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Wojtyla is another mountaineer, from the Carpathian foothills near Cracow. This splendid medieval and Renaissance city, with its ancient Jagiellonian University -- which Wojtyla attended -- was the center of his youthful universe. Warsaw, the modern capital of Poland, meant little to him, and the summit of his clerical ambition was reached...
Then there are the differences between the two men, which in part reflect the times in which they came to maturity. The year John was born, Chester Arthur was President, Disraeli had just died, and Picasso had just been born. In many ways John was a Victorian, and the church...
For 16 years now, Karol Wojtyla -- once actor, then priest, then Archbishop and Cardinal -- has been Pope John Paul II, the Supreme Pontiff, Bishop of Rome, leader of a church of nearly 1 billion souls. "It's curious," an Italian Archbishop once said, "you'd think he had always been...
But for biology, writes Gould, the "cardinal event" was the birth of Ernst Mayr.
Unfortunately, the Jets receiver is not alone. On just about any fall weekend, as the 28 N.F.L. teams square off on their 100-yd. battlefields, three or four players will be knocked out of the action by concussions. At least 40 such injuries have occurred this year, and in the...