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...been shot with him in that appalling moment in St. Peter's Square. When a group of 52 schoolchildren gathered below to serenade him with a folk song and offer prayers for his speedy recovery, the Pope sent a messenger bustling down with a fond reply: "I bless you, and I would like to kiss you all, one by one." John Paul even celebrated a birthday; he was an increasingly hearty, if not yet hale...
...With deep emotion, I thank you for prayers and I bless you all," the pope said in a message which was recorded at Rome's Gemelli Policlinico Hospital and played over a loudspeaker a short time later for the crowd in St. Peter's Square...
...country and they're men. So you get tortured in P.O.W. camps and one of your buddies dies and the other loses his legs, but you fought hard--for what you don't know--but you got back okay and you got your girl and she loves you. "God Bless America," you sing, "Fuckin...
...history lesson comes from Harry Truman. Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace had predicted that at the end of World War II the Government would have to intervene massively to help create 60 million jobs. "Instead, Harry Truman-bless his soul-decided to go with the free economy," says Regan. "Without understanding economics worth a damn he understood what the country needed economically. He and my predecessor here, John Snyder-the country banker and the country bumpkin-knew more about economics than many sophisticates out of my alma mater or anywhere else. Economics is not a science...
...soldiers were pitted against the sordid and infinitely evil Vietnamese; nearly every East Asian in the film was a leering, growling monster. In the end, our brave soldiers, having endured imprisonment, mutilation, and the deaths of their comrades, join their families and friends in a rousing rendition of "God Bless America." The controversy over The Deer Hunter's racism, its blind patriotism, and its historical inaccuracies (some would say lies) exploded in angry editorials and boycotts of the film. Important questions were raised: Did the artist have a right to distort the terrible social and political realities of recent history...