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Seven years after the Pope ended that purgatorial receivership, the Jesuits appear to have won John Paul's approval. Confronted with the task of re- evangelizing the formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe and the newly tolerant Soviet Union, the Pope has called upon the Society of Jesus to direct the task of training priests and rebuilding the long-oppressed clergy of these sensitive areas. Next week Jesuit experts will be gathering in Rome to plan how to go about that job. For starters, East Europeans are being brought to Rome to receive special training at the Pontifical Gregorian University...
...merely scour written records but gets out and prowls city streets and country lanes for gems of the nation's "built history." And she is not averse to a touch of cloak-and-dagger. In 1976 she learned that the Chrysler Building in New York City was going into receivership and the owners wanted to raze it. She rushed to the city and slipped unobserved into the skyscraper. After a top-to-bottom tour, she saved the art deco masterpiece...
...potentially more lucrative but indisputably riskier shopping malls, resort developments, energy-generating windmills. The new breed awarded themselves seven-digit salaries, private jets, hunting preserves and yachts on which to entertain members of Congress. Keating and his associates took $21 million from Lincoln even as it was heading into receivership. Named head of the Office of Thrift Supervision in August, Wall now directs the agency established to solve the problems Garn-St. Germain helped create...
...also begin hearings this week to decide whether the sewer division should be turned over to a court-administered receiver. The judge will rescind his order only if the legislature passes a bill creating a water and waste authority to clean up the harbor before the end of the receivership hearings. Receivership is nothing new in Boston: Garrity placed the Boston housing authority into receivership five years ago because of mismanagement...
Garrity could not be reached for comment.The harbor viewed from one of Boston's piers. A state judge who is hearing a pollution lawsuit against the Metropolitan District Commission may decide to place the Hub's sewer authority in receivership this afternoon...