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...memo, sent by Harvard's Committee on Central America (COCA) to 900 male undergraduates, was cleverly designed to play upon the public outrage generated by the brutal murders of six Jesuit priests last week by right-wing death squads in El Salvador...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Selective Condemnation | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Trained for the priesthood at the Jesuit-run Maryknoll Seminary, Clark says he has taken on a new "mission"--increasing the scholarly output of the Law School's 65 faculty members...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: A Law Dean With a New 'Mission' | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

Granieri's turn toward the right occurred after he won a scholarship to a Jesuit school in Buffalo and was exposed to conservative ideas for the first time. Granieri found a particular fascination with the life of Alexander Hamilton, a West Indian who through sheer smarts made his way to the North American colonies and to Columbia College. "Hamilton was the scholarship student of the American Revolution," says Granieri. Hamilton, not incidentally, also emerged as one of the most prominent conservative thinkers...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: A Conservative, But 'Still a Nice Guy' | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...emptying, faith is thriving in the sprawling lands south of the Sahara. As is so often the case, spiritual strength is inspiring -- and being inspired by -- an outpouring of artistic creation. "We are on the verge of a golden age in African Christian art," proclaims Jesuit Father Engelbert Mveng of Cameroon. "The movement cannot be stopped, and it is bursting out in flower all over Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Africa's Artistic Resurrection | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...become the media black hole that absorbs all the negative feedback," says he. "I can absorb a lot of flak that would otherwise go to our candidates." The most organized opposition to Brown came from women's groups concerned about abortion rights. A pro-choice Governor, the former Jesuit seminary student did an about-face after working for Mother Teresa. Last year he told an interviewer, "The killing of the unborn is crazy." He also wrote a letter to Florida penal authorities urging the release of a jailed antiabortion crusader. During the campaign, Brown tried to defuse the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Was Zen, This Is Now | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

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