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John Paul's grueling tour is part of a long-range effort to strengthen Rome's spiritual ties with the important African church. The ranks of Catholics on the continent tripled between 1950 and 1970, and now grow by 2 million per year. (Current total: an estimated 77 million out of the more than 200 million Christians in Africa.) In line with his strategy, the Pontiff had few kind words for the West, and even offered one apology: "Men belonging to Christian nations did not always act [as Christians], and we ask our African brothers who suffered so much...
...Isaacson greeted Indianapolis 500 Winner Danny Sullivan with a reassuring smile. But soon Sullivan's grin was a grimace. As rock music pulsated through the gray-carpeted, fluorescent-lighted room, Isaacson put the race-car driver through a grueling 1 1/2-hour workout designed to strengthen his lower and middle back after injuries suffered last summer when his vehicle slammed into a wall at 185 m.p.h. in the Poconos. The punishing session included 20 minutes of fast pedaling on an exercise cycle, 60 sit-ups with a 20-lb. dumbbell across his chest, some stretching, alternate elbow-to-knee...
...speeches to the party faithful, Hu has said Western democracy is a "blind alley" for China, and he has excoriated the path to reform, with all its attendant chaos, taken in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev. Hu's key policy initiative so far has been to strengthen, not weaken, the role of the Communist Party in Chinese life. "They believe the party is the only way that China can maintain political stability," says a China watcher in the U.S. government. "Political institutions outside the party are not to be trusted." In essence, the thinking goes, party discipline guarantees stability...
...doesn’t think that concentration size should excuse departments from providing good advising. “What they really should have is a professor or graduate student who actually knows you,” Aguilar says. “The best thing it could do to strengthen the department is having a greater emphasis on advisers, especially advising by professors...
...Casting our net more widely for women and minority candidates will expand and strengthen, not weaken, the recruitment pool, in my opinion. No one is saying hire any woman,” Cohen writes in an e-mail. “Rather, we’re saying figure out the fields where women are doing cutting-edge and important work and make sure that you define positions with an eye to capturing that talent...