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...study at a Jesuit center in Pomfret, Conn., then returned to Beirut as a professor at St. Joseph's University. He later headed the Jesuits' Middle East province (Lebanon, Syria and Egypt). "Father Kolvenbach is a classic Jesuit," says an official in Rome who knows him well, "studious, reserved yet militant, with that touch of the mysterious that characterizes the order." He is also an ascetic who, colleagues say, sleeps on the floor, clears dishes, carries luggage for guests and often walks six miles to say Mass for a group of nuns...
...fourth-year Linguistics student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the makes a personal and academic commitment to her discipline for deeper than even the most studious undergraduates...
...became a top adviser to Mafia Leader Lucky Luciano. He later held the gambling franchise for Havana and, as the Mob's leading banker, had the task of laundering, investing and concealing its growing treasure. In the early days, Luciano used to marvel at the ability of his studious Jewish colleague to fathom the nuances of the Sicilian mind...
...former undergraduate, perhaps recalling his studious Harvard years wrote: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons...
...fashioned all-American youngster. He was a devoted reader, especially of military histories, and a Boy Scout. He was a devout Roman Catholic and a volunteer counselor at a camp for handicapped children. He was apparently never in the slightest trouble, not in St. Louis, not during his studious postgraduate year at a Missouri military academy, and not during his ten months in the Army...