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When Pope Benedict XVI touches down for his first papal visit in the United States next week, you may notice that he doesn't have the same onstage flair as his predecessor, John Paul II. But you may also begin to notice a very handsome man of the cloth never far from the pontiff's side. That would be Monsignor Georg Gänswein, the Pope's personal secretary, responsible for everything from deciding who gets to see Benedict, to keeping His Holiness on schedule, to discreetly handing him his papal reading glasses just before a homily or other public discourse...
...Maybe these turning points are not significant beyond their implications for one team in one season, but each year, they form the memories on which the hopes for the next season are based. As some of Harvard’s seniors, like Taylor and his co-captain Dave MacDonald, begin chasing the dream of playing professional hockey and the Crimson look forward to returning other starters, whose talents have emerged this season, those turning points won’t ever define a season in quite the same way again.But that is part of the fun in following a team over...
Although real life adds many levels of complexity, Rand said that he believed the study was generalizable, assuming that the players begin on an equal standing...
...maintain the property, admitted that "the finding in the case is initially favorable to the [seceding] congregations," but pointed out the judge has specified that the buildings could not change hands unless the second half of his trial determines that the Virginia law is actually constitutional. Hearings on that begin May 28. "And we are confident," says Burt, "that the Virginia law creates issues both with the First Amendment and the Constitution's contracts clause...
...interviewer Howard E. Gardner ’65 waited to begin their conversation last night on the role of music in the world, the famous cellist took in the room and said, “This is like a wedding.” Ma displayed good humor and genuine affection for both his interviewer and the crowd that gathered to see him in the Radcliffe Gymnasium as he explained his attitudes towards the cello, culture, and the world at large. Gardner, a professor at the Graduate School of Education, introduced his interviewee as “the pre-eminent cellist...