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With no mention whatsoever of the first democratically elected president, Jean Bertrand Aristide, John Paul II called for a halt to sanctions against the military regime that ousted him, as well as "an end to sterile divisions...and a church united around its bishops...
...hopes for a grand reunion with Eastern Orthodoxy. Nor do the Protestants show much interest in mergers; unruliness characterizes the Evangelicals, Charismatics and independent African churches. The Protestant liberals, only vaguely Christian any longer, harbor anger about Rome's decisive moves in the 2040s to restrict Bible criticism and halt efforts to blur the lines between Christianity and other religions...
...after a two-year investigation, the Department of Education announced that Berkeley had gone too far in accommodating minorities. The university denied any wrongdoing but said it would consider dropping ethnicity or race as a determining factor in selecting law school applicants from its waiting list. It may also halt the practice of assigning all applications from a single minority group to one admissions team. But the law school vows to continue giving "special consideration" to minority applicants and even to maintain "target" ranges for minority enrollment...
...wreaked by far the most havoc in Britain. When sterling plummeted well below its permitted floor, Major called a series of emergency meetings with key Cabinet members. "This is bloody awful," he reportedly told them. "It's that damned Bundesbank." When dramatic increases in British interest rates failed to halt the slide, the government conceded defeat and ordered the "temporary suspension" of sterling from the fixed exchange-rate system...
...that day, but not to fret: she would just need a little extra time to comfort her daughter and ease the separation. When the day arrived, Basu secured her daughter in the car seat, climbed behind the wheel of her pale gold BMW and drove off, edging to a halt at a nearby stop sign. At that moment, the peaceful town of Savage, Maryland, lost the irony of its name...