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MOSCOW—Lowell House's new bells got quite a send-off on Tuesday as the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church consecrated them at a ceremony attended by the Moscow mayor, a crush of news media, and hundreds of believers...
...throng of worshippers gathered in the outdoor courtyard of the Danilov Monastery where the hour-long ceremony was held, standing on their toes to get a peek at their spiritual leader, Patriarch Alexy II, as he blessed the bells with incense and performed other Orthodox rites...
...report in the Herald, even went on a whitewater rafting trip, organized by his closest friends, and shared a tent. Victoria seemed to ignore the swirling rumors about the continuation of the relationship, which is apparently a family tradition. In The Kennedy Women, Laurence Leamer writes that patriarch Joe stuck Gloria Swanson in Rose's face "so close that she could see the pores on her skin," yet Rose acted oblivious, for "as long as nothing was said...life could go on as before...
...steamship and the railway, the Marwaris fled the desert for the flourishing tropical port of Calcutta. There, many amassed fortunes, initially as speculators in opium, sugar and jute in the choked northern bazaars of the city. After World War I, some began to invest in heavy industry. The late patriarch G.D. Birla built some of India's biggest jute, sugar, cement, automobile and polyester factories. And Lakshmi Mittal amassed a global fortune in steel...
...amused patriarch, clad in a neat coat-and-tie ensemble, went on to deliver an anecdote-laden address extolling the importance of travel and diverse experiences to the cultivation of perspective and the pursuit of positive change...