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...think of life without war - no Vietnam, cnn or Fahrenheit 9/11 - a life where the only news comes filtered through the occasional visitor or the Vatican weekly newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. "When was the year the Pope was shot?" asks Sister Veronica, who was two years into monastic life when Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca made his 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. "Mass was just going to start, and Mother came in and said, 'The Pope's been shot.' We didn't know any details, but you can imagine how we prayed for him and the shock...
...Carmelite Monastery at Goonellabah, near Lismore, in northern New South Wales, who can be seen only through a grilled window in the reception area. It's into this modest room, watched over by old black-and-white photographs of St. Teresa of the Andes, that Sisters Bernadette, Veronica, Antoinette and Maria come in turn, each shedding a little more light on an existence which Sister Veronica herself can imagine outsiders wondering about: "I've been passing the monastery for five years. What do they do in there? What keeps them in there?" The grille is in many ways symbolic...
...only people in the world, I think, who have the right to have a grille," Sister Veronica says of the Catholic Carmelite order. Their nine Australian and New Zealand monasteries can all be traced back more than eight centuries to a group of hermits living on Mount Carmel, near what is today Haifa, Israel. Four centuries later, in ?vila, Spain, St. Teresa formed the present order in 1562; three centuries after that, in 1885, the Carmel of Angoul?me, France, established a foundation in Dulwich Hill, Sydney. The grille "is not to keep us in, or the world out," insists Sister...
...network's one new sitcom is "Second Time Around," a romantic comedy about a divorced couple that gets remarried. The two new dramas are even more femme-friendly. "Veronica Mars" is sort of a detective version of "The O.C." - a working-class girl living in a rich California enclave struggles to fit in, while occasionally helping her private-eye dad with investigations. (The trailer actually looked less derivative - slightly - than I make it sound.) And perhaps the X-chromosomiest of all its new offerings is "Kevin Hill," in which the sculpted Taye Diggs plays a sharky entertainment lawyer who adopts...
Assistant Professor of Economics Veronica Chase joins an illustrious league of fictional Harvard professors who leave their ivory tower perches to solve a murder mystery. The most famous protagonist in the genre is no doubt Harvard symbiologist Robert Langdon, hero of Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code. Langdon achieved international renown a quarter century after philosophy professor Homer Kelly graced the pages of Jane Langdon’s 1978 Murder in Memorial Hall. Chase’s economics department colleague Henry Spearman plays amateur investigator extraordinare in the 1986 novel Fatal Equlibrium. But smart and sassy Nikki Chase...