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...mean they'll be able to fix it. Thursday's discussion at the international body's Millennium Summit saw further eloquent critiques, particularly from African leaders, whose continent has recently seen the most dramatic failures of the blue-helmeted peacekeepers. They pointed to Rwanda, where the U.N. failed to act to stop the 1994 genocide, and to recent savagery in Sierra Leone, where some 500 hapless peacekeeping troops were taken hostage by a ragtag militia. Everyone from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to the major Western powers already agree on the need to dramatically overhaul the system. The question...
...actuality the Vatican has exhumed far more than just a venerable body. "I am appalled that the Catholic Church wants to make a saint out of a Pope who perpetuated...an act of unacceptable intolerance," declared a professor named Elena Mortara in Rome. Pio Nono, it turns out, had a Jewish problem of his own. Mortara is the great-grandniece of Edgardo Mortara, who was taken from his Jewish parents at age six in 1858 by the papal police and raised--in part by Pius himself--as a Catholic. The incident typified Pius' ham-fisted treatment of the Jews...
Marion Jones, one of the world's loveliest women and demonstrably the fastest, is sitting before a mirror having makeup applied - a superfluous act. She is being prepped for the first of two shoots she will submit to this afternoon. Hotshot photogs have been flown in from the States because Jones has agreed to give them some of her time - and time is precious in the world of Marion Jones. Every minute between now and Sept. 22 has been carefully planned...
...suppose. He was really just a stand-in for me early on when I was living here in Chicago and feeling terribly sorry for myself. I guess he's sort of an adult who never quite grew up. He's paralyzed by his own inability to decide or act, and a fear of being disliked...
...time period than I did looking at pictures or even reading about it. I wanted to try to get a little bit of that in there. And also to contrast the differences between what I perceive as that world and the so-called modern world and the environments we act out our lives...