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Paul is the fourth Pope in a row to pass his 80th birthday and the seventh out of eight in the past century. Indeed, late last week he tried to end the resignation talk when he told the Synod of Bishops assembled in Rome: "From this event in our lives, for all the time that God may wish to allow us, we have the firm resolution to dedicate all of our strength for the good of the church...
Harvard hires an average percentage of women at the associate and assistant professor levels. At those levels, the University pays salaries that fall between the 60th and 80th percentile of the nation, according to the study...
Paul is not known to possess any sickness unto death, but rumors persist that he might resign, possibly on his 80th birthday. No Pope has resigned for centuries, however, and Paul has never indicated that he is considering it. Moreover, he would be highly unlikely to quit on his birthday since that would disrupt the Synod of Bishops that opens Sept. 30, which has been in preparation over the past three years. Paul's moves last week have brought the voting membership of the College of Cardinals up to 119 out of the full 120 permitted. He also named...
...summer day in his 80th year, ex-President John Adams wrote to his old friend and former rival, Thomas Jefferson. "Who shall write the history of the American Revolution?" Adams asked. "Who will ever be able to write it?" Answered Jefferson: "Nobody; except merely its external facts ... The life and soul of history must for ever be unknown...
Bromwich, you see, had a noon time engagement with the rolling and often tortuous hills that define the course of the Boston Marathon. And he, along with some 1897 other crusading cohorts, was set to tackle the 26-plus mile run from Hopkinton to Boston in the 80th running of the Boston Marathon...