Word: saint
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...doubt that Pope Benedict XVI made a pilgrimage Saturday to the birthplace of a saint. The only real question is when that sainthood will be made official. The date of birth, of course, we already know to be May 18, 1920, when Karol Wojtyla was born in a humble two-story home in the town of Wadowice, in the rolling countryside of southern Poland. He died 85 years later in Rome as the most widely beloved - and arguably most influential - pope of the past millennium. But exactly when the Catholic Church will officially recognize Pope John Paul...
...started a half-hour late, but the audience didn't care. They applauded director Su Chao-pin as he entered the auditorium with his cast, applauded the 30-sec. film (of steps emerging from beneath the sea and up to the stars, to the swirling, twinkling music of Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals), snapped more photos when the Festival logo appeared on screen and stayed through nearly two hours of conventional ghost-story frissons. When the audience walked out at 2:40, they looked ready to go partying...
...furniture, Maier opened 18 stores in 2005; 10 more will make their debut this year. He has transformed Bottega Veneta, which is on its way to an estimated $238 million in sales this year, into PPR's second most successful label after Gucci--even surpassing the iconic Yves Saint Laurent brand. Revenue grew 66% last year to $190 million, and profits tripled to $17 million. PPR didn't expect to earn a dime on the brand--which it bought in 2001 from the Moltedo family who founded it--until next year...
MEXICO CITY Yves Saint Laurent's trendy shades ($240) are perfect for browsing the popular Polanco neighborhood...
...barn and makeshift area for producing cheese offered the sour smell of turned sheep's milk and a scene strewn with strainers, aluminum buckets filled with blocks of Pecorino cheese and a large bag of salt. Hanging on the wall were pictures of the Virgin Mary and the Catholic saint Padre Pio, and four 2006 freebie calendars, none of which had yet been turned to April. The squalid conditions were "evidence of [Provenzano's] dedication to pure power," Interior Under Secretary Alfredo Mantovano told TIME. "He had acquired this perverse charisma, a figure who appears to take nothing for himself...