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...short, dark-haired man with a fiery intensity and stubborn tenacity, Desbois heads a nonprofit organization in Paris called Yahad-In Unum, which promotes Catholic-Jewish relations. With his mission approved by France's Catholic bishops, he has traveled thousands of miles through remote Ukrainian villages, his priest's collar helping to put locals at ease in places where foreigners are rarely seen. Desbois taught mathematics in West Africa before becoming a priest, and later worked in Algeria; he also studied Hebrew in Jerusalem, and he serves as an advisor to the Vatican on Jewish affairs. But none of that...
...resistance to the inertia of contentment is far from a flaw. Where we may seem more doubtful than other countries hides a deeper, stubborn idealism. Even among the intelligentsia, very few are willing to man the barricades of revolution when disillusioned, or even to pack up and leave. Even amid widespread grumbling and malcontent, we observe levels of flag-waving usually only seen in the personality cult of a dictator. And while we constantly revise our views of our own Founding Fathers, mourning their unfortunate vices (such as slave-holding), they are still almost deified in our schools...
Wyoming's Republican leaders, emboldened by a tradition of stubborn independence and weary of obscurity, are pressing ahead in spite of the national party's objections. After the state central committee voted in August to go early, Tom Sansonetti, organizer of the county-level conventions, said it was worth it: "There was a solid consensus by everybody that the price of playing in the nomination process was worth the loss of the delegates." Abiding by Republican National Committee rules and holding the county conventions later, Sansonetti said, would "doom the Wyoming Republican Party to being a non-player, with...
...evidence at a conference whose delegates appeared to be in a state of open revolt, booing and whistling at Mbeki during his opening speech, drowning out Mbeki allies by singing songs in support of Zuma, and delaying the leadership vote for two days in arguments over procedure. Mbeki's stubborn and inept performance on the podium on the opening day only underscored his alienation from those he sought to lead. He spoke for two and a half hours, frequently repeating himself, and addressed his unpopularity only through oblique warnings about the dangers of division within the party. Regarding Zuma, Mbeki...
...other hand, Leo is like a latter-day Bismarck, possessing the diplomacy and guile needed for dealing with the stubborn Prussian aristocracy (administration) and catering to the landless workers (students) through progressive social reforms (heavy drinking). Leo will use his superior judgment to supplement Frances’s fiery emotional rule, achieving a perfect equilibrium of well-reasoned policy and absolute totalitarianism. Together, I believe that these two candidates comprise the ultimate ticket, a golden ticket, if you will, to University President Drew G. Faust’s kooky factory of poor student relations known as the Harvard College Administration...