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...with his trip (Goodman is black), met twice in Washington with Syrian Ambassador Rafic Jouejati, tried unsuccessfully to phone President Reagan and got a 90-minute Middle East briefing at the State Department ("We'll do our best to see that he doesn't make any grave mistakes," said one official). Then he was off, delivering punchy justifications along the way. "We do not have a signed contract," Jackson said as he left, "but we must go forth. We must do what's right. .. We do not choose to fiddle, as it were, while Rome burns...
...practicing Muslim invokes the Almighty's mercy during the five prescribed daily prayer sessions. But for John Paul, penance and absolution have very precise meanings. Penance is one of the Catholic Church's seven sacraments. Baptized Catholics, before receiving Communion, are required to confess contritely all then- "grave sins" (for example, adultery) to a priest, and they are encouraged to confess lesser misdeeds. The priest absolves penitents on God's behalf. The priest also directs sinners to perform deeds of "penance" (hence the sacrament's name...
...dispirited homeland, Poland. As always, John Paul's charismatic personality attracted millions of the faithful, and his words and actions rarely failed to bring political reactions. He roared "Silencio!" to unruly Sandinistas who disrupted a Mass he was celebrating in Nicaragua; he made a surprise visit to the grave of El Salvador's martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero; and he bluntly told the government of dirt-poor Haiti, "Something must change here." In Poland he met with General Wojciech Jaruzelski and called for the unshackling of Solidarity, the banned labor union. He also met privately with his native country...
...polite Prime Minister. He is a humble Prime Minister. He is a grave and austere Prime Minister...
...utterly emaciated, this wisp of a human creature slips away from his oppressors, so that he may live and die beside his pumpkin seeds. Coetzee mourns Michael K: "A creature that spends its waking life stooped over the soil, that when at last its time comes digs its own grave and slips quietly in and draws the heavy earth over its head like a blanket...