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...jerk. Arrogant and acerbic, he snaps at his wife and puts down his friends. But he seems more desperate than angry. His moral compass has gone haywire. He shoplifts a can of tuna because "food always tastes better when it's free," but helps an old man who has fallen to the curb. On Tuesday night, after boozing it up with his "pals" he snatches a wad of cash from the hands of an unsavvy pedestrian. Where the book could now turn heavy with plot or philosophy, "Crime and Punishment"-style, instead Paul casually continues his life, flirting with women...
...first non-Italian Pope in more than four centuries, John Paul II made sure to bring along from Cracow his trusted personal secretary, Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz (pronounced Geevish), who started working for him in 1966. When the Pope was shot in 1981, it was Dziwisz who caught the fallen Pontiff in his arms--and he has been by the Pope's side ever since. Dziwisz sleeps next door to the Pope's bedroom, stands just over the Pope's shoulder during Mass and, apart from certain one-on-one meetings, is with the Pope virtually every waking moment...
...debates began during Reconstruction, when the rigidity of the earlier College—where students were graded every week on class performance and behavior and chapel attendance was mandatory—had fallen away in the years after the Civil War under President Charles W. Eliot, Class...
...task of hiring has fallen to Summers, who discussed with Harvard’s governing Corporation during the presidential search last year the need to hire dozens of new professors in the years ahead...
...really have fallen behind other universities, which is especially curious considering the competency and thoughtfulness of the student body,” says Stephen N. Smith ’02, a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and a four-year representative on the Undergraduate Council...