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...first it seems rather surprising that a translator as extraordinarily gifted as Edith Grossman should have rendered the title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new book, Doce cuentos peregrinos, as Strange Pilgrims. The Spanish literally means something like "Twelve Peregrine Tales." Yet a Spanish/English dictionary will tell you that "peregrino," besides "pilgrim" or "peregrine," also means "strange," "exceptional," and "perfect." It's easy to sympathize with Grossman, for there is no way to convey these connotations in one word. However, all those words are perfectly applicable to Garcia Marquez's first book since The General in His Labyrinth...
...BACKUP ALONG GEORGIA HIGHway 138 begins around 7, before the morning chill has lifted. At White Road state troopers guide the tour buses and cars into a cow pasture, toward the PILGRIM PARKING signs. The visitors leave their vehicles, most on foot, some in wheelchairs, and spread out on lawn chairs across the farm, a one-story house surrounded by 30 lightly wooded acres. Many proudly display photographs of the sun -- fuzzy oval images, blazing auras, starlike bursts -- snapped on previous visits. Some read the free literature in a small bookstore, purchase OUR HOLY MOTHER sweatshirts or avail themselves...
...Bosnia and Herzegovina. Today, despite attempts by the Catholic Church to discourage them, reports of visions are on the rise in the U.S. The accounts range from the woman who saw the face of Jesus in a forkful of spaghetti on a billboard in Stone Mountain, Georgia, to the pilgrim who says he was healed during a visit to Medjugorje, built a shrine in his backyard in suburban New Jersey, and now plays host to thousands of visitors hoping to encounter the Virgin on the first Sunday of each month...
...They planned to fire the whole group," saysBarbara J. Pilgrim, referring to the posts held byIndependent party backers. Pilgrim, a member ofthe Small Property Owners Association--anorganization that is traditionally associated withthe Independent platform of anti-rentcontrol--adds, "And Healy is definitely on theirhit list...
...city is definitely divided along partylines," says Pilgrim. "Cambridge could be such abeautiful city--we could have so much to go for ifwe could only cross the two-party line."Crimson File PhotoCity Manager ROBERT W. HEALY...