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...left the rectory feeling that I had never had such a candid and intimate conversation with a priest. Did I believe Father Spagnolia? The fact that he was extremely well thought of in Lowell carried weight with me. I grew up in Lowell's principal suburb, Chelmsford, mowing the local church lawn in summer for extra money, going on Catholic Youth Organization ski trips with Father Coughlin in winter. I knew of famous St. Patrick's, which rises like a beacon in the city's poorest section, a tenement-filled neighborhood called the Acre. On the cold but sunny Thursday...
...Starbucks and dozens of local outlets are competing for a market that barely existed two years ago. "People like the idea of walking around with a paper cup, it makes them into something else, maybe a New Yorker," says Ahn Ung Chun, owner of Caffe Italiano in the Seoul suburb of Bundang. "Because it's something new, the demand keeps growing. We are creating the consumers...
...Mardi Gras party after the parade that draws in the dance devotees and those searching for sheer unbridled pleasure. Up to 25,000 people?mainly gays and lesbians?follow the parade to a cluster of entertainment venues in the inner-Sydney suburb of Moore Park for a 12-hour dance extravaganza, which starts at 10 p.m. For one night, the cavernous, and usually vacant, Royal Hall of Industries is transformed into a dance club with more laser lights and go-go boys than a Britney Spears concert. Thousands dance to one beat in the main hall, the rest scatter...
Schuller - who ran the housing department in the rpr-controlled Paris suburb of Hauts-de-Seine from 1989 to '94 - fled France in 1995 after a bungled attempt to intimidate and blackmail investigating magistrate Eric Halphen. At the time, Halphen was heading an inquiry into alleged illegal rpr funding from kickbacks on public-housing contracts in the district. Halphen quit the judiciary in January, complaining that his seven-year investigation had been repeatedly sabotaged. Before leaving his Caribbean hideaway, Schuller told journalists that he intended to explain how "the system which magistrates have been investigating is not that of Councilor...
ITALY Rome Attack Foiled A police raid on a suburb southeast of Rome may have thwarted a possible biochemical attack in the Italian capital. Four Moroccan men were arrested after 4 kg of a powdered cyanide-based substance were found in their apartment, along with city maps indicating the U.S. embassy and charts of Rome's water system. The arrests were made as a Milan court convicted four Tunisians, including the alleged al-Qaeda regional head, Ben Khemais, of trafficking in chemicals, explosives and false documents...