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Lavinia R. Mitroi '12 had a slightly more PG story. “When I saw the e-mail I sort of gasped,” she said. “I then called my parents, who then proceeded to tell the waiter at whatever place they were eating at that I had gotten...
...think that we’ve been very clear about the fact that we can’t underestimate them. You know, we can’t really say yet where we stand exactly, so this is going to be a good way to sort of test the waters...
Whether or not the Vatican's version of the facts is entirely convincing, papal "plausible deniability" - as communicated by aides - is not the kind of leadership this crisis requires. What happened in Munich, with or without Ratzinger's direct knowledge, is exactly the sort of inbred administrative failing that propelled a similar scandal in Boston nine years ago, which the Pope himself referred to in his recent letter to the Irish faithful...
...real government providing real services - although they were adamant about one demand: they wanted the U.S. and Afghan national security forces to police the area, not the local cops who had plundered them at will in the past. And then an extraordinary thing happened: the shura turned into the sort of town-council meeting that you'd see anywhere in the world. One of the elders stood and presented a list of requests - more schools, a decent hospital, paved roads, repair of the irrigation system. "We don't need you to cooperate with the work," the elder concluded. "We know...
...think of people as being collections of other people and their relationships. Or collections of relationships that we have internalized and even things that we have invested our attention in and taken into ourselves. In a way doing the kind of work I did, it’s sort of about appropriation—I was making the process explicit and performing...