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DIVINE DESTINATION On top of Mount Ramelau, East Timor's highest mountain, stands a pure white statue, more than three meters high, of the Virgin Mary, her arms outstretched and her face wearing an expression of sublime understanding. To reach her is a feat of endurance. But the rewards can border on the transcendent. The first time I saw her, enveloped in the milky mist that swirled around the summit, I had so many endorphins coursing through my brain that I genuinely believed she understood my pain, could feel the fire in my calves, the thump in my chest...
CANONIZED. JUAN DIEGO CUAUHTLATOATZIN, 16th century peasant from the Zapotec tribe, whose vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe helped drive the conversion of millions of Indians throughout the Americas; in Mexico City. On his fifth trip to Mexico, Pope John Paul II performed the canonization, the first for a member of an indigenous North American tribe...
...easyJet will not dominate the discount skies. Ryanair already has an operating base in Germany, at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. The Berlin-based, former charter airline Germania is also focused on the budget traveler. From December, Brussels-based Virgin Express is planning flights from Cologne-Bonn Airport. Even German flagship Lufthansa appears to be getting the message; last month it gave its blessing to a proposal by German carrier Eurowings, in which it has a key shareholding, to enter the budget fray. Soon, Germans may discover what travelers from Britain now take for granted: for the consumer, no-frills fares...
...This loose remake of "The Desperate Hours," or possibly "The Virgin Spring" - three snarling strippers take a young couple hostage - got its grit from the actress Meyer calls "the demanding / mind-bludgeoning Tura Satana." A spiked cocktail of Amer-Asian genes, Satana had been stripping since she was 13 (the year she was married, according to one source) and played Suzette Wong in Billy Wilder's "Irma La Douce." At 30, she looked millennia older, not wiser but wizened, relying on reptilian instincts of survival and predation. Her Varla is the most honest, maybe the one honest, portrayal...
...power to the extreme. Karmakar, like many others, was caught. But in the dust-bowl villages of India, where superstition reigns and blood has a dark authority, the question is how many other "holy men" have found that ultimate power still rests in the murderous magic of a virgin sacrifice...