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At its most subtle, tentmaking embodies St. Francis' edict: "Preach the gospel at all times; when necessary, use words." ("Be someone's friend, not an Amway salesman," paraphrases one veteran.) But the sometimes clandestine status can breed bad habits. Visa bans turn many Evangelicals, usually straightforward to a fault, into...
Summers then conferred honorary degrees on 11 leaders from the world of business, art and academia. When Provost Steven E. Hyman read a brief biography of honorand Norman C. Francis and took a breath after mentioning that Francis served as chair of Educational Testing Services, hisses arose from the audience...
It's hard for Americans to shake the collective memory of Vietnam when they're sending young men and women to kill and die in distant lands. And it's not only the quagmire-phobic antiwar types that can't avoid the Vietnam references: To raise their morale before entering...
MISSIONARY STYLE Built to house the mortal remains of Goa's most famous visitor, St. Francis Xavier, the Basilica of Bom Jesus is as impressive a fragment of cod baroque as you'll find in Asia. A 16th century missionary, St. Francis worked a diocese that stretched from Africa to...
The interior of Bom Jesus is folkish and crudely executed compared with its European prototypes, but the big draw is St. Francis' body, exhibited every 10 years and long held to be miraculously immune from decay. Judging by his partially exposed skull and missing parts, he may have finally succumbed...