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Those nicknames from the past - God's Rottweiler, the Panzercardinal - don't seem to stick anymore. After acquiring a reputation as an aggressive, doctrine-enforcing Cardinal, Pope Benedict XVI has surprised many with his gentle manner and his writings on Christian love. But with the Christmas season upon us, there is growing proof that the 82-year-old Pope is also quite willing to play the part of Scrooge to defend his often rigid view of Church doctrine...
...that,” he said.Though he hails from Calcutta, Bose said he knows Mumbai quite well and last stayed at the Taj Mahal Hotel in July while doing work for Harvard.Bose said his native country must face the challenge of responding to the attacks in a mature manner.“While going after these groups responsible for this kind of awful, inhuman attack, we cannot get out of control. We have to deal with it peacefully,” he said. “Innocent civilians in both India and Pakistan have been victims of this kind...
...staff member I feel you just have to keep doing your job and do it in an excellent manner,” Arvidson wrote. “We are all in some way integral to the success of the University. You can make your staff position ‘critical’ by doing it well...
Indridason writes tersely, his descriptions as hard and sparse as the Icelandic countryside. In person, he has a low-key manner, a receding hairline and an engaging smile. Erlendur, he says, is "part of the history of Iceland in the late 20th century when it changed from being a very poor peasant society to a very rich one." The detective is popular, he reckons, because "he's very flawed but very human. People identify with Erlendur maybe because of loneliness and failure. He's a horrible family man, but a perfect policeman...
...time Israeli gangsters were more discreet than today's brutal new breed. Killings used to be conducted in a quiet manner with a knife or an execution in a remote place, with the corpse buried in the sand dunes south of Tel Aviv. But today, assassins open fire in crowded cafés or set off explosives. Alperon prefered to use the simpler kinds of violence; he was destroyed by the new fashion...