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...Pope to worship at Anglicanism's Canterbury Cathedral, the first to preach in a Lutheran church, and the first in a millennium to attend the Eucharist in Istanbul alongside Orthodoxy's Ecumenical Patriarch. But despite these gestures of friendship, substantive progress toward Christian unity has nearly come to a halt during John Paul II's reign. Last week a front-page editorial in the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, seemed to signal that there is no prospect of structural reunion of the churches so long as this Pope's views prevail...
Then currency traders were taken aback by bulletins concerning the testimony of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker before a congressional committee. Volcker said that Western central banks had not acted "forcefully enough" to halt the dollar's ascent. Some traders took that to be a call for stepped-up Government intervention...
Women could not very well enter the professions or seck sckilled employment without a good education. According to some observers in the early part of the 19th century the already abysmally low standard of education of girs schools was continuing to decline It took Entity Davies to halt this slide She was in spired to take action when she found her own education wanting and was bored with the life she was expected to lead when she came of age Davies founded the Gorton School and began the reform of girls' education Davies insisted on educating her students in exactly...
...mutinous spirit quickened, the government of President Fernando Belaunde Terry began to fear that guerrillas might exploit the drug-related troubles even further. Last August the President declared a state of emergency and sent 1,000 troops to restore order. They did so--by telling the antinarcotics squad to halt its war against drugs...
...cornerstone was laid in 1848. The monument rose to 154 ft. before a lot of trouble, including the Civil War, brought construction to a halt. The U.S. Government took over in 1876, strengthened the foundation and resumed building the upper monument three years later. But the new marble was slightly different in wearing quality, and a 26-ft. band was fixed in place before engineers rematched the stone. That band is noticeable today. In December 1884, a 100-oz. aluminum cap was placed on the spike-shaped peak. Then on a wintry Saturday morning in February, the dapper President Chester...