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...However, under John Paul II inclusive language fell out of favor, and dynamism took a backseat to strict construction. In 1998, to the bishops' immense frustration, the Vatican refused to accept their version. Although angered at the rebuff, the translation committee went back to the drawing board, and eventually came up with the Mass that was voted on yesterday...
...backseat driver? Do you ever let your wife drive? When we start out together and I'm driving, she always says, "Now, we're not in a hurry, are we?" When we start out together and she's driving, I always say, "Now we're not in a hurry." They're for different reasons. --By Jeff...
...Bingham, Bingham’s older brother, had been selected to take the reins of the newspaper, and Bingham had long looked up to him. But, in a line of tragedies for the family, Worth died on vacation in Cape Cod when a surfboard stuffed through the backseat windows jackknifed his neck. After the turn of the century, Bingham’s grandfather had seen two wives die. Two years before Worth’s death, Bingham’s younger brother, Jonathan, died at the age at 22 while climbing an electricity pole. And in 1971, Bingham learned...
...with interiors that don't feel like Cracker Jack toys. The Saturn Sky won't save the brand but provides much needed zing. Edmunds.com calls it "Maria Sharapova at a tennis match full of middle-aged and badly dressed men." Lutz vows that design will no longer take a backseat to sales and marketing. A forthcoming Cadillac will be a model dreamed up by a design team and pitched to senior execs instead of the other way around. A 2007 Saturn sedan, the Aura, with an exterior designed in Germany, has already won acclaim for stylish looks...
...like the academic rigor isn’t there,” Blackley says. And indeed, U.S. News and World Report currently ranks HBS as the top business school in the country. But that does not mean that social life takes a backseat. “You learn as much outside the classroom as inside,” says Blackley. BUSINESS AND PLEASUREWith the constant pressures of networking and recruiting, socializing is hard work for HBS students. From November until winter break, firms arrive on campus to give company presentations. Business is always mixed with pleasure at HBS?...