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c. 1996 Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS)-It's unlikely that the Rev. Konrad Raiser, the soft-spoken general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), will ever become a household name. But the 58-year-old Raiser, a tall, slim former university professor a...