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RIGHT AT THE END Heston's political beliefs followed a familiar trajectory - one that had been traced by a previous SAG president, Ronald Reagan - of liberal Democrat turned conservative Republican. In the early 60s he was a civil rights advocate, and accompanied Dr. Martin Luther King in the 1963 March on Washington. He opposed Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, and in 1968, after Robert Kennedy's assassination, he called for gun controls. He rejected a plea from prominent Democrats to run for the U.S. Senate only because, unlike Reagan when he segued into politics, Heston still...
...Harvard College expected we would be able to allow students to concentrate in physics, as we have for many years. This year, however, Harvard faced a significant challenge: our exhaustive study of laboratory supply closets revealed that the shortage of Bunsen burners was more extensive than previous information had indicated, and raised serious questions about whether the labs could successfully accommodate any new physics concentrators...
...with some hypothesizing that he would take over a post that Ratzinger filled in the 1970s: Archbishop of Munich. But most Vaticanologists expect him to stay busy as papal gatekeeper-in-chief. It is a role that became one of the most powerful in the waning years of the previous papacy. Don Stanislaw Dziwisz, John Paul's longtime personal secretary, exerted great authority over the direction of the papacy and access to the Holy Father. After John Paul's death Dziwisz took over his boss's old job as Archbishop of Krakow, and has risen to the rank of Cardinal...
...crave admissions decisions earlier in the school year, to our peer institutions. But given the overwhelmingly positive results of this admissions batch, those fears should be assuaged. Most importantly, according to the Admissions Office, this class of acceptances is likely to be more socioeconomically and geographically diverse than previous classes—which was the intended effect of eliminating Early Action. For instance, a record 11 percent of students are of African American descent, while 9.7 percent are Latino, 1.3 percent are Native American, and 18.5 percent are Asian-American. This diversity is unquestionably a good thing—especially...
...ruling by Judge Randy Bellows late Thursday night states that the evidence is "overwhelming" that the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia is currently in a state of "division" and that, therefore, under a Civil War era state law, control of its property sits with their congregations, not their previous mother church...