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...signature buzzwords of John Paul II's papacy was "dialogue." So committed was he to seeking common ground with leaders of different faiths that he all but institutionalized the process in 1986 by hosting the first of a series of interreligious gatherings in the medieval Italian town of Assisi. It was well known in Vatican circles that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, among the Pope's most loyal lieutenants, was lukewarm to the Assisi enthusiasm. The German Cardinal was, after all, among the world's most rigorous (and traditionalist) Catholic theologians, skeptical of any attempt to water down differences among faiths. Still...
DIED. Hilda Bernstein, 91,white, middle-class illustrator turned antiapartheid activist and founding member of the influential, multiracial Federation of South African Women; in Cape Town, South Africa. Bernstein and her husband Rusty, who was tried for treason alongside friend Nelson Mandela and acquitted, fled in 1964 amid harassment by police, settling in Britain. Only after Mandela had served as the first democratically elected President did the widowed activist return to South Africa. "The meaning of life," she said, "is a choice you make about the way you live...
...problem is that the known particulars of the case-aside from fact that the victim had drifted into town looking for work and had a vague interest in a movie career-do not especially match the cosmic sociological maunderings that have surrounded it. The cops may have been inept, but there is no reason to suppose that they were deviously protecting a psychotic murderer. Nor is there any reason to imagine that the criminal was socially well connected or was a Hollywood type (even though a preposterous rumor, repeated dismissively in a recent biography, put no less a figure than...
...satisfy your late night munchies. At this point, you may still be reeling from what you naively think are the myriad possibilities of late night dining in the Square. In fact, there are two poor pizza parlors and an adequate burrito place. Blame this on Cambridge’s town government, a politburo of curmudgeonly residents, who, though they live miles away from Felipe’s, still manage to hear noise from the restaurant. Of course, once mid-semester comes, you’ll have no time to go out. Upperclassmen will obviously still be partying, as they understand...
...Also, many of the politically obsessed types who move here for work keep closer ties elsewhere than they do in Washington. Hill aides can vote in their home states - as anyone who's seen out-of-state license plates around town knows, many even keep their cars registered elsewhere, to avoid D.C.'s high car taxes and insurance rates. Fan clubs from just about city in the country gather on fall weekends at bars around town to root for their football teams, ignoring the local favorites. Career operatives who clear out every two years to work on campaigns just register...