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Ever since Pope John Paul's celebrated American tour of 1979, it has been evident that one priority of his pontificate is to buttress official Roman Catholic policies that have faced continual questioning within the U.S. church. Now, a year prior to the Pope's planned return visit to America, his campaign to bring the nation's bishops, priests and sisters into line has provoked a rising tide of dissent. Bishops are privately vexed, and priests are salting sermons with barbs directed at Rome; the board of one Milwaukee parish even recommended that members divert gifts from the annual collection...
...Without prior warning or explanation, Brown officials searched the room of freshman David J. Paul last month. They found no illegal drugs, and acquitted Paul of any wrongdoing. In response to the university's actions, Paul took out a full-page advertisement in the Brown Daily Herald this week to assert his innocence...
Runcie said last night that he knew ofBennett's actions immediately prior to hisdeparture from England but had not learned all thedetails...
...Prior to its launching, CoverMaker was extensively tested in a yearlong pilot program that involved 80 teachers and 2,000 students in 50 schools. The response from both groups was overwhelmingly positive. "The students love it," reports Georgia Lee, an American-history teacher at Captain Shreve High School in Shreveport, La. "They come in before school, during lunch, after school. Some of them were students who didn't even know where the library was before CoverMaker...
...Pete du Pont, the 1988 playbook writes itself. Right now the former Republican Governor of Delaware rates no more than an asterisk in the polls, and that only because of his name, ambition and prior public service. But last week, an hour after becoming the first major politician to announce his presidential candidacy, Du Pont set out on the familiar path of aspirants who need miracles: he was en route from Wilmington to the first skirmish sites. "I'm in Iowa and New Hampshire," he observed cheerfully, "from here to eternity...