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...Leo, Leo, Leo--I'm so sick of that Leo DiCaprio. Bad enough he's on the cover of every teen magazine on the planet. Now he's invaded my home page--and my home. Ever since Titanic set sail, "DiCaprio" has been the most searched-for word on Pathfinder, Time Inc.'s website, relegating the Coke and Pepsi of the search-word business--"sex" and "Bill Gates"--to also-rans. Leo searches are especially frenzied from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Schoolgirls coming home, I figure, as the sweet spot of the time zone rolls west...
...this looking for Leo would be O.K. if I could escape him at Casa Quittner. But I can't. My daughters walk around with their noses buried in Leo biographies. They slather their walls with his glossies, making their bedrooms look like preteen minimum-security prison cells. Worse, they know he's out there on the Web somewhere, everywhere, and they force me at whine-point to find him. Which explains why I was online the other night, a daughter on each knee, trying to avoid the king of Leo sites, www.dicaprio.com "Rumor has it," Zoe read aloud, "that Playgirl...
...somehow I couldn't forget it. The whole Leo thing is just too big, too disturbing. I called Darrell Gaskins, proprietor of the site--which describes itself as the "Completely Unofficial" DiCaprio home page--hoping that he had become as Leo logy as I have. Not a chance...
...postwar developer who built affordable homes in suburbs like Levittown, Long Island. Bohnett's was the first Website to supply free home pages, and the tools to build them, to all comers. To date, nearly 1.7 million users have signed up and are publishing their home-brew homages to Leo DiCaprio, Beanie Babies, Windows 95 and everything between...
...then in 1991 Centesimus annus came in, a 25,000-word encyclical on the 100th anniversary of Leo XIII's Rerum novarum, the momentous condemnation of liberalism and materialism. Materialism meant then what it means today. By liberalism, Pope Leo had in mind contemporary movements that sought, in the name of "modernism," to free human beings from traditional attachments to church and family. In the centennial encyclical, Pope John Paul reiterated his frequent admonitions. The worker or manager who reports to duty at the shop every morning inflamed by the desire to make a better widget and sell more...