Word: augustine
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After winning independence from Britain, the fledgling United States established a democracy that reflected the character of the colonizers. Simon Bolivar and other Latin American revolutionaries tried to emulate the American Constitution, but their carefully crafted documents were quickly subverted by strongmen. When Augustin de Iturbide, Mexico's George Washington, assumed power in 1822, for example, he immediately had himself crowned Emperor. The Great Experiment never took firm root in Mexico or the rest of Latin America, causing a great deal of misunderstanding that persists to this...
Some callers don't "want to speak to us, but just want to hear the trivia question," says Augustin A. Paculdar '87-'88, whose rooming group tapes a different trivia question weekly. The answer is included on the next week's recording...
...Cardinals in the Catholic church who have been awarded honoraries: Richard Cardinal Cushing (1959); Augustin Cardinal Bea (1964); Leon Cardinal Suen...
Student security guard Augustin U. Agu, a fourth-year Education School student from Nigeria, says that student security is not a high-pressure job. "It allows a lot of time to think and to meditate," says Agu, who works up to 32 hours a week...
...choice to replace the indulgent Eduardo Cardinal Pironio and keep a tight rein on the congregation that supervises religious orders. Hamer, now enmeshed in the crucial test of wills with U.S. nuns over the abortion issue, is deemed by some leading sisters to be uncommunicative and insensitive toward women. Augustin Mayer, 73, a German workaholic, was for years the top aide to Pironio, handling the tough jobs that his boss had little stomach for. He now runs the congregation that regulates liturgy and the sacraments...