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...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an empire.” (History...
...Rose, 73. She was getting sick too. (Both would soon die from SARS.) When she took her husband into the E.R.'s waiting room, she sat near a man who was accompanied by two sons; all three were members of the 500-strong Toronto chapter of a largely Filipino Roman Catholic group, the Bukas-Loob Sa Diyos (B.L.D.) Covenant Community. The sons may have infected 30 other members of the B.L.D. Worse, B.L.D. members would expose an unknown number of people outside their circle to possible infection. On April 12, for example, one of the sons who had been...
...first nonviolent force for change this island has ever known," he told Time. "Castro can't crush that, no matter how hard he tries." Cuba's communist regime has rarely if ever faced a dissident who is as hardheaded as Castro himself. Payá, an engineer and devout Roman Catholic who cycles each day to his job as a hospital-equipment repairman, is right when he calls the MCL Cuba's first real dissident force in 44 years - the first, anyway, to convince tens of thousands of Cubans to forget their fear and sign petitions seeking a referendum on democratic...
...Best Director.” You see, I don’t consider the film’s Oscar triumphs unexpected because The Pianist was a bad movie—it wasn’t. Rather, the controversial nomination and recognition of the film’s director, Roman Polanski, gave me pause. As I read across the box, I remembered the way I felt on Oscar night: it’s too bad that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences chose to honor such a unscrupulous and immoral...
...fair, I didn’t know all that much about Roman Polanski when he won his award. I knew he was recognized for edgy, “brutally honest” type films and I recalled some controversy surrounding his nomination. I was also surprised that an organization as self-conscious as the Academy would concede an award to such a questionable figure. But I did a bit of research on the Oscar winner and found that I should not be surprised at the Academy; I should be disgusted...