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That's still a fraction of America's 50 million Catholics. But partly in response to Gen-X interest, the Atlanta Archdiocese created a separate parish this spring for the Priestly Society of St. Peter, clerics who celebrate only the most traditional and elaborate style of Latin Mass, the 16th century Tridentine. In Chicago, parishioners like Paul Recchia, 29, who says the pop excesses of the modern Mass "disturbed me," have opted for the Tridentine at the ornate St. John Cantius Catholic Church--where half the weddings are now done in that fashion...
Officially, of course, the industry shares my wife's concerns. But games that reward players for shooting, maiming or running over anything that moves represent a significant fraction of a total revenue stream that could top $7 billion this year--bigger even than the annual take from movie box-office receipts--and nobody is going to tighten that spigot without a fight. "Video games don't teach people to hate," said Douglas Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association, last week. "The entertainment-software industry has no reason to run and hide...
...There's a huge portion of the faculty which wehave yet to contact," Halpern said. "The mailinghas gone out to a fraction of the FAS Faculty. Weintend to contact all of the graduate schools...
...clubs are an integral part of the University's life and that of a significant fraction of its student body, but only a male fraction...
Tercentenary Theater has echoed with the voices of students performing memorial readings three times in just the past month. The names of Holocaust victims were read to remind students of the atrocity and to illustrate that even when named steadily from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., only a mere fraction of the victims could be memorialized. Earth Day followed soon afterwards, and lists of endangered species were repeated into a microphone. And last week's Take Back the Night event sponsored another public reading to memorialize the victims of domestic violence...