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...characteristically wooden President Jiang even appeared to be enjoying himself, as he casually set off, two days into the crisis, for a 10-day visit to Latin America. He paused at the airport to insist that the U.S. apologize for the incident, smiling giddily through his farewell photo...
...face of rampant rumors and even a prime-time grilling from Barbara Walters, RICKY MARTIN has gracefully kept his sexuality a well-guarded secret. But the woman rumored to be Martin's girlfriend is ripping off the closet doors to expose Ricky as the greatest Latin lover since Casanova cruised through the 18th century. Prefacing her remarks with "I'm not supposed to talk about this," Ines Misan told the New York Post that Martin "is all man," graciously noting that "on a scale of 1 to 10, I'll give him a 20." As if that didn't clarify...
...lessons deeply personal. Part group therapy, part confessional, the course asks cops first to talk about how they have been humiliated in their lives. In Bosnia police noted that their superiors strip-searched them at the end of each shift to take whatever bribes they had collected. In Latin America cops complained of being regularly forced to do menial work, like building houses for their bosses...
Besides suppressing one's will to power, there are other dos and don'ts for would-be Pontiffs. The addition of 11 Cardinals from Latin America, where half the world's Roman Catholics now reside, suggests that it's important to speak Spanish. The sheer number of Cardinals--most of whom see one another only rarely--would seem to favor talented networkers. Being in shape is a plus. The 33-day reign of John Paul I underlined the need for papal stamina, which may be one reason that Castrillion Hoyos rides an Exercycle. A moderate public image can't hurt...
...being an American. Vatican watchers agree that as long as the U.S. dominates the world economically and militarily, it will have to take a backseat spiritually. No one, it seems, wants a superpower Pope. But what about a Third World Pontiff? Talk of a Latin American has grown. Aside from Castrillon Hoyos, the buzz focuses on Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. John Paul is the first non-Italian Pope since the early 1500s. A Honduran successor looks like a stretch...