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...appeal to him to bend greater efforts to help restore that harmony for a variety of reasons, not least the benefit to America. Neal Jacobs...
...largest and most influential of male orders, because its members were too frequently challenging church policy. He later installed his own temporary administration at Jesuit headquarters. Though the order is on its own again, it is not yet clear how much new Superior General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach will bend the society to the papal will. John Paul's strictures do not seem to have discouraged vocations: six years ago the worldwide total of candidates for the priesthood was 61,000; in 1982 it had risen...
Although he had been recruited by several Ivy schools, unable to afford the high tuition and ignorant of the educational opportunities available in the East, Benning accepted a full scholarship from the Fighting Irish and headed to South Bend...
Both the men and women duellists from South Bend proved that yesterday at the IAB, as they turned back valiant efforts from both Harvard squads, handing the men a 16-11 loss and stabbing the Crimson women...
Americans learned, Yankelovich suggests, that they cannot solve every problem by throwing money at it, that they cannot bend the world to their will merely by sending out the fleet. But, says Yankelovich, "the defeatism is gone. There is a reassertion of the familiar kinds of American optimism and can-do spirit--in many ways more realistic than...