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...have a secret: Last year, when I was a first-year eagerly awaiting my housing fate, I wanted to be quadded. I half-joked about it once to one of my blockmates, who responded with such a horrified expression that I sheepishly apologized, tried to assure him that I had not in fact cursed our chances of getting into Adams House, and never mentioned it again. When we actually did get assigned to Adams House, I celebrated with the rest of my blockmates, yet I worried about the one downside of living in a River house...
...important position in the Bishops' Synod and was later regarded as a protégé of Pope Paul VI. Yet after Paul died in 1978 and his successor John Paul I succumbed to a heart attack only 34 days into his papacy, Wojtyla was so oblivious to his impending fate that he spent the first day of the new papal conclave nonchalantly browsing through a quarterly review of Marxist theory. When the two leading Italian candidates, a Vatican power broker and an ultraconservative, deadlocked, the Cardinals began looking over the Alps for the first time since 1522. Elected on the eighth...
...every act. In his evangelization, he was so terribly urgent; in his doctrine, so unbending; for the children, so utterly hopeful. He was unconscious of self. He was so full of energy and reluctant to acknowledge when he was spent. He was so Christlike in his sense of fate. He was so Pauline in his quest. He was so dedicated to his mission, so certain that this was God's plan and himself a part of it. He believed always that nothing less than salvation was at stake...
From his window he greeted the crowds on Easter morning and again on Wednesday, visibly frustrated at being unable to utter one last blessing, one more prayer. "Those two appearances may have been what did it," despaired a high Vatican official, as though the fate of such a man could hang on such decisions. "If he had stayed inside, he wouldn't have risked infection." By Thursday the decline was swift. Even as the U.S. continued its great debate over when to remove a feeding tube, the Vatican revealed the Pope was on one. Terri Schiavo, once a private, ordinary...
...Weise. The security guard was shot with the 12-gauge shotgun at point-blank range. Weise walked on, firing down the hallways. And then, in what seems to have been a random decision, Weise blasted the glass panel of Rogers' study hall to find more targets and seal his fate...