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Elizabeth M. Grosso ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House and president elect of the Institute of Politics. Leroy Terrelonge ’07 is a Near Eastern languages and civilizations concentrator in Lowell House and former social chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance. Michael L. Vinson ’07 is a government concentrator in Adams House and former president of the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College...
...nuclear Apocalypse during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a couple of months before Alexander was born in a remote Russian village. After making a good impression with the intelligentsia at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he moved up in Soviet bureaucracy. In 1988, as dissent became pronounced all throughout Eastern Europe, Litvinenko joined the infamous KGB, the counter-intelligence agency and symbol of Soviet realpolitick in the West...
...year-old Pontiff, a trained theologian who spent two decades in the Vatican working on doctrinal matters. The terrestrial exigencies of diplomacy will touch on both geopolitics and inter-religious relations during the four-day visit, as Turkey is both 98% Muslim and the historic home of a competing Eastern branch of Christianity. Everything, of course, will be amplified in the wake of Benedict's now famous September speech about faith and violence that simultaneously angered much of the Islamic world and made the Pope an important new voice in the global debate on the simmering clash of civilizations. Though...
...first stated goal of the trip has always been to strengthen spiritual ties with Benedict's Orthodox counterpart in Istanbul, Bartholomew I, the Patriarch of Constantinople, the "first among equals" of the patriarchs of the Eastern communion. There are also some 30,000 of Benedict's own flock living in Turkey to whom he will be preaching in a pair of Catholic masses...
...achievements could be made in further healing relations with the Orthodox, a thousand years after the two churches parted ways. Many believe that Benedict can make more progress on this front than John Paul, who was seen by some Orthodox as too aggressive in trying to expand Catholicism into eastern Europe...