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...swearing in, he had to confront secrets and controversies that as Vice President he had never heard of. He learned that U.S. scientists were about to test something known as an atom bomb, that the Allies had already decided how Germany was to be divided up among them, that Joseph Stalin and Churchill were bitterly at odds about who would rule Poland. And he had to address the diplomats assembling in San Francisco to create an organization to be called the United Nations. "You are to be the architects of the better world," he told them by radio. "In your...
...Threshold of Hope. "But what the church needs now is structure, governance and patient service." That sentiment is echoed by a surprisingly wide cross section of clerics who think that the former Pope's flair for the symbolic gesture sometimes came at the expense of administrative housecleaning. Even JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER, John Paul's theological enforcer as well as a possible Pope, has grouched about a certain "untidiness...
...20th century. The Pope later mended fences by apologizing for the Church's mistakes in China over the past four centuries, and last week, Beijing's Foreign Ministry expressed "sadness" at his passing. But the two sides haven't gone back to the negotiating table. "The Chinese side," says Joseph Zen, Archbishop of Hong Kong, "has not shown much interest in dialogue...
...when work could wait. She once instructed a distraught correspondent, who had both a deadline and a screaming infant to contend with, to give the child a bubble bath and come back to the story later. Penny showed us all how to balance professionalism with parenthood: her young son Joseph would dart around the office for a few hours every Saturday, invariably dressed as Spiderman...
Though he too suspects an increase in drinking, Co-Master of Currier House Joseph L. Badaracco recalls quite a bit of student binge drinking in his college days, but he says he’s seen evidence that even more happens today. “I think it’s been part of the college scene for a long time,” he says. “Has it become even heavier and more prevalent in the last 20 years? There’s some evidence that says that’s the case...