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...attend beatifications, which are a step before canonization). However, he clearly regards John Paul as a special case for sainthood and not just because of his own admiration. In the days before his election, the then Cardinal not only heard the cries of "Santo Giovanni Paolo" ringing over St. Peter's Square but also reportedly saw a petition by a substantial number of his peers asking that John Paul's "cause" proceed without the usual five-year wait. Thus Vatican watchers regard the exemption--which Benedict announced personally, in Latin, to roars of approval from a group of seminarians...
...investigation has moved with some speed," British antiterrorism-police chief Peter Clarke said Friday, "but it is still continuing." Nonetheless, a lot of loose ends remain. Despite the spectacular arrests, the review of more than 35,000 closed-circuit-television tapes and more than 5,000 leads phoned in by the public on the antiterrorist hot line--police have asked people to program the number into their cell phones--investigators don't have a clear understanding of the dimensions of the twin terrorist plots. British and U.S. officials told TIME that police have not found any forensic link between...
...hero as the fearless witch Angelika. The movie's sense of humor is high-low in the Python style. It alternates the drollery of Jonathan Pryce's French villain (when Will charges, "You killed my friends," Pryce purrs, "I only wish you had more") with the labored buffoonery of Peter Stormare's Italian henchman. But in the enchanted forest, Grimm's sense of wonder is spellbinding--a reminder that Gilliam is as much shaman as showman. His reckless, robust imagination leaves Hollywood's prime confectors of fantasy light-years behind...
...number of advantages: It would help develop the Czech Republic as well as its neighboring countries. And it would give the new European Union member nations from the east of Europe a greater feeling of belonging. Adriaan Jansen Llauro, France In his article on London's Smithfield Market, Peter Ackroyd was correct to write, "The greatness of London lies not in its buildings or in its 'sights,' but in these small patches of sacred territory ? where the living and the dead still walk together." But Ackroyd missed, as have many others, the very best example. If it were possible...
Power and Obama—both graduates of Harvard Law School—were introduced to one another by Peter W. Galbraith, a former ambassador to Croatia and the son of Warburg Professor of Economics emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith...