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...more unsettling is the flabby lack of resourcefulness that this situation has revealed in students at the (second) best university in the world. I too have been afflicted with a sort of wireless-induced intellectual sloth. Unable to log onto Facebook from bed last night, I was forced to begin the reading for my Social Studies tutorial. Rousseau argues that man in his developed state is no match for man in his state of nature, untainted by tools. Our temporary wireless troubles reveal how dependence on technology has made us lazy and reluctant to do things the old-fashioned...
Zachary A. Corker ’04, the project manager for Loker Commons planning and program development, is still trying to nail down the pub’s exact opening date. When that’s settled, he will begin booking bands for the planned three-day grand opening extravaganza...
...particularly in the latter years of the previous papacy, bureaucrats actually wrote the speeches themselves. But the effective No. 2 man in the Curia bureaucracy, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, had been a lame duck over the last two months after Benedict announced his replacement as Secretary of State would begin this fall (Sep. 15, in fact, the day after the Pope's return from Germany). Insiders say the 78-year-old Italian hadn't had an effective working relationship with the German Pope since he became Pope (some believe he may have even tried to block the election of the then...
...Though Navarro-Valls, a suave Opus Dei layman, was prized for his ability to shape John Paul's message for the modern media, he too had appeared to be biding his time since the start of this pontificate. The Jesuit scholar Lombardi, a much more low-key figure, must begin to help translate Benedict's lofty prose into the stuff of daily news copy. Also, just last week, the new head of the Vatican's foreign affairs office was named. It is Mons. Dominique Mamberti, a Moroccan-born Frenchman, who has spent much of his diplomatic tenure in Muslim countries...
...stepped up, and perhaps it will remain on higher levels for years to come on account of the current uproar. The Pope, in any case, does seem to believe that religious violence is indeed a "top story" of our times; but with a little more PR savvy, he might begin to help reverse the current storyline, rather than fuel...