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...think so, a little bit. He's so damn successful that it's hard for him to envy anybody. I think my friends from Harvard that envy me are the ones that have gone into business and haven't succeed on that level, or have wound up working for big companies. And I envy them for the fact that they've got pensions coming and houses and there's a point at which they're going to be able to retire and not have to do it anymore-and it's not too far from now. For 40 years...
...Jewish boy named Edgardo Mortara, who had been baptized by a Catholic servant. Despite an international outcry, Pius acted as a surrogate father to the child, who later became a priest. Italian Jews are nonplussed. "The beatification of Pius IX exalts a symbol that still represents a wound," says community leader Amos Luzzatto. David Kertzer, who wrote a book on the kidnapping, sees "a mixed message, asking for pardon [as the Pope did last week] and then beatifying Pius IX." Jesuit Giacomo Martina, author of a lengthy biography on Pius IX, might be expected to defend him, but even...
...second half wound down, Harvard was in danger of letting the game slip away. It was clear that the Crimson needed some rallying point and source of momentum...
...endorsement the Senator had so pointedly withheld. But the ones who dialed en masse were the would-be peacemakers--the Bush emissaries, McCain intermediaries and unallied freelance negotiators--trying to save the Republican Party by brokering a postprimary reconciliation. Party chairman Jim Nicholson phoned in. Bob Dole called but wound up advising his old friend to hold out for as much as possible. G.O.P. Senators like Connie Mack and Phil Gramm who had worked against McCain were suddenly sending a shout out. And best of all: Paul Coverdell, Bush's top backer in the Senate, relayed word that his colleagues...
...suffering. Born in 1946 in a sleepy town 30 miles east of Dili, he wrote in his autobiography that he grew up to the groans of prisoners being whipped in public by heavy-handed Portuguese colonialists. At 16 he ran away from his studies at a Catholic seminary and wound up in Dili, teaching Portuguese at a Chinese school and working as a government surveyor. He was fired when, in his first act of defiance, he threatened to punch his boss in an argument over racial discrimination by East Timor's Portuguese overlords...