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...last great conservative gestures as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Dominus Jesus, a reassertion of the primacy of Catholicism over other religions. Other members are "consultors" to that key office, and Opus' canon lawyers saturate Rome. Asserts John Navone, a Jesuit theologian at Gregorian University: "They're in the forefront of the Vatican...
...timing, conviction, and eloquence, he succeeded in marginalizing the Review.Freedman is not a “namby-pamby.” Nor was Derek C. Bok, an articulate leader of this University and of American higher education for 20 years. Other admirable leaders in the recent past include Vartan Gregorian at Brown University, William G. Bowen at Princeton University, Nannerl O. Keohane at Duke University, and Charles M. Vest at MIT. Nor is there a dearth of impressive leaders today: Leon Botstein of Bard University has been a vigorous spokesperson on a variety of issues for many years, and Shirley...
...power of both albums, and neither the Spanish nor English album achieves full levels of Freudian fixation. On “Vol. II,” Shakira begins with a religious monologue to God on “How Do You Do?” Opening with a Gregorian chant of the “Our Father” and church bells, the song has boundless potential, but abruptly changes into a spiritual pop opus with its haunting combination of Christian prayer, Arabic words, and Hebrew chanting. While the topic’s ambition is commendable, the song lacks...
...unexpected, oddly placed, upward inflections - as affected. But there's a certain quirky charm in his words and the way he sings them. Fanny Ardant et Moi, a rare up-tempo number, recounts Delerm's imagined relationship with the French actress 27 years his senior. "We are listening to Gregorian chant," he sings. "She barely speaks and me I say nothing/ We have a relationship like that/ Fanny Ardant and me." Delerm deftly turns an implausible conceit into a finely observed slice of life, in which the odd couple spend awkward weekends at his parents' house. "I like the idea...
...Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation, called the BBC’s video “a caricature of America” that painted all Americans as either conservative or liberal, with no variation in between...