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...University. For this reason, their misdemeanors hurt more than their team; they put a blemish on the reputation of the University too. It is always difficult for outsiders to propose a course of change for insular institutions such as sports teams. But it is clear that the status quo cannot continue...
Some will say that students will hardly get a “real taste” of the class. But let’s examine the status quo. As it is, professors change their colors after the first week. Before that, they tend to be funnier, nicer, and more nervous about their topics in an effort to keep their auditoriums full...
...This key Curia post had been held by another Italian power player, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe. Replacing Sepe with Indian Cardinal Ivan Dias, archbishop of Bombay, was proof that the Pope isn't afraid to take on the Vatican status quo. It also was an acknowledgment that the man responsible for overseeing more than a thousand dioceses in the developing world might best be chosen from the developing world...
...follow said, "By their fruits you will know them," and for some, Corinthian Pointe is a very convincing sort of fruit. Hard-line Prosperity theology may always seem alien to those with enough money to imagine making more without engaging God in a kind of spiritual quid pro quo. And Osteen's version, while it abandons part of that magical thinking, may strike some as self-centered rather than God centered. But American Protestantism is a dynamic faith. Caldwell's version reminds us that there is no reason a giving God could not invest even an awkward and needy creed...
...suited to striking compromises. So we must try the alternative: a return to democracy, with its inherent horse trading, messiness, and false starts. Such a transition will not be without risk, and many Pakistanis are frightened by the potential for instability. But the alternative, a continuation of the status quo, in which our President lacks the legitimacy that comes from having stood in a fair election and large segments of the country feel unrepresented by the state, is even riskier...