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...excitement generated by Pforzheimer wasn't enough to diminish the excitement of first-years assigned to the River Houses...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First-Years Get Warm Welcome | 3/24/2000 | See Source »

...pontiff's moving expression of solidarity with the victims of the Holocaust, denunciation of anti-Semitism and call for mutual respect among Christians and Jews fell short of Israeli expectations of some form of apology for the Vatican's conduct during World War II, but that won't diminish the fact that - as Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak noted in his salutary response - John Paul II has done more in his 22-year papacy than centuries of predecessors to repair Rome's relationship with the Jews, whom the Church had until only too recently vilified as Christ-killers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope's Speech Marks a Remarkable Journey | 3/23/2000 | See Source »

...specific apology for the actions of a predecessor currently in the process of beatification (Pius XII) may have been beyond his reach, given the complex and contested process by which the Vatican makes decisions. The absence of an apology for Pius XII didn't in any way diminish the power in the spectacle of the bishop of Rome making a heartfelt expression of solidarity with the victims of the Holocaust, before being embraced by a weeping survivor he'd known since his boyhood. This on a day when, in contrast to previous pontiffs who'd taught that the Jews' exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope's Speech Marks a Remarkable Journey | 3/23/2000 | See Source »

...play for my teammates, my coaches, my parents, and for myself. Because no one else is watching does not diminish what golf has meant...

Author: By Maureen B. Shannon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moe Money, Moe Problems | 3/17/2000 | See Source »

...long we have seen politics which wants to diminish the soul of America," Bush said at a campaign rally in Colorado, referring to the Clinton Administration...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bradley, McCain Drop Out of Race | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

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