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...catch-22 on a cosmic scale. To be a front runner in the race is, according to church tradition, a formula for losing it. "He who goes into the conclave as Pope comes out a Cardinal," goes the Roman maxim. Take the case of the Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, 71, one of several so-called papabili (Italian for "Popables"). Castrillon Hoyos speaks several languages and possesses an attractive combination of real-world pastoral experience and inside-the-Vatican bureaucratic savvy. In 1999, his compatriot Gabriel Garcia Marquez sang his praises in print, recalling how the Cardinal had dressed...
...Cuban Americans has been challenged by an influx of non-Cuban Latinos who lean toward the Democrats. Non-Latino Democrats in the southern end of the state are balanced by white Republicans in the northern Panhandle, while myriad new immigrant groups have allegiances that are still up for grabs. Dario Moreno, a political scientist at Miami's Florida International University, points out that the mix was not usually inflammatory - "as long as lightning didn't strike...
...Dozens of Harvard students have been studying from this book without realizing that 'Ruben' was Ruben Dario," Whitesell says...
According to Whitesell, Dario traveled widely and often left many belongings behind in each move. For scholars, an author's library represents a goldmine of information on his literary influences...
Houghton Library is exhibiting some of Whitesell's finds, including the volume with Dario's new poetry, through tomorrow. Whitesell intends to publish an account of the incident in the quarterly Harvard Library Bulletin...