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...PETER?S PRIMER: Who will succeed John Paul II as Pope? "Conclave: The Politics, Personalities, and Process of the Next Papal Election" (Image/Doubleday; paperback; June 18) by John Allen Jr. explores that question. Says Kirkus, "An oddity, an instant book dedicated to an event that has yet to happen...Allen?s roster of candidates and their qualifications will be the strong selling point of ?Conclave.? Breathless though the prose is, it conveys much that is of use including, for instance, a thorough discussion of just what the job of pope entails (settling squabbles and travelling a lot) and how popes...
...Olympics offer those too. There may be no time limit to the war on terrorism. And the recession, depending on whom you talk to, is either over, about to end or somewhere in between. But when the lugers break that laser beam, that's it, no do-overs, no instant replays. How quaint, in a way, and how profoundly comforting: numbers that mean something, numbers that stay put, unlike the closing figures...
When she formally announces her candidacy for the U.S. Senate this week from her home state of North Carolina, Elizabeth Dole will become the instant front runner. The most recent public poll, conducted earlier this month, showed her clobbering her most likely Democratic opponent, Clinton-era White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, by a 47-point margin. Still, Dole's race for the seat being vacated by Jesse Helms may not be as easy as it once seemed. Democrats have put up TV ads blasting her for a Ken Lay-hosted fund raiser just nine days after Sept...
...have filled a leadership void but instead tried to shift the blame on the press for being too critical of the administration's sluggish response. With the government preoccupied with stemming the rising tide of public complaints, social and religious groups have had to pick up the slack, delivering instant noodles, rice, medicine, blankets and clothing to thousands of the city's 12 million residents unable to return home. Belatedly, the Governor freed up $50 million in aid but few believe it will reach the needy. Nursjabani Kacasungkana, head of the Indonesian Women's Coalition, and 28 other organizations have...
Johnson thought investigators were overloaded because of Sept. 11, but police say their response would have been pretty much the same had he called months earlier or phoned a precinct in Kansas City or Key West. In an age of instant credit, when you can apply online and start shopping within 30 seconds, identity theft has become an American epidemic. Calls to the fraud-victims help line at a national credit bureau have nearly doubled from the 522,922 received in 1997, and 86,168 identity-theft cases were reported to the Federal Trade Commission last year, making...