Word: chamberlain
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...from the top. As Pope, John Paul II runs both Vatican and church with imperial power. But the autonomous city-state from which he governs is one of the oldest and most organized bureaucracies. If the Pope dies, administrative power goes automatically to the Vatican's Camerlengo, or Chamberlain, until a new Pope is elected. But when a Pope is sick or traveling, command goes to the Secretary of State, in this case Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, 66, the church's top diplomatic negotiator and the Pope's hand-picked and devoted No. 2 man. When John Paul...
...salute, a military guard in 1776 revolutionary raiment and the largest diplomatic dinner the Reagans have given in the White House. The 109 guests ranged from captains of industry to Cabinet members of both countries to James Clavell, author of the bestseller Shōgun, and Actor Richard Chamberlain, star of the TV miniseries based on Clavell's novel. The pomp had a point. Both Reagan and his guest were eager to underscore the importance of ties between their two countries, which share $56 billion in trade as well as strategic links. Moreover, both wished to establish a style...
...Carolina fan since Dennis Wuycik and Bill Chamberlain played their hearts out in a semi-final loss to Florida State a decade ago, I wish I was in Philadelphia, too. But even more, I'd like to be at the Four Corners. To watch the nation's finest squad with the nation's finest fans would be an honor I'd never forget...
Most of all, I'd love to be there when Carolina wins. I want to see grown men cry, college students scream, I want to be there for the night-long parade like they had after stopping Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas in triple overtime to win back the title in 1957. And I want to be one of the thousands waiting at the airport the next morning, shouting as the national champions step off the plane...
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain emerged from the 1938 Munich Conference, having ceded a slice of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, and made his slogan "peace in our time" synonymous with disastrous appeasement. Chamberlain's policy was largely a reflection of the popular pacifist sentiment in prewar Britain. Only a hopeless alarmist would suggest that such calamitous history might be repeating itself today. But Western military experts and policymakers are undeniably concerned by an increasing reluctance by Europe's man-in-the-street to accept the necessity of self-defense...