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...been a victim of its own success. Its positions on sex and gender issues have become commonplace in the American Church, diminishing the distinctiveness of the progressives. More importantly, they failed to transform the main body of the Church: John Paul II, a charismatic conservative, enjoyed the third-longest papacy in church history, and refused to budge on the left's demands; instead, he eventually swept away liberal bishops. The heads at Call to Action grayed, and by the late 1990s, Vatican II progressivism began to look like a self-limited Boomer moment...
...Gonsalves, 35, a former Air Force intelligence officer, live in slightly better conditions, says Pinchao. Still, a video that police seized last fall from FARC operatives in the capital, Bogota, shows the men looking weak and depressed. They have now been in captivity for five years - one of the longest hostage episodes in U.S. history. Yet few Americans know about it. President George W. Bush has mentioned the hostages publicly only once, when he visited Colombia last year. "It's amazing and discouraging to think that these three guys, former U.S. servicemen, could be left behind and forgotten this...
...lookout. To the other, there was little but an impenetrable wall of Congolese bush. In between gathered an eclectic mix of Sudanese mediators, Ugandan government ministers, journalists, rock-and-roll activists and tribal chiefs, all hoping to witness what should have been the end of one of Africa's longest and least understood wars...
...13th was bogeyed or worse 83 times against only 37 times at par or better. “I actually birdied it, as did Peter Singh, but it’s a really tough hole,” Mayer said. “I think it was the longest par four and it played straight into the wind, which made it even longer. You had out of bounds to the right and trees to the left with a green surrounded by bunkers.” Next weekend, the team will travel to Rhode Island for the final tournament...
...Chijoff-Evans won 6-0, 6-1 at No. 5 and Omodele-Lucien won 6-1, 6-2 at No. 6.At No. 3, Nguyen was energized by his lackluster performance on Friday, winning 6-3, 6-4 in what was, remarkably, the Crimson’s longest singles match of the day. Meanwhile, Ermakov at No. 4 went down 3-0 in the first set but then rebounded and won seven straight sets to put himself on firm footing for the 6-3, 6-2 victory.Kumar won 6-2, 6-4 at No. 1 and Clayton...