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...great chapter,” he repeated. “...For me to poop...
...Vatican is a place where almost every fact has already logged weeks as rumor. But when Portland, Ore., Archbishop John Vlazny announced last week that he was taking his legally besieged archdiocese into Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("The pot of gold is pretty much empty," he contended), the Holy See was genuinely stunned. A senior Vatican official remained convinced Vlazny was bluffing until a wire-service story was read to him. Others confirm that two years ago, Bernard Cardinal Law was denied permission to do the same thing when he was Boston Archbishop. They suspect Vlazny asked no one's leave...
...Even more enlightening his reporting on the experiences of young African players on the margins of European football in his chapter on the "Black Carpathians." Here, he tracks the story of Edward Anyamkyegh, a Nigerian starlet playing at Karpaty Lviv, a Ukrainian team with a fiercely nationalist tradition. In the Soviet era, the Ukraine was recognized as the cradle of the Union's soccer talent, regularly supplying a majority of the national team's players. But despite its tradition of representing Ukrainian pride (particularly against Russian teams during the Soviet era), the accepted wisdom in independent Ukraine is that soccer...
...anymore." Today, Payre lives in and does business out of Belgium. In Germany, the Taxpayers' Federation regularly generates headlines by publishing a "black book" of wasteful practices. "We've pretty much reached the limit," rages Michael Jäger, who helps run the federation's Bavarian chapter. Among recent examples in Jäger's backyard: an artificial lake near Munich airport that's costing almost €20 million to build instead of the budgeted €11 million; a €76,500 traffic light in Garmisch Partenkirchen that only worked for a day before it was dismantled...
...violent sundering of these people, who had considered themselves simply Ottomans, into two fiercely nationalistic camps. So far, so good. But Birds Without Wings never really takes off from there, partly due to a dizzying flock of principal characters, many with no personal relationships between them. One chapter, for instance, gives you a long first-person commentary from traveling businessman Georgio P. Theodorou, who is rarely glimpsed again. The next is a third-person history lesson about the plots and machinations of Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Then come the musings of beautiful but simple Telmessos resident Philothei. Three chapters...