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...German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's ear on the topic. In the 1980s, Brazil's CLAUDIO CARDINAL HUMMES backed strikes and defied his country's dictators by letting leftist labor leader Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (now Brazil's President) make speeches during Mass. He has spoken out in favor of the organization of the landless in Brazil. Asked his priorities by Time, he immediately replied, "Evangelization and solidarity with the poor." Some outside the Third World have been almost as involved. Milan's DIONIGI CARDINAL TETTAMANZI, sometimes tagged as front runner for the papacy, famously blessed antiglobal protesters...
Many of these appearances include speeches, such as the one he gave while serving on the board at Sundance, which mocked the types of films that the festival tends to favor. He mentioned several elements characteristic of winning Sundance films: “an acoustic guitar playing mournfully,” “actors from every country trying out Southern accents,” “a generically bittersweet rapprochement,” and “a long scene in a car with a lot of talking...
...more particularly favor those [films] where the geologists save the world. But the geologists were definitely prominent,” said Moore, an aspiring geologist herself...
...which followed the Harvard Policy Debate team to Chicago for a smaller competition that ended in brilliant, promising victory. Things went worse in Spokane, Wash., last week, with the bad luck starting on day one, when Klinger and Tarloff were passed up for the year-end Copeland Award in favor of those villains from Northwestern, the pair’s longtime rivals...
When the Crimson faced Fresno State last year, the result was a 6-1 defeat, but Harvard returned the favor on March 28, winning by the same score...