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Currently 10 to 12 students work toward medical and GSAS degrees simultaneously. Although students have been able to pursue medical studies in depth with Harvard faculty, they have had to construct their plans of study in an “ad-hoc” manner, according to Brandt...
...about the direction of the Church, the choice would have been between Ratzinger and someone who felt a good deal like Ratzinger. If Ratzinger was willing to take the job, he was probably viewed as the man who could implement those ideas in the most powerful and efficient manner...
Kimball had only a modest business career in Arizona before he became an apostle in 1943. His self-effacing manner and sieges of heart trouble and cancer led many to believe that he would be a caretaker President. Instead, he proved to be an energetic activist who toured 85 nations and spurred the international growth of the most successful religion ever born in the U.S. He was the first to put Asians and Latin Americans into Mormonism's top ranks, and permitted leaders of foreign jurisdictions to live overseas rather than in Salt Lake City...
Inevitably, Walter's return to the scenes of old cold war crimes evokes the mood and manner of '60s pop spy epics like, say, The Ipcress File. But Director Penn, whose most successful works in that period were counterculture icons like Bonnie and Clyde and Little Big Man, is not about to be nostalgic about his former competition. Target is a deadpan satire on the old cloak-and-dagger conventions almost to the end, at which point Penn cannot resist staging with self-conscious luridness a scene in which Walter must deal with a particularly sadistic bomb threat...
...granted this status). In such a poor country, where do people get the money to buy flash cars, clothes and Shanghai apartments? That's complicated. Wealth can be due to luck, corruption or cleverness. China's "peaceful rise" is a brand that's been pitched in the same manner as a multinational mining company would push its green credentials. "Ambassador Fu is out and about and very focused on China's image," says an Australian bureaucrat. "But their methods have been heavy-handed on Falun Gong - they've given them far too much attention." On Taiwan, says another official...