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...Chicago Archdiocese succeeds in a new push, Scherschel will soon be joined by many more homegrown members of the clergy. Beginning July 1, the church will launch a drive to find more of them, using the 500 or so active priests across the city and suburbs to help spread the word. Roughly a dozen full- or part-time priests will work Chicago's 80 neighborhoods and northern suburbs much like recruiters for the police or fire department or any business group would. Schools will be visited in the 364 local parishes, as well as public and private institutions, colleges...
...Gibbs' "Pain in the Gas" mildly disturbing [June 4]. How can people not care about how much it costs to fill their car's tank? What about hardworking Americans like me who live check to check and simply cannot afford to spend $55 to $75 to fill up? I drive a 1989 Volvo, which gets 24 m.p.g., but I live far from work. I get less than a week's commute out of a tank of gas. I'm paying a lot of money that I can't really spare just...
Life is slow in the breathtakingly beautiful Egyptian oasis of Siwa, nine hours drive from Cairo. Palm and olive trees seem to float on vast expanses of salt lakes surrounded by serene sand dunes enveloping warm water springs. Siwa's inhabitants are of Berber origin, and live according to centuries-old traditions. But the forces of globalization and economic development have started a slow-motion social revolution in this remote oasis...
...planned University-wide capital campaign was put on hold during the turmoil of the Summers presidency. Faust now appears poised to jump-start the fundraising drive, and administrators say that filling the deanship vacancies is a necessary step to begin the academic planning for the campaign...
...Zeckhauser says that Summers’ intellectual drive also motivated his entrance into the private sector—Summers joined the hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co. as a part-time advisor last October, and says he plans to continue next year. Summers was likely attracted to D.E. Shaw in particular, Zeckhauser said, because of its quantitatively oriented approach to investing and the opportunity to surround himself with particularly intelligent co-workers...