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...policy of breaking the eight plays into two cycles of four seems crazy. The first group - Richard II, Henry IV parts I and II and Henry V - was launched back in March 2000 and finished last week. The second tranche, embracing the three parts of Henry VI and Richard III, continues in London until...
Under Title VI, a higher court ruling against affirmative action would affect all institutions that receive federal money, meaning that Harvard could no longer use race as a factor in its admissions process...
...least not openly. Running for Pope is a peculiar affair, mostly because one is not supposed to do it. In 1996, two years after he broke his leg and set in motion what some observers see as a quiet struggle to succeed him, John Paul II, like Paul VI before him, explicitly forbade the Cardinals to so much as chat about the matter of the next Pontiff. Still, in the media, candidates cropped up, and lately the speculation has grown intense, fueled by John Paul's declining health--at almost 81, he shows the symptoms of Parkinson's disease...
...many Catholics, the whole idea that Cardinals compete for Popehood is mistaken and even offensive. After all, the choice of John Paul II surprised the world, as did every other recent papal election except for that of Paul VI in 1963. Certainly the fateful role the current Pope has played in history--hastening Europe's escape from Soviet communism--has, for many, an otherworldly quality. Will the Holy Spirit indeed pick the new Pope? Perhaps, but it will have only human beings from which to choose...
DIED. MORTON DOWNEY JR., 67, raucous, chain-smoking host of the eponymous 1987-89 TV talk show; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. In the 1970s, Pope Paul VI knighted Downey for humanitarian work with war victims in Nigeria. But he is most remembered as the in-your-face host who bellowed and blew smoke at guests he didn't like...