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Nonetheless, when Architect Frank Gehry was commissioned to design a campus for the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, he had little direct formal precedent. Who knew how a downtown Roman Catholic campus in California was supposed to look? The small site is in a raggedy neighborhood; the budget was not great ($4.8 million); students and faculty yearned for a physical sense of community. Gehry's solution is a small miracle. Using his customary sorts of raw materials--galvanized steel, plywood and stucco--he has virtually invented a new form of late-20th century urban classicism, simultaneously gritty and dignified...
...with a shelter for dying street dwellers in Calcutta in the early 1950s, Mother Teresa has built her Missionaries of Charity into an organization of 2,000 sisters and 400 brothers who reach out to the homeless, hungry and sick in 52 countries. Yet it took all of the Roman Catholic nun's prestige to provide a New York City hospice for patients in the terminal stages of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. At the facility's Christmas Eve dedication, Mother Teresa was on hand. Of AIDS patients, she said, "Each one of them is Jesus in a distressing disguise...
...demonstrations gained support, the government tried to choke off the opposition. It first closed down the popular Radio Soleil, run by the Roman Catholic Church, charging its management with broadcasting "alarmist" news reports. A general news blackout followed as other stations voluntarily abandoned public affairs programming. Police arrested Opposition Leader Hubert de Ronceray, a lawyer and sociologist, charging him with sedition after "subversive" documents were found in his home. Once a member of Duvalier's Cabinet, De Ronceray, 54, has persistently ridiculed last July's rigged national referendum, in which, the government contends, 99.98% of those who voted backed...
...Roman poet Vergil in The Aeneid called rumor "a huge and terrible monster," and Wall Streeters last week would have agreed. The intense speculation about Pennzoil was part of the high-stakes legal battle the company has been waging with Texaco. In November a Houston jury ordered Texaco to pay Pennzoil $10.53 billion in damages for snatching Getty Oil away in a 1984 takeover battle. After a Houston judge upheld the jury's decision, Pennzoil and Texaco negotiators tried to forge an out-of-court settlement...
TIME's comment that Maimonides was a "philosopher who symbolizes a confluence of four cultures: Greco-Roman, Arab, Jewish and Western" ignores Maimonides' own description of himself. In a letter to Rabbi Jonathan HaKohein of Luniel (Provence), Maimonides says, "Torah consecrated me to her before my birth . . . She is my true love, the wife of my youth. The other cultures are but women to serve me and cast grace on my wife . . . Regrettably, they distract me from my only life-mate, the Torah." By his own declaration, Maimonides was purely Jewish...