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...Mass" attracts about 80 mostly young worshippers a week. Keeping both factions happy is the delicate challenge that confronts Father William Kenneally and thousands of other priests like him throughout the U.S., who must minister to the world's most rambunctious group of Catholics. That tumult is reflected in the way American Catholics view the Pope. A TIME poll shows John Paul II enjoying a 74% approval rating. However, 73% of Catholics also feel they can make up their own minds on such issues as birth control. In fact, 89% believe it is possible to disagree with the Pope...
...human nature to resist change, to prefer consistency over tumult. Name changes are not so much in our distant past; in 1984, South House became Cabot House, and residents there adjusted to it without the militant-sounding statements that are flying out of Pforzheimer...
...received the resignation of a leading economic reform advocate and appointed his third finance minister in four weeks. Preceding today's hat trick by three days, the Russian leader dismissed his first deputy defense minister, a general accused of corruption. The government said little about the impact of the tumult on continued economic reform, but the official who resigned today -- economics minister Alexander Shokhin -- said: "The economy has become a hostage of politics."Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...perspective from 50 years matches Eisenhower's assessment. He may not have handled his crusade in Europe perfectly, because nothing in war goes precisely according to plan. But those who look back and say he could have defeated Hitler sooner are playing games with history and hindsight. In the tumult of battle, with colleagues second-guessing him and comrades dying by the hundreds every day, Dwight Eisenhower made decisions that won the war in Europe and established a peace that prevails today...
Despite his detachment from the radical campuspolitics rampant at Harvard, Barrett says thebackdrop of political and social tumult concernedhis family...