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...hour meeting with John, who withdrew his candidacy. Williams had already called an emergency meeting of the Anglican leadership over the U.S. Episcopal Church's election of Gene Robinson, also gay and in a committed relationship, as bishop of New Hampshire. The months that followed set a pattern. The Americans consecrated Robinson. Williams, facing conservative demands that they leave the Communion, endorsed milder requests such as a promise, for now, to make no more gay bishops and bless no more gay marriages. The Episcopalians made ambiguous gestures of compliance, but in 2006 elected as their presiding bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori...
...chance to vie for fifth place in the tournament. The squad could not continue its momentum into the following day, losing to Johns Hopkins, 15-7, and finishing sixth overall. Throughout September, the Crimson followed each win with a loss, never recording consecutive victories. The team finally snapped the pattern on the last days of the month. On Sept. 29, Harvard recorded a convincing 17-5 victory over Connecticut College. The Crimson posted its second straight victory in its home opener Sept. 30 against Queens College. Harvard maintained control throughout the match, jumping out to a five-goal advantage...
...There was certainly a lot of impressionistic evidence that the yield was affected by students’ and families’ fears,” Fitzsimmons says. “All of this was part of the same pattern...
Changes on campus thwarted Kennedy’s trip down memory lane, but for some Cambridge residents, building projects represented a far greater inconvenience. Harvard’s expansion in the late 1950s would force many from their homes, in a pattern not altogether different from today’s planned campus expansion into Allston...
Angola is following a path that's painfully familiar among African oil states from Equatorial Guinea to Sudan. The pattern is this: well-connected businessmen and unscrupulous government officials grow impossibly rich, and the ruling élite uses its wealth and largesse to consolidate its own power. Much of this money is funneled into banks and assets abroad, while the majority of the population stagnates or even grows poorer...