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...JOHN OF CAPISTRANO Patron Saint of Military Chaplains John was a lawyer and a politician who also served in the military, fighting in the Siege of Belgrade and delivering Europe from the Turks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear Lord, Please Smite My Opponent. Amen | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

This Sunday, Pope John Paul II will name St. Thomas More the patron saint of politicians. His Holiness has canonized or beatified 1,441 people, and it seems the church is on a mission to make sure no prayer goes unanswered. Other saints named as patrons under his papacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear Lord, Please Smite My Opponent. Amen | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...were playing the Giants, or then later they were playing the Dodgers. It was a rivalry renewed, and players developed histories within the Subway Series. DiMaggio played in six of them. Ruth, Mantle, Whitey Ford, Pee Wee Reese of the Dodgers, Jackie Robinson." The Subway Series even has a patron saint. Stengel was on the Giants' roster in the very first New York-New York Series, when both the Yanks and Giants played in the Polo Grounds in 1921. The Giants won that Series and the next year's too. In the first game of the 1923 Series, Stengel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Subway Series: Talkin' New Yawk | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...adjustments to the 38-year embargo. Now that little Elian Gonzalez is back at school, the embargo remains the most useful tool in Castro's ideological shed: It provides both an all-purpose excuse for the privations suffered by his people since the collapse of Cuban socialism's Soviet patron, and a nationalist rallying point against the yanqui just across the water. And U.S. election years usually provide him with plenty of ammunition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Castro Makes Hay in Embargo's Twilight | 10/19/2000 | See Source »

...extent that it depends on us, while also giving Yasser Arafat a certain additional time to do what he needs to do," said Israeli government spokesman Nachman Shai late on Monday. "There is intense international diplomatic activity which we cannot reject or ignore.'' Translation: Israel's U.S. patron has made clear that it regards the violence as a two-sided affair, and Israel can't afford to alienate its only reliable ally. Still, even if the proposed peace summit in Egypt takes place, nobody's betting on any breakthroughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It May Not be a Yom Kippur War, But Don't Count on a Yom Kippur Peace | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

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