Word: locus
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...given Karol Wojtyla's job description and his trip's locus, little else about it is personal or simple. A billion Roman Catholics and innumerable other Christians will follow his every encounter in the footsteps of their Saviour. Many Jews will cautiously applaud what Aharon Lopez, Israel's ambassador to the Holy See, calls "with all due respect...the climax" of recent Catholic-Jewish amity. That's the upside. The downside? It will be a security nightmare and a diplomatic high-wire act. Says Israeli police official David Tsur: "It touches all the nerves we can think...
Plans are still preliminary, and in 13 years students may have reconciled themselves to a Harvard without a locus for student activities. But we hope that students will start now to work with administrators on a plan that would combine student and faculty needs under one roof--so that another generation of Harvard students won't experience our student space woes...