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Pope John Paul II began his reign eight years ago, at a time when theologians and laity alike were openly questioning some traditional teachings of the church. Since then the Vatican has attempted to restore a sense of doctrinal discipline; it removed renegade Swiss Theologian Hans Kung from his teaching post at the University of Tubingen in West Germany and silenced for a year Brazilian Franciscan Leonardo Boff, an advocate of Marxist-tinged liberation theology. Last week Rome moved against an American priest who has openly questioned the church's stance on sexual morality. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head...
Some U.S. bishops had backed a compromise proposal Curran made to Rome -- namely, that he keep his position but not teach sexual-ethics courses. In fact, he has not offered a class exclusively in sexual morality for 15 years, although he has been a C.U. professor since 1965. Nonetheless, hierarchical support for the disciplinary action was as predictable as the crackdown itself. The Most Rev. Matthew Clark of Rochester, Curran's home diocese, accepted the decision as the "final word" but said Curran "always will be welcome" as a priest in Rochester. Later, a Vatican official said Clark had ! been...
...just too time consuming and expensive." Enter Jobs, who, after leaving Apple last year with $85 million worth of the company's stock, had both money and time on his hands. He saw that the Pixar computer had applications far beyond the film business. He also thought he could teach Catmull and Smith something. "They're babes in the woods," says Jobs, 31. "I think I can help turn Alvy and Ed into businessmen." Today Jobs divides his time between Next Inc., where he is developing desktop computers for scientists and engineers, and Pixar, where he spends...
Often it is the sleaziest of peers who pressure a budding star to get involved with dope. Says Julius Allen, a coach of the Each One, Teach One summer-league basketball team in New York City: "Even at the high school level, drug dealers want to associate with athletes because they are a status symbol." John Lo-Schiavo, president of the University of San Francisco, says the problem can get worse in college. "When a kid gets national acclaim and looks like he's going to be a top draft choice and so forth, there's a tendency...
...Gorbachev was here for a visit before the Warsaw Pact summit in Budapest two months ago. Did he come to teach or to learn...