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...writing or -- increasingly, as age and injuries have taken their toll -- to dictation. When he can, he composes quickly, in Polish, with a neat, flowing hand, using a black felt-tipped pen. On the top left of every page he prints the letters AMDG (initials for Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam -- To the Greater Glory of God). On the top right of the first page he inscribes Tuus Totus (All Thine), the opening words of a short prayer to the Virgin whose text he continues on subsequent pages. The Pope's literary output is staggering. His letters, sermons and speeches fill...
John Paul's dissatisfaction with some of the church's traditional priestly operatives -- like the Jesuits, whom he perceived until recently as becoming too liberal -- has led him to encourage lay Catholic movements such as Opus Dei. (Papal spokesman Navarro is a member.) He has declared this controversial organization a personal prelature, which means that it is exempt from the jurisdiction of local bishops and reports directly to Rome. The Pope has also given warm encouragement to a new religious order, the Legionaries of Christ, which some conservatives see as a replacement for the Jesuits of old. Members...
...page being cut and placed next to the binding is similar to the way one of the mutilated books (Giuseppe Macali's Antichi Monumenti Per Servire All' opera Inititolata I'Italia Avanti il Dominio Dei Romani, 1810) from the Widener Library was found on May 24, 1994," Rooney said in a sworn affidavit he wrote to request a search warrant. A copy of the affidavit was obtained by The Crimson...
...television networks. Just as they were gearing up for the big invasion of Haiti, the dynamic trio of Carter, Nunn, and Powell had to fly in and make boring news. Everyone knows that bland, bloodless sound bites don't sell. Just who do these eleventh-hour dei ex machina think they...
...were standouts, notably Hagley and Marie-Ange Todorovitch, as Cherubino). Poor Renee Fleming, as the Countess, was stuck with the staging's only coarse moments. Somehow director Stephen Medcalf thought to dramatize the lady's unhappiness by portraying her in a kind of sexual heat. While Susanna is singing "Dei vieni non tardar," Mozart's heavenly, healing, last-act aria, the Countess is writhing around a tree trunk...