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Lighter than helium and just about as dense, this adventure farce is a pleas ant enough way to pass a little time. Di rector Philippe de Broca (That Man from Rio, Cartouche) has a blithe liking for unlikely situations and hapless heroics...
...group urged the OAS to "impress upon the Chilean government the importance of their respect for the rights of all individual citizens." They cited the reported imprisonment of Enrique Kirberg, rector of the Universidad Tecnica del Estado, as an example of Chile's violation of these rights...
Sawhill, who will officially take over in September after Hester, 51, leaves to become rector of the new United Nations University in Tokyo, was a natural for the job. "It would have been nice to have a pure academic," said Allen Burdowski, 27, a student member of one of the search committees. "But we needed someone who could communicate the problems of higher education to the Government." Sawhill acknowledges that his most important task will be to make "a forceful case for the continued existence of a strong private higher-education system" and seek greater Government support for private colleges...
Both Borovoy and Vladimir are from Moscow Vladimir is rector of the Moscow Theological Academy, while Borovoy, whose rank is protopresbyter is rector of the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Epihphany
...enter the pulpit of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the New York City citadel of Roman Catholicism. After he spoke, hundreds of congregants strode 15 blocks up Fifth Avenue to Sobel's Temple Emanu-El-something of a cathedral for Reform Judaism-to hear Monsignor James Rigney, rector of St. Patrick's parish...