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...describing McCarthy's life, Kiernan interrupts her narrative constantly in order to quote, at length, dozens of witnesses who knew her. The technique represents a gamble; it has produced a monster of nearly a thousand pages. But it works...
...Whatever his personal convictions, the pontiff remains the head of a massive, thousand-year-old global theological bureaucracy that isn't particularly prone to self-criticism or changes of direction. His millennial efforts to force the church to confront its failings - not only in respect to Jews, but also in relation to Muslims, Christians of other denominations and even sometimes its own flock - are the exception rather than the norm in papal history. But a specific apology for the actions of a predecessor currently in the process of beatification (Pius XII) may have been beyond his reach, given the complex...
...Cairo rose in general insurrection. Napoleon bombarded al-Azhar, the city's largest mosque, then sacked it and allowed his troops to run amok, killing men, women and children in the streets. The bloom was off the liberation. Napoleon sought glory northward, marching toward Syria. He took Jaffa. Four thousand prisoners, who had been promised their lives, were marched before Napoleon's tent; he asked peevishly, "What am I supposed to do with them?" They were herded to the beach and slaughtered in the surf...
When East Timorese voted for independence from Indonesia last Aug. 30, many outsiders sensed a political and economic disaster. What good could come to 850,000 people living on half an island a thousand miles from nowhere? Sure enough, after the vote, the rebuffed Indonesian troops killed, burned and looted all they could on their way home. A graffito they left on the walls of Dili promised that A FREE EAST TIMOR WILL EAT STONES. Some 1,000 East Timorese died, and more than three-quarters of the population fled their homes, according to U.N. estimates. East Timor joined...
...Randy Moss and Cris Carter and running back Robert Smith--each better than any weapon he had ever had in Miami--in Minnesota, he showed the world what his priorities were. Not even the best shot at winning his dreamed-of title in years was worth living a few thousand miles away from his family for just six months...