Word: jesuitically
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Strict but colorful nuns and life-changing Jesuit priests also populate the former altar boy's fond rendering of the tight-knit Irish Catholic world of his childhood, where John F. Kennedy was king. It was good preparation for an early job working for New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan--Russert's intellectual father--who assured him that having hauled garbage during the summer, Russert would always have the advantage in a roomful of eggheads...
Jones went to college--Holy Cross, a Jesuit school in Massachusetts--but poverty was always one false step away, and he was briefly homeless after he graduated. When he was offered a steady job at a financial magazine called Tax Notes, he took it, and stayed there for 19 years. "When you grow up like that, having a job is important," he says. "It was always the job first. Writing would come second." But Jones hung on to his literary dreams, even though his co-workers joshed him about writing the great American novel. He lived alone, in the same...
...campaign season, and there's a possibility of some uncomfortable moments on the trail. "All you need is a picture of Kerry going up to the Communion rail and being denied, and you've got a story that'll last for weeks," says Father Thomas Reese, editor of the Jesuit magazine America...
While the college was established in 1863 and is one of the nation’s oldest Jesuit, Catholic universities, Birnbaum said students have moved onto campus relatively recently...
Birnbaum said that the task force would embrace both rituals as well as symbols, including bells, gates, class gifts such as trees or benches and a statue of Ignacius of Loyola, who founded the Jesuit order...