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A Sordid Legacy
A Twitter handle and Gucci loafers do not a modernizer make. The announcement of Pope Benedict XVI’s impending resignation (the first in nearly 600 years) forces Catholics, and the world at large, to determine the legacy of a pontiff who served at one of the most trying times in history for the Catholic Church. Caught…
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The Power of People (and the Headache of Counting Them)
It’s census time. In the United States, people have been filling out and mailing forms, in addition to being interviewed by officials from the Department of Census. The feat of carrying out a survey of 300 million people is as difficult as it is important. Simultaneously, in another part of the world, census officials are…
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