Word: faithfully
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...called for clarity and vividness in sacred images. The other was the legacy of ancient Rome -- the immense residue of form and narrative from the classical past. There seems to be no evidence one way or the other about Poussin's religious life or the strength of his faith. Probably he was neither pious nor a freethinker, but a stoic who could, when required, perform as a remarkable religious painter, as the second series of his The Seven Sacraments shows. His early Martyrdom of St. Erasmus, 1628, sticks in the mind because it is such a singular combination of ferocity...
...P.R.I. "demons" and accuse them of unsubstantiated crimes is unprecedented. Yet the case that provoked Ruiz Massieu is deeply personal: the crime he has been investigating is the murder of his brother. "One bullet killed two Ruiz Massieus," he declared. "One lost a life, the other the faith that justice can be served in a P.R.I. government...
Equally destabilizing has been the almost inconceivably rapid democratization of information -- the electronic saturation of the world. Once, the leader was the one who knew things and therefore understood what the followers did not: knowledge was power, and following was an act of faith. Now sheer, unexpurgated information accelerates history. It is also hell on mystique. The media help create leaders and then eat them alive -- a sort of electronic Aztec sacrifice...
...excruciating, yielded 50. "It was like selecting the person who is Most Likely to Succeed for the school yearbook," says assistant editor Elizabeth Rudulph, who coordinated research for the project. "You don't want to pick someone who will peak early and then fade." By the same token, says Faith Corman, a free-lance journalist who also worked on the issue, "an overachiever is not the same thing as a leader...
That decision came to haunt senior correspondent Richard N. Ostling, whose job it was to find young leaders from the religious and intellectual arenas. "Thought and faith require a long period of marination to produce excellence," Ostling notes. "It's devilishly hard to find people of worth who are 40 or younger in those fields...