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...draw Catholic support from "base communities," church-sponsored discussion groups that emphasize political consciousness-raising, as well as Christian student university groups and those intellectuals who espouse liberation theology. In reaction, the bishops have created their own network of "City of God" clubs. There is even an anti-Sandinista Virgin. Townspeople in Cuapa say that in 1980 Mary appeared to a villager to show her displeasure with the regime and to ask for prayers for the Archbishop...
...Wouk's early miscues was constructing each evening's segment as a self-contained entity. "I was in virgin territory and tried to end each of the episodes with a cliffhanger," he says. "Curtis showed me that although you might break at a high point, it was really one flow of narrative, just like the novel...
...some tutors said the overcrowding of most sections merely shows the popularity of the tutorials. "We were just appalled at the move to cut it back. Half of the people who applied were turned down," said Herbert W. Virgin IV '77, a biology tutor...
Biology tutorials are normally limited to 10 students each, but some sections in popular subjects such as human physiology accept as many as 15 or 30 applicants, Virgin said...
...Counterreformation, a movement that opposed the new modernity and failed. Our attitudes toward time clearly express our differences. Americans overvalue the future and venerate change; Mexicans cling to the image of our pyramids and cathedrals, to values we suppose are immutable and to symbols that, like the Virgin of Guadalupe, embody permanence. However, as a counterbalance to their immoderate cult of the future, Americans continually search for their roots and origins; we Mexicans search for ways to modernize our country and open it to the future. The history of Mexico since the end of the 18th century has been...