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...Broadwater ’02, perhaps the most insouciant person I know, tossed his Red Stripe to the side and bellowed with the forcefulness of a freight train, “I’ll write the names!” Hovering over the frail light of one tiny candle, Ian, who is usually seen late-night at the Spee doing interpretive dances, carefully scribed the names of every person in the room over and over and over. A makeshift assembly line emerged on the balcony while people compulsively ripped tiny scraps of paper into equal sizes, each annotated with...
...crowd did not spot the paw and Gilligan shooed away the “frail-looking” MIT students...
...what the effect will be. Scientists have their own questions about the forces at work early in the universe and their relevance to the cosmos today, but the power of a photograph can have an impact broader than science. During Project Apollo, an astronaut took a picture of the frail, blue-and-white Earth rising above a desolate lunar landscape, and suddenly people realized just where they were. Some perspectives changed, and that photo helped take the environmental movement into the mainstream. So when the first rays of light have crossed the universe and reached our souls...
What can the meeting accomplish? That may depend on who leads it. Many feel that the man to watch will be not the frail Pope but Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, who heads the church's powerful Congregation for the Clergy. But the conservative Pontiff made headlines Saturday, ordering Bishops to "diligently investigate accusations" against priests for breaking their vows of celibacy. "It's a mistake to underestimate him," says George Weigel, the Pope's biographer...
...year—and the College wouldn’t even think to bat an eye. Students are presumably meant to develop relationships with these academic advisors and general welfare guardians. But how can these relationships ever become personal or intimate ones when the nature of it is so frail and tenuous...