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...year after Tomes began working in the West Side projects, his labors caught the attention of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago, and he expanded Tomes' purview to include gangs throughout the city...
...DIED. ARCHBISHOP SERAPHIM, 84, stormy head of the Greek Orthodox Church since 1974 who boldly crusaded against the state in the 1980s, excommunicating seven government officials for trying to expropriate the church's vast land holdings; in Athens...
...said 15 years," laughs Counter, who has been at the Foundation for 17 years now. Over the years, he has helped student groups bring notables such as Mary Robinson, president of Ireland, Secretaries General of the United Nations Javier Perez-DeCullar and Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Nobel laureate and Archbishop Desmond Tutu to promote peace and intercultural understanding...
...appearance, Blondie, who's now 42, fits no one's image of a bad cop; to the contrary, he bears a startling resemblance to a slim, hard-muscled Robert Redford. The son of a Philadelphia bartender and a clerk for the Internal Revenue Service, he coasted through Archbishop Ryan High School but never thought about college. "I didn't like school," he explains, "except for the girls and parties." He tried to become a fireman but failed the test. "The math was too hard," he says. "The police exam was easier; that's how I became...
...Harvard business doctorate, served as executive vice president of pharmaceutical giant Bergen Brunswig and from 1970 to '72 was Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Similar figures fill the church's upper management: Tony Burns, a "stake president" (the rough equivalent of an archbishop), is chairman of Miami-based Ryder Systems, the truck-rental empire...