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...some extent, liberal Catholicism has been a victim of its own success. Its positions on sex and gender issues have become commonplace in the American Church, diminishing the distinctiveness of the progressives. More importantly, they failed to transform the main body of the Church: John Paul II, a charismatic conservative, enjoyed the third-longest papacy in church history, and refused to budge on the left's demands; instead, he eventually swept away liberal bishops. The heads at Call to Action grayed, and by the late 1990s, Vatican II progressivism began to look like a self-limited Boomer moment...
...earlier age when a few dominant personalities managed Korea's economic miracle. A shadowy figure rarely seen in public, Lee wielded tremendous authority within Samsung Group, a conglomerate with $150 billion in annual revenue. But foreign investors came to see him as an impediment to the reform needed to transform Samsung from a family-dominated fiefdom into a professionally managed corporation responsible to its shareholders...
...work in progress. HBS is obsessed with 'transforming' its students, so the persona you should present in your application is someone who is both focused and accomplished, yet open to change. You don't need to be overly interested in business per se; rather, you need to be interested in the intersection of your personal passion, signature issue, or academic interest with the potential social impact. Thus, if you have a passion for biology, you would do better presenting yourself as someone interested in how biology can cure disease among groups a, b, or c, rather than someone obsessed with...
...violence. “‘Take Back the Night’ proves there is a core body of people that are intolerant of sexual abuse in our community,” said freshman proctor and OSAPR prevention specialist Gordon W. Braxton. “We need to transform that into a culture that is intolerant of sexual violence...
Fortunately, three new books may help remedy that Latin America blind spot and remind us that the hemisphere too is flat. They all take a hard, engaging and overdue look at Latin America's maddening complacency and massive potential--and suggest how to transform it into "the century of the Americas," as George W. Bush declared...