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...fishing boat covered by a canopy in the papal colors of yellow and white, John Paul II, successor of Peter the Fisherman, traveled to the waterside sanctuary of Our Lady of Lake Togo. To many of the smiling tribesmen who came to greet the white-robed visitor, the omens for the day were auspicious. That morning a 5-ft. python had slithered over a wall in the church compound. A majority of the people in the region are animists who venerate pythons. The incident, early in the Pope's seven-nation tour of Africa, indicated the huge spiritual challenges...
...Department of African and African American Studies’ website, there are four small photos featuring professors in the department. Three of the photos change every second, like a flipbook, so that a visitor to the site will get to see pictures of all of the department’s faculty members...
...story follows Ingrid and Mark, two ex-lovers who find themselves reunited—reluctantly, for one of them—through their work. Like the author, Mark works in security at the Fogg, while Ingrid works at the front desk in visitor services. The awkward and uncomfortable dance these two perform around one another as they try to work through their shared past and deal with the present microcosmically captures the post-college, twenty-something lifestyle. Stevens refers to this time, marked by indecision and a reluctance to accept responsibility for one’s actions...
When done right, however, Schimert sees a value in public art that comes from its constancy: it can be revisited on a regular basis, no matter how conscious the visitor...
...passages on superheroes. Lethem is penning a Marvel comic, Omega the Unknown, due in 2006. "Marvel dared me to put my love on the line," says the author, who is reviving a little-known character from the '70s. Omega is "kind of a meta-superhero," he says, a "bewildered visitor to the Planet Earth" with--yes--a cape. Next we'd like to finally see that Philip Roth pop-up book...