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Globally, that may not have been the majority assessment. The Pope was wildly popular among the faithful in Africa and Latin America, whose growing numbers of Catholics constitute the church's long-term future. Along with an increasingly confident generation of conservatives in the West, they would affirm the assertion by Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, a former Vatican Foreign Minister under John Paul, that "in this crazy world, he is the only moral reference." Then, too, a remarkable number of fans came from other creeds. The Rev. Billy Graham said, "He'll go down in history as the greatest...
...said that contributions such as theirs affirm the public’s confidence in therapeutic stem cell research...
...Beam’s soothingly repetitive acoustic guitar licks and his wispy vocals affirm the record’s Iron & Wine identity. Woman King is laced with elegant subtlety, clever word play, powerful emotion and all the other goodies that pulled Beam so quickly from his basement recording studio into the indie limelight. The solidly composed title track, “Woman King,” abounds with precise rhythms and haunting poetry. In the singular lament, “My Lady’s House,” Beam taps into emotional wavelengths à la Nick Drake...
Summers’ advocates, meanwhile, validated the scholarship behind the claims made in the speech and circulated a petition among the Faculty, asking that they actively affirm their confidence in Summers’ leadership if it comes to a vote at next Tuesday’s meeting...
...hope to use this momentum to showcase and affirm that women are very much into science,” Decker said. “It has taken private conversations about careers, obstacles, and prejudices of women in the sciences and made them more public...