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With the proportion of global south Catholics at two-thirds and climbing (even as Latin American practitioners engage in near hand-to-hand combat with encroaching Pentecostal Protestantism), preventing deadly poverty is as much a matter of church survival as it is a spiritual commitment to the beatitude "Blessed are the poor in spirit." Moreover, unlike some of the late Pope's doctrinal stances (or his no-condoms position on aids prevention in some of the same locales), economic justice is win-win, a cause to which theological absolutists in Rome or Lagos and cafeteria Catholics in the moneyed West...
...conform to popular conceptions of Harvardians—and we are unabashedly aiming for a mass market with our book—our hero-students would have to be a lot more ostentatiously smart and accomplished than we are. It would be useful, for instance, if they knew Latin, and also kung fu. These are not accomplishments any of us possess. The more self-consciously Harvard we made our characters, the farther they departed from us and from people we knew...
This prosaic reality, though, doesn’t translate very well into fiction—especially fast-moving fiction. Hence Professors Langdon and Massey—and hence, eventually, my roommates’ and my Latin verb-declining, kung fu-fighting heroes. There is something strange about propagating a myth that you no longer believe in, especially when it’s more or less about you. But if there’s one thing that Miracle on 34th Street—and, come to think of it, the lukewarm reviews for Ross Douthat’s debut tome?...
...Renault earlier this year reported record profits, boosted in part by the runaway success of its Megane car. Last year, it introduced a new low-cost auto, the €5,000 Logan, that is aimed at a completely new audience: middle-class consumers in places like Eastern Europe and Latin America. "Renault still sometimes produces dogs that don't sell, but it's innovative, and people want to buy its cars," says consultant Schmidt. It may be too late for Rover, but finding the right mix of quality, design and marketing is critical to keeping the industry's biggest brands...
Some reflected on their own experiences in the spotlight, like basketball great Oscar Robertson on LeBron James and Quincy Jones on Juanes, the Latin pop star. Some--like Citigroup's Sallie Krawcheck, who wrote about eBay's Meg Whitman; Gloria Steinem on Winfrey; and Richard Branson on Airbus CEO Noël Forgeard--make their judgments with a cool eye, but others, like Lisa Marie Presley on Etheridge and the Rev. Billy Graham on John Stott, are surprisingly personal. Among my other favorites: Russell Simmons on Jay-Z; Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman on the show's creator, Marc Cherry; Bono...