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...DIED. KAROL KENNEDY KUCHER, 72, half of the figure-skating duo known as the Kennedy Kids, who became the first American pair to win a world championship when they captured the gold in London in 1950; in Seattle. Kucher and her older brother, Peter, won five consecutive U.S. championships from 1948-52 and a silver medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics...
...former Archbishop of Cracow, Karol Wojtyla, was elevated to the papacy in 1978, at a time when the Church was in the grip of an internal debate over how to interpret the doctrinal changes adopted the previous decade in the process known as Vatican II. And he steadfastly held the line against those in the European and North American clergy and laity who saw in Vatican II an opening to democratize the Church and emphasize the primacy of individual conscience, which would both move the church into line with the broader societies of the West, or at least help them...
...evangelical legacy over the past 25 years, will have remade the Catholic Church in his image when he passes from this Earth. Even then, it is unlikely that his successor will be even remotely like him, if for no other reason that the combination of gifts, passions and experiences Karol Wojtyla brought to the Holy See a truly unique personification of the role of "God's pastor," whose afterglow will inspire and illuminate the Catholic faithful for years after his passing...
...inaugural semester highlighted by public disagreement with faculty, Summers stunned members of the government department by overruling their undivided votes to approve Istvan Hont, 54, a political theorist from Cambridge. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Summers also chose to deny tenure to Karol Berger, a music historian from Stanford who is also 54 years...
...Karol Berger, a 54-year-old music historian at Stanford University, said that he doesn’t know why his tenure was recently denied, but he speculated that age may have played a role...