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Harvard does indeed have a high degree of flexibility, especially in contrast to Georgetown University, the other winner of Alwaleed’s grant. Georgetown, which is affiliated with the Jesuit order, plans to put the $20 million toward its existing Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding...
Undergraduate researchers at Wheeling Jesuit University report that whiffs of peppermint can reduce drivers' frustration and fatigue. Adding cinnamon aids alertness...
That scheme had come to seem impossibly harsh. Says the Rev. James Martin, an editor at the Jesuit publication America who has performed many baptisms: "My idea of God is not a God who would condemn a baby to an imperfect life for eternity." Many priests have downplayed limbo out of similar concerns, and Martin lauds the Vatican panel for "bringing theological development in line with pastoral application...
...various wives, of course). Competition among the young men was fierce, and the victor, who took the name Yongzheng, was forced to spend most of his 13 years in power defending his claim. One remarkable hanging scroll, painted in the second year of Yongzheng's reign by the Jesuit priest Giuseppe Castiglione - who had been brought to court by Kangxi and lasted well into Qianlong's time - can be read as a political piece. Pine, Hawk and Glossy Ganoderma was commissioned to mark the Emperor's birthday and is replete with imagery. The pine tree stands for wisdom and long...
...missed a day of work. In the summer, Fitzgerald worked as a doorman too, a few blocks south of his father. But from a young age, Fitzgerald was on track to join the crowds of Upper East Siders swishing past him. He attended Regis High School, a scholarship-only Jesuit academy for bright Catholic boys, where he was a star on the debate team. Then he moved to Massachusetts to study math and economics at Amherst, followed by law school at Harvard...