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Born Karol Wojtyla in 1920 in a small Polish town near Krakow, the Pontiff led a difficult and often sorrow-filled life: his mother died when he was eight years old, his elder brother died of scarlet fever a little over three years later, and his father succumbed to the ravages of old age before seeing his son enter the priesthood. He narrowly escaped deportation to Germany during the Second World War, and Communist domination forced him to go to an underground seminary. For a long time, his life seemed destined not for greatness, but rather for anonynimity...
...Fever Pitch, Drew Barrymore plays the girlfriend of a Red Sox fanatic...
...spokesman wept as he shared the final journey. Awake and serene, the Pope had no desire to return to the hospital for a third time in two months even as his fever rose and his heart failed. Instead, according to Edmund Cardinal Szoka, he lay with his head propped up on pillows, blessing his disciples as they knelt at his bedside, and being blessed by them. He received the sacrament reserved for the dying, heard the Stations of the Cross. Hours later he was slipping in and out of consciousness, his breathing shallow, his organs failing. News came Saturday...
...uttered the words pricing power, a report on consumer prices revealed there has been a sharp uptick, and mortgage rates jumped. Long-term rates are highly sensitive to inflation, so that's a good place to watch for clues as to whether the inflation fears will turn into a fever. --By Daniel Kadlec...
...footy fever is quietly spreading, partly because the game lacks the racial overtones that, 11 years after the end of apartheid, still mark rugby as a mainly white sport and soccer as a black one. Thanks to a series of energetic young development officers funded by the AFL, Aussie Rules now boasts more than 1,000 regular players, from 9-year-olds to seniors in their 20s. In 2002, the South African national team, the Buffaloes, traveled to Melbourne to compete in the inaugural International Cup, which brings together such Aussie Rules outposts as Canada, New Zealand and Samoa. Though...