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...each wooed audiences with song. Berlusconi was a part-time crooner, singing French ballads for tips on Mediterranean cruise liners. Celentano was a guitar-plucking rebel in blue jeans who all but invented Italian rock 'n' roll. He went on to launch a successful film career, later rediscovered his Roman Catholic faith, and reached iconic status in part thanks to his periodic returns to television, where he mixes cabaret, celebrity chat and his own provocative monologues on everything from God to garbage management. "Celentano is the Italian heartland," says Carlo Freccero, a former producer for Berlusconi's Mediaset network...
...conversion that eventually transformed him from a jailed Nixon henchman to a mover in Evangelical politics and ideas; Domino's Pizza billionaire Thomas Monaghan has credited one chapter of Mere Christianity with his decision to sell his major assets and work to "populate heaven" via conservative Roman Catholic giving; the Lewis-abetted faith of National Human Genome Research Institute leader Francis Collins has proved that you can believe in both evolution and God. Other admirers have included Pope John Paul II, Greek Orthodox Bishop-theologian Kallistos Ware and megapastor Rick Warren...
...made my vow of chastity, but that did nothing to remove the strength of desire, to which I have succumbed in passing fashion." ABB? PIERRE, 93-year-old Roman Catholic priest and one of France's most revered public figures, suggesting he has had sex, in a book excerpted last week
Since its launch in June, people have been using GOOGLE EARTH, the Internet search engine's satellite imagery tool, to find popular landmarks, local coffee shops and even undiscovered Roman ruins. But some are concerned the free program could be a security threat. Last week, India's President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, warned that the high-resolution satellite photographs could assist terrorists in mapping out potential targets, such as India's Parliament, the President's house and government offices in New Delhi?all of which can be clearly seen in Google's images. Facing similar complaints from the Netherlands, South Korea...
...creating the domestic realities of 1st century Judaea: the babble of languages--Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew, Latin--the labor of carpentry; the regular visits to the synagogue (he's a very Jewish Jesus); and above all the turbulent politics of the time, some of it Jews rebelling against Roman rule, some of it Jews against Jews...