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...order founded in France in 1641 as Sisters of the Refuge to shelter banished women. The order was renamed and internationalized in 1835 under the leadership of Mother, later Saint, Maria Euphrasia, who emphasized gratitude as the basis of the order's faith and works. "Vous avez un coeur fait pour aimer, fait pour etre reconnaissant." (You have a heart created to love and to be grateful.) Theologically, the tenet of gratitude is seen as the opposite of original sin because it grasps God as the source of all that is good. Mary Paul translates this idea into appreciation...
...costly to penetrate the blockade imposed by Kennedy or defend their ships. Vladimir Buzykin, head of the Latin American Department of the Foreign Ministry, told me that there was no contingency plan in the event the Cuban operation failed. By establishing the quarantine, Kennedy had presented Khrushchev with a fait accompli instead of the other way around...
Percy, a moderate Republican, lost a tight race to five-term Rep. Paul Simon. Fait polls showed Simon captured some 90 percent of the Illinois Black vote and two-thirds of the votes of those describing themselves as "liberals...
Although Feldstein has not yet publicly discussed any intention to keep or erase this unit, Marglin and many other faculty and teaching fellows are concerned that he may end it without warning. "[We] would like [such a desision] not to be a fait accompli, like the radical sections," Marglin said
Gemayel's visit to Damascus signals a Syrian fait accompli...