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...Christ have gotten more attention of late, the Jesuits are still far and away the largest clerical order in the Church. They too, however, have suffered from declining ordinations, down to fewer than 20,000 members from a peak of 36,000 in the 1960s. The election for the latest successor of St. Ignatius, the 16th century founder of the Jesuits, will take place in the days following next Monday's opening of the 35th General Congregation, a meeting of 226 delegates elected from the orders geographical "provinces" around the world. Though there is no set date for the election...
...Dartmouth game. One of these teams has either shared or won the Ancient Eight crown outright in 12 of the last 14 seasons. And with the Big Green gaining some momentum after a rock-solid defensive performance in a 48-41 win over Delaware in its last outing, the latest installment of the league’s best rivalry is anyone’s game...
...this wasn’t just another Yule Ball. Inside the center’s screening room, two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington premiered his latest film, “The Great Debaters,” portraying the success of a black college’s debate team over Harvard amid the segregation of the 1930s...
...Washington struggled to come to terms with Bhutto's death - the White House hoped she would share power with Musharraf and had made her the centerpiece of its latest plan for Pakistan. While the White House continued to back Musharraf's grip on power as the best near-term key to Pakistan's survival, others are more blunt in their assessment. Anthony Zinni, former chief of the Pentagon's Central Command, whose remit includes Pakistan, warns that extremist groups are "trying to ignite Pakistan into the kind of chaos they need to survive, and create a fundamentalist, even radical, Islamic...
...with gusto. But as she left a campaign rally in Rawalpindi on Dec. 27, shots were fired near her SUV - and moments later, a suicide bomber detonated himself only yards away. The precise cause of her death remains in doubt, but she was gone, and with her, Washington's latest hope for her nation...