Word: championing
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Last week speculation also ran to names rarely heard before: Paulo Evaristo Arns, 57, Brazil's brave champion of human rights; Joseph Cordeiro, 60, of Pakistan, who exudes saintly simplicity and concern for the poor; and Poland's Karol Wojtyla, 58, who is a strong leader in a hostile environment-and speaks fluent Italian...
Atlantic: The champion Bullets move over to this division, but will be lucky to grab second place at the season's end. Philadelphia virtually locked up the championship with the Jones for McGinnis swap, provided Julius Erving can still do it, ABA-style. The Knicks are good on paper, and will be good if the paper is legal tender and given to Monroe and Jim McMillian. The Celtics will reach .500 only if opposing teams refuse to play while Dave Cowens is out. With Kevin Porter traded to Detroit for Eric Money, the Nets need a play maker...
...winner and still the champion is Economics 10," assistant registrar Paul Gardner said yesterday, announcing "very preliminary" enrollment figures that show 993 students will sit through that course this semester...
Jesse Helms is a different political creature, newer to the game and more like the Thurmond of 30 years in the vitriol of his rhetoric. But the charade is similar. Like Thurmond, he identifies himself as a "champion of the little people" while amassing an enormous campaign warchest, much of it from out-of-state business interests (his opponent has dubbed him "the $6 million...
CORRADO URSI, Archbishop of Naples, 70. Warmhearted, courageous, a champion of the poor and a friend of ecumenism, Corrado Ursi is the son of a baker from the Adriatic coast. Ursi went almost straight from ordination back into seminaries as a teacher, later a rector. In 1966, after being elevated to the See of Naples, he soon won admiration as a "good pastor." As Cardinal he not only visited his parishes but often stayed on for two or three days to learn their needs. Three years ago, when a cholera epidemic broke out in Naples, he visited the hospitals each...