Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Boitano held out for two years while pondering how to put together his own ice show nouveau: a romantic and theatrical evening with a minimum of props and kitsch and a maximum of athletic daring. Along the way came a TV special for ABC and another for Home Box Office that won three Emmy Awards, both starring his title-winning counterpart, Katarina Witt of what was then East Germany. The TV shows taught Boitano that he and Witt, although trained since early childhood as solo skaters, could enjoy the different discipline of working as a pair and, more important...
From the start, the academy sought to provide a supportive environment for Navajos, in contrast to public schools, where they were routinely treated as second-class students. But beyond that, according to headmaster Samuel Billison, the academy had a special mission: to educate young and gifted Navajos to be able to survive in the wider culture without losing their own. The school aimed to create a generation of Indian leaders who would understand the outside world but not envy...
...Society of Jesus to direct the task of training priests and rebuilding the long-oppressed clergy of these sensitive areas. Next week Jesuit experts will be gathering in Rome to plan how to go about that job. For starters, East Europeans are being brought to Rome to receive special training at the Pontifical Gregorian University and other Jesuit-run institutions. Many will return to their homelands as seminary teachers to begin the work of strengthening the church in the East...
...assignment signals John Paul's renewed trust in the Jesuit order, which was founded with a special mandate to obey missions assigned by the Pope. The Eastern mission has particular significance for the society right now, since the Jesuits are marking this year's 450th anniversary of their founding and the impending 500th anniversary of the birth of the society's canonized creator, the Basque nobleman Ignatius of Loyola...
Under Arrupe's reign, the society had declared a duty to "show solidarity with all the oppressed and underprivileged everywhere." That commitment was reaffirmed at Kolvenbach's election and again two months ago at a special meeting in Spain of the heads of all 84 Jesuit provinces. Are the Jesuits still too political? "To be human is to be political," responds the order's assistant general, American John O'Callaghan. In any event, Jesuit activism no longer seems to worry John Paul so much, just so long as doctrines supportive of Marxism are eliminated from the society's arsenal...