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That was when Van Vuuren stepped in. Upon learning Josipovic’s ticket was uncontested, he felt compelled to gather a group of his own. “I was in the Quad when I found out who was running for the board and I just started making phone calls,” Van Vuuren says...
Oppenheimer next embarked for his father’s native land of Germany, studying the still-developing field of quantum mechanics alongside future physics giants like Paul Dirac, Max Born, and Werner Heisenberg. But he never acquired the Europeans’ suave ways with womenfolk. Upon returning stateside to teach at Berkeley, Robert earned a small dose of worldwide notoriety for his romantic foibles. He drove a date to a scenic point up on a hill, and after she fell asleep, he whispered that he would walk back home and she should follow in the car. She did not hear...
...Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI, I found myself reading over William Butler Yeats well-known and disturbing poem The Second Coming. The lasting image from this poem is of a civilization falling apart at the seams with the result that the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...
...this to say that every single teaching now a part of the Catechism is completely sacrosanct and inviolate? No, but the overhaul that some wish to inflict upon the Church would doom it to the same fate that so many other, previously vibrant, Christian denominations have experienced; a leadership that is confident in its own righteousness and a membership that has ceased to exist. One of the things that irks people about Catholicism is its explicit appeal to be a universal arbiter of right and wrong, yet this is also what gives it its enduring strength. Catholicism has seen...
It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon in Cambridge, and the Harvard JV baseball team is battling UMass. I’m sitting in the dugout, hoping I’ll be called upon to pitch, when I overhear a reference to Pete Incaviglia, a semi-obscure Major League outfielder from the eighties and nineties...