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...influence in Africa greater than other European or American visitors. Said Kwanteng Pius Javran, a 22-year-old student in western Cameroon: "We do not regard the Pope as a white man. He is an ordinary person sent to us black men." John Paul used his position to appeal for human rights and religious liberty. Though he had planned to downplay political issues on the trip, as violence spread in South Africa he repeated earlier denunciations of apartheid. In a speech to diplomats in Cameroon, the Pope then broadened the issue beyond apartheid by taking up the cause...
...mainly of mincing, prancing and an inane giggle, so that sometimes it seems he is a little mixed up and may be doing a bad female impersonation. His Big Adventure (directed by Tim Burton) consists of trying to recover his stolen bicycle. His big mystery lies in his strange appeal for adolescents. Is he yet another vehicle through which they can sentimentalize their childhoods? Is he just the latest grotesque fad? Is he to the Reagan era what Pinky Lee was to Eisenhower's? Impossible to say. But fair warning: this movie could induce terminal boredom in adults...
...Ahmadinejad, 48, has won the hearts of his constituents by, among other populist acts, providing marriage loans to young couples and forgiving debts owed to the city government. He has that rare gift--the common touch--that eludes many ambitious politicians the world over. But he has another crucial appeal in Iranian politics: he is a hard-liner. As a 28-year-old woman in a chador declared after she voted for him for President last week, "He will defend the Islamic Republic, a state we are willing to give our blood...
...crowds swarm around them like rock stars," marvels Steven Sanderson, 34, the Stuntmen's lead electric guitarist, who is extensively tattooed, sports a cowboy hat and wears shades indoors. Why would these grandparent types appeal to the 18-to-50-year-olds? "It's unlike anything else," Sanderson says. "The first time I heard them at a rehearsal, it brought me to tears. It was one of the most emotional things I've ever seen. What happens is that the words take on a whole new meaning when they sing the songs...
...fascinated people since the uncovering of his magnificent tomb more than 82 years ago, and now modern technology has allowed us to put a virtual face on the legendary Pharaoh. In the late 1970s, an exhibition of artifacts from his tomb toured U.S. museums. We described the show's appeal?and the resulting crass commercialization?in an Oct. 3, 1977, report...