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...inmates of the prison about what had happened on this "historic day." Said the Pontiff: "In the context of Christmas and the Holy Year of Redemption, I was able to meet with the person that you all know by name, Ali Agca, who in the year 1981 on the 13th of May made an attempt on my life. But Providence took things in its own hands, in what I would call an extraordinary way, so that today after two years I was able to meet my assailant and repeat to him the pardon I gave him immediately ... The Lord gave...
Each of the councilors was escorted by an usher, either a relatives or a friend. Councilor Walter J. Sullivan, who began his 13th term, had an honor guard of four grandchildren, which caused 14-tern incumbent Alfred E. Vellucci to remark. "I thought seriously of bringing my grandchildren. Mr. Chairman, but there are 33 of them...
...federal deficit. The public has even less faith that the Democrats will balance the budget than that the Republicans will. Nor do voters seem to care much about a balanced budget. While reducing the risk of nuclear war ranked No. 1 as a national goal, a balanced budget ranked 13th, behind such expensive items as providing quality health care and keeping U.S. defenses strong...
...your reference to the Presidential Performance Study, I notice that you omitted Dwight Eisenhower from the list of "above-average" Presidents. As director of that survey of historians, I know that Eisenhower came out eleventh while Kennedy ranked 13th...
Wise Virgin is about a few months in the life of Giles Fox, a medievalist who lost his eyesight after 18 years of labor on a scholarly edition of A Treatise of Heavenly Love, a 13th century meditation on virginity. Two virgins attend him: his pretty, unworldly teen-age daughter Tibba, named for a 6th century East Saxon princess, and Louise, his frumpy, incompetent, adoring assistant. (The manuscript is imaginary, and Wilson, who has taught Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, has fun cooking up swatches of 13th century English.) Giles and Tibba live in a bare house in Islington ruled...