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...oppressor of Jews in the mid-1800s, will. (The march toward canonization of another Pius--XII--has stalled in the face of renewed charges that he stood by silently during the Holocaust.) John Paul also plans to bestow sainthood on two women this year--the Polish nun Faustina Kowalska, who died in a Nazi concentration camp; and Katharine Drexel, an American socialite turned educator who dedicated her life to teaching poor blacks and Native Americans in the first half of the 1900s. And he has started his late friend Mother Teresa down the beatification path, waiving the five-years-posthumous...
...Assistant Senior Tutor and former Race Relations Tutor, Cabot House --Dayle De Lancey '92 Resident Tutor and Race Relations Tutor, Pforzheimer House --Gisele Garraway Resident Tutor, Cabot House --Levi A. Garraway '90 Resident Tutor, Cabot House --Donnella Green Resident Tutor, Currier House --Elisabeth Guzman Assistant Senior Tutor, Pforzheimer House --Faustina Haynes Resident Tutor, Currier House --James B. Lin, Resident Tutor, Eliot House --Stephen Marshall Resident Tutor, Currier House --Rita Padmore Resident Tutor, Winthrop House --Susan E. Phillips '92 Resident Tutor, Cabot House --Jennifer A. Richeson Assistant Senior Tutor, Currier House --Alonford J. Robinson, Jr. Resident Tutor and Race Relations Tutor...
...something else that I find challenging and interesting." Last Friday, Hillary and her entourage hiked a slick, muddy trail outside the remote Panamanian village of Chica, where a dozen peasant women were waiting at their nursery of guavas, peppermint and poinsettias. On a dilapidated bamboo bench, Faustina Nunez told the First Lady in Spanish of the dream they had also harvested from the soil. "Our community could see we were a society of strong-willed women, and we were not going to step backward," Nunez said. For Hillary and her generation, that is a yearning that needs no translation...
Archeologists fought the idea. Using ancient and often inaccurate maps, they protested that the new tunnel would smash through the unexplored remains of the palace of Marcus Aurelius' wife Faustina. It might even barge into the buried red-light district of the 2nd and 3rd Centuries, A.D. Cried scholarly Dr. Roberto Lanzara: "Builders will strike something of great archeological and historical interest every 100 yards." But the engineers...
...first, the digging went well enough. Then the archeologists were proved right. An excavation a city block square near the railway station opened up an antiquarian's gold mine. It included a palace (probably Faustina's), public baths (with fixtures for hot & cold water), and the antique remains of bordellos...