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...YORK—Getting your driver’s license is an American rite of passage—a doorway to freedom, a symbol of independence...
...spread Islam. The Ukraine trip is complicated because the pope is going very much against the will of the Russian Orthodox Church, which is trying to maintain its hold over the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The Russian Orthodox Church there faces challenges not only from the country's Eastern-rite Catholics, but also from within the Ukraine's Orthodox Church. So it's a three-way battle, if not more...
...irony is how close they really are. Eastern rite Catholics and Orthodox Christians have most of the same sacraments and beliefs, and their masses are almost identical - although, of course, the Orthodox don't pray for the pope at Easter. Still, the animosity is deep and intense. It's amazing that the pope is even able to visit the Ukraine right now. That in itself is a sign that the tensions today are not as bad as they were a decade ago when the Catholic Church first reemerged in the Ukraine...
...Alumni Association is definitely really exciting," says Guerrier, who will spend next year on a Stride Rite public service fellowship working in Dorchester for Urban Dreams. "The [AA] was so helpful--there are 18,000 PBHA alums, many of whom are involved in public service. OCS doesn't offer that much to people who are interested...
...says the savings at Stride Rite are "Dicta-terrific!" b) is observing Islamic tradition while on a visit to Syria c) kills a dissident in the cruelest way possible...