Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Publication of the letter, which was originally sent last July, had tactical significance in the ongoing reunion negotiations. For 17 years the president of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, Willebrands may have had an eye cocked at the five-day in-camera meeting this week in Toronto of the heads of all 28 autonomous branches of world Anglicanism. By releasing the document now, Rome also seeks to provoke hard ecumenical thinking in advance of the 1988 Lambeth Conference, the once-a- decade meeting that embraces some 600 Anglican bishops around the world...
...history Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family, Shirley Christian tells of a meeting eight months before the fall of President Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua. Two of President Carter's top Latin American advisers urged that Somoza be forced out quickly to permit creation of a new, moderate government before the Sandinistas could pick up the pieces. Other advisers were opposed, including Robert Pastor of the National Security Council. He recalls, "Pete (Viron Vaky) felt we could and should force out Somoza in the fall of '78, and I felt that we couldn't and shouldn't . . . I felt that Carter should...
...more than bad news in their monthly bills. Stuffed in with the statements are paper advertising inserts that contain samples of eye shadow. By brushing a fingertip across a colored strip, a woman can try out this season's shades from Charles of the Ritz, Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior...
Petrus comes from a gray-stone chateau 15 miles east of Bordeaux that is co-owned by Jean-Pierre Moueix and Lily Lacoste-Loubat. The operation is run by Moueix's son Christian, an art collector and jogger who attributes Petrus' quality to the chateau's mature, 40-year-old vines and to his own green thumb. He personally oversees the cultivation of the vines and claims to have given each one individual attention. Says he: "I call them people. I have seen each of them." Every fall, when the grapes reach just the right degree of ripeness, 180 workers...
...should be expected, if he is to lambast Professor West, to get his name correct: Professor Cornel West is an assistant professor at the Yale Divinity School, not Conrad West. And I would add that Professor Cruse's remarks at the fall meeting/lecture of the Seymour Society, an undergraduate Christian organization, may have little in acutality to do with his remarks at the Du Bois Graduate Colloquium (which were a "reminiscence" of Professor Du Bois, with comments linking Professor Du Bois's career with that of young scholars today). As I was not present at the Seymour Society talks...