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...request was that he write what he thought incoming undergraduates would most need to be told,” Kavulla wrote in an e-mail...
...high began with his request, which he made at the next place, a bar called Tootsie’s. It took a little bit of deliberation, but soon he was rushing to the front, where the band stood. Then he rejoined Andrew and me at a back table...
...papacy makes for strange dinner companions: Word this week that Pope Benedict XVI dined for two hours with dissident theologian Hans K?ng may be difficult for many conservative Catholics to digest. K?ng, who had long been denied his request for an audience with John Paul II, is widely viewed as a kind of "anti-Ratzinger" because of the sharp contrast between his liberal views on doctrine and those of the fellow German theologian who would eventually become pope. In fact, then-Cardinal Ratzinger had a role in stripping K?ng of the right to teach Catholic theology in 1979, because...
...whole collections-even an entire museum-as a single work of art. One of the 5,000 pieces he brought back, a bronze Japanese buddha, was so enormous that he built an elegant Paris residence around it. For years, Cernuschi allowed visitors to see his vast collection by special request. Before his death in 1896, he bequeathed the building and its contents to his adopted city, which made it a public museum...
...likes of Michael Brown were exposed, leading to his removal from the leadership of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Congress also expedited the provision of more than $50 billion in federal assistance—an impressive feat, considering that last year the government was unwilling to honor a request for just a sliver of that amount for hurricane and flood programs in New Orleans. In both cases, being thrust squarely in the face of disaster seems to have inspired the government to redefine the meaning of “doing...