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...young Polish priest named Karol Wojtyla made the pilgrimage to a small town in Puglia to have his confession heard by Padre Pio, the mysterious Italian monk with the Christ-like stigmata wounds on his hands. It was that encounter - along with Wojtyla's belief that a prayer by the Capuchin monk had cured a friend's cancer in 1962 - that helps explain why Padre Pio was fast-tracked for sainthood once Wojtyla had risen to the papacy as John Paul II. But some may now wonder if the current Pope, the cerebral and professorial Benedict XVI, has the same...
...brother. Her journal, covering four months in 1943, provides a rare glimpse of the daily life of Jews under Nazi rule. The diary was found after World War II by a friend--who kept it to herself for 60 years before allowing it to be published, initially in Polish, in 2006. A selection of entries...
...early designing days, Louboutin searched for a way to match the shoe to a colorful sketch. "Something was missing, and I couldn't figure it out," he remembers. "Then I realized that the black sole of the shoe was too dark." So he grabbed a bottle of red nail polish from an assistant who was doing her nails nearby and painted the soles. "It didn't take me long to learn from my customers that the red soles were very popular with men," Louboutin says, laughing. "This red sole was a bit of a green light...
...insistent pride in his declaration. We grandkids would say that was chiefly because the old neighborhood had become almost entirely African American, already at that point the party's most reliable base. The exceptions were Grandpop and the guy next door, whom he described as "Nice fella ... Polish...
What surprises you in Poland when you travel around? What is depressing is the terrible impact of the communist system on the people, on the social order, and ... on Polish towns. Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it's about the landscape...