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...brotherhood, the way his predecessor did 27 years ago. Instead, Benedict, 79, will arrive carrying a different reputation: that of a hard-knuckle intellect with a taste for blunt talk and interreligious confrontation. Just 19 months into his tenure, the Pope has become as much a moral lightning rod as a theologian; suddenly, when he speaks, the whole world listens. And so what takes place over four days in three Turkish cities has the potential to define his papacy--and a good deal more...
...neighborhood had lost a significant amount of green space in the construction on Grant and Cowperthwaite," said Cambridge resident Rod McDonald...
...even Billy Joel got in on the act with his trumped-out prole anthems “Allentown” and “The Downeaster Alexa,” conjuring up infinitely absurd images of Joel working in a steel mill, or relying on “the rod and the reel” to feed his family. Predating the Killers’ similar appropriation by several decades, Joel’s irony may have been unintended, but the best of the genre, and its musical ancestors, relied on a self-conscious tension between catchiness and acerbity...
...secretary—who has been a lightning rod for criticism of the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina and for his own role in crafting the USA PATRIOT Act—met only subdued protests on campus. A student group circulated an open letter inside Ames Courtroom assailing Homeland Security Department policies on immigration. But the group, the Harvard Immigration Project, did not want to take a confrontational approach, according to its co-president, second-year law student Molly Thomas-Jensen...
...Retired politicians frequently return to the campaign trail on behalf of grateful candidates seeking an electoral boost. But former Illinois Governor George Ryan has become the focus of that state's current gubernatorial race in a quite different way. Both Democrat incumbent Governor Rod Blagojevich and GOP challenger Judy Baar Topinka, the three-term state treasurer, are scrambling to show that their opponent most closely resembles the disgraced one-term Republican now facing six and a half years in federal prison for corruption and fraud...