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...warrior priest is something new in the line of 102 Archbishops of Canterbury stretching back to Augustine in A.D. 597. The 102nd not only won a Military Cross (as a preclerical Scots Guards officer in World War II for pulling a comrade out of a burning tank) but he happens to be a passable tennis player as well. With magnificent pageantry last week in a cathedral bright with spring daffodils, lilies and notables, Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, 58, was installed...
...press should do a better job of alerting readers to the advantage someone, or some group, gains by a particular leak. Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister of Britain, thinks journalists are too rigid about protecting a source: "They regard themselves as having the privilege of the Roman Catholic priest. I did point out to one of them once that a priest may have to keep the confessional but he doesn't publish it in headlines...
...school, the personalities are as memorable as Coll's. Dean Yarborough, the principal of the school and a black activist of the Martin Luther King years, teaches trumpet lessons in the afternoon; Father Jim, the cigar smoking priest, spends time fixing cement foundations; and the children all seemingly eager to latch on to a tutor...
...election, which will determine the government of a future Zimbabwe, seemed in danger of disintegrating during the final days. The last full week of campaigning was marred by hundreds of scattered incidents, including the murder of a Roman Catholic priest and the abduction of four campaign workers for Joshua Nkomo's Patriotic Front Party by armed supporters of his erstwhile ally Robert Mugabe...
...prepared speech given in the Kennedy School Forum, and during a subsequent question-and-answer session with students in Sanders Theater, Kennedy reiterated his disdain for Carter's refusal to debate the situations in Iran and Afghanistan, saying, "A president cannot afford to posture as the high priest of patriotism; he must be a public leader as well as a political...