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...Those nervous jests may now end. The original head of the theological commission that met in December was none other than Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who had written years earlier that limbo was not actually church doctrine but only a "theological hypothesis." Elsewhere he called it "problematic." As Pope Benedict XVI, he will probably approve a document recognizing unbaptized babies' full entrée into heaven...
...childhood. I grew up in Atlanta and in the '50s and was not interested in politics, but I was kind of stupefied by this movement and what it meant and how nervous it made me and all of my friends and how it turned knees to jelly. Really the Birmingham demonstrations in '63 were the first events that turned me political. I was 16, and I had just gotten to the point where I was saying, well, gosh, when I get impossibly old and secure, like 30, maybe this is an important enough issue that I would stick...
...There was no relief for the nervous citizens of the city. On the night of December 29, a letter faxed to media outlets in Bangalore claimed that a five-star hotel would be hit by bombs on New Year's eve, and the house of a major state politician would be attacked by suicide bombers. On December 30, the city had to endure five hoax bomb-threats, including one that was made to an IBM office...
TIME When you first had Bono over for dinner, in 2002, were you aware of his celebrity or nervous about...
...favorite book—was bought at the highest bid of the night, $60. “It was a lot of fun,” said Bloomberg, who was bought by her boyfriend, Chris L. McConnell ’08. “I think people were nervous, especially when they just got up on stage and in the first few seconds there were no bids,” said Drew G. Davis ’09, a member of the FYSC and the night’s emcee. “But the FYSC had people...