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Christoph Cardinal Schönborn was standing tall among the faithful. Just minutes after John Paul II's funeral ended, the 60-year-old Austrian was moving briskly through a thick crowd along the ancient Borgo Santo Spirito. With his flowing scarlet robes, robust frame and handsome features, the Austrian Cardinal attracted calls of "Cardinale, Cardinale" from several young Italians, even though they seemed not to know which Cardinal he was. But my colleague Jordan Bonfante and I knew, and we followed...
...Peter Landesman, author of the New York Times magazine article “The Girls Next Door,” writes: “If anything, the women I talked to said that the sex in the US is even rougher than what the girls face on Calle Santo Tomas...
That was in 1941, and ever since she has been teaching the method, just as she learned it from the master. Today she continues to pass along the legacy through Romana's Pilates, the Pilates teaching business she runs with her daughter Sari Mejia Santo and her granddaughter Daria Pace. Kryzanowska is a firm believer that Pilates, when taught correctly, is for everyone--especially those who are getting on in years. "When they have their first lesson, it's more for the teacher to see what their body's like, what it's willing to do and what exercises...
...Europe and the U.S., television's showmen labored to exploit Early Bird's versatility. At their best, the programs were as moving and immediate as Houston's great surgeon Michael DeBakey repairing a human heart while fascinated doctors in Geneva looked over his shoulder. Europe watched troop movements in Santo Domingo while bullets still ricocheted across the Caribbean town ... And between the best and the worst that TV had to offer, imaginative men could pick out the promise of a dream born more than a century ago, when the first crude telegraph suggested that man might some day far outreach...
...best stuff is produced by nuns of the convent of Santo Domingo el Antiguo. The Cistercian sisters use very little artificial coloring and not a whole lot of sugar, so their marzipan is usually a dull off-white, but delightfully light. Buy a $5 box and grab a coffee from one of the caf?s near Plaza Zocodover, then board the Tren Imperial (a toy train on wheels) for a scenic ride around the city. It's a feast for the stomach, the eyes and the soul...