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These hopes were dealt a strong blow, however, when Yale thrashed Dartmouth in Hanover Saturday, 35-7. Yale now stands 4-0 in the league, with Harvard, Princeton and Brown tied for second...
Over the next year, competing entrepreneurs were ordered to form collectives, and longtime-resident Chinese traders were advised to flee altogether. The regime dealt with rising unemployment by packing some 250,000 people off to rural work camps called "new economic zones...
...remaining business dealt with Catholics who practice contraception...
...childhood restlessness plagued Merton through school in France and in Britain, where he entered Cambridge. His first year there was his last. He spent too many nights in beds other than his own, and fathered an illegitimate child. His furious guardian, a family friend, dealt with the indiscretion. But when Merton left for a visit to the U.S. the next summer, the guardian wrote to suggest that Thomas stay there. (The young woman and her son died in a London air raid early in World War II.) The Seven Storey Mountain was so circumspect about Merton's youthful sins...
...example taken out of context. But the fuss reflected secular fears that the Pope might be returning to a view once held by many Catholic theologians that sexual pleasure even in marriage is deeply suspect. That is far from the case. In sermons and writings John Paul has dealt extensively with marriage, and often places a remarkably unpontifical emphasis on matters of the flesh. The book of Genesis, the Pontiff once declared, shows "the pure value of the body and of sex" in God's eyes...