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Anderson was most willing to rave about the play of Murrer, a graduate of St. Xavier High in Cincinnati who signed a national letter of intent to accept a football scholarship at Notre Dame, then decided Harvard was the place he'd rather...
Murrer grew up in Cincinatti, Ohio, and attended St. Xavier, an all-male Catholic high school. He began running in seventh grade when he joined the cross country team but gave it up the following year when he discovered the gridiron...
Neither does anyone else. The men at prayer are among 10,000 surviving Kakure Kirishitan (crypto-Christians)-members of a fossilized faith that is unique in church annals. The poignant tale of the sect begins in 1549, when Jesuit Missionary Francis Xavier brought Roman Catholicism to Japan. The new creed soon gathered 300,000 followers, including most of the inhabitants of Ikitsuki, but its success also spelled its doom. Fearing the Christians' growth and foreign links, the warlord ruler Hideyoshi and later shogun mounted terror campaigns in which tens of thousands perished, often gruesomely. Christianity was all but stamped...
...Violeta, an original member of the revolutionary government, resigned in March 1980, offering reasons of health, to concentrate on helping her son with the paper. One month later, La Prensa was paralyzed by a Sandinista-induced labor dispute that ended only when Pedro Joaquín's uncle Xavier, a staunch supporter of the Sandinistas, started his own newspaper, Nuevo Diario (circ. 30,000). When that competition proved ineffectual in undercutting La Prensa's influence, the Sandinistas employed sterner measures...
...when parities were fixed within the European Monetary System, France's inflation rate has averaged more than twice West Germany's. This reduced the competitiveness of French products to the point where, even if Giscard had been reelected, a devaluation would have been necessary. François-Xavier Ortoli, Finance Commissioner for the European Community and a Finance Minister under President Charles de Gaulle, described Mitterrand's decision as "sound management." The price controls received less favorable reviews...