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As it happened, John made himself into a conscientious and accomplished diplomat. But he never particularly liked the work, and it gave him a huge distaste for the Vatican court as it existed under the long-reigning Pius XII (1939-58). He found it artificial and impersonal -- and undemocratic. He...
To some dissident liberal Catholics, of course, John Paul's Polish heritage is a mixed blessing. They see him as the product of a conservative, patriarchal church, which helps explain his increasingly autocratic and negative pronouncements on such subjects as the ordination of women and artificial birth control. For all...
Despite his prosthetic leg, Foster played baseball, basketball and tennis in high school. He was also president of the student body, and he says he was often asked to give inspirational speeches as "the kid who played basketball with an artificial leg."
It's also a moment in which an artistic credo seems to be lurking, one that, with Stoppardian paradox, might be rendered as: Who sees littlest sees furthest. Ever since he became internationally famous while still in his 20s for his philosophical farce Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), Stoppard...
Bad genes are a universal hazard of life, of course; practically every species suffers from inherited diseases. But golden retrievers and other purebreds are not like most other animals. They are in a very real sense artificial, molded over thousands of years through selective breeding to satisfy human needs. For...