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...eight trips as Pope John Paul II to his beloved motherland. And he always addressed the crowds, naturally, in his mother tongue. Still, the attention leading up to this week's trip to Poland by Pope Benedict XVI, in only his second papal voyage, has rivaled some of his predecessor's homecomings...
...great appointment.”“There is no one who understands Harvard better, or would work longer hours, with greater integrity, to help get Harvard back on its feet,” Lewis wrote in an e-mail.And Kirby, Knowles’ successor and predecessor, called the next dean “an excellent choice.”For his part, Knowles on Monday expressed a Cincinnatus-like attitude to Bok’s selection.“It didn’t escape my notice that I might be vulnerable to an approach, so of course...
...Kirby, Knowles’ successor and predecessor, called the next dean “an excellent choice...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's first visit to the Bush White House was a sad reminder of just how little has changed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the past six years. Like his predecessor Ariel Sharon, Olmert respectfully endorsed President Bush's "roadmap" to a two-state peace. He even accepted the President's urging - despite his obvious skepticism - to exhaust all possibilities of reaching a negotiated settlement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas before embarking on his unilateral plans to redraw boundaries between Israel and the Palestinians. But, like Sharon, Olmert has little faith in the prospect...
...There was every indication from Olmert's first visit that he will inherit his predecessor's ties to the Administration. But it is a lot more difficult for the U.S. to endorse Olmert's plan than it was to back Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout. Sharon's exit from Gaza, whereby Israel withdrew to its 1967 border, was a move welcomed throughout the international community. But in the West Bank, Olmert's intention, revealed by the route of the security wall Israel is building, is to fold in huge settlement blocs on land occupied in 1967, bisecting the West Bank...