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Paul is not known to possess any sickness unto death, but rumors persist that he might resign, possibly on his 80th birthday. No Pope has resigned for centuries, however, and Paul has never indicated that he is considering it. Moreover, he would be highly unlikely to quit on his birthday since that would disrupt the Synod of Bishops that opens Sept. 30, which has been in preparation over the past three years. Paul's moves last week have brought the voting membership of the College of Cardinals up to 119 out of the full 120 permitted. He also named...
...been a marked improvement in race relations measured, for example, by the number of minority students who have become leaders and active members in a wide range of undergraduate organizations. Nevertheless, black and white student interaction shows signs of the long unsuccessful struggle in society for integration. Serious misperceptions persist that result when people still look past each other and see only images of another...
...some god as a constant companion and adviser creates new dilemmas that modern man must face. "Without the gods to tell us what to do, problems of ethics and of identity" abound, Jaynes says. "Man hungers to get back the lost voices," and in modern society these primordial yearnings persist in churchgoing and the desire to serve...
...indefinite period." Yet an indefinite period of self-discipline is what Americans face. Perhaps the President should have chosen a more appropriate metaphor; the current crisis is more like an open-ended siege than a war with an expected end. Barring some technological miracle, that siege will persist beyond this generation and its survivors. It must be borne a bit at a time until Americans revise the way they live. Contrary to William James' phrase, today it is not Nature that needs to be subdued, and perhaps not even Human Nature. There is a very real desire, shared...
...does anyone have proof of who, ultimately, was responsible for a raid that was the prototype of World War IPs massive bombing campaigns. Within hours of the death of Guernica, the Nationalists charged that Basques themselves had set the town afire-a lie that would persist for much of Franco's reign...