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...Most people fall into neat categories: the worldly cynic or the naïve spiritual," says Richard Harrington '51, a friend of Nenneman since college. "Dick is a bit of both...
...academic endeavors here. The University lacks professors for American colonial literature, the history of mathematics, German political thought, and French language and civilization. With the ensemble of an economist as University president, a computer scientist as dean of the College and a chemist as dean of the Faculty, the cynic may find grounds for long-term worries. Either way, this is a pressing problem facing the administration and all the necessary steps, from supporting departmental tenure decisions to making the money available for a new batch of professorships, must be met as those in the sciences have been...
...lifted off in 1998 when Green Mountain, based in Austin, Texas, agreed to print educational material and offer churches $35 cash for each parishioner who enrolled. Formerly part of a Vermont utility, the company was sold to private investors in 1997. A cynic might call the setup a marketing V.P.'s wildest fantasy: priests endorsing a product in the name of you-know-who and then pounding the pavement. But that would not be entirely fair. Both sides are vulnerable, and neither has an advantage. It's the Holy Spirit meeting the "invisible hand...
...scored big in 1998 when Green Mountain, based in Austin, Texas, agreed to print educational material and offer churches $35 cash for each parishioner who enrolled. Formerly part of a Vermont utility, the company was sold to private investors in 1997. A cynic might call the setup a marketing V.P.'s wildest fantasy: priests endorsing a product in the name of you-know-who and then pounding the pavement. But that would not be entirely fair. Both sides are vulnerable, and neither has an advantage. It's the Holy Spirit meeting the 'invisible hand.' Ecumenical groups are adapting...
They did change their minds on that one. Maybe there's more going on than meets a cynic's eye? Let Defense Secretary Rumsfeld explain the decision to suspend missile talks with N. Korea...