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...cultural gulf between Rome and the U.S. exacerbates the conflict. While the American bishops' starting point tends to be democracy within the church, Rome is concerned first and foremost with religious dogma. According to one Vatican official, U.S. Catholics are heavily influenced by their culture and media, which, to the Pope, create a "society of immediate gratification," the exact opposite of John Paul's ethic of "service and commitment." A final irritant is American Catholics' penchant for airing disputes in public...
...recent engineering report says the bridge is "functioning with marginal, decayed components" and that "rehabilitation must be undertaken." Even an untutored eye can see the sag of the long wooden trusses that hold the roadway high above the water. Graton's eye is hardly untutored, though; he is the foremost expert in the world on the construction and restoration of covered bridges. With his son Arnold, he has built or repaired some three dozen of them...
ALLEN GINSBERG sat down in Tommy's Lunch last Friday afternoon and ordered a raspberry-lime rickey. The foremost living American poet, in town to plug his new volume of poems, White Shroud, carried the several books and notebooks he carts from one poetry reading to the next. For a self-styled "post-beat modernist," he looked remarkably conservative: blue blazer, candy-striped shirt, and rep tie. The only hint of nonconformity was a small dried flower under glass which he wore as a lapel...
...next couple of years, fans of Indian history are in luck, as one of the foremost India scholars is visiting. David A. Washbrook, of the University of Warwick in England, is at Harvard this year, and may remain here for up to two more years...
...true central educational core. When Bok confronted him on the issue, Bennett displayed a remarkable ignorance of the specifics of the core program. While he was able to crack that it is a "core lite," he failed to offer any specific commentary. Yet the Core does have its pitfalls, foremost among them the fact that the undergraduates it serves, like their Secretary of Education, don't understand its foundation. The Core's mission to teach students how to think instead of what to think is a is a well-kept secret. That goal can hardly be reached when...