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...Jesuits swear an oath of obedience to the papacy but, throughout their 441-year history, their independent ways and elitist style have ruffled many Popes. John Paul II, no stranger to controversy, last week took a bold step to bridle the Society of Jesus. In a move interpreted as a warning to all religious orders, he suspended the normal workings of the Jesuit Constitutions, removed the acting leader of the organization and replaced him with two Italian Jesuits who enjoy the Vatican's confidence: Paolo Dezza, 79, and Joseph Pittau...
...came into the land of harsh, brooding mountains and the eternal, green-blue Irish Sea, a princess and stranger. But she charmed the countrymen thoroughly and soon they welcomed her as their princess and friend. The trip to Wales last week by Prince Charles, 32, and Diana, Princess of Wales, 20, was their first formal appearance since their marriage last July and marked Diana's official debut on the job. The threeday, 400-mile journey by train coach and Rolls-Royce, was a wearying one, but it never showed on the royal brows. Diana plunged into her new duties...
Harvard has had an even stranger season. The team has not won at home, and not lost on the road, leading pundits hearing the rumors about Soldiers Field renovation next year to talk of an undefeated season. Today's game is the last non-Ivy encounter of the season for the Crimson, which has not beaten a non-Ivy team since this game last year...
...writer of this week's cover story is no stranger to the pains and pleasures of athletic activity. Before joining TIME last March, Associate Editor J.D. Reed spent five years writing for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. But Reed, 41, is only a recent convert to participatory sports. A perpetual dieter, he estimates that he has lost almost 450 Ibs. over the past 15 years and gained back nearly all of them. He blames his exercise program, which he describes as "mostly TV-channel switching. My idea of aerobics was shaking the popcorn popper, and isometrics was pushing together the two halves...
Since Chariots of Fire is an historical film, the love interest, and the American seeming-homosexual, and the stuffy Cambridge master probably did exist. Probably Abrahams did "look Jewish"; probably Liddell did stroll the heath and discuss God with his sister. But truth, as they say, is stranger than fiction; the fact that something happened is no reason to find it convincing on film. And what lacks realism cannot inspire sympathy: thus, disappointingly, Chariots of Fire...