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for so long, but they have to go,” said his mother, Patricia Reid. “It’s their calling.” “My brother’s my best friend,” said Erica Reid
LE MARS, Iowa — The volatile Republican presidential race in Iowa will come down to which way an enormous chunk of undecided voters breaks in the coming days. With the first-in-the-nation voting of the 2012 race for the White House looming Tuesday, Mitt Rivals target Romney is Santorum contending for victory in a state that eluded him four years ago, while Rick Santorum — a hero among social conservatives — surges and libertarian-leaning Ron Paul slides in a contest that remains incredibly fluid. With many factors at play, the dynamics can shift rapidly. Yet, two things were clear on the final weekend before the caucuses: The yearlong effort to establish a consensus challenger to Romney had so far come up short, and Romney’s carefully laid plan to survive Iowa may succeed because conservative voters have so far failed to unite behind one candidate. “It may be Romney’s to lose at this point,” said John Stineman, an Iowa GOP campaign strategist. “And it’s a battle among the rest.” Underscoring the unpredictability of the race, a new poll by The Des Moines Register showed that a remarkable 41 percent of likely caucus-goers say they were undecided or still might change their minds. On Sunday, the candidates were making their closing arguments, both in appearances across Iowa as well as on national television,
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Chris and Katie Reid pose in downtown Vicksburg before their move to Tanzania.
City native, wife follow ‘calling’ to Tanzania By Pamela Hitchins
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The year 2012 is not just a new year for Vicksburg native Christopher Reid. It’s a time of many “news” — new job, new home, new language, new country, new continent. Reid, 35, a 1995 graduate of Warren Central High School, and his wife Katie, 33, a native of Philadelphia, have signed on with Maryknoll Lay Missioners, a Roman Catholic organization dedicated to living and working in poor communities in Africa, Asia and the Americas. The Reids arrived Friday in Tanzania, on the east coast of Africa, where for the next 3 1/2 years they will bring their backgrounds in social work and community involvement to work primarily with women in the country’s second largest city,
• Tanzania, formed in 1964 from the union of two sovereign states, Tanganyika and Zanzibar, is home to Africa’s highest mountain, Kilamanjaro. For more information, log on to www.tanzania.go.tz/ Tanzania • Maryknoll Lay Missioners is a Roman Mwanza, Catholic organization inspired by the mission located on of Jesus to live and work in poor communities in Lake Victoria. Africa, Asia and the Americas to help create a more “It is a leap just and compassionate world. More inforof faith, with mation, as well as a link to a blog publishing some pretty stories from missioners around the world, big unknowns,” can be found at http://www.maryknollChris Reid said laymissioners.org/ in an interview at • The Reids will publish a newsletter about their work in the Highway 61 Cafe. Tanzania. E-mail Katie Reid at kreid@mklm.org and request “Will I be able to learn to be added to their mailing list. the language? Will
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they even want to talk with me? Will I be able to make a connection with them?” On the whole, though, the Reids are excited and happy to be on their way to do the work they’ve trained, prayed and hoped to do.
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“Even on a bad day it will still be interesting,” Chris Reid said. Family members say he’s right for the challenge. “I don’t really want him to go, because he’ll be away
In New Year’s message, Pope says young people key to world’s future
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Children walk past Pope Benedict XVI during a mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Sunday.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI in his New Year’s homily Sunday praised young people as key to securing a future of hope despite what he called “shadows on the horizon of today’s world.” In the splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica, with ambassadors to the Holy See from dozens of countries seated in the front rows, the pontiff, wearing white vestments with gold-colored trimmings, celebrated Mass on a day the Vatican dedicates to world
peace. “I would like to underline the fact that, in the face of the shadows that obscure the horizon of today’s world, to assume responsibility for educating young people in knowledge of the truth, in fundamental values and virtues, is to look to the future with hope,” the pontiff said. Young people, he said, must “learn the importance and the art of peaceful coexistence, mutual respect, dialogue and understanding. Young people by their nature are open to these attitudes, but the social reality
TODAY IN HISTORY 1788: Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1900: Secretary of State John Hay announces the “Open Door Policy” to facilitate trade with China. 1921: Religious services are broadcast on radio for the first time as KDKA in Pittsburgh airs
the regular Sunday service of the city’s Calvary Episcopal Church. 1960: Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts launches his successful bid for the presidency.
in which they grow up can lead them to think and act in the opposite way, even to be intolerant and violent,” Benedict said. But they will become “builders of peace” if properly educated, he predicted. The 84-year-old Benedict looked tired during Mass, but his voice was strong, and he smiled and chatted briefly with families and young children who carried gifts to him during the ceremony. He seemed amused by one pacifier-sucking infant as the See Pope, Page A7.
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