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...putting its popular conventions to higher literary uses. Banalities become oddly resonant and trivialities bristle with jeopardy. Episodes of scandal, lunacy and mayhem are drawn together by the two main story lines. A romance between Mario, 18, and Julia, 32, is a mock cliffhanger; the rise and fall of Pedro Camacho, a compulsive writer of soap-opera scripts, is a comic tale with tragic relief...
...Once, migrations caused statues to be erected and poems to be written . . . There is no monument, however, to the new immigrants, the blacks who came to the South Bronx from Jacksonville, Florida, and Americus, Georgia, and the Puerto Ricans from San Pedro and Santurce and Salinas and Ponce. There is not even official recognition that these new immigrants accomplished something that nobody else could do: turn the United States into two actual nations, one country of about one hundred ninety-five million whites and the other . . . of about sixty-five million...
...Pope's crackdown began last year after Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe, considered Catholicism's second most powerful leader, suffered a serious stroke. In October, John Paul cast aside Arrupe's choice of an interim leader and landed control to his personal delegate, Jesuit Father Paolo Dezza. Some 5,000 protest letters came to the order's headquarters from the 86 Jesuit regional units around the globe. A group of 18 West German Jesuits, including eminent Theologian Karl Rahner, complained sharply to the Pope that it was difficult to "recognize the hand of God in this...
BORN. To Alexander Karageorgevitch, 36, Washington, D.C., insurance executive and son of the late King Peter II, last monarch of Yugoslavia, and Maria da Gloria, 35, great-great-granddaughter of Pedro II, Brazil's last Emperor: twin sons, their second and third children; in Falls Church, Va. Names: Philip and Alexander...
...made his way to San Pedro, Calif. There DEA agents caught him, despite a suitcase full of fake IDs and passports, because of concern for his dog: he had given a veterinarian his home phone number and the real name of his St. Bernard, Sasha. Special Agent Richard Mangan, a resourceful DEA investigator, recognized the name...