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POPS, an innovative program that represents elderly inmates at their parole hearings and helps find a place in the community for nonviolent geriatric inmates, has helped 200 prisoners 55 and over win parole. Half were released to the custody of relatives. Others were accepted into halfway-house programs and church-run, low-cost apartments. Turley argues that states could reap tremendous savings by diverting just a fraction of corrections' budgets into post-release housing alternatives...
Forget Cecilia Bartoli. The hottest female name in classical music right this second is a perky little Welsh soprano named Charlotte Church. Her first CD, Voice of an Angel (Sony Classical), went double platinum in Britain and rose to No. 4 on the U.K. pop charts. In recent weeks she's been seen in the U.S. on The Rosie O'Donnell Show and Late Show with David Letterman. Her summer schedule includes pledge-drive appearances on public-TV stations across the country and a June 14 benefit performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington that President Clinton was expected...
...appeal is easy enough to understand. Audiences love child prodigies, and record-company executives love them even more--especially when they act like ordinary kids, not prematurely serious artist-nerds. That's Church all over: a cheerful talk-show guest, she admits to being a fan of Puff Daddy's and Celine Dion's. Even better, she has the kind of I'm-no-snob demeanor that goes over spectacularly well in class-obsessed Britain, where artists who have (or can simulate) the common touch can count on being boosted by the down-market tabloids. That too is Church...
...Under John Paul II, thanks to countless hours and countless lire, it?s more like a worldwide, millennium?s-end sales event. "He?s determined to make it a time for conversion, diocese by diocese," says Burke. "To him, it?s an incredible historical opportunity to spread the Catholic Church?s message to a world that needs it more than ever...
...next 20 years, from his precedent-bending inaugural speech from the Vatican balcony to his two-week pilgrimage to thank his first flock, were a run-up to this, a global celebration of humanity and the faith 1 billion of them hold dear. He worked tirelessly to bring his church everywhere it was wanted, and insisted just as tirelessly that this church would still be recognizable to him when he was done. He is tired now. But unswerving Catholics, anyway, shouldn?t be too worried. As much as John Paul II has done in 21 years, as much...