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...dogged Benedict and his predecessors since the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65. "Vatican II," which overhauled much of Catholic teaching and ritual, had a revolutionary impact on the Church as a whole. It enabled people to hear the Mass in their own languages; embraced the principle of religious freedom; rejected anti-Semitism; and permitted Catholic scholars to grapple with modernity...
...heart Eleganza. I’ve been going since pre-frosh year,” she recalls. Mere weeks away from becoming a Harvard graduate, Adelman appreciates that her days of partying are dwindling. “I’ll miss that sort of freedom that comes with partying in the college scene,” she says. But here, tonight, it’s just another Harvard Friday, and as far as Adelman is concerned, the end is far from sight. The young professional party scene may be her future, but Eleganza is her present, and right...
...administrative decision to blur the line between two educational eras, however, seems less like an easygoing brand of understanding and more like a collective vote of “no confidence” in the much-heralded replacement to the broken Core. What is more, this freedom of choice may banish our new enrollees to bureaucratic quicksand, as a rocky curricular transition will likely leave them with neither substantial course selection nor the guidance to make essential academic decisions...
...course, this latter need presupposes that the decision to force this choice on incoming freshmen will be preserved, in spite of its glaring problems. This decision does not encourage student freedom, but rather general ambiguity and confusion. Moreover, it will likely condemn one group or the other to a few semesters’ worth of inhospitable course choices from scant options and even worse advising—not the ideal way to kick off a new epoch of learning in Cambridge...
...Gianfranco Fini, the rightist leader who brought the post-fascist movement into the mainstream in 1993 with the founding of the National Alliance party. Alemanno served as agriculture minister in Berlusconi's 2001-2006 government, and was allied in the mayoral run with Berlusconi backers in the newly formed Freedom Party. After years of centrist Christian Democratic mayors and a 15-year grip by the center-left, Rome now has its first rightist mayor since World...