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...with the usual emotions teenagers feel when they're about to embark on an adventure-without their parents-that some 40 students from Elim Christian College in Auckland, New Zealand assembled on Sunday morning. Their school-holiday excursion entailed a five-hour bus ride to an outdoor center in the Central North Island, where they were to spend five days bonding with one another, developing their leadership skills and having...
...almost certain that the Pope will not chide Bush for his decision to invade Iraq, but rather focus - as he did in their Vatican meeting last year - on how to improve the lives of Iraqis, notably the increasingly persecuted Christian minorities. A resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict also remains a priority of the Pope, who wants to see sustained American involvement in negotiations...
...Italian politics had long been dominated by a revolving-door line-up of gray Christian Democratic leaders who shared power with smaller parties in a establishment of backroom deals and Byzantine rhetoric more likely to confound rather than communicate with real people. But for the past 14 years, the political arena has been dominated by Berlusconi, the neon version of the billionaire in a blue pinstripe suit, making the hard sell in simple, sometimes bawdy language. Some said it was a welcome change from the politics of the past, and he won a short-lived victory in 1994 before...
...Princeton senior Alex Berg won 15-of-21 faceoffs; although junior Nick Smith and freshman Christian Oberbeck stuck with him, their combined efforts were outweighed by the inability of Harvard’s wings to pick up loose balls...
...daughter, even as Annie has an affair with her co-worker’s husband. The relationship between Becinsale and Rockwell is striking not only for its violent outbursts but for the way it both humanizes and demonizes them. Rockwell is unnerving in the part of a born-again Christian who attempts to redeem himself in Annie’s eyes, despite her rejections. His ploy to use religion as an excuse to punish Annie is disturbing; but even as he commits an unforgivable act, he seems just as vulnerable as his victim. In the same manner, Beckinsale?...