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...world and for Joseph Ratzinger. "Something happened," says Kung. "He was deeply shocked by the student revolts." At the time, Ratzinger was theology dean of the University of Tubingen, where Kung was a professor. "He had big clashes with his most intimate students and assistants," says Kung. The rebellion, says a Ratzinger student, Wolfgang Beinert, "had an extraordinarily strong impact" on the future Cardinal, who saw something sinister at work. He resigned from Tubingen and sought intellectual refuge in the peaceful quarters of the University of Regensburg. Ratzinger, says Beinert, who remains close to his former mentor, had been "very...
...voter rebellion has been simmering for a long time. Decades of misrule have brought the institutions of government to a state of collapse. In the past 20 months more than 3,000 politicians and businessmen have been implicated in an ever expanding web of billion-dollar kickback and bribery scandals. High taxes, unemployment over 10% and an influx of immigrants have finally driven the normally sanguine Italians into a rage...
...early '70s automatically denoted a leftist competitor to the main campus organ, but that today means one leaning to the right. More than 100 such papers challenge what they see as liberal orthodoxy. The climate of political correctness has diverted the eternal spirit of adolescent rebellion clear across the political spectrum...
...pity. (The movie sees Stewart's pathos as well: as he watches lovers through a window, a dog licks his hand in a cruel parody of the affection he craves.) The sexual dance with Baines has more roiling complications. The first step is barter, the second is power, then rebellion, adventure, independence, joyful bondage, love, love in the face of death...
Several weeks ago, with the Russian parliament in rebellion and the military waffling, the chief threat was civil war. After an almost disastrous delay, Yeltsin eventually did the right thing and confronted the renegade parliament. After some undemocratic tank diplomacy, the key opposition leaders were jailed and Yeltsin began a general crackdown that included press censorship and the stifling of local governments...