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...expansive greensward on Oxford's outskirts and the setting for boisterous all-night dance parties on April 30. Those left standing in the early hours troop back into town to join thousands of traditionalists and tourists for the centerpiece of the festivities: a dawn recital by the Magdalen Boy's Choir, given from the top of the spire of Magadalen College Chapel. Crowds gather below from about 5 a.m. and afterwards disperse for college parties or breakfast at one of the nearby pubs, which are full to bursting by sun-up. The only venues that aren't crowded...
...That sure was exciting: The third Super Bowl win, Brady and Brewski and Two-way Brown in exultation. But as I say, for many of us New England-born-and-bred, it came in what is largely considered the Red Sox' off-season. Our Golden Boy quarterback, who's starring this weekend on Saturday Night Live (we own New York at the moment), complained to his dad that the Pats could be in the middle of a seven-game win streak, and the Globe would lead with a bit about the Sox moving the 40th man on their winter roster...
...search of any other signs, a Roman friend told me about an old Italian fable that tells of a boy who can understand what the animals are saying to each other. The special gift saves the young lad from a litany of perilous encounters until one evening, while resting under a tree with two friends, he hears two little birds sharing the news from Rome that the Pope had died. The cardinals are set to elect a successor, one bird tells the other, and one of the three boys under the tree will be the next pope. This of course...
...TIME's Midwest bureau chief Marguerite Michaels, who knows how to squeeze information out of tight-lipped Chicago cops and UN diplomats, is politely hounding the U.S. Cardinals. But one well-connected insider said the press ban is weighing heavy on the group of 11 American Cardinals. They are "Boy Scouts," this source said. "In the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, an American will stop at a red light. An Italian thinks, 'What a nice suggestion,' and drives on. Our guys aren't talking...
...course, that this is not an election for a four-year term of a leader who will have to contend with political pressures from his peers or governmental balance of powers. It is an election of an absolute monarch for a lifetime term. Big stakes indeed-even for Boy Scouts...