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Curial Cardinals have tremendous sway in Rome, where their diocese-running brethren are usually only visitors. But diocesan Cardinals will make up the vast preponderance of the electors. That (along with several other factors) is why many Roman sources tout the chances of Ratzinger, a master of the Curial as well as the doctrinal universe, but why non-Romans see him as a potential kingmaker but never the king...
...stay around to see what else might happen; I didn’t want to be sacrificed in lieu of the goat. (Everyone knows that Satan worshippers—like their foul counterparts, Republicans and moderate Democrats—perform human sacrifices to their dark power.) I bolted tout de suite back to my Weld room and cowered under the covers of my bed. I’d never run as fast as I did that night and I don’t think I ever will again...
Carter says that he cannot predict whether or not opposition to the bill will materialize in the legislature, but he says that any that arises will tout the value of protecting victim privacy...
...Marine on duty in Iraq), Combs, 59, has been interested in children's issues since she was a young prosecutor in Dallas working child-abuse cases. When she became Texas agriculture commissioner in 1999, she noted the rise in childhood obesity but had the authority to do little besides tout healthy farm products. Her breaking point came, she says, at a school in San Marcos, when the principal explained why the school needed junk food in vending machines as an obese young boy sat right in front of him. "We have food chaos in our schools, with coaches selling food...
...Glazer and Capp themselves tout their experience over their opponents...