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Conservative Quinn, who succeeds Cincinnati's moderate Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, is best known for administrative skill and intellect, both useful at a time of continuing conflict between the bishops and dissidents agitated about such things as Rome's positions on divorce and birth control. The U.S. bishops' rapport with the Vatican, says President Quinn, is "good, because it's not bad." The U.S. hierarchy has rejected challenges to such Vatican policies as clerical celibacy and an all-male priesthood issued by diocesan delegates at last year's "Call to Action" meeting. But decisions are still...
...thing that Kuechenmeister is trying to improve is his modest portfolio of investments. "I have some investments that I'm going to seriously work at," he says. "This is an outlet I see that will certainly be taxing my intellect...
...editor of the Law School's weekly newspaper, four women and two men demanded the abolition or renegotiation of the terms of the Saltonstall Prize. This year's law catalogue states Harvard awards the prize to the male seniors "who shall be considered to be fitted, by intellect, character and physique, to be influenced by Saltonstall's example and in turn to influence others...
Carter's enthusiasm for Great Britain's James Callaghan is that of one pol for another. His regard for France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is rooted in the Frenchman's intellect. Egypt's Anwar Sadat made sense to Carter. "I wouldn't mind spending a weekend fishing with him," said Carter about Canada's Pierre Elliott Trudeau. While he was in London, the President met with the leaders of 16 nations from Luxembourg to Greece. He was armed with personal fact sheets and psychological profiles of each...
...author gives the puzzle to retired Chief of Detectives Edward X. ("Iron Balls") Delaney, who spied out the sinner in Sanders' The First Deadly Sin. Delaney's feet are flat, but his intellect is fully arched; there is no doubt he will track down the killer. That certainty is the only real shortcoming of this amiable book, in which Delaney's adoring young wife leaves love notes for her husband in the refrigerator. What might have been a tense and chancy struggle between cop and criminal is, instead, merely an interesting log of police procedure as Delaney...