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...Cardinal Ratzinger held under John Paul for 24 years. When Benedict gave the job to Levada, a friend since the two worked together in Rome in the early 1980s, most Vatican insiders were shocked, having expected a European intellectual heavyweight in the post. Message: Benedict knows the kind of ship he wants, and on key personnel moves, he?ll take his own counsel above...
...enough for a real community. (Eight people! Our houses are veritable kibbutzim). Yet there is little incentive to make friends in the House because the excitement is gone, and people are trying other things. To get involved in House life is to try to rescue a sinking ship...
...about the Chinese ascendancy in figure skating: Time said the pairs figure-skating team of Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao "nabbed the silver." Nabbed indeed. Zhang Hao flung his partner into the air with all the grace of a stevedore hurling a sack of cement onto a ship. That Zhang Dan didn't sustain a more serious injury is a miracle. Zhang Hao's seeming disregard for the safety of his partner was nothing but a savage show of physical strength and should have been heavily penalized by the judges, no matter how the couple executed their moves after...
...Chinese Emperor Hongzhi makes it a capital offense to go to sea in a ship with more than two masts without special permission. In 1525, officials ordered all large ships destroyed...
...Perhaps above all, those who believe in the ineluctable march of globalization insist that technology?the Internet, ever-bigger container ships, multi-nation sourcing of goods that depends on sophisticated logistic software?will continue to bring the world closer together. And so it will, probably. But remember: that rudder post in Hong Kong was on the stern of a ship more than 120 m long, or six times the size of the little craft that Columbus sailed across the Atlantic a few decades later...