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...forthcoming book Tearing Asunder: Annulment American Style, says that on this issue, "the church in the U.S. is practically in schism with Rome." An overstatement, perhaps, but in 1994 Pope John Paul II warned the Roman Rota, the Vatican court to which Rauch Kennedy has appealed, against a "mistaken idea of compassion and mercy" that might cloud true justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOULD ANNULMENTS BE SO EASY? | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...kick-butt co-star in Super Cop. In some later roles she got to play ultra-glam goddesses, her long hair caressed by a brisk wind even when she's indoors. Typically, though, she was cast as the superwoman who not only fights like a man but also is mistaken for one. "I don't treat myself like a woman," she tells a suitor in Butterfly & Sword. "Don't you treat me like one either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: EVERYBODY SAY YEOH! | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...grandfather, the cautious reformer Alexander II, been assassinated by populists? The Czarina enthusiastically egged on his autocratic posturing, and when her grandmother, Britain's Queen Victoria, wrote tactfully to suggest that a queen must work hard to win the love of her subjects, she replied, "You are mistaken, my dear grandmama...Here we do not need to earn the love of the people. The Russian people revere their Czars as divine beings, from whom all charity and fortune derive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE TYRANNY OF STUPIDITY | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

Unlike last year's production, which was largely a send-off of Harvard freshman life, replete with exclusively Harvard jokes, No Bull took on the form of a surprisingly conventional musical comedy of mistaken identity: pleasant if not particularly memorable music, a cheerfully tongue-in-cheek plot and caricatures obviously intended to be as farcical as possible. Set in the fictitious Pueblo Cito, a "backward little town" on the coast of Spain, the story revolves around three principal characters: El Bean (Tim Arnold '00), a famous matador; Hector (Elie Mystal '00), a sleazy politician; and Ana Sanchez (Tonia d'Amelio...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Out of the Mouths of Babes, Braggarts and Bullfighters | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

...before he is scheduled to appear at the town's annual bullfight, only to lose his memory when he is accidentally hit on the head by a pole. Finding speech notes dropped by Hector, he concludes that he is a politician and identifies himself as such. Meanwhile, Hector is mistaken by the townspeople for El Bean, and decides to use the error to his own advantage. Further complications arise when El Bean meets and falls in love with Ana, whose parents--or rather, whose mother--wish her to marry the great matador El Bean. You can guess the rest...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Out of the Mouths of Babes, Braggarts and Bullfighters | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

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