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...Pope John Paul II and his imposing legacy of global outreach. John Paul not only racked up the miles-104 foreign trips during his 26-year papacy-he also had a natural gift for leaving both spiritual and political footprints almost anywhere he touched down (and kissed the ground): subtly undermining the Communist regime with emotional sermons in his native Poland; challenging breakaway priests of Latin America's "liberation theology"; reaching out with an old man's wisdom at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall...
...appeared ready to take more. But there are certain decisions that only the Holy Father can make. And so two hours later, as he stepped briskly down the stairs toward the airport tarmac, the next question was about to be answered. No, Pope Benedict XVI did not kiss the ground...
...there is the program's improvisational aura. "I'm cheering 'em on," says Wheaton's Moreau. "In Africa, programs appearing well connected can instantly attract a mass of people. But I wonder how many at Saddleback have the cross-cultural experience to convert that [enthusiasm] to feet on the ground." Says Furaha Mugisha, editor of the Rwandan newspaper Umuseso: "I think [Warren] has good intentions. Some people may benefit. But he is not different from other pastors we have seen. You won't hear much about his plan after the rally...
...music. I had all the verses from LL Cool J down cold. In college, I expanded out to Bob Marley and John Coltrane. In short, I was a black-music nerd, for sure out of love but also out of a need to find some common ground with my own. I never explored beyond that, mostly because the kids in my neighborhood believed the words white and music to be antithetical. Occasionally someone like George Michael or 3rd Bass would get a pass. But when we thought of white music, we mostly thought of rock, which is to say loud...
...producer Judd Apatow gave us Freaks and Geeks, an excruciatingly funny high school dramedy that died after one glorious season. In 2001 he created the more upbeat sitcom Undeclared, set at a fictional California college, and ... it died after one glorious season. Undeclared covered familiar campus-comedy ground (sex, beer, pranks) but had an intuition for the self-discovery that emerges amid finals and keg parties, and the ensemble gave the dialogue a loose, improv feel. Fleshed out with commentaries (and an unaired episode), this four-disc set is a graduate seminar in smart comedy...