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...exception. He is concerned about how historians will rank him as a President. If he is forced to choose between a policy decision that will burnish his image and one that will advance Gore's candidacy, it is unlikely that Gore's interests will prevail. NATHANIEL H. KAROL Highland Park...
BORN: Feb. 17, 1961, Sacramento EDUCATION: U of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1983; U of California (Hastings), J.D., 1986 FAMILY: Wife, Amy Karol; three children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Real estate broker; aide to lieutenant governor POLITICAL CAREER: California Republican Party Central Committee, 1993-; Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1348, Dixon...
...face value, it is difficult to understand why. Eighty percent of American Catholics, according to recent polls, disagree with the Pope's conservative stances on issues like abortion, homosexuality and the all-male celibate clergy. The unapologetic orthodoxy that Karol Wojtyla has made the hallmark of the church as it enters the next millenium does not play well to American Catholic audiences. Protestants and Jews, it would seem, disagree with his views that much more...
...Street -- is now a museum that receives 180,000 visitors a year. Six families were relocated to make way for this monument to the city's favorite son. In the second-floor flat, Sister Magdalena, a knowledgeable if sometimes stern tour guide, shows off memorabilia such as the young Karol's favorite canoe paddle, his hickory skis and the three papal robes John Paul donated as exhibits. Please stop by the gift shop before you leave, she advises visitors. And please do pick up a copy of the Pope's new book. When that volume was first published in Poland...
...John Paul approaches the twilight of his papacy, the question arises -- who will be the next Pope? For more than 450 years before Karol Wojtyla's elevation, the papacy was held by Italians. And when the present Polish experiment is over, some Vatican insiders insist that the Holy See will be returned to its traditional caretakers. "You can bet your last dollar that the next Pope will be one of ours," said one up-and-coming Roman prelate. "I don't know who it will be, but he'll be Italian...