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One day, John Paul lunched at the Vatican with a bishop from Senegal. "In Africa," the bishop said, "people are talking a lot about your succession. After you, they say there will be a black Pope." John Paul said, "You seem very well informed." To which the bishop replied, "Yes...
Martini, however, is a Jesuit, and the conservative College of Cardinals is not likely to look kindly upon even a moderate member of an order with a reputation for liberalism. And Vatican watchers never tire of invoking this aphorism: "He who goes into the conclave the next Pope, comes out...
Jackson uses Pauline's diaries to conture up the patchwork of reality and fantasy worlds this plot inhabits. The viewer is bombarded by a succession of distorted scenarios--a grainy old film-strip of Christchurch, the Claymation-type animation of Pauline and Juliet's invented alter egos, the "Fourth World...
That did not stop the Serbs either. So U.N. military and civilian officials pleaded in rapid succession with Serb and Muslim leaders in Bosnia and with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade. NATO officials in Brussels interrupted Thanksgiving Day to discuss a new U.S. proposal to defend Bihac, while U.N...
The top Shi'ite Muslim religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Araki, died last night, prompting international mourning and potential conflict about succession. Araki, who was at least 100 years old -- and maybe as old as 106 -- died after spending three weeks in intensive care in a Tehran hospital. Araki was...