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...saving money and affiliating the Business School with the pontiff isn't all the dean has done. McArthur, arguably Harvard's most powerful figure, leaves behind him a legacy of accomplishments...
...year history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. TIME senior writer Richard N. Ostling notes that Hunter "had power in his church exceeding that of the pope, but made barely a dent as a church leader." (Mormons believe their leader, unlike the pontiff, can receive revelations directly from God.) Ostling adds that Hunter's successor, senior apostle Gordon Hinckley, 84, has actually been directing church affairs for several years...
Some feared that he'd never make it, but Pope John Paul II is headed for America after all. The Vatican said today that the 74-year-old pontiff would make a four-day trip to New York, Newark and Baltimore beginning Oct. 4, a year after he cancelled the same trip because of hip replacement surgery. After terrorist threats during the pope's January visit to the Philippines, U.S. officials are preparing heavy security measures...
DIED. ANDRE FROSSARD, 80, intellectual editorial writer for the French daily Le Figaro and noted Roman Catholic author of such books as Defense of the Pope (1993) that chronicled his close relationship with the present Pontiff; in Versailles. Frossard was an atheist and leftist in his youth, but, as he recalled in his 1968 best seller God Exists and I Met Him, he became a sudden Catholic convert...
...slightly stooped, in fact, but strong enough to give 30 talks during a 33,000-km tour that touched the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Australia and Sri Lanka. The Pontiff has still not fully recovered from last April's surgery for a broken leg: he walks with a cane and his left arm shakes almost constantly. But his actor's sense of timing and improvisation remain intact, and on several occasions he spoke without notes--a sign he was in good spirits. At one point in Manila, after a lengthy departure from his prepared speech, the Pope announced slowly, with...