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DIED. FRANZ CARDINAL KONIG, 98, progressive-minded prelate of the Roman Catholic Church; in Vienna. A savvy diplomat fluent in seven languages, K?nig was twice considered a candidate for the papacy. During the 1960s he was at the center of a movement to liberalize church policy, helping to organize the Second Vatican Council, which expanded the influence of the laity and famously absolved the Jews of responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Even after the church turned conservative again, K?nig continued to reach out, becoming the Vatican's point man for Eastern Europe and non-Catholics. "I wanted...
...Protestant principles and the American dream,” says Kresge Professor of Marketing Rohit Deshpande. “Latinos have made it in America, and they’ve done it their own way...You can speak Spanish at home and watch novelas on Univision, and be in fluent in English and very successful at work...
...ordering Swiss cheese instead of Cheez Whiz for his Philly cheesesteak--that's almost as grievous as asking for a "splash" of coffee, as Bush the Elder once did. (Bush the Younger has been careful to let us know that he favors bologna sandwiches.) Furthermore, John Kerry speaks fluent French. It is no accident that a White House staffer once said, "He looks French." The Heinz Kerrys hang out on Nantucket and in Sun Valley, Idaho. They don't own a ranch or cut scrub with a chainsaw. He often shows up at Davos. He went to a fancy private...
...just as I don’t consider my hometown a foreign metropolis, I’m confident that my new friend, fluent in Mandarin and very close with his immigrant grandfather, thinks of Chinese culture as anything but foreign. As I was leaving the Coop, I suddenly realized that it was presumptuous—not to mention unfair—for anyone to assume that all Harvard undergraduates would regard these classes as “foreign...
Teresa came by her fortune with her marriage to Heinz, the heir to the Pittsburgh, Pa., ketchup-and-pickle conglomerate, whom she met when she was studying at the University of Geneva to be an interpreter. (She's fluent in five languages.) Heinz told her his family made soup back in the States. She still calls him "the love of my life." When Heinz died in a 1991 plane crash, she turned down a chance to run for his Senate seat and poured her energy instead into refocusing how the Heinz family's philanthropic network deploys its $2 billion...