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Some pilgrims came with little more than the clothes on their backs, because this was not a logical undertaking, it was a leap of faith. The population of Rome doubled in a matter of days, including an estimated 2 million Poles who descended on the Eternal City to honor their native son. There was no room at any inn, so people camped in the streets and squares, while the city tested its gift for hospitality. Romans were urged to open their doors, take people in; the government set up thousands of cots in soccer stadiums, the convention center and makeshift...
...Friday, when the princes and presidents, kings and queens, metropolitans and patriarchs, had all descended to honor their brother, the world seemed to stop to say Mass. In the shadow of his passing, much history was laid to rest; the church's strengths and weaknesses were also laid out for all to see. Here was Prince Charles, in line to lead an Anglican Church that split with Rome over a king's divorce five centuries ago, postponing his wedding a day to attend this ceremony instead. There was Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law, now in Rome after resigning over...
...Attorney in Houston, says the Zetas' military discipline, arsenal and wiretap capability make them more dangerous than other drug groups. Adds José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, Mexico's deputy attorney general for organized crime: "You had soldiers from an élite force transferring all the heavy military mystique--the honor, valor, loyalty--to a drug trafficker." After the government captured Cárdenas in 2003, the Zetas had to strike out more on their own. They launched a lethal campaign against Mexican authorities and rival traffickers gunning for control over Cárdenas' former trafficking routes. Mexican officials insist that half the original...
...elections and a place in government as junior partner to Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel's conservative Austrian People's Party. The European Union imposed a diplomatic boycott on Austria because of the FPO's extreme views; Haider has restrictive immigration policies and once called SS veterans "men of honor." Still, the coalition went ahead, and Austria gradually resumed normal relations with its E.U. partners. But Haider retreated to his native Carinthia, though he continued to dominate his party from the sidelines and sowed divisions between his followers and other factions. The FPO's popularity shriveled. In recent local elections...
...have been a wizard, a warrior, a god. I have built civilizations and seen others toppled at my command. I have colonized planets, built starfleets. I have killed, and I have plundered. I have died and been resurrected. Parades have been thrown in my honor, fireworks set off. I have jumped through every hoop in these algorithmic mazes, satisfied every goal conceived of and coded by pajama’d malcontents, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. But what has it all given me? How have these hours and days of absorption affected the way I experience reality...