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...from St. Peter's, John Paul delivered a 5,000-word speech that may mark the entire course of his papacy. The text was designed to strip away any ambiguity over future papal social policy. From Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum (1891) to John XXIII's Mater et Magistra (1961), papal encyclicals have rejected both the "unregulated competition" of laissez-faire capitalism and Marxism's class struggle with its elimination of private property. However, in his 1967 encyclical Populorum Progressio, Paul VI allowed for revolutions in extreme cases and thus left the door open to liberation...
...plenty of examples seem to indicate that lack of trustworthiness in one area can carry over into others. When Jeanie Kasindorf, a writer for New West magazine, started investigating Columbia Pictures Chief David Begelman, she decided to query Yale, his alma mater, to follow up rumors of bad checks. Problem: Begelman had never attended Yale. Although Begelman was indicted for forgery and grand theft, the Hollywood types were more outraged that he had listed Yale in Who's Who. Apparently they figured that everybody steals money. Says Kasindorf: "It was the fact that he lied about Yale that drove...
...years later, he may well be putting the touch on some of those former students to contribute to their alma mater...
...only woman in her classes. She soon found that the best opportunity for advancement was in Government; and, since the late '60s, she has moved from one federal agency to another. Married to John Sawhill, onetime energy czar under President Nixon and now president of her alma mater, N.Y.U., she is the mother...
...this shift, schools such as Yale and Princeton had an advantage over Harvard; their new crop of ambitious young women soon become alumnae, grateful for their entree into the elites of business or the professions. Presumably as good alums they share their fortunes with their alma mater...