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...children choose the subjects they want to paint, pick out their own materials in stores and mix their own colors. They even get to pick the size of their canvases. The result, says McVearry, is that they accomplish "something a lot harder than they thought they could...
Though she doesn't officially take until July 1, Pedersen already has some ideas for what she wants to accomplish during her five-year term...
...state." And while Wednesday's legislation represents more of a compromise than an unqualified victory for the flag's foes - the bill ensures the flag's presence on Capitol grounds and would forbid the removal of, or changes to, any Confederate monument across the state - it does accomplish one major feat: At last, state legislators have a chance to close the door on this lengthy and painful debate and finally focus on the business of governing...
What more does he plan to accomplish? He will create additional Cardinals and canonize new saints. He will keep up his push for warmer relations not only among Christian denominations but also among Christians, Jews and Moslems. He will publish a new social catechism that addresses inequities between rich and poor countries. And he hopes to keep traveling the world...
...what might all this frenzied activity accomplish, politically? It was hard to imagine. This was not Poland or Cuba, where populations and even leaders who had grown up Catholic afforded papal leverage. (The percentage of Christians in the Holy Land, including both Israel and the Palestinian territories, has decreased drastically in the past century, from 13% of the population to a tiny 2%, of which half are Orthodox rather than Roman Catholic.) John Paul made no overt attempts to influence the Israeli-Palestinian talks that continue, low key, in Washington. He did not use the trip to announce any dramatic...