Word: popes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hand over his balding head, his lifelong gesture of consternation. But even then, when I was his "mother," he still managed in some convoluted way to hold on to one thing: he was proud of his daughter at TIME, who had interviewed Fidel Castro and traveled with the Pope...
...Even the Pope joined in. He ended a meeting with pilgrims early and was whisked away to a papal retreat, where he watched through a piece of welder's glass...
...recent study from North Carolina's Pope Center for Higher Education Policy calculates what full and assistant professors at 81 universities earn when cost of living is factored in. Harvard, second only to Rockefeller University in the ranking of professors' nominal salaries, fell to 27 on the adjusted list...
...event of such visceral impact elicited widely divergent responses from the world?s religions. Pope John Paul II terminated his morning audience with pilgrims to watch the eclipse, while adherents to all manner of New Age traditions in England gathered on beaches to welcome the darkened sun as a profound spiritual moment. Muslims in Egypt stayed indoors on orders of their clergy, while in Gujarat, India, priests rang temple bells and sounded gongs to ward off evil spirits. However humans chose to make sense of it, the eclipse was a humbling reminder of nature?s power...
Just a case of bad timing or a disturbing sign of things to come? That's what residents of Hong Kong are asking after Beijing put the kibosh on Pope John Paul II?s planned visit to the former British colony later this year. Chinese officials told the Union of Asian Catholic News Agencies Monday that Beijing blocked the pontiff?s plans to visit the territory -- where an estimated 370,000 Catholics reside -- on the grounds that the Vatican maintains diplomatic ties with Taiwan. In more confident times, China?s Communist Party leadership may have been prepared to overlook such...