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...named 12 of 17 monasteries after Joseph. "The devotion snowballed," says Chorpenning, and the Earthly Trinity, as Jesus, Mary and Joseph came sometimes to be called, took Catholic Europe by storm. It had also leaped to the New World, where Joseph became the patron saint of both "New Spain" and "New France." He remains the official saint of Catholics in Mexico and Canada...
...UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA This school in Spain was one of 12 international institutions that finished among the top 30 programs in the survey. Navarra, which also aced the Economist's business-school rankings, this year was host to the first International Social Entrepreneurship Conference...
...disturbances is that people of different religions and backgrounds have not learned to coexist even though they are citizens of the same country. All segments of French society should make a peaceful effort to come together under the secular ideals of the French Republic. C?sar Requejo C?ceres, Spain...
...turn around the country's ailing economy anytime soon. The eruption of riots across France this fall added to a sense that Europe's leaders are out of touch with their citizens. Add to this a summer punctuated by fatal bombings in London and destructive forest fires in Spain and Portugal and 2005 really looks like an annus horribilis. A look at some of this year's lowlights, and what it will take to turn things around: CONSTITUTION BLUES French President Jacques Chirac now must believe it was a terrible idea to submit the treaty for a new European constitution...
That does not mean the picture is sedentary. It ranges the world from Paris to Brooklyn, with stopovers in London, Beirut, Israel, Spain (or their geographical stand-ins), and it is full of derring-do and suspense. (Best such sequence: a child innocently answers a call on an explosive-laden phone meant to blow her father to kingdom come.) At more than 2 1/2 hours, Munich allows itself time to efficiently develop character, particularly among Avner's team, which is run--mostly from afar--by Geoffrey Rush's hard-assed executive spook. The assassins include a hot-blooded South African...