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Still, Vatican watchers say it remains an open question if the Benedict-Bertone team--which may have been effective in imposing orthodoxy on wayward theologians when the pair ran the doctrinal office--has the worldly vision and institutional muscle to impose their will on the 1.1 billion--strong universal church...
...attractive,” residential area, “these projects would bring noise, air, and visual pollution to this special neighborhood,” claimed a flyer distributed by the Allston-Brighton Community Planning Initiative. Harvard officials said repeatedly that the January master plan is not the finalized vision for the campus in Allston. They assured local residents that they intend to revise the plans in response to the objections raised at the meeting. “We see tonight as a beginning and we’re happy to come back here as many times as you want...
...will be alumni in less than four years and typically don’t feel the influence of Harvard’s president in the short term. An uncontroversial choice would be a prolific writer of open letters, a master fundraiser, and a pretty face who lacks an overall vision. An uncontroversial choice, in short, is precisely what the University does not need at this point. The stakes for Harvard’s future are simply too high...
...that the presidential search committee should select a leader who lacks the tact necessary to avoid getting caught Harvard’s political spider web. Indeed, the president must work constructively with Harvard’s various faculties, inspire alumni and students alike to join in their vision, and communicate persuasively with donors. The president need not be an agitator. But the presidential search committee must not be afraid to take a leap of faith in selecting a bold leader—as it did six years ago when it selected Lawrence H. Summers—rather than simply...
First in this new voice was 1983's Brighton Beach Memoirs, an ultimately comforting but nonetheless troubled vision of Simon's boyhood during the late 1930s. The show accumulated honors: the New York Drama Critics Circle prize for best play, a hit production at Britain's National Theater that transferred last week to London's West End, and a film version, also written by Simon, that opens nationwide in the U.S. on Christmas Day. Next Simon wrote 1985's Biloxi Blues, an astringent look at World War II Army recruits (including himself) whose macho bravado often obscured a lack...