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...Milosevic, opportunism has been a way of life. The Serb standard bearer does not talk about his parents' immigration from Montenegro to the town where he was born, Pozarevac in Serbia. He was the son of a teacher who had studied to be an Orthodox priest and a puritanical schoolteacher. They orphaned him through suicide while he was still a young man--his father first, and his mother a decade later. Despite his father's interest in religion, Milosevic never embraced the church. At 18 he turned himself into a Communist Party zealot, assuming so thoroughly the image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ethnic Cleanser | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...Belgian astronomer and priest Georges Lemaitre proposes that the universe began with a big bang, the explosion of a highly condensed mass, which he refers to as a "cosmic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...TOURISTY SITE: Located on the mountain, St. Joseph's Oratory is reached by a long set of stairs which devotees climb up on hands and knees. Inside are a priest's heart and a room full of crutches that belonged to people who no longer needed them after being blessed and cured at the Oratory. A night visit de-touristifies the experience; the grounds can be entered through the back Westmount entrance, which leads to verandas that reveal dazzling views of the city...

Author: By Judith Batalion, | Title: montreal | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

...glaring theme within the book) to represent the complex, unavoidable and often tragic ties that bind families. Except for dutifully doing what she is told, Keelin seems to be unaffected by the disorder. Her brother Patrick, however, develops from a boy so fixated by his own sinfulness that the priest complains about his overly frequent confessions into a latex glove-wearing paranoid trapped in his own neurosis. Like Keelin, the fourth sister Orla seems to have escaped OCD, though she does pass it to her son who is almost completely undone by it. The characters are aware of their compulsions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freedom for Ireland's New Generation | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...revised that stance. Thanks to John's Second Vatican Council, Mass was now in English and the priest and congregation interacted. In retrospect, she thinks this may have kept her in the church. But in that year John's successor and the council's inheritor, Paul VI, loosed a thunderbolt: Catholics could not use artificial means of birth control and remain in good graces. "No way," says Betty. "No how. Period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A View From The Flock | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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