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...payment from the proceeds of the property sale—instead of parish offerings, funds from the Annual Catholic Appeal or the continuing capital campaigns—demonstrates the correct willingness to bring about justice while not causing additional harm. While others might have held onto the land and mansion because it was part of the history and majesty of the archdiocese, O’Malley made a laudable hierarchical sacrifice. The sale is still a loss—the property was purchased through the generosity of generations of working-class Catholics—but the loss of the programs...
...administration. Luckily, by the time the next governor’s election rolls around, almost all of Murdock’s students will have reached voting age—at which point, they will be able to join Democrats in taking back the governor’s mansion for effective reform...
Perhaps I will tap my foot some day, but first Joe needs to do better than than “Do it like you did in 2-0-0-0.” Popular vote aside, Dick Cheney sleeps in the vice president’s mansion these days. Maybe it wasn’t about hanging chads after all—maybe he just had a better songwriter...
...count, the un-Burtonizing process turns out to be fairly easy. Burton's home in north London (he has lived off and on in London for several years) is neither a cave nor a haunted mansion but a series of four cottages in a sylvan courtyard that he and actress Helena Bonham Carter, his girlfriend and the mother of their new son, lovingly renovated into a single cozy home. It is the kind of place Hansel and Gretel would run to. Inside, a coal fire hisses softly, and Burton, in clothes of muted color, but color nonetheless, sock-slides...
...grandfather never met Mohandas Gandhi, but he did the next best thing. A photograph taken in the 1950s, which hung in a room in his mansion, showed him bashfully stepping forward to place a garland around the neck of Jawaharlal Nehru, the man Gandhi chose to lead India after independence from Britain. If Gandhi is India's founding saint, for those of my grandfather's generation, Nehru, their first Prime Minister, was only a shade removed. They called him the "architect of the nation" and believed he would heal India's divisions and transform their impoverished country into a proud...