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...official who has worked closely with the Pope said that loosening rules on the Latin rite has been a long-time personal goal of Ratzinger, who had led what turned out to be failed negotiations in the early 1980s to bring back into the fold the followers of the breakaway French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who have defied the reforms of the Second Vatican Council...
...Government forces have pushed the Tigers out of much of the east, in part because a breakaway faction of Tamil fighters that fell out with the main rebel group has joined with government troops against their old comrades. The Sri Lankan military is now opening up a new front in the northwest. But there are few signs that the military is on the verge of victory. The L.T.T.E. has used tactical withdrawals to regroup following defeats in the past and is still able to spring surprises. In late February a group of foreign diplomats, including the U.S. and Italian ambassadors...
MOLDOVA Long fight over Moscow-backed breakaway territory Transdniestria...
...symmetry’?” questions one Jem Kellaway, replicating in microcosm the now well-established project of each Chevalier novel: to parse out the complexities of a work of art. As in her depiction of Johannes Vermeer’s city of Delft in her 2000 breakaway bestseller “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” Chevalier here evocatively imagines a fictive London surrounding Blake’s creation of the “Songs of Innocence and of Experience.” The year is 1792 and the Kellaway family has just arrived...
...able to net the rebound off of a shot by senior Ryan Maki to pull the teams even. Taylor, however, was unable to replicate the performance later when handed a golden opportunity. Golden Knights defenseman Grant Clitsome’s takedown of Taylor as the winger was on a breakaway set Taylor up for a penalty shot. But, like the rest of his teammates throughout the night, the forward was unable to find a way past Leggio. “Obviously, it’s frustrating for us,” Tobe said of his counterpart’s standout...