Word: paule
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Harvard sent Linden to the mound against junior Paul Bibbo. Heading into yesterday's contest Linden was enjoying a sensational rookie season, boasting a 1-0 record with a 3.66 ERA. Against the Eagles, however, Linden suffered his first rough outing of the season...
...case, people will ask, what is it that Pope John Paul II uniquely brings to the millennium? Almost all who have experienced him at close quarters understand the special luminosity he radiates when surrounded live by a million people. But the great historical backdrop of his splendor fades. He was the student and manual laborer from Wadowice in Poland who became the first non-Italian Pope in 450 years. His was the dominant spiritual presence in the final round of the great revolutionary challenge that began soon after the turn of the century and sought no less than to alter...
...most widely known U.S. theologians, a professor at Notre Dame and the author of numerous books. The most recent of these is Lives of the Popes. At the end of the book, he undertakes a ranking. There is, first, "Outstanding Popes," followed by "Good or Above Average Popes." John Paul II makes neither of these categories. Father McBrien rates him as less than great because he did not flesh out Vatican II. But he rates him as "Historically Important," as Gorbachev would confirm...
...least that is not questionable, even if one anticipates a millennium of wrangling about women's rights at the altar, the distribution of hierarchical power and allocutory nuance. But there are many thousands who will live well into the next century with photographic memories of John Paul II. The late-teenage boys and girls who gathered in great numbers to see him in Denver in 1993 will, many of them, be alive when John Paul II is dead in 50 years, and their recall will be sensual. I saw him in January, with the usual million people, including Fidel Castro...
...list were opponents, in one way or another, of women's rights: Hitler, with his famed Kinder, Kuche, Kirche policy; Khomeini, the fashion expert who brought back the chador; Reagan, with his hostility to abortion rights and the ERA; the sweet but incorrigibly patriarchal Pope John Paul...