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...once-devoutly Catholic Spain, legalizing gay marriage, easing divorce and encouraging stem-cell research. The 45-year-old Socialist leader has become the smiling symbol of Old Europe's rising secularism. Benedict may have had ?Zapatero's Spain" in mind when, on the eve of the conclave that chose him to replace Pope John Paul II, he denounced ?the dictatorship of relativism" in a powerful and oft-cited speech to his fellow Cardinals. In the 15 months since, the pontiff?s fierce intellect and clear ideas on repairing Catholicism's troubles on its home continent have turned him into...
...band that drowns out much of the cast’s singing, but they are too few and too sporadic to mar the production. During intermission, while I asked a producer some questions about the arrangements, a member of the audience inquired why the cast and crew chose to stay at Harvard during the summer. After hearing their work was unpaid, she wondered if they got academic credit. But to both questions, the answer was “no.” In a time when many of us seek profitable private jobs or for-credit summer courses across time...
...anniversary of the London subway bombings on July 7, 2005, and remind people that if it could happen in London it could happen here. The dozens if not hundreds of law enforcement folks who worked on thwarting this embryonic plot were not part of some political scheme. But whoever chose July 7 to leak the story clearly was. With the mid-term election less than four months away, for some people, that's a helpful message...
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Updike said that the Lampoon was one of the reasons he chose Harvard and that he then hoped to become a humorist upon arriving at Harvard...