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...must get it tended to. I have a four-hour layover, so airport officials get me a taxi and instruct the driver to take me to the closest hospital on the outskirts of Moscow. After X-raying my foot, the doctors confirm it is a fracture, apply a plaster cast, give me a pair of crutches and send me back to the airport...
What will my Vietnamese hosts think when they see me get off the plane with crutches and a cast? They don't need the burden of a disabled American descending on them--and how am I going to climb over the earthen dikes that I am coming to film...
...clear in unusual, very human terms. As I'd anticipated, they look shocked and want to hand me the bouquet, but I can't hold it and the crutches at the same time. Standing on the tarmac, they hold a quick conference in Vietnamese with numerous glances at my cast. I understand their concern: these are the people who will be responsible for my well-being over the next two weeks. Clearly my condition is worrisome...
...followed. First the show was to open in New York City with a stand-in, then it was closed entirely. But in three days of phone pleas to producer Barry Weissler, "I made him see how important it was that the show go on because of how much the cast had put into it," says Applegate. Weissler was moved and agreed to reopen Charity, take it to Broadwayin May and return his still healing star to the title role. Cue the applause...
...established, before the ascension of the Polish Karol Cardinal Wojtyla in 1978, a 456-year tradition of selecting from among themselves. Though the percentage of electors from Italy has plummeted from the 33% who helped elect John XXIII in 1958 to 17% today, the 20 Italians who can cast ballots remain powerful, and the next Bishop of Rome could be Italian...