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Under Construction, a Christian a capella group, inadvertently had their grant application withdrawn after a “slight miscommunication” between Under Construction and outgoing council Treasurer Eric J. Powell ’03, according to Jinna Chung ’04, the singing group’s manager...
...secrecy of the Catholic Church itself. Indeed, in a world where the Catholic Church has come to mean a tightly-knit, spiritual community and not a priesthood divorced from the congregation, the Boston Archdiocese has become increasingly reactionary. Instead of opening its doors to abuse victims, Church officials have withdrawn. And Cardinal Law’s overarching entanglement between matters of finance and morality seems like a throwback to the days of the medieval church, when the fiscal and moral power of the church led to the impunity and ethical depravity of the elite clergy...
...plan went, well, swimmingly for about two days. The team’s bidding page got thousands of hits, and one (eventually withdrawn) bid of $212,000. But then, aided by the Dartmouth athletic department, some astute chap at eBay figured out that the team wasn’t the swimmer’s boyfriend’s to sell. End of auction...
...heart to "stay and fight." But Sept. 11 intervened; instead of the battle cry Gore might have delivered, he praised his former opponent as "my" Commander in Chief. Now some Democrats are wondering why Gore didn't stay and fight. For most of the past two years, he has withdrawn inside a tight circle consisting largely of aides and friends from his days before the White House. He has been trying on occupations--college professor, author, businessman, even adviser to Google--that might suit someone of his temperament had fate not made him the only son and namesake...
...that nobody took UNMOVIC that seriously until two months ago, when President Bush warned the U.N. to disarm Saddam or step aside. Suddenly, UNMOVIC was at the center of the action for the first time since it was created in 1999 to replace UNSCOM, the inspection team that was withdrawn from Iraq after being denied access to sensitive sites. Blix, who spent 16 years heading the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was tapped to lead UNMOVIC when the U.S.'s preferred pick, former UNSCOM chief Rolf Ekeus, was nixed by France and Russia on the grounds that Iraq would never...