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...Pope's original invitation came in 2005, from the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, which represents a nervous 0.01% of the country's population. The Turkish government, miffed that as a Cardinal, Joseph Ratzinger had opposed Turkey's urgent bid to join the European Union, finally issued its own belated offer for 2006. But even now, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discovered a previous engagement that will take him out of the country while Benedict is in it. Although modest, sales of a Turkish novel subtitled Who Will Kill the Pope in Istanbul? (the book fingers...
...Carolina. A retiree moving away from Florida might seem as odd as an Everglades egret flying north for the winter, but Powell, an administrative assistant, says she has had enough. "Miami has become an overcrowded mess," she says. "It takes me an hour to drive less than 10 miles." Joseph and Teresa Burke and their four children are also moving to North Carolina. Although the 2006 hurricane season, ending in a few weeks, has been merciful, insurers have been less so. Premiums have been going up as much as 1,000% since 2000 for some home- and business owners...
...Pope attempted to set out a European identity that is Christian by faith and Greek by philosophical reason. But Benedict's speech implicitly suggested that he believes that Islam has no such relationship with reason--and thus is excluded from being European. Several years ago, the Pope, then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, set forth his opposition to the integration of Turkey into Europe in similar terms. Muslim Turkey has never been, and never will be, able to claim an authentically European culture, he contended. It is another thing; it is the Other...
...DIED. Joseph Ungaro, 76, journalist whose question at a 1973 editors' conference--about whether Richard Nixon had accurately reported his income taxes--prompted Nixon to reply "I am not a crook," the line that forever haunted him; in South Kingstown...
...involved heart and soul in our organization. He pushed us always to go above and beyond. ... He made sure that we were doing the best theatre possible. He’s already been greatly missed and will continue to be missed.” His friends Joseph F. Mobilia ’76 and Adam S. Kibbe ’82 offered testimonies in remembrance of Symonds’ later life and career. “He was a theater guy—a theater god,” said Kibbe. Alan got behind anyone who needed...