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...just shanties but mansions, not just the morgue but the Southern Yacht Club--aren't salvageable. They all sit in what is called "floodwater" but is really a solution of oil, feces, battery acid, human and animal rot, burst containers of bug spray and paint thinner and nail polish and antifreeze. The primary sensory experience of New Orleans now is the smell, a gagging foulness of the charnel, of the hundreds of bloated fish pooled in the 17th Street Canal and a million other nasty things floating everywhere. The masterless dogs are so hungry and delirious in the 92° heat...
PETER BRAATEN, Norwegian official, on three unarmed Polish researchers, stranded for 15 hours on a remote Arctic island and surrounded by hungry polar bears before being rescued by helicopter...
...second of his 104 papal trips, but perhaps the most moving -and momentous. His inspiring, but carefully chosen words were credited by many as opening the first crack in the edifice of communism. John Paul's deft diplomacy and his experience of life behind the Iron Curtain made the Polish pontiff uniquely placed to tackle the defining political issue of the day. But Benedict XVI has assumed the papacy at a moment where the Cold War has been replaced by the challenge of Islamic extremism - an issue very much on his mind even when he was a leading official...
...persona on the pontificate. He doesn't want his life's story to represent the Church's. He wants his words to educate as much as inspire. As a colleague who accompanied John Paul on his own first homecoming after his election, remarked yesterday: "Wojtyla was much more the Polish Pope than Ratzinger is a German Pope." John Paul was also of course a globetrotter. And perhaps after more than 20 years as a top Vatican official-and 24 hours of his first foreign trip-Benedict seems destined to be very much a Roman Pope...
...land, of a tragically misused woman. Film noir was a tired genre before writer Robert Towne and director Polanski made this, the best and most profound of the breed. Decalogue 1988; Krzysztof Kieslowski Kieslowski illustrates each of the Ten Commandments in an hour-long story. Originally made for Polish TV, those tales, whispering instead of thundering their morals, form, as a movie, a tender and unpretentious epic about ordinary people striving to be good in an indifferent world. Pulp Fiction 1994; Quentin Tarantino The most influential American movie of the '90s, for good and ill, this multipart crime epic...