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...Suez Canal, the P.L.O. chairman received a warm embrace from Mubarak. Later, after a conversation that lasted almost two hours, Mubarak hailed his guest as a "moderate leader of the Palestinian people." Arafat, for his part, expressed the hope that one day he and Mubarak would be able to pray together at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem...
...that investigators believed to be Giorgio's. A second caller directed a reporter from the Rome daily Il Messaggero to another garbage can, in Piazza Barberini, where the photograph was found, accompanied by two messages. One, from Anna Calissoni, was addressed to Pope John Paul II. "I pray you," the note read, "to intercede in an unofficial and discreet manner with my family so that they may free us from this torment and allow us to regain our human dignity." In the second message, the kidnapers offered "our reply to the so-called blockage of assets": if their demands...
Meyer opened worship with an invocation written by Martin Luther, who nearly five centuries ago had burned Pope Leo X's excommunication bull: "We pray you, Lord, and we beg you that with the aid of your Spirit, you will return to unity what was fragmented . . ." In his homily, spoken in German, the Pope declared, "This meeting moves me to the bottom of my heart." He added, "We ardently desire unity and we make every effort to achieve it without being discouraged by the difficulties we may meet on our road." The words echoed a papal letter honoring...
...into months and weeks? The Romans decreed a week of eight days and a day of twelve hours, but the day itself was measured solely by the length of sunlight, so the units of time varied in different places and seasons. Not until medieval monks conceived an obligation to pray at fixed hours of the night did their need spur the invention of a mechanical clock that worked in the dark...
Sneak home and pray you'll never...