Word: popes
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...think that he wasn't. But that word humbled is an interesting one to think about. Humility is a virtue - except when it isn't. We think of it as one of the attributes that make up a certain quiet acceptance of one's lot, even saintliness - think of Pope John XXIII. At the same time, what the books call false humility - the act of constantly saying that one is not worthy, a not-so-subtle way of provoking someone else to exclaim, "Oh! But you are!" - is one of the most annoying of all character traits. Uriah Heep...
...curdled into suspicion and feelings of helplessness. Trust is a toxic asset, sitting valueless on the national books. Good faith is trading at pennies on the dollar. The old American mind-set that Richard Hofstadter famously called "the paranoid style" - the sense that Masons or the railroads or the Pope or the guys in black helicopters are in league to destroy the country - is aflame again, fanned from both right and left. Between the liberal fantasies about Brownshirts at town halls and the conservative concoctions of brainwashed children goose-stepping to school, you'd think the Palm in Washington...
She’s supermodeled, posed nude, and criticized the Pope; her albums of breathy pop have sold thousands of copies; ex-lovers include Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and a former prime minister. Carla Bruni, France’s smoky-eyed first lady, is certainly no cookie-cutter politician’s wife. Rather than act the invisible accomplice to her husband’s efforts, Bruni’s refusal to paper over her colorful past and insistence on taking on ambitious social projects in the present have made her the scandal du jour around many a wine cooler...
...wrong. "Very rarely is there actually a functional reason for a fashion rule," notes Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. True enough: it's hard to think of a workaday downside to pairing your black shoes with a brown belt. (See pictures of Pope Benedict's fashion looks...
...TIME's photos of the Pope visiting the Holy Land