And the parliament could help dispel its reputation for an easy life in the comfort zone by agreeing to sit into the summer to confirm a new commission before September.

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And this was coming from the institution somewhat sardonically called, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, The World's Greatest University, a place that for centuries relied on its reputation for academic excellence, not its life-comforts and other amenities, to attract the best and the brightest.

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Or will the billionaire be haunted by his reputation as a party boy for the rest of his life?

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Reputation management has now become a defining feature of online life for many internet users, especially the young.

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The 65-year-old from Brazil has had his reputation bolstered since taking over as prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in 2011.

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Throughout his life and to this day, Britten's reputation has risen and fallen for reasons that have at least as much to do with his complex personality.

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