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...With the century ticking to a close, its most sensational, hard-charging, consciousness-raising pope is growing weak. Early on in his papacy, a colleague predicted he?d be around for the turning of the Big Odometer, and John Paul took it -? and the Jubilee that would mark it -- very seriously. The next 20 years, from his precedent-bending inaugural speech from the Vatican balcony to his two-week pilgrimage to thank his first flock, were a run-up to this, a global celebration of humanity and the faith 1 billion of them hold dear. He worked tirelessly to bring...
...K.L.A. may prove a breeding ground for a new generation of politicians. Thaci, 30, is a typical example. Journalists who met him in his early days thought little of his triumphalist talk or his childish nom de guerre "Snake." And though the guerrillas' military performance in the war was weak, the K.L.A. has been a bastion of Albanian pride. Cast with a patriotic glow, Thaci has quickly become a serious political player...
Like the Spanish Bourbons, the Romanovs inherited the hemophilia gene from Queen Victoria. But striking the heir Alexis, it proved fatal to the dynasty. The Czarina Alexandra fell under the influence of the Siberian wonder worker Rasputin--and she interfered with policy with disastrous results. Well-meaning but weak, Czar Nicholas could only give way to war, upheaval and finally the Bolsheviks, who massacred the family in a cellar on July...
Part of the problem was that Rudenstine hadlong insisted that discussions remain as informalas possible, a high-level source says. He reasonedthat once Harvard publicly acknowledged that itwas in talks with Radcliffe, any breakdown wouldbe seen as Harvard bullying its weak sister onceagain. But without a larger negotiating team, thepresident was getting exhausted, squandering hisprecious time on minutiae...
...Rudenstine's presence at Harvard appears weak, he is practically invisible on the national scene. His behind-the-scenes tactics have substituted for taking a public stand as affirmative action has been rolled back nationwide...