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...rule, old popes don't retire; they sit upon St. Peter's throne until called to their reward. John Paul is of the mold. Though he turns 80 in May and suffers from Parkinson's disease and a bad hip, the frail Pontiff has given no hint that he will be the first in six centuries to resign. Certainly John Paul will at least finish out Jubilee Year 2000 as Pope--God willing...
...Everybody recognizes the great potential of the Reform party, and since the party is in its infancy, we have lots of different people trying to mold it to their own ideologies or add a little extra feature here or there," Rhoads writes in an e-mail message. "We aren't just a bunch of blind followers, so every little thing gets contested...
Danny Cheng didn't graduate from an elite overseas university or acquire information-technology training--and a PalmPilot full of contacts--in Silicon Valley. Instead, Cheng, who is 33, fits the mold of an old-fashioned Asian entrepreneur: he worked his way up from humble Hong Kong beginnings. "My family was poor," says Cheng. "At the beginning of each month, we had to worry about...
...typecast as the short, cute 17-year-old. Despite some disappointment from agents that she is not six feet tall, Emmy has never let anything hold her back. At an event earlier this year to model formalwear for J.C. Penney, Emmy was once again placed into the teen-queen mold. iOther models my age, all of whom were taller, got to wear college-age cocktail dresses,i she remembers. iI got stuck in the prom and homecoming wear. I felt better when my eescorti model told me he played football for Dartmouth. It took me awhile to figure out that...
...have to admit that when the dot-com craze began, I too fit the mold: skeptical, skeptical, skeptical. Navigating Netscape is one thing, but programming techniques like C++ and Java make my skin crawl, much to the amusement of friends TF'ing CS50 who speak and think the language of code in the bowels of the Science Center. Steve Martin, in Father of the Bride, had my original attitude pegged exactly when he described his future son-in-law's job as an independent computer consultant: He said it was "code for 'unemployed.'" It just didn't seem possible that...