Word: woodenness
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That was November 2006, and Capranica's Stations of the Cross are still missing. During pre-Easter celebrations, when parishioners would traditionally recite all 14 stations using the paintings as their guide, they had to pray before 14 small wooden crosses instead. The theft has left Capranica's small community with a sense of loss that is deep and personal, as if an old friend had disappeared. "We grew up with those paintings," says Marina, who owns a card shop across from St. John. "Yesterday," adds her mother Maria, "I was looking at those nude walls and I felt...
...Clinton blunted the momentum of surging Barack Obama, and John McCain pulled out a victory in his old electoral stamping grounds, as record numbers of voters put polls and pundits to shame in New Hampshire. On both sides, it was a political roller coaster of the old school - the wooden kind that shakes and quakes until you really aren't sure how it will end. And then it pulls in to the finish with a shudder, and everyone piles off to get back in line...
...will do their voting inside the Jesuits' vast, marble-lined headquarters on Borgo Santo Spirito. Doors closed, no outsiders allowed in. When one man has received the necessary majority, rather than white smoke, we'll know there is a new "black pope" by the sound of applause through the wooden doors of the Jesuit sala. As for revealing the new Superior General's identity to the world: before the delegates are allowed to leave the voting hall, a lone messenger will take the short walk over to St. Peter's Square to be sure that, by tradition, the first person...
...Rift valley, the scale and fury of Kenya's southern division becomes ever more apparent. We enter a village called Kamosong, and 15 men surround the car. One is carrying a foot-long knife, another a hockey stick, a third a bow and arrow, a fourth a wooden club. A man who introduces himself as Thomas tells us the men are from the Kalenjin tribe of former President Daniel Arap Moi. "Have you got anyone in the back?" they ask Preston. "What's your name? Are you Kikuyu?" A few minutes further on, there is another roadblock and more...
...scattered at other refugee points across the town. Up to 20 Kikuyu villages around Eldoret are now deserted, says Oira. All the refugees are living in the open; many have brought whatever belongings they could carry - beds, mattresses, cheap armchairs, cockerels and, under a pile of wooden benches, a sewing machine. A two-man team from Medecins Sans Frontieres is distributing blankets. "Our challenge is food" says Oira. "Because of the looting, all the shops are closed and because of the roadblocks, there is no food coming...