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...your father's Irish Catholicism. Attendance at mass is down, birth control is commonplace, and not one new priest was ordained last year in the Dublin archdiocese - which estimates that more than 100 of its priests since 1940, about 4% of the total, have abused children. Diarmuid Martin, a Vatican diplomat who speaks five languages, was made Dublin's Archbishop in 2004 and has sought to clean up and revitalize the church. He spoke with Time's J.F.O. McAllister. How has Ireland changed since you left it for the Vatican 30 years ago? It used to be that Irish society...
...House resident and madman. “When I came to Harvard, I found that the Castle really DID exist! It was called the Currier TLR, and it was good.” The TLR was, in fact, a castle belonging to all of Harvard. Or something. From its birth in 1970, noisy, irresponsible shit has been going down in the TLR–and overworked and under-socialized students have been able to pretend from Friday night to Sunday morning that they go to a normal college. Robert M. Koenig ’06-’07, former...
...first book, Surviving Ophelia, about the struggles girls face growing up. One of the principles behind the groups is that girls tend to be tenacious about their anger, with resentments continuing to simmer long after the fisticuffs have ended. Most boys, always thought of as brawlers, are raised from birth on the idea of avoiding fights or at least ending them with a handshake. Girls need to learn the same lessons. More than 400 teachers and guidance counselors have taken Dellasega's workshops, and groups are sprouting up nationwide...
...company that recently went public in New York and is taking on Google in the red-hot Chinese Internet market. (Google's China chief, Kai-Fu Lee, is among the more prominent Chinese-American executives in the country.) How He found her way back to the country of her birth is not unusual. After graduating from New York University she got a job at Standard & Poor's as a derivatives analyst. She had been "very happy," she says, living in New York's East Village after college, but a few years of "numbers crunching" at S&P bored...
...Harvard in 1971 and has raised two children since then, says the College’s parental leave policy should acknowledge the biological differences between men and women. Tatar supports the implementation of “a maternity leave that would recognize the physical challenges of pregnancy and giving birth,” which she says require extra time off. Martin and her colleagues are looking to create such a maternity leave policy for women having babies. Although the University currently offers a one semester teaching relief policy to any parent who is a primary care giver, this new policy...