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  1. More than 450,000 people were killed over decades of conflict, most of them unarmed civilians, according to Josefina Echavarría Alvarez of the Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频. Around 50,000 people were also kidnapped throughout the conflict. 

  2. “We still find that many individuals, when they themselves are experiencing a mental health crisis or mental illness — or when their loved ones are — that a priest or someone in the parish … would be the first person that they would reach out to,” Beth Hlabse, program director for the Fiat Program on Faith and Mental Health at the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life, said.

  3. In the United States, Leo’s background makes him more relevant, according to Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a historian at the University of Notre Dame. Americans “are paying more attention because he’s one of our own,” she said.

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  4. “The U.S. is trying to get back to the situation that existed before we launched this escapade,” says Eugene Gholz, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. “We’re not trying to gain. We’re trying to undo a loss.”

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    Charles Gholz

    Political Science

  5. “People always look for signs in state and local elections, of, is this a sign of something bigger? And so this is seen as a sign, because ordinarily, the Indiana primaries don't attract a lot of attention, but people are looking at this as a sign of as a test for the president's clout,” Joshua Kaplan, Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Notre Dame, told ABC News.

  6. "He began his time on the court often in dissent, and he stood his ground," said Haley Proctor, a University of Notre Dame law professor who previously served as a clerk for Thomas. "The justice's influence on the law has been profound," 鈥婸roctor said. "And that is a consequence, not only of his many years on the court, but also of his persistence."

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    Haley Proctor

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    The fertility rate in the United States has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded...I spoke with Melissa Kearney, an economist at the University of Notre Dame. She says these two trends combined - fewer U.S. babies and fewer migrants - these are game-changers.

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    Melissa Kearney

    Department of Economics

  8. "The pope is the one who is clear-eyed and understands the need for preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, but also the appropriate means for pursuing that goal," said Gerard Powers, director of Catholic peacebuilding studies at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频.

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    Gerard Powers

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  9. Political scientists such as the University of Notre Dame’s Christina Wolbrecht have argued that America wasn’t really a democracy, not in the meaningful sense of the term, until the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the law that formed the signature achievement of the civil rights movement and sought to end racial barriers to voting across the south when it was passed in 1965.

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    Christina Wolbrecht

    Political Science

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    In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, Jerry Powers, the director of Catholic Peace Building 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, explains how the Catholic church’s just war tradition evolved and the influence it’s had on US military thinking. Powers was a senior advisor on international policy for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the Iraq war, and was involved in efforts to persuade the Bush administration not to invade.

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    Gerard Powers

    Gerard Powers

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  11. Jimmy Gurulé, a Notre Dame law professor and former federal prosecutor, said he believes the Justice Department will struggle to build a viable case based on the evidence in the indictment. “Posting numbers constitute a threat? I just don’t accept that,” Gurulé said. “They are going to have to prove that to a jury — beyond a reasonable doubt. ... I don’t think they are going to be able to satisfy that legal threshold.”

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    Jimmy Gurul茅

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  12. There are also questions about how other OPEC members respond. "If other countries decide to follow suit, there's certainly the potential for the OPEC structure to weaken," Gianna Bern, a professor at the University of Notre Dame's business school, tells NPR via email. 

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    Gianna Bern

    Mendoza College of Business

  13. Jimmy Gurulé, a University of Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor and former federal prosecutor, called the indictment “an embarrassment to the American criminal justice system. The damage to the credibility, integrity and reputation of the U.S. Department of Justice may be immeasurable,” he said in an email to CNBC. “Every DOJ lawyer that played a role in returning this frivolous indictment should be ashamed.”

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    Jimmy Gurul茅

    Jimmy Gurul茅

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  14. Jimmy Gurulé, a former federal prosecutor and former assistant US Attorney General appointed by President George W Bush, said the new indictment was "an embarrassment to the American criminal justice system. The DOJ will not be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that James Comey had the intent to threaten or harm President Trump," Gurulé, now a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor, said in a statement to the BBC. "The indictment is a transparent attempt to intimidate one of the President's perceived political enemies."

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    Jimmy Gurul茅

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