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...given $50,000 toward the endowment of the Frank Stanton Professorship with-in the newly established Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government...
...professorship "represents a commitment to an area where there is a vital need for increased understanding of the peculiar problems of small business," he added...
...moment." In 1975 he called the previous decade "a period of ecclesiastical decadence in which the people who had started it later on became incapable of stopping the avalanche." After Ratzinger was appointed Archbishop of Munich in 1977, he barred Liberation Theologian Johann Baptist Metz from a professorship and engineered the Vatican crackdown on his former colleague Küng. Ratzinger's shift prompted charges of opportunism; students broke up one of his campus appearances last year with booing and jeering chants...
Next year, he will hold a one-year Eastman Professorship at Oxford University as part of the Rhodes Trust for an American professor in any field, lecturing and participating in the Oxford tutorial system...
...which raises the question, "Why?" Why does this man--who, besides holding a professorship, is a board-certified internist with an M.D. from Western Reserve and a Harvard Masters in public health, and a researcher in epidemiology (the study of risk factors contributing to the outbreak of epidemics)--spend many of his evenings singing with undergraduate men and women half his age? Is there an element of the Peter Pan syndrome at work here, an attempt to retain youth through proximity...