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Philip III of Spain is one of history's also-rans. Historians tend to treat his reign, from 1598 to 1621, as a kind of listless interval between that of his father Philip II, who consolidated Spain's global empire, and that of his son Philip IV, a middling monarch but one whose court painter was Diego Velázquez. That cinched his immortality. Philip III was known for his piety, his love of luxury and his willingness to allow his chief adviser, the Duke of Lerma, to run things--not always well...
...asks that God give "eternal light and peace" to all who died there, in the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa. The prayer ends: "Comfort and console us, strengthen us in hope, and give us the wisdom and courage to work tirelessly for a world where true peace and love reign among nations and in the hearts...
...arrives for his first papal visit to the world's lone superpower, geopolitics remains the great open question in Benedict's three-year reign. The six-day visit to the United States - which includes a White House visit, an address at the United Nations and a prayer at Ground Zero - may be the best opportunity for the theologian pontiff to define his leadership in international relations. "The Pope per se is simply the custodian of the Catholic tradition," says a senior Vatican official. "He can become a global leader if he manages to embody a battle of ideals that...
...magical nature of the island. Most of the actors do an excellent job of portraying their characters’ feelings and development. Mara Sidmore is particularly convincing as Miranda, progressing from spoiled brat at the opening to young woman in love by the end. Unfortunately, Swanson fails to reign in some of his actors’ more wild inclinations. John Kuntz’s Trinculo, dressed in what appears to be a cross between a patchwork quilt and an argyle sweater, is especially over the top. When, on encountering the sleeping Calaban, he says to the audience...
Clinton then went on to criticize Obama for not shutting down his political action committee, as other presidential hopefuls had done, and rattled off with wonkish glee a list of things accomplished during his eight-year reign - 22.9 million new jobs, eight million people moved from poverty to the middle class, and so on - and, pointedly, contrasted the numbers with those of the current Administration. "He's run a very impressive campaign," he said of Obama. But the Illinois Senator is arguing, Clinton said, that "if you were part of making good things happen in the '90s, and stopping...