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Then the Pope sped on to New Orleans, where he was greeted on arrival with -- surprise! -- a chorus of When the Saints Go Marching In by the Olympia Brass and Funeral Band. Despite that lively welcome, the crowds that viewed the Pontiff were smaller than expected. After paying tribute at St. Louis Cathedral to local priests and sisters for their "heroic dedication," he traveled to the famed Superdome. There, at a meeting with black Catholics, Bishop Joseph Howze of Biloxi, Miss., told John Paul that "racism is a major hindrance to full development of black leadership within the church." John...
...troops raced into southern Libya aboard four-wheel-drive Toyota pickups mounted with machine guns. The raiders overran the Maaten es Sarra military base 60 miles inside Libya and demolished all the arms and aircraft they could find. Then, traveling without lights beneath the moon and stars, the troops sped home. It was the first time Chad had invaded Libya since their border conflict began 14 years ago. Officials in N'Djamena, Chad's capital, claimed that the attack killed 1,713 Libyans and destroyed 26 planes and at least 70 tanks. Libya disputed the figures, but the casualties appeared...
During one Monday-evening binge, Hagan, 23, and his "home boys" decided to have some sport with a rival gang. Flushed with bravado, five of them piled into a blue Buick and sped toward enemy turf. There they spotted four teenagers, two of them girls, standing at a corner in front of a cinder-block wall covered with gang graffiti. Hagan grabbed a semiautomatic rifle and, with a fellow home boy known as "Baby Monster," strolled to the corner...
...near-miss occurred after an irresponsible student packed 27 young children into a van legally meant to transport only 15 passengers. Because students were overflowing the regulation seats, some were seated on the floors--making it impossible for the counselors to maintain control in the small van as it sped along the Mass Pike to Riverside Park...
...used to bake cupcakes for Yaz's birthday. I sped down the left lane of Rte. 128 a few summers ago to catch up with a car driven by Bruce Hurst. My brother and I approached Bob Stanley in Polcari's restaurant and told him that our Mom used to take piano lessons in his hometown...