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...Even in Guatemala, Latin America's most Protestant nation, there are signs that the more charismatic approach of the Catholic Church can reverse the trend. The number of Guatemalan Protestants stopped growing at the start of the decade and now numbers between 33% and 40%, according to Dr. Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Interim Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Texas. Every nation in this once homogenously Catholic continent has a bedrock of Catholic support that will never be eroded, and the numbers presented in Brazil last week may be a sign that those willing to choose...
...first test of his approach to dealing with the U.S. may, however, be over Afghanistan, where the merging of forces under NATO command will place French and other European soldiers in combat rather than simply policing roles at the very moment Paris has moved to decrease it involvement there. Sarkozy, in fact, shares Chirac's unease over the expanding membership of NATO, and the increasingly global scope of the Alliance's armed interventions...
...require increasingly sophisticated and effective administrative capacity, commensurate with the University's growing scale, complexity, and ambition. I have been encouraged to consider, in particular, how the central administration can enhance its responsiveness to the needs of our faculties, schools, and other units, and achieve a more integrated approach to the challenges presented by new ventures in science, Allston, and other areas that will call for more collaboration across traditional boundaries...
...Shelly came out very strong,” Allard said. “We had a good approach to all their batters. She hit her spots—her curve was working, her screwball was working. She was just ready for today. She was very prepared and executed perfectly...
...socialist” Royal vigorously opposes them. Sarkozy’s opponents claim that his platform is “brutal” and that it will rend the French social fabric. Depressingly, French youth (especially those in the banlieues who would particularly gain from his fresh approach), seem the most susceptible to these arguments and are the most passionately aroused by the “Tout Sauf Sarkozy” movement...