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...wholesale rejection of modernity--dominated Catholicism for almost a century after his death and continues to color its present. A true reactionary who saw the secular state, and indeed civil rights, as satanic manifestations, he made it difficult for generations of believers to claim intellectual independence or integrity. Says journalist-historian Garry Wills, who savages Pius in his best seller Papal Sins: "He was a disaster, and his influence has been bad ever since. If you beatify him now, there will be a whitewashing of him, which will involve the church in more dishonesty." Pius is the heavy...
This approach has usually worked. Putin has also quite often denied knowledge of an embarrassing event or subtly hinted that it was the responsibility of subordinates. He did this in February, when Radio Liberty journalist Andrei Babitsky was handed over by security services to spurious Chechen guerrillas. In June, when Gusinsky was arrested, Putin told a press conference in Germany that he had been unable to find out why Gusinsky was in prison: he had not been able to phone the prosecutor general. Today Chechnya, once Putin's abiding policy passion, is rarely mentioned now that the military effort there...
...Jones sees the 320-lb. Hunter as a teddy bear; the press sees him more as a grizzly. When a journalist asked Jones last year if it was true that "your mother is not happy about your wedding," Hunter, a man of few words, drew the scribe aside for a lesson in etiquette: "You are a f___ing idiot...
...Even without the 200, Johnson will be doing a double of sorts--as a journalist. He is being promoted by Quokkasports and NBC as a "wired athlete." He has worn speed and heart-rate monitors at meets, sending data out over the Web (at 50 m, 141 beats/min., 18.3 m.p.h.). And at michaeljohnson.org, he addresses a perceived need for "unfiltered, uncensored information from me. The fans get more than enough through you guys." While he won't be wearing the gizmos at Sydney, he will report in. "I'll do daily updates," he says. "I'll be wired through...
Even without the 200, Johnson will be doing a double of sorts--as a journalist. He is being promoted by Quokkasports and NBC as a "wired athlete." He has worn speed and heart-rate monitors at meets, sending data out over the Web (at 50 m, 141 beats/min., 18.3 m.p.h.). And at michaeljohnson.org he addresses a perceived need for "unfiltered, uncensored information from me. The fans get more than enough through you guys." While he won't be wearing the gizmos at Sydney, he will report in. "I'll do daily updates," he says. "I'll be wired through...