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...both Bill and Hillary Clinton, what matters now isn't so much what they do as how they seem--how reconciling, how inventive, how invested in the well-being of every last citizen whose hand they will shake and vote they will claim on behalf of their anointed successor, Al Gore. Because in Gore's victory they see their redemption...
...Prince Abdullah, made successor three weeks ago, is on the Jordanian throne. The abrupt dismissal of Hassan as crown prince did not elicit too much surprise in Israel. Abdullah has his father's politics and his father's support among the key factions of Jordanian society: the Beduoin tribe that hold the commanding posts in the military. But the predicted success and stability for the reign of the next Hashemite king was only a side-bar to the real feelings on both sides of the Jordan River this weekend: how to say goodbye to an ally who became a trusted...
...seismic shock. Just as upsetting as the prospect of Hussein's nearing death was the stunning change in Jordan's royal succession. His demise under any circumstances would leave the world wondering how much more dangerous the Middle East might become without his moderation. But now his successor will not be the dutiful, seasoned Hassan, Hussein's 51-year-old brother, who has been Jordan's king-in-waiting for nearly 34 years. In the span of a few hours last week, Hussein sent Hassan an angry dismissal, accusing him of power grabbing, and installed his untested eldest...
...parents found him "a bit sour." Growing up in Lebanon, Ky., Betty Spalding went to confession, heard Mass in Latin and wore a demure chapel veil. She prayed avidly: "I was adding it up, earning heaven." In junior high school the nuns told her that John XXIII, Pius' successor, was "opening the windows of the church, and that appealed to me." Not that she would dream of contradicting a Pontiff anyway. "If the Pope said it, that was fine with me," she recalls...
...revised that stance. Thanks to John's Second Vatican Council, Mass was now in English and the priest and congregation interacted. In retrospect, she thinks this may have kept her in the church. But in that year John's successor and the council's inheritor, Paul VI, loosed a thunderbolt: Catholics could not use artificial means of birth control and remain in good graces. "No way," says Betty. "No how. Period...