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...secular Europe. And while most Italians are all but secular in their day-to-day lives, the Catholic Church and the pope's pulpit remain powerful forces in Italy's domestic politics. Upon word of Englaro's death, the Vatican's chief of health-related issues, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan said: "We pray for her and ask the Lord for forgiveness for all that they did to her." Other strong words were exchanged in the Italian Senate, which had been in the throes of a passionate debate over an emergency bill introduced by Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi that would have forced...
...Catholic presidential candidate John Kerry. The archbishop has since been promoted to Rome as head of the Holy See's equivalent of a Supreme Court. Meanwhile, in response to a question last week on Obama's pledge to reverse Washington's policy on stem-cell research, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, who heads the Vatican office for health, made it clear that the church will not shy away from the debate. "What builds up man is good, what destroys him is bad," he told reporters, arguing that one human being should never become a material resource for the betterment of another...
Carlos Gonzalez Barragan, who studies international finance at the Universidad de Monterrey, first came to Harvard for the spring 2002 semester to take economics classes but petitioned to extend his study for the fall. “I found all these cool, interesting classes in other departments that I wouldn’t find at home,” Barragan says. “The nice thing about being a visiting student is that you don’t have Harvard requirements. You can take whatever you want as long as it’s not lotteried, and as long...
...It’s hard not knowing where you are going to live a month before you come,” says Barragan, who first came to Harvard in February 2002. He says he never considered renting an apartment off-campus. “It’d be more expensive and it wouldn’t be the same.” Instead, 20 days before he was due to arrive he found out he’d been Quadded—not that he knew what to make of it. “I didn?...
...study a lot here,” Momsen says. “I was surprised to see people studying in the dining halls—that’s not what students do, at least not at the German university I go to.” And students like Barragan who say the workload at their home university is greater note that Harvard students spend an extraordinary amount of time pursuing extracurriculars, which leaves little time for an active social life...