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...heard it before, but it bears repeating: we're electing a President, not a priest. " Monica Lewinsky, former White House intern, on an unsubstantiated rumor that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry had an extramarital affair...
That was November, and three months later Gelmetti has arrived back in Sydney in high style. His diet, for one thing, seems to be working. Dressed in a priest-collared frock coat, he's looking trimmer - "piu magro," as he puts it. And his marketing department has been working overtime. Lining the streets of the CBD, in time for this week's Requiem at the Opera House, are banners welcoming Gelmetti to the city, with a portrait of the maestro looking as grave and august as a Roman emperor: All hail Gianluigi! When he first saw the street signs...
...Although the Bush administration has little sympathy for the populist priest who has rallied supporters with an appeal to class politics, he remains the country's democratically elected president. And the U.S. is committed to the agreement among the member states of the Organization of American States that the ballot box remains the only legitimate means of changing governments in the region. Moreover, the patterns of the current violence suggest that although he faces substantial opposition, Aristide still retains significant popular support...
...Crucifixion With Two Donors (ca. 1580) you can almost feel the left-hand donor's crumpled surplice. The other's ruff is scribbled in white paint, and his eye is made to shine with a pure black highlight. This picture rested on an altar, and when the priest said mass, he would be on the same level - and almost in the same space - as the waist-length donor figures at the foot of the cross. El Greco's portraits are simply presented: a pale central figure looks straight out from darkness. Jerónimo de Cevallos...
...plot of The Spice Garden revolves around the friendship between the leaders of the island's two communities: Father Xavier Lunas, a Catholic priest, and Ghani, a Falstaffian hotelier and fish merchant. At the beginning of the novel, a wedding is being planned between a Muslim boy and a Christian girl. The social cataclysms that have begun to rack Indonesia are felt here only as faraway echoes, until a boatload of survivors of gruesome atrocities in strife-torn Ambon, the capital of Maluku, washes up on Noli's shores. Soon afterward, a gang of jihadist rabble-rousers arrives, with...