 years.
